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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:39:58 JST Charlie Stross

   On this note, I remember the 1970s and *they were dogshit*. HTH!
   https://mastodon.online/@newsthump/114018582765705384

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:39:57 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     @cstross I was born in 1980. In 1981 there was martial law, in 1986 there was the Chernobyl scare, in 1987 I got carbon monoxide poisoning, in 1988 the economic crisis got so bad my parents couldn't afford anything for next 5 years, in 1989 there was a revolution, in 1992 there was the "night of the briefcases" (basically a failed coup attempt), and I'm going to run out of characters before I get to the one good part (2004, EU accession).

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:44:56 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     @cstross I imagine people generally have no idea about the goings on in other countries and the UK and US are an exception because of their cultural hegemony.

     It doesn't become international news until it reaches Euromaidan-level intensity (Euromaidan was in 2014 in Ukraine, the police there killed about a hundred protesters).

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:44:57 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Jacek Wesołowski

     @jzillw Well, THAT led me down an entertaining rabbit hole! (I suspect most people outside of Poland have NO IDEA about that shit.)