It wouldn’t be Polish if it wasn’t pessimistic ;)

You joke, but there are practical and historic reasons for the pessimism.

No one in the West has had the Eastern European experience of queuing for bread for hours and discovering there isn't any.

In the West we have exceptionally strong normalcy bias and can't imagine a world with severe scarcity.

In countries like Poland that's still lived memory.

That exact experience was my first day in Poland in the 80's. As a spoiled Western kid this was quite an eye opener. Lots of stuff I took for granted was reviewed in those years, and it affects me to this day.

Heck, 80 years ago it wasn't obvious there would still be a Poland. Absolutely understandable that pessimism is a normal state of mind.

Sounds amazing! What’s the name of the series if we wanted to find it on YouTube?

Honored by your interested :) It is called "Dolton Documentaries".

I don't know the creator handle or series name, but it's got to be Dixon, IL. lol

Excellent guess, and the documentary All The Queen's Horses does a much better job explaining that story than I ever could!

This one is about Dolton, IL - the series is called "Dolton Documentaries" on YouTube.

Can’t be if they were having to scrub government meetings to put the puzzle together. Unless, of course, they made this before she was caught. :)

Completely coincidentally, I’m typing this from the Aldi at 88 and 26, waiting out a storm.

Idk why this is getting down voted, the article identifies them as geoglyphs in the second paragraph.

Because of misplaced pedantry by a couple ESLs.

I've noticed that Europeans users now comment at a higher frequency on HN than American users now, and set the tone of the site because of timezones.

Cape Verde would have qualified under the 32 team cup as well.

Agreed with both you and parent on the commercial, I mean hydration, breaks. What a disaster.