StefanBatory

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by StefanBatory 1y ago
Ah, so like Russia. The ultimate dream of all authoritarians. A society that no longer even dreams of freedom, that becomes fully apathetic. Do you know how many independent newspapers there are in China? Zero. Even ones with what we'd
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by StefanBatory 1y ago
Sorry, I wrote it in a confusing way because I thought of something else - so that's on me for confusion. I was thinking of high school, not uni itself. I'm myself also from a technical university equivalent in Poland.
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Yup - I'm Polish, and vast majority of people faced with a diploma from private university would think "You bought your degree because you were too dumb to get into public university." There are some good private ones; but mo
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by StefanBatory 1y ago
For us in Poland we have normal high schools, technikum - which is similar, but year longer and you are trained in a job, and zawodówka - which is vocational. And issue with them is not the school itself, but the type of teenagers that atte
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by StefanBatory 1y ago
/r/thanksiamcured
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It's a problematic work. From what I remember from my time on /r/askhistorians, they really did not like it. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/wd6jt/what_d... https:/&#
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It is. Communists are just imperialists in a red coat of paint. They do not believe that people can act on their own, everything is a conspiracy to them. Because why you would rebel against their utopia? Not worth arguing with them. Cast th
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Communism is evil, and so is everyone who believes in it.
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I grew up in Eastern Europe. Yes, in the height of terror - that is what communists would do. Having a wrong book would mark you as an enemy of state. Or look, even Cambodia - even if how much they were communist first, or nationalist first
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I see, thank you
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"Oh, I don't want to talk politics at all, I just want to treat work as work" or other variations of it. Good enough for a few months.
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Would a good answer be "I can do it as a constraint problem, but since I guess you are not asking for this, the solution is..." and then proceed as usual?
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In Poland, many schools pride themselves for how good they are at preparing for end of high school exams. Nobody fails, nobody gets bad score. Because if they as much as suspect you will fail, they will not let you graduate. But statistics
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Yup, they don't trust mainstream, only to fall into niches. But they don't see it. Kanał Zero is the best example.
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Their slogan was "Nie chcemy Żydów, homoseksualistów, aborcji, podatków i Unii Europejskiej". "We don't want Jews, gays, abortion, taxes and EU."
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My take from it is, why the workers are punished for their leadership? One ought go after them, but instead it's the workers that will take the blame, and leadership will go business as usual. You can't say that higher-ups didn&#x
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My uni performance would always drop whenever my parents would fight at home. You aren't doing your homework when you're trying to not have a panic attack from shouting.
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Related to recent appearance of In Our Times here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Faith_(TV_series) The sea is calm tonight. / The tide is full, the moon lies fair / Upon the straits; on the French coas
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The Sea of Faith at 40: Vanguard of critical theology(churchtimes.co.uk)
3 points by StefanBatory 1y ago|1 comments
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I'm ESL, I'm Polish native speaker. I had, and I still have a lot of issues with understanding his accent. It's very hard for me to get what he's saying.
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After over 20 years of nonstop streaming, Proton Radio is evolving! Starting August 26th, the 24/7 live stream will officially shut down, and all Proton Radio shows will move to YouTube. :(
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I love their SF radio with police chatter - I can't explain, but it's just so engrossing. Genuinely my favourite. Also, I learned about SomaFM in the past from HN too :)
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Ask HN: How does Gaokao differ from European or Indian exams?
4 points by StefanBatory 1y ago|2 comments
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Are you saying that opposition had a puppet candidate all this time in Turkey, like you'd see in Russian elections?
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by StefanBatory 1y ago
Could I ask what region you are from, then? I was, without doxxing myself, somewhere in central Poland. Whether it's Łódź, Toruń, Bydgoszcz or Poznań, I leave that unsaid :D
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By not watching it. I know how I sound, but... For me it's the only approach possible. I cannot moderate myself. The only way for me is to quit cold turkey. For many websites, I had to attempt this many times because I would fail. But
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Gotcha, thanks. (tbh I don't know anyone on NFZ anyway, if I wanted to meet a psychologist, I'd wait close to 300 days and I'm in one of major cities.)
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What's your general region you live in if I may ask? And yeah, I've read it. I'm happy it got better for you. (not saying that sarcastically, I just have trouble with tone over text) How hard was the process for you to get it
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With therapy I of course agree - I do think that people are overmedicated. It should be the last resort. But even on that, it's unlikely that someone will concur it might be that. General vibe I got was that, as I said - it's some
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In Poland, you are basically unable to get diagnosed if you are an adult. You will be treated like drug-seeker. You did okay at school? Clearly it's not ADHD. And so on. Heard similar stories from my friends and colleagues. Americans h

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