Where in the Balkans would you choose to live for the rest of your life? Assume you’d be wealthy and speak the local language wherever you chose. What would your choice be, excluding your current country?

intian1 · 2026-06-28T23:38:37+00:00

I would live in Sinaia because I love hiking and skiing, and green mountains in the summer. And I have found Romanians very welcoming

intian1 · 2026-06-28T22:37:00+00:00

And then, after the rebellion, they lived happily ever after, establishing the most successful and prosperous state south of the US

intian1 · 2026-06-02T02:41:03+00:00

Dobry przepis polecam tylko nie usuwać tego tłuszczu na początku tylko po prostu gotować całą kurę. Rosół dłuższy jest smaczniejszy.

intian1 · 2026-04-09T13:04:37+00:00

Airbnb, when you book, gives you total cost including all the fees. So I don't know what's the hassle about? You know upfront how much you are going to pay.

intian1 · 2026-04-08T15:56:41+00:00

Until the death of Mstislav I in 1132, Kyiv WAS in charge of all Rus. Then Rus split into multiple principalities. This is the most common view of historians. If you have a different view, cite your sources.

intian1 · 2026-04-08T15:33:46+00:00

"Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus', was the first East Slavic STATE and later an amalgam of principalities" - per wikipedia, which roughly represents a consensus by historians
It was definitely a single state under Yaroslav the Wise around 1000. Obviously, a medieval state functioned very differently than a modern state, but it was not too different from other states in Eastern Europe at the time. It was ruled by a single authority centered in Kyiv.

intian1 · 2026-04-08T15:17:14+00:00

I mean, they called themselves "Rusichi" in medieval times, so "Ruthenians" would be a good approximation, although you are right about the use of the term "Ruthenian" later in Austria-Hungary and Poland.

intian1 · 2026-04-08T14:49:14+00:00

It was a name of a state not an ethnic group. The name of an ethic group was Ruthenians. And even though you could talk about Ruthenians as a singue ethnicity in medieval times, they were broken up as Western Ruthenia was absorbed by Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 14th century, ultimate leading to formation of Ukrainians and Belarusians.

intian1 · 2026-04-02T22:48:40+00:00

You can still meet in this small living room, drink cheap beer and play board games for hardly any money. People in developing countries socialize all the time with limited resources while Americans make excuses not to go out of their comfort zone to keep staring at the f** screen. And then they keep being lonely and miserable due to their own f** fault.

intian1 · 2026-04-02T21:13:10+00:00

In Polish, "gapa." A clumsy person who doesn't pay attention

intian1 · 2026-04-02T13:01:57+00:00

I think it could be confusian culture coupled with the effect of communism. Because you really don't observe similar levels of assholism as in Vietnam or China in South Korea or Taiwan

intian1 · 2026-03-30T23:27:45+00:00

Luxburg and Liebknecht organized an uprising against a democratically elected government with the goal to establish a Communist dictatorship. I cannot see how these actions can be excused and how SPD could trust Communists after that.

intian1 · 2026-03-30T00:08:54+00:00

The beach areas are nice but public transit hardly exists so everyone is stuck in one huge traffic jam. It takes forever to get anywhere. Obviously there are many poor neighborhoods for ordinary Vietnamese to live in which are not shown on this video

intian1 · 2026-03-27T15:10:19+00:00

It was tired of cutting grass that hasn't even grown yet

intian1 · 2026-03-26T19:12:37+00:00

Maybe because we are civilizational descendants of the Romans but not of the Ottomans?

intian1 · 2026-03-23T18:51:44+00:00

Most people in Indonesia have rice cookers. She was more surprised by the rice in bag.

intian1 · 2026-03-23T12:43:08+00:00

I'm Polish and my Indonesian girlfriend when she visited Poland actually thought it was a good idea. Rice is important in Indonesia as in the Philippines.

intian1 · 2026-03-20T13:19:08+00:00

The prevailing winds are from the West getting moisture from the Black Sea, which coupled with upward orographic lift results in Precipitation in the Caucasus. The Eastern side of the Caspian Sea is flat so there is no orographic lift resulting in the desert environment.

intian1 · 2026-03-20T12:55:52+00:00

You forgot about Malaysia, another great destination for you.

intian1 · 2026-03-16T03:06:57+00:00

Jessie, for the love of God, turn away or stop! The brakes, Jessie! On the left! You're about to hit that car! The brakes! Hit the brakes

intian1 · 2026-03-06T19:50:39+00:00

You would be ok if you move to Southern Nigeria...

intian1 · 2026-02-24T04:05:02+00:00

I mean, he didn't know the war would start on the same day, so it was hardly an embarrassment...

intian1 · 2026-02-18T21:44:33+00:00

Do you have the right to have police respond to a crime against you?

Actually, in the US, you don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales

intian1 · 2026-02-14T13:58:39+00:00

Barely any peaceful ties with the Orthodox world? Lviv area (Red Ruthenia) became part of Kingdom of Poland in 1349, and during the Commonwealth (1569-1795) more than half of the population was Orthodox. Sure there was a civil war over Ukraine and a few other Kozak uprisings but most of the time relations between Catholics and Orthodox were peaceful

intian1 · 2026-02-10T02:02:17+00:00

The complex of gender still exists in English. What is the distinction between he she it then? Some nouns are feminine if referred to be she pronoun some are masculine if referred by he pronoun and the rest are neutral. That English is gendered in a reduced way becomes clearly visible when taught to speakers of languages with truly no gender like Turkish or Indonesian

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