Paving all of them over would be a huge endeavor. I hope Putins orange labrador doesn’t take is as a challenge.

I don’t read much, probably still more than most people but that is still only 3 or 4 books a year so I just buy my books and after a couple years when im sure I won’t be reading them again I donate them to libraries. Libraries are a marvelous invention, I love those places even though I almost never use them. Just imagine how controversial they would be if they never existed and someone had the idea of them now. People would be crying piracy and socialism until their faces turn red.

Where i live we have a system where if you take sick days, they are paid 80%. 20% reduction applies only to the days you were sick. Once I got sick at the end of a month and took the last 3 days of the month and first 2 days of the next one off and my mother in law freaked out I’m about to loose 20% of 2 month’s salaries. She was and is still convinced that 20% deduction applies to a whole month worth of salary even if you take one day off that month. She almost never takes sick days and she works in a hospital… She self medicates and works with patients even when she has a transmittable diseases. Best of luck to those who have serious health problems and then get a fucking flu on top of everything from hospital staff. She is 60+ and reading the law to her doesn’t change her mind. A couple years ago she had more serious health problems and took a week off for the first time in decades, even after getting a paycheck reduced only by 5% and not 20% her perception of this issue didn’t change. She misunderstood that system once 40 years ago and she is going to take that misunderstanding to ger grave. Real world has no influence on her beliefs.

My company requires me to include probably a whole A4 sheet worth of text, hyperlinks, graphics at the bottom of every email. It’s especially funny with short back and forth emails when a total of 10 sentences exchanged turn into multi megabyte document. I am sorry to all the people who are going to die because of this.

A bistro chain near me implemented that app. They offer mixed bags of whatever is left an hour before they close. Sound good but there is a question we should ask a lot more: does this need to be an app? Couldn’t they just discount everything in the last hour? Literally a piece of paper on a door “19:00 - 20:00, - 50%” would do exactly the same. Is it a sign of getting old if I hate unnecessary use of technology?

I’m not 18 anymore to be trying to impress people with drinking obscure styles of beer with 5 words in their name.

I don’t think it would, tourism contributes only around 8% (first search result i found) of income in the city (Kraków) but drives locals out of city centre and drives house prices to the moon. I haven’t been in any pub in city centre for years now. Back in 2020 when tourism was halted rents went down a lot and the centre was full of locals who suddenly didn’t feel like guests in their own city. Back then I moved from renting a room in a shared flat to renting a 2 room apartment, closer to the city centre by myself and I didn’t pay more at all. It didn’t last long though.

Try to choose less traveled destinations. I live in a touristy city and I would be really happy if the number of tourists dropped by 80%.

We are living in a time where such obvious statements need to be written down. This is terryfying. Billionaires are questioning the very idea of public wealth in order to tear it down and take control over it. They already control housing, production and distribution of goods, production and distribution of information. Public infrastructure is just another step in wealth concentration and towards feudalism. This is not funny. Where I live serfdom was abolished in 1848, my ancestors were free men for less than 2 centuries. My grandma could have talked to people who were born under serfdom and we are already steering back into it.

So are you trying to convince me that Trump is actually a good president?

I tried that. 150 euro sunglasses were great, they felt amazing on my face for those two months until i couldn’t find them anymore.

Is there any chance for a future where the economy that matters, real people’s lives, production of useful goods and services, becomes decoupled from imaginary evaluations of billionaire’s gambling results? It really rustles my jimmies when I hear that a result of some banksters bet can get working families evicted and jobs dissapear.

I remember when our universities were innovating by welding two Żuk mini busses together and putting them on rails to revolutionise rail travel. Times have changed indeed.

Croatia is my all time favourite but I visited Estonia last year and fell in love with the country.

I never know if they are Jewish or not, the groups themselves are distinct because they are always in large groups, with multiple guides and guards, but I can’t tell Jewish or non Jewish Israelis apart just by their faces. Idk why they behave like that. It’s all ages. I sometimes see them out in the city but I heard more chilling stories about them from a guy who operates a bus transfer business to Auschwitz.

Oh believe me, Israeli trips in Kraków are the worst kind of tourists in every aspect possible. They are louder than British stag parties, more obnoxious than Americans and their favourite thing is crying about antisemitism when they are removed from somewhere for causing disturbances or making a huge mess. They do not understand the idea of rubbish bins and you can trace their paths by following cigarette butts, empty crisps packets and spit.

I am happy that there are people who use their time to make our cities better like Konfitura does.

There are aspects of economy that certainly should be centrally planned though. A few industries that come to mind are transportation infrastructure and power generation. Private competition is good for most industries but it should never be allowed to dismantle public services for profit. When capitalism arrived in my country in the 90s it devastated our rail network since profit became more important than providing people with transportation services. There are cities of around 80k population that don’t have any rail connections now, some cities twice as large have sparse or barely any connections.

The trick is to never beg for jobs, beg for money.

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