We do have a successful bus manufacturer (Solaris). Does this count? We also have lots of car parts industry here.

Amazon already makes money on many products that should not be sold, as are fake or/and dangerous. They will still be making money by selling smuggled good. ‘It is not us, it is the independent seller. We just provide a platform. Will still work.’

Most of the time, yes, but not always. Sometimes you actually need local time stored rather than UTC. Simple example: alarm clock. User wants to be waken up at 7:00. No matter if it is summer time or winter time. Even if they travels to a different time zone - still will want to be waken up in the morning. If we store this time as UTC much more unnecessary and error-prone conversions will be needed. Similar issues may arise with other calendar events. Of course, at some point this will be converted to UTC for comparison with actual point in time.

There are lots of systems (embedded, mostly offline, abandoned by its vendor) which are not easily upgradeable and their timezone database cannot be easily replaced. Not everything is a PC getting its regular software update.

Isn’t he supposed to be ‘the left’?

Grass (the trimmed always green lawn type) is more demanding than many other crops. If the grass is growing there, then the topsoil is good enough for some other things too. Also the topsoil is something you can develop, especially on such small scale as personal garden. Make compost, grow less demanding plants first nad your soil will get better. You can grow things on sand mixed with a bit of compost.

But the same shit is often sold on European (like Polish Allegro) and American (Amazon) platforms. Why is this a problem only when then Chinese do it? The problem is broader, but is often shown us ‘do not buy from Temu or Aliexpress – they are dangerous’ while ignoring the same practices on the Western platforms.

The Western resellers most probably buy in bulk, so ‘de minimis’ rule does not fully explain why the dangerous product are on the market here.

I am all for making the platforms responsible, but why not start here, where enforcing this should be much easier? Or maybe it is not about safety and other regulations, but more about taking down competition?

the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left

And this might be the reason. More educated, middle-class, from large cities are ‘the elites’, but not a significant majority. Poor, less educated people, from rural areas feel excluded in the world made by and for ‘the elites’. So they are going to vote against what the elites want. And, on top of that, the opportunistic rich ‘1%’, with means to influence politics, abuse those feelings for their own gain.

I can confirm that ‘error’ and ‘mistake’ is the same word in Polish. I don’t think it matters here, though. And I am sure that Mr Sikorski knows the difference. His speech, although often harsh, is very diplomatic. When he says ‘Trump made a mistake’ it can safely be read as ‘Trump is a complete idiot’.

I am not sure about that ‘in practice’ in Russia. People falling from windows or dying in labor camps are not just accidents.

Probably the logic of the ruling party: this president is not great, but if we impeach him now there will be elections and a new president will be elected, this time one from the opposition party. Competent president working for the other party might be considered worse than an incompetent and corrupt one.

I am sure they would vote for impeachment if they had real chances of winning the presidential elections.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Korean politics, except some recent headlines.

In Poland because of that some sellers sell coconut milk as ‘coconut drink’. Which makes no sense.

For now it seems the military took over. They say ‘temporarily’, but they always say that… it might, as well, be just a change of the dictator. Let’s hope it is not the case, this time.

Oil is lighter than water, so, in water, it will ‘want to go up’ rather than down. I guess something like reversed syphon could be possible. I am not sure if the density difference is enough for this to be practical, though.

Valid point, but leaving thins as is does not seem like the optimal solution. Maybe the mods could occasionally post examples of removed spam/bot content, for transparency and awareness. Leaving this to random users can end with more mistakes and actual abuse.

Also, the troll/bot comments and discussion around them will less disturbing outside of the intended context (where they were posted to cause disturbance or misinformation).