Зіґмарс Янис Північ

Patīk cilvēki. Bet vēl vairāk patīk domājoši cilvēki, kuriem piemīt dzīves pieredze un veselais saprāts. Un humora izjūta vēl. Kur bez tās?!

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

🧵Hmm, kā lai apraksta savu politisko nostāju n-dimensiju telpā? Ar divām dimensijām (a ļa https://t.co/XQdsaIvrUl) ir ļoti par maz. Trešā baigi nepalīdz. Tālāk grūti vizualizēt.
Mēģināšu aprakstoši. Jaukšu dimensijas un apakšdimensijas, lai lasītājam jautrāk.

[Tomek Biznestmen @tomek_fin_ai]

Poszedłem rano do spożywczaka.

Chleb, mleko, jajka.
Rachunek: 150 zł.
Na ekranie terminala wyskoczyło pytanie, czy chcę zaokrąglić kwotę na wsparcie szpitala dziecięcego.

Kliknąłem: NIE.

Kasjerka zmierzyła mnie wzrokiem.

Kobieta za mną zmierzyła mnie wzrokiem.

Moja żona westchnęła i spojrzała w sufit.

Znowu to samo.

Ta korporacja zarobiła w zeszłym roku 14 miliardów. Sami mogą sobie zaokrąglić.

Potem pojechałem zatankować.
Terminal pyta, czy chcę dorzucić piątkę na schronisko dla bezdomnych zwierząt.
Uwielbiam zwierzaki.
Kliknąłem: NIE.
Koncern naftowy wart 166 miliardów prosi mnie o finansowanie ich fundacji, podczas gdy ja płacę ponad 6 ziko za litr.
To nie jest filantropia. To jest outsourcing.

Wpadłem na szybki lunch do fast foodu.
Ekran.
Na ekranie cyfrowego kiosku: „Zaokrąglij na stypendia dla młodzieży”.

Sieć fast foodów prosi mnie o fundowanie stypendiów, a swoim pracownikom płaci minimalną krajową.

Kliknąłem: NIE.

Żona mówi: „Wiesz, że od samego rana kłócisz się z ekranami?”.

Miała rację. Ale to ekrany pierwsze zaczęły.

Na koniec apteka.
Odbieram leki.
340 zł, już po zniżkach.

Terminal pyta, czy chcę przekazać 2 złote na pomoc potrzebującym rodzinom.

Właśnie zostawiłem 340 zł za lek, którego produkcja kosztuje pewnie z pięć zeta.

I wy chcecie ode mnie jeszcze dwa złote?
Kliknąłem: NIE.
Farmaceutka mówi: „To tylko dwa złote”.
Odpowiedziałem: „To nigdy nie są tylko dwa złote”.
Nic nie powiedziała.

Wracamy do domu.

Żona mówi: „Odmówiłeś dzisiaj szpitalowi dziecięcemu, schronisku, edukacji i biednym rodzinom”.

Odparłem: „Nie. Odmówiłem czterem wielkim korporacjom, które chcą, żebym sfinansował ich rzekomą dobroczynność, żeby potem mogły to wpisać do swojego raportu rocznego”.

Milczała przez chwilę.

W końcu mówi: „W sumie masz rację”.

„Wiem” – odpowiedziałem.

„Ale i tak wychodzisz na potwora”.

„Wolę wyjść na potwora, niż przy kasie potulnie sponsorować strategię PR-ową miliardowych firm”.

Nie zaprzeczyła.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The international narrative surrounding ’peace negotiations’ is completely upside down:

It is Ukraine and the West that should be dictating demands to Russia, not the other way around.

Russia is the sole aggressor committing an active genocide, and it has zero right to issue conditions.

The harsh reality is that the West and Ukraine owe Russia absolutely nothing. Moscow launched this pathetic, insane war of choice, lied about it systematically before the invasion, continues to lie today, and will undeniably lie about it tomorrow. Entering any talks by catering to the perpetrator's conditions is a fundamental failure of international justice.

Furthermore, the strategic reality on the ground makes the Kremlin's posture laughably illegitimate. Russia is losing this war, its military momentum has stalled out, and its economy is fracturing under the weight of historical attrition. It is Ukraine and its Western allies who hold the true moral and strategic leverage to dictate terms, demanding full accountability, complete territorial withdrawal, and massive reparations from a regime that is 100% to blame for this catastrophe

[Український часопис @falledlenin]

Хочеться щоб поляки окрім себе ще й чули українців. УПА для нас це в першу чергу боротьба з радянськими окупантами за Незалежність України. Немає в українців гордості за вбивства поляків на Волині. Більше 90% бійців УПА загинули у боях з москалями, біля 3% у боях з німцями та лише 5% у боях з поляками. Ми не можемо викреслити їх з своєї історії. А в ній усі хто створював та боронив Київську державу, Русь-Україну, її Незалежність є Героями. І князь Володимир Великий, і Богдан Хмельницький, і Симон Петлюра і Степан Бандера. Ми не заперечуємо Волинську трагедію та дотримуємось позиції «Пробачаємо та просимо вибачення», бо злочини були взаємними з обох боків. Ми не проти глорифікації поляками Армії Крайової, Пілсудського та інших, хто міг вбивати українців 100 років тому, але важливі для вашої історії - це ваша справа. Але українці хочуть щоб було таке ж відношення у відповідь. Від чвар та воєн між Україною та Польщею завжди вигравала тільки москва. Маємо надію на порозуміння. Слава Україні ! Niech żyje Polska!

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

Nu, nav jau tā, ka ilgi bija jāgaida… Bet beidzot tas brīdis ir pienācis!

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Edward Snowden has officially started producing propaganda for the Kremlin.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I’m loving this sort of thing.

For years, Russia has been yelling about “Ukrainian Nazis,” the “Kyiv junta,” the “protection of the people of Donbas,” the “NATO threat,” and “we didn’t start this war, Ukraine attacked us.”

And then, as if nothing happened, Russian officials openly and publicly threaten Armenia with a “Ukrainian scenario” if its pro-Western government, which has been confidently re-elected, continues moving closer to the European Union and European countries.

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

People keep asking what the Soviet occupation actually cost the Baltic states. You don't have to imagine it. There's a control group, and it's sitting right across the gulf.
In 1938 — the last full year before the war — Estonia and Finland had essentially the same GDP per capita. Two small nations, same sea, neighboring languages, the same starting line. By some rankings Estonia was even slightly ahead. Heritage FoundationX
Then history split in two.
Finland fought the Winter War and kept its independence. Estonia was occupied, annexed, and folded into a planned economy. Same decade, opposite roads.
Fifty years later:
🇫🇮 Finland — ~$24,000 per person (1992)
🇪🇪 Estonia — ~$2,800
An eightfold gap — from an identical starting point. Not because Finns worked harder. Not because Estonians were less capable. One country was free to build. The other was told what to build, for whom, and at what loss.
The wages say it even more cleanly: in 1938 Estonian purchasing power was just 4% below Finland's; by 1988 it was 42% below. That cliff is the occupation, drawn in numbers.
And here's the part that ends the argument. Set free for a single generation, Estonia has already clawed back to roughly four-fifths of Finnish income. A gap that took 50 years to open is closing in 30. That's the proof it was never about us — it was the system imposed on us.
There's a cost that never shows up in GDP, either. No occupation means no cattle cars to Siberia. No murdered and exiled intelligentsia. No decades of settlers moved in to outnumber the natives — which means the very "Russian-speaking minority" Moscow is now parading before the ICJ wouldn't exist at anything like that scale. The grievance Russia is litigating is one it manufactured itself.
So no — we don't wonder what we lost. We can see it from the ferry.
And free at last, it's what we're finally becoming again. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

[Ilmārs Poikāns @ilmarmors]

Bezmaksas CE matemātikas gatavošanās 9.-12. klases skolēniem. Latvijā veidots, latviski. 1860+ CE uzdevumu, 15 pilni eksāmeni, 250+ Khan-stila skaidrojumu, 38 ģeneratori. https://t.co/PokZwDwo7z
P.S. Malacis @JRupeiks. 2 nedēļas darba un testēšanas. Valsts iztērētu miljonus.

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

@dibuoa Great people think alike! :-D

[Juris Vaidakovs @Afanasijs]

Pilni sociālie tīkli ar kaitniekiem, kas izsakās par droniem utt. Visiem viens uzstādījums - Latvija caur Ukrainu ievelk mūs karā ar Krieviju. Sūds ar tiem brēmaņiem, kiopiem u.c. provokatoriem, bet biedē viņu sekotāju tūkstoši. Protams, liela daļa tie ir troļļi, bet... Nav labi!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KASPAROV: Dictators always lie about what they've done, but very often tell you exactly what they're going to do. Mein Kampf was published in 1925, and it was a blueprint. Nobody took it seriously in 1925.

In 2005 Vladimir Putin, already in his second term as Russian president, in control of Russian nukes and enormous amount of money, addressed Russian Duma and Senate. He said bluntly, "The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."

Vladimir Putin made it very clear then, and for those who didn't want to hear him saying it in Russian in Moscow, he repeated it in 2007 at Munich Security Conference, looking straight in the eyes of Bush 43 and all other leaders of free world.

For those who couldn't hear him, the next year he attacked Republic of Georgia. So Vladimir Putin's goal was, is, and will be, and there's no indication he's changed it, to restore the glory of Russian Empire, which means to push NATO back to 1997 borders.

That was a part of the ultimatum that Vladimir Putin laid down back in 2007 and put again on the table in December 2021. Ukraine is the main target now, but it's not the ultimate goal.

The problem is Europe still doesn't want to recognize it. We're still talking about hypotheticals. This is not a threat. This is a menace.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

These people call Ukraine corrupt by the way

[Ralfs Eilands @RalfsEilands]

Bet ceturtdienas rītā Dievs neizturēja un teica: “Evika, atkāpies!”

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

@Zmeycharauski Varētu ik nedēļu rotēt jūs ar @atihomirovs

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

@girts_zag Konservatīvs pēc politiskā spektra piederības, vai balsošanas paradumiem? :-)

[Normunds Bergs 🇱🇻🇪🇺🇺🇦 @normundsbergs]

Sliktā brīdī mums politiķu spēles notiek. Sliktā.

[Andris Tihomirovs @atihomirovs]

Lūdzu nepiesauciet šajos politiskajos murgos šaha analoģiju. Neviens iesācējs tik slikti nespēlē šahu kā jūs politiku.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Fished for years, finally learned why hooks always twisted 🤣

[Зіґмарс Янис Північ @vikipediatrs]

Ja godīgi, par ko man tāds gods? Ja vēl godīgāk, kāpēc ir tā, ka visādiem dirsas caurumiem nagi niez bloķēt manu necilo un nevienam nekaitīgo kontu?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Yes, and I raged about Obama mocking him for it. But just a few years later, Republicans embraced enemy Russia because of Trump's loyalty to Putin and began the "Russia hoax" gaslighting that still persists. There’s being wrong and there’s being a traitor.