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Justas🇱🇹

@ Justas @sh.itjust.works

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Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.

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  • They were supposed to be cat eyes, which would have probably looked better.

  • Harris and the Democrats Committed to a Rightward Lurch — and Lost Big Time

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  • In most of Europe this isn't leftist policy, it's common sense centrist policy.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • I hope that Mazda isn't a diesel one.

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • The show I remember being praised for being the opposite was Netflix's Daredevil. The fighting sequences were well done and long lasting because people kept getting up instead of just lying there after taking a couple of kicks.

  • Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post’s decision to stop presidential endorsements days before election

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  • His wife already looks like a Barbie doll.

  • Have we become incomprehensible?

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  • No, but have some Lithuanian ones.

    Don’t spit in a well as one day you may drink from it.

    Bend the tree while it is young.

    Flax is not yet sown and they are already weaving the linen.

    You will know a horse by his teeth and a man by his talk.

    God gave teeth, God will provide the bread.

    Cat stroking leads to hump raising.

    Old love does not rust.

    The shoemaker is always barefoot.

    Whatever you do, do it well.

    There is no medicine that can cure stupidity.

    Well begun, is half done.

    Idioms

    Spoons after supper (too late to bring something up)

    hang noodles on the ears (try to fool someone)

    like a fifth leg for a dog (something useless)

    don’t say ‘wheee’ before jumping over the ditch (too early to brag about something)

    sitting like they were just kissed (to be lost and disoriented)

    walking like they just sold the land (to be sad)

    catch the corner (to grasp the meaning)

    my roof is riding away (I am losing my mind)

    it’s a fact like a pancake (something easy to accept)

    to pour from an empty container into a leaky one (to talk without saying anything meaningful)

    go and visit the dwarves (visit the bathroom)

    like a finger in the eye (to say something accurate)

    it left on the dog’s tail (a plan that failed)

    cutting a mushroom (to do useless work)

    to shepherd the eyes (look at something nice)

    wrap words in cotton wool (trying to speak nicely about a difficult subject)

    to leave someone on ice (to abandon someone)

    show the goats (to cry and scream when you don't get what you want)

    to clarify a relationship (to fight someone)

  • It seems like a difficult language to learn

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  • You're welcome.

    If you want to read more about the history of Lithuania and surrounding countries and their nation formation, a great start would be Timothy Snyder's book "The Reconstruction of Nations", he's the most popular historian of the region who is not from the region.

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  • I mean, yes and no.

    You are assuming that Lithuanian language became formalised when Lithuania was united under one government. Instead, most of language formalisation happened between 1880s and 1920s, when Lithuanian speaking population was actually divided between Prussian and Tzarist Russian empires. While most of the people lived in Tzarist Russia, writing in Lithuanian in Latin script was forbidden there.

    Instead, books in Latin script were printed in Prussia and distributed in Russia illegally. A handful of people like J. Basanavičius and V. Kudirka ended up in charge of printing most of those books and it made it easy to set language standards. Achieving such a monopoly with a bigger language would be much more difficult.

    That is also why formal Lithuanian is based on one ethnic dialect that was spoken in Prussia.

  • It'll end up as "Vote stupid parties, win stupid prices"

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  • Už Laisvės Partiją :/

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  • I have a strong coherence bias. The less coherent a person, the less believable they seem.

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  • That happened hundreds of years after Hus.

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  • Fun fact: The Czech adopted š, č and ž to look less German. The Lithuanians adopted it to look less Polish.

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  • Lithuanian: Palaikyk mano alų.

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  • Just come up with new letters, Lithuanian has 9 (ą, ę, ė, į, ų, ū, č, š, ž) extra letters. If a small language can do it, so can English.

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  • Be Lithuanian. Get culturally dominated by Poland. Refuse to speak Polish anyway. Refuse influence from any language. Remove loan words, replace them with newly made Baltic sounding ones. End up impossible to learn.

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  • Lithuanian is "kva kva"

  • Loki, who has claimed the box for himself, basking in what is left of the autumn sun.

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  • The end of sunny season 😿

    The start of heater season 😻

  • Russian Oligarch Found Dead in Moscow after Falling Out of Window

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  • Autoerotic defenestration is a big fetish in Russia.

  • What does your country/government do well?

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  • Making new enemies.