Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@thor I think that was the point, to demonstrate the honor, dedication, resolve and whatever else to inflict such agonous death upon themselves. Though if you slice through so much of the guts you're bound to bleed out in a reasonable time even if you don't hit a major blood vessel just based on the volume of minor ones cut.

The American attitude towards reading foreign words is bewildering. It's completely understandable to not know how to read one, but when a youtuber or the like spends multiple days, if not weeks, if not months, researching a topic for a video and doesn't bother to spend 20 seconds asking Google Translate how to read the name of the thing that's literally the subject of the video, it's just plain ignorant. Nobody expects you to pronounce them well, but we do expect you to at least try instead of making up a butchered pronunciation on the spot. Bonus points if you then get fussy about it and try to defend it like "that's how I/we read it". Yes, you read it wrong. That's the problem.

One of Poland's major cities is called Łódź, which just means Boat. This is apparently funny enough that "The City of Boat" or "Boat City", verbatim in English, has become a fairly common humorous nickname for it. That, and it's a pretty funny city on its own, since like 40% of it looks as if the Germans just stopped bombing it yesterday, another 40% as if the communist gov never fell, and it all clashes with the remaining presentable 20% magnificently. And often these different "styles" are right next to each other. If you ever have a chance to visit it on the way I highly recommend it, even the attached pictures don't give that extreme contrast justice. Just don't wait too long, they're making progress broadening that 20% and in another 20 years it may look like just another western city.
Another nickname: "uć". It's read similarly to "Łódź" but has only two letters which is pretty impressive. It also sounds kinda funny but that can't be conveyed in text or pictures.

@OpenSauce @Mek101 yes and no. They basically managed to implement memory safety and modern language quality of life features in a way that can be fully statically compiled, so no GC / runtime / VM / interpreter overhead. So when it comes to performance and stability it's alike C / C++ but when it comes to not being a gigantic pain in the ass it's not alike C / C++.

@icedquinn @dave checks out, soviet officials were a breed very close to modern twitter commies – too stupid for deep understanding, perfect for brainlessly repeating the party doctrine and not threatening their higher-ups. There's a nice Polish saying for that kind of officials, "bierni, mierni, ale wierni" which roughly translates to "passive, mediocre but loyal".

@c708943ea349519dcf56b2a5c138fd9ed064ad65ddecae6394eabd87a62f1770 it's been the case for most of Europe and everything else for that matter. (And that's coming from a Pole, we hate the Soviets, and by extension Russia, nearly as much as the nazis, and by extension Germany.) For a decade or two it even looked like Russia can cooperate with the rest of the world, it's a shame that this whole shitshow happened.