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  • But... That's just an argument that you don't know the situation in NK. Not that the situation is anything, good or bad?

    If I lie to you where the fire is, it does not mean the fire is cold.

  • Agreed but you can play only offline without missing on much

    That's such a bad take. Game companies are not allowed to have multiplayer that bypasses psn network.

    The Sony and Nintendo have dominant positions in the game market for their consoles. The wallet garden must be breached for the consumer - why do you cate about company profits🙃

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime

    This wikipedia article lists all different studies why. The short answer is patriarchy - men have more occasion to commit crimes and it's more acceptable from gender role point of view for men to do so.

    It also list studies of crimes and offenses where women are found to be more often perpetrators than men, including a very comprehensive guide to domestic violence studies.

    To sum it up - you're both correct, men do more bullshit, women have similar capacity for it, we are expected to express the bullshit differently.

  • Rolicki published that book decades before he started selling himself for money to Republika. The critics were calling it not biography but hagiography of Gierek.

    Hissy fit? Yeah, I don't think highly of you if protesting stan wyjątkowy by leaving the party and being jobless for a few years you call a hissy fit. Please note that before that he was given orders from PRL (and not only for long work duration).

    Heck, even recently he published a book giving a BJ to whole PRL (like 5 years ago).

  • So the wiki you quoted is the bible and any source saying otherwise is right-deviationism nationalism or otherwise anti socialist element. Or heresy.

    factory can be picked up and moved across state lines

    Exactly this.

    what happened with these

    We don't know, USSR didn't tell us.

    Why

    Wealth. Industry. Money.

    Socialist Poland saw rapid economic development

    Hahahaha. We would literally be better off getting the full restitution from Germany. Instead USSR took it too, and told us they will lend us about 15% of it to rebuild.

    To be fair, some new technology from USSR was licensed to Poland, but it was expected that the goods will be paid as tribute ("Sold" to USSR at the value below production cost. Source: again, Rolicki pro-PRL historian).

    and as such the right-wing nationalists fought against the Socialist system.

    Poland was given to USSR as tribute. We never had a revolution, nor did we want to join USSR. We were broken by Nazis and then finished off by Ruskich. Unless you count everybody as right wing nationalist, Polish people had enough bad history with Russia to not want to be under them.

    But this is pointless. To you I'm right wing nationalist or something, to me you're romanticising USSR, inventing "facts" left and right. You quote a form of wikipedia made by ???, I quote left-wing pro-PRL historian who remembers and read official documents.

  • If the argument you're making is that Poland wasn't exploited by USSR, because USSR wasn't exporting capital, but goods, then that's a strawman at best. Export of goods by the prices dictated by USSR (at 10% of value at the time), in amounts dictated by USSR, isn't an export of capital ? Imperialistic country is a country that has colonies. Colony is a territory exploited by the "owning" country. Trying to make distinctions in that paradigm is pointless at best, malicious at worst.

    I pivoted the discussion to Poland (PRL) because the source you quoted blatantly LIED about it. If it's blatantly lying about USSR, why would I trust anything else whitewashing other countries?

    In 1956, when First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Gomułka was summoned to Moscow, he made some secret notes (that are now public) counting what infrastructure did Moscow stole (as in - took apart, moved to USSR) from Poland (by 1956!):

    • hundreds different factories lost all machinery
    • thousands of small manufactories (think pa & ma small manufactories)
    • 8 (!) power stations (from Górny Śląśk)
    • coke oven gas pipeline 115km,
    • all big chemistry factories from Polic to Kędzierzyn (value of 1 200 000 000 pre-war $)
    • 4000 km of rails!
    • heavy machine factories in Jelcz, Łabędy, Zielona Góa, Wrocłąw, Elbląg, Szczecin
    • machinery from Mines in Bolesławiec
    • about 2/3 of machines from the biggest shipyard in Poland (the rest were too big to move)
    • 14 factories of paper and cellulose

    Source - Rolicki "Gierek", pages 110-120 summarize Gomułka notes (Rolicki is a very pro-PRL historian).

  • I'm from Poland.

    The source you quoted says that USSR wasn't imperialistic.

    Polish economy during occupation by USSR was drained, we were forced to send goods to the Mother Russia like crazy, without compensation. We had local shortages, so that Moska could benefit. If that's not imperialistic exploitation to you, we have nothing to talk about, because you're crazy.

  • Africa.

    China is mining Africa. They lend money to local governments, make them build infrastructure to mine natural resources, and then let the countries spiral into never ending debt.

    One could argue that it's money used to invest in local production, but the real cash is making stuff from raw resources (In China). Also the fact it's China lending the money and taking mineral rights and infrastructure as collateral is, well, colonialism.

    Examples: Kenya, Zambia.

  • The average “western” country depends on the spoils of Imperialism

    Hm... Yes, the famous Polish Colonies spanning half the India, some of Africa and Kamchatka.

    China doesn’t do that

    China for the past 20 years has been mining Africa like crazy. I don't see that wealth staying with African people, but moving to China and giving it monetary and political power.

  • Well, I don't know your use case well enough, but I guess you might have perfect reason for that behavior.

    One thing that comes to my mind is the old Try in C#

     
        
    bool parsedSuccessfully = int.TryParse("123", out int result);
    
      

    But I guess more popular approach would be to use Error as Values, right?

    E.g. something like this

     
        
    Outcome<Exception, Int> result = int.TotallyNewParse("123");
    
      
  • So... The medical professional is taking voice notes and then they get transcribed (ok, this is fine) - and then summarized automatically? I don't think the summary is a good idea - it's not a car factory, the MD should get to know my medical history, not just a summary of one.