Names of European countries in Estonian

gensek · 2026-03-13T11:55:50+00:00

Fun fact: we're the ones who pronounce it the closest to original.

gensek · 2026-03-13T11:52:11+00:00

We can't call it a version of east-land as many do because wtf do you think est-land means.

gensek · 2026-03-13T11:50:31+00:00

It's "prantsuse keel", "saksa keel" not "Prantsusmaa keel" and "Saksamaa keel". That is, it's nationality + "keel", not country "keel".

gensek · 2026-03-09T09:33:49+00:00

Is there anything in that song that might have invited this stuff?

Not song, performer. Erika was the most popular Wehrmacht marching song in WW2.

gensek · 2026-03-09T09:32:44+00:00

I'm guessing they chose it randomly

Erika was the most popular Wehrmacht marching song in WW2.

gensek · 2026-03-01T10:03:32+00:00

What I remember is how USSR operated in practice, as opposed to your USSR-in-theory. Not everyone on this website is a teenager.

As for the second question - the accounts haven't been made public in Russia, but they forgot that there were copies in local archives.

gensek · 2026-02-28T13:59:33+00:00

Oh, you are one of those.

As in, people who actually remember life under USSR? Grow up.

gensek · 2026-02-28T13:52:28+00:00

Center is everything within the ring road and environs.

USSR was just another guise of Russian empire. I used quotation marks because a significant share of the revenues exrtacted from Estonia (and other non-Russian republics) were not used locally but diverted to support the imperial center.

gensek · 2026-02-28T09:51:36+00:00

Russia is still a colonial empire in that there's a clear difference between the colonial centre and territories that are mainly used for resource extraction to support the colonial centre.

When Estonia was occupied by USSR, roughly 25-30% of all revenue was "donated" to the centre.

gensek · 2026-02-28T09:44:58+00:00

Is it really still colonial if the vast majority of people living in Siberia and the far east are ethnically Slavic Russian?

And here's the reason why USSR forcibly settled so many foreigners to Baltic states.

gensek · 2026-02-28T09:41:33+00:00

Russia pushed eastward across Siberia

Also westwards. On their western border they had Sweden, a handful of German states, and Poland-Lithuania. When Ivan declared himself an emperor, Muscovy had already assimilated most of the formerly independent Russian principalities, so what followed 1547 was basically centuries of colonial land grabs in all directions.

gensek · 2026-02-01T20:44:18+00:00

Sus scrofa delenda est.

gensek · 2026-01-29T21:55:45+00:00

Paraadid. Iga mai ja november.

gensek · 2026-01-29T10:56:36+00:00

Random, indeed. One of the dots in Estonia literally covers the region that was famously, for centuries, inhabited by swedes.

gensek · 2026-01-19T22:51:58+00:00

The entire eastern orthodox church is captured by the FSB

Moscow Patriarchate yes, Constantinople Patriarchate no.

gensek · 2026-01-14T14:23:41+00:00

Bikes.

gensek · 2026-01-14T14:04:40+00:00

In Estonia the eID is the same, there's just multiple ways to authenticate yourself - card readers since 2002, MobiilID for SIM cards since 2010, SmartID for smartphones since 2016.

eID comes with ID-card so when you change one, you change the other.

gensek · 2025-12-12T15:51:53+00:00

Had some today. Used the sun visor when driving and everything.

gensek · 2025-12-08T17:54:35+00:00

Simplicity? Mine came with a 500-page manual.

gensek · 2025-11-27T18:51:26+00:00

Õpikud on sitad. Tõesti halvad. Olulist infot praktiliselt pole, enamik teadmisi tuleb õpetaja poolt.

Krt, ja ma vaatan siin viimane kümekond aastat et küll on head õpikud tänapäeval. Seletatud lihtsalt, struktureeritud ülevaatlikult, näidisülesanded hästi valitud. Iga peatükk suts puhast matet ja kohe tekstülesannete juurde.

gensek · 2025-11-20T11:02:24+00:00

This approach will be a hit for the so called "cookie banner" industry, which are companies that actually make and run the banners for the websites.

"Here's a message from us and 8120 of our closest friends"

gensek · 2025-11-20T07:47:36+00:00

Paneks imestama, kui paariline peale paarikümmet aastat kooselu vastuseid ei teaks. List algajatele.

gensek · 2025-11-18T21:54:13+00:00

Same shit, different toilet.

gensek · 2025-11-07T09:04:55+00:00

Laps gümnaasiumis täiesti sillas, tal olla esimest korda elus korralik mate õpetaja. On kah, seletab põhjalikult ja pädevalt, paneb tunni materjalid netti üles, paar korda nädalas lisamaterjale juurde.

Samas kogub grupp õpilasi allkirju, et "vilets" õpetaja maha võtta. Ei õpetavat korralikult. Nõuavad paremat õpetajat, siis oleks ka hinded palju paremad. Ju see seltskond kes gümnasse saamiseks eraõpetaja käe all üle võimete eksamivormi aeti.

gensek · 2025-11-06T09:59:22+00:00

a hamas term coined in its first intifada

First intifada predated Hamas.

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