[2008] One year earlier, the Polish sports ministry also made an attempt to address corruption within the Polish Football Association, but was threatened with suspension by FIFA, which forbids any form of government intervention.
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FIFA is a different world

Yeah “just one line made in UK” is a common theme - Baracuta, Gola too. I feel like the easiest way to buy European clothes is to dress like you live in the 50s:

• welted shoes - e.g. Crockett & Jones, Goral, Trickers (?). Though that’s doing good across the board in Europe - TLB, Carmina, Berwick, Vass, J.M. Weston, Paraboot
• shetland sweaters: Jamiesons, Harley of Scotland, Bosie, William Lockie, Howlin

Also not strictly related and more US-centric article about running shoes (link to table with which running shoe brands own factories rather than subcontracting the manufacturing out): https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/same-shoe-different-factory#who-actually-makes-their-own-shoes - NB also has a UK factory

The protests made me feel shame when being a tourist in a big city. At least agrotourism in the middle of nowhere is free from that

Jump off the balcony into the pool

Well, ultra fast fashion is ultra fast. It doesn’t rely on a season to season trend cycle, but micro-trends that are constantly changing, making the stuff you just bought obsolete - you need to buy again!! /s. You can be disappointed by 6 months, but I’d wager UFF clothes are worn much less than that.

The market normalised frequent purchase of clothes for us consumers. No one treats buying clothes as seriously as buying say household electronics. No one treats repairs that seriously if replacing is so easy. So no one really ends up knowing what to look for on a garment that makes it high quality, since that’s “not necessary”. One podcast I’m listening to says “clothes should be expensive”.

I wish there was an easy way to appraise clothes before you buy them. I wish people would care if they’re getting ripped off or not. Go ahead and start a five e-mail thread from the store you’re thinking about buying from. You can’t know how much of a good deal a garment is by looking at it. If you take a pair of cotton trousers into your hands you can’t know what’s the staple length of the cotton or what’s the dyeing method used. What % of price went to pay the workers a living wage? What % towards the fabric? How much % extra am I paying for better finishing?

With pants if there’s elastane in the mix it makes the fabric less durable. If you get crotch blowouts look for trousers with a crotch gusset. Consider looking for brands that list the fabric weight, since the fatter the fabric the more friction it can take before it develops a hole. With shoes I don’t really know what to say without going into goodyearwelted shoes that cost 2-3x that.

Some creators related to appraisal:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8TOMC1G1Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMoZjcpgivM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPdGhZHT7JU
• https://www.youtube.com/@textilewithalberto998/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@lauravonv/videos

Salomon Group is also owned by Finnish Amer sports, which in turn is 44% owned by Chinese Anta Sports and 4.5% by Tencent.

350kmh bahaha this is bullshit. They can’t even implement ETCS2/GSM-R on Warsaw-Białystok to increase the speeds to 200 km/h despite the track being adapted to those speeds.

Messi wasn’t telling the ref what Cucurella said. Covering your mouth while speaking is a red card offense because players would say slurs and didn’t want others to be able to lip-read. Cucurella wasn’t doing that, he briefly tapped his lips to gesture that his teammate got hit in the mouth. Messi raised his hand as if Cucurella covered his mouth to say a slur - to get him sent off the pitch and get an unfair advantage.

Thanks for sharing. Can you put that it’s IRIS 2 in the title?

EDIT: thx

If you go to the Ringier Axel Springer website for your country, chances are they list the news outlets they own there, like this for Poland

I’ve since replaced all of them with getting news from national news agencies or independent outlets instead (PAP.pl, European Correspondent, Notes from Poland) etc.

In the Polish sources I see they use “magazyn wojskowy” (EN: military depot) so it’s not like a private store selling military supplies, it’s a dedicated facility ran by the military with equipment staff present. Not sure if they’re always on base grounds.

https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/01/13/poland-charges-four-soldiers-and-fires-general-after-anti-tank-mines-end-up-at-ikea-warehouse/

We aren’t good enough at this yet

Find out by reading the article

EDIT after OP EDIT: It’s ok I love u ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

It’s about the method of delivery, not who pays for it. I imagine some soldiers may live far enough from the closest military store that it’d be a hassle.

Soldiers in Poland will be able to pick up their uniforms from their nearest parcel locker rather than having to collect them from military stores

The article also says it covers other types of equipment, so you don’t have to go to the military store for every little thing.

It’s already a thing in Poland. You can buy a Czech SIM card/starter on an auction website to avoid the ID thing. Plus it’s also funny to have a +420 area code

At one point one might think the Internet is finished and it’s way less stressful to just return to monkey (no /s)

I think the U.S. equivalent would be just as interested, despite being weak in some other areas. What’s the connection between condoms and imperialism?

It works for those SEO spam sites too. You visit such a site, go back in history to your search engine, and in the result’s top right corner block the website. It’s neat. It doesn’t work by default with Qwant and you need to add some line in the settings that’s in one of the GitHub issues.

Wish they expanded to more countries. In Poland I saw a forum thread of people buying subscriptions/accounts from some guy online because they can’t buy it themselves. That being said, you can create a free account over a VPN in a supported country if you want to just try it.