inglor_cz

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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
The EU-related structures in Brussels are about as united/fragmented as the US Congress, indeed. But the national governments are nothing like US state governments. A lot more political fragmentation, plus they still consider themselve
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Bodybuilding it quite an unnatural activity in itself, and the practitioners try to achieve levels of fat that are basically unseen in normal Homo sapiens.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Personally, I am sorry that the British left, but coming from a small nation which had their sovereignty often trampled upon, I believe that consent of the governed matters fundamentally and that there is no project important enough to forc
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Russia is on the hook for a lot of damage done to Ukraine.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
The entire leadership of the IRGC can burn in hell as far as I am concerned. But that does not mean that launching an assault on Iran at Netanyahu's bidding was a smart move. Especially if it turned out that US arsenals were half empty
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Um, the actual violent history of Europe? Plenty of governments ended up in exile during the last 250 years, and it is better if your gold isn't suddenly in hands of someone like Goering or Stalin.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
is now a pariah and traitor state which will also be defined by abandonment and disloyalty to the EU project of total integration. Ugh, your concept of EU is closer to the USSR or maybe current Russia than to the actual EU. I sincerely ho
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
That shipping container could not be easily lifted, right? The bottom would simply rip off under so much weight.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
"GLP medications blunt your appetite so you eat less, but you still end up feeling completely drained because your body lacks fuel." How many people report that? Not that many, AFAIK. "GLP drugs cannot distinguish between nut
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
My main point was that they recycle lazily, producing slop before the name even existed. Not every adaptation is lazy, I'd say that Odyssey is quite good, even though the original work is 100 generations old.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
* a good and cheap solution * You mean public transport? I live in a country with one of the best public transport systems in the world. I enjoy it, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that it is cheap. It is not, very much N
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When Worthless Cash Floated in the River(komando1.substack.com)
2 points by inglor_cz 1mo ago|1 comments
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
The Czechoslovak currency reform of 1953.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
In most Western countries, you cannot just confiscate someone else's property without adequate compensation. "That costs the government nothing" It does - it costs you your international reputation, willingness of other count
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Fanfic is subject to the Gauss curve like everything else. The Lord of the Rings is sorta-kinda fanfic to Beowulf, the Witcher is fanfic to Slavic and Celtic mythology. Neither of these two authors started as "big published renowned au
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
I know, but my point (I could have made it clearer) is that you cannot do the same with Geralt or Frodo Baggins.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
The bulk of Polish population is concentrated elsewhere and the closest big cities (Szczecin, Poznan, Wroclaw) are all more than 200 km away. Warsaw or Upper Silesia, with its masses of people, twice as far. I wouldn't call this perfec
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Whether removing copyright would lead to more "milking of same old topics" in movies. I think the answer is self-evidently yes. This is not self-evident to me, at least as far as "milking" goes. Inspiration is not the
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
I am not a fan of complete removal of copyright, but I also consider its current duration absurd and extreme - saying this as someone who wrote 10 books so far, so I have actual skin in the game. Some person in 2130 should not be able to pr
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
A variant where the copyright would be automatic but very limited (say, 10 years), with a necessity to pay some growing fee for extended protection, would solve most situations. The vast majority of stories do not make any money ever. Some
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
"This suggests that copyright isn't holding back these works..." IF the copyright holders are kind enough not to harass those fans for infringement. And this kindness is quite commonplace in some contexts (people writing stor
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
I'd say that random people, if they reuse a copyrighted material, are a lot more likely to veer far off the beaten path than the big studios. Fan fiction, even if building on previous materials, seems to be much less repetitive to me.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Hmm. Looking at the cinemas, almost all the top movies are prequels or sequels, milking the same topic for the tenth time. I'd say that at least the movie industry is somehow stuck in a rut.
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
I get the idea, but it was probably unrealistic to expect that Hoyerswerda would become a pilgrimage location for geeks. It is a real periphery from the point of view of DE, CZ and PL alike, and the museum didn't really do much to let
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
The problem was probably in the location. Hoyerswerda is a place which does not attract visitors, even the locals left in droves (isn't it the German record holder when it comes to cities losing population?) In Dresden, Leipzig or Berl
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
I'd say that your critique of the EU would have been quite run-of-the-mill in the early 2000s, but nowadays, this corner of the left has mostly shrunk away and became somewhat marginal. As for the voters and their questioning: yeah, pe
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
Turkey definitely wields a lot of soft power, both in European Turkish communities and in places like the Horn of Africa. Becoming a hard power could backfire on them. Today, not even Russia and the US seem to be in a position to win their
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by inglor_cz 1mo ago
500 years ago, the Turks won a decisive battle at Mohács, with the young Czech and Hungarian king, Louis II Jagiello, drowning during his escape. Had he survived, European history might have looked very different.
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Remembering the King who Drowned(komando1.substack.com)
3 points by inglor_cz 1mo ago|3 comments
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by inglor_cz 2mo ago
I find it really amusing just how different our perspectives on the EU are. You accuse the EU of being neo-liberal, I accuse it of being a micromanaging bureaucratic behemoth heaping endless new regulations on everything including wrapping

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