“Of the 12 apostles, 18 of them are buried in Spain.”

Ah yes Russia, please antagonise the country with one of the highest artillery shell stockpiles and production capacities in the world, what bad thing could result from that?

In Lithuanian, we escaped the madness by making up our own name for it:

Sraigtasparnis = sraigtas (cog) + sparnas (wing)

Not to be confused with the word for autogyro:

Malūnsparnis = malūnas (mill) + sparnas (wing)

Which is not interesting unless you are writing some alternate history with aircraft in it and want to call them something with no Greek or Latin.

All languages that are used are kinda broken, except the synthetic ones, like Esperanto.

The amount of exceptions and weird rules in non-English languages I speak (Lithuanian and Swedish) and kinda know (Russian) proves it.

Yes, but now their propaganda machine can say that they want to stop the war.

Military industrial complex is relatively tiny.

If you want to see who will be the end of us, follow the bigger fish.

Oil companies will destroy the environment.

Agrochemical companies will destroy biodiversity.

Food companies will make us obese.

Social media companies will misinform and divide us.

That’s what you get for liking hibiscus.

I am apologising for what Gražulis does in advance.

Same, but because I’ll make someone mad by posting.

You can’t really destroy an insurgency via military means. See: Iraq, Afghanistan.

Yep, in their mind Russia is great and is the future. Meanwhile, countries west of them are decadent and temporary.

To play the devil’s advocate, Poland and the Baltic states received a lot of third country refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, etc.) from Russia and Belarus before the war in Ukraine.

It was a hybrid warfare campaign where Russians would advertise how easy it is to cross the border and how good life is on the other side. They would also help them get to the border.

Those refugees quickly overran Baltic refugee centers and caused political instability.

I am anxious about money, so instead of being anxious about lack of money, I would be anxious about having what I see as too much money.

Loads of renovated parks and buildings, parts that used to be sketchy have mostly improved, the town center has become richer, while a lot of people who grew up here have moved to the suburbs.

Well, my wife still needs to get to work whilst it is getting fixed and the repairs are going to take months. If we choose to repair the car we will not be able to buy a new one so it’s a bit of a Catch-22.

Even if the car was fine, we would be still selling it. She had trouble with parking a car as big as a CX-5, and that car burns a bit too much diesel for her 70 km a day commute.

We are most likely to buy a car that’s at least 10 years old, we can’t afford any better. Probably we will be buying Toyota Auris for about 6K.

Most of Eastern European politics can be boiled down to “Pro-western elitists vs. pro-russian populists”

Meanwhile, Vilnius-Lublin portal is working with no incidents.

The first quote I got for the car was 1200 euros.

The engine repair guy said the repair would cost at least 3000, but the parts are hard to come by and it might take months just to get them. Getting them from the manufacturer would quickly inflate the price. And even if we replace all those parts, it would still prolong car’s life for 3-5 years.

Yes, but it would be as expensive as the car. It is also technically possible to replace a bunch of parts in order to fix it, but they are hard to get and expensive to get from the manufacturer.

Yes, it is something very similar to that.