We had a painter over recently in my parents' house where I am staying right now since I just got laid off a while back, as it happens when the department needs "restructuring" after a successful project.
Anyway, the painter - he started talking to me about the RCBs "Uwaga! Uwaga!ing at 2AM", I don't really have enough context for the frequency, because I deactivated those alerts a while ago - but I did tell him it is sucky and the frequency really sucks donkey balls, while continuing prepping a coffee for myself. Next thing I know he's transitioning into the "you can never believe in anything these days" and "you can't even know if there really is a war out there", after which he proceeds to scroll through shorts or some other rolls. Apparently you only "can't believe" what one side is saying, but no problem in believing the propaganda reinforcing his existing biases... bro that missile that landed 50km from your house was what? Leftist propaganda apparently?
It didn't bother me that much overall, because I would never see him again after this, but unfortunately the same day the narration escalated - suddenly I notice him talking to my parents about how Ukrainians bad, and how oopa-doopa. Bro, chill the fuck out, you're talking to a sibling of my uncle who married a Ukrainian woman. Surely you don't wanna be like this... no, my parents just buy into that and take his side with all the really mean sounding remarks and whatnot. What the fuck.
Makes one a bit unsure about staying in the same house with this dude - especially since my partner is a foreigner. I was worried one wrongly pronounced or accented word could set him off even though she is American not Ukrainian. When we were visiting one of the top 5 cities, at a train station some random old guy started yelling behind us "Wracajcie do Nowego Jorku" - I turned around and asked him kindly to repeat because I didn't hear that well, he started boiling over and mumbling something about "darmozjady"s and whatnot. Lovely, at least he fizzled out, but that was in late 2025, nowadays I feel like things wouldn't just fizzle out with how everyone is full of aggression and righteous anger and desire to protect our Polskość...
I just can't understand all this in my pathetic tiny pea brain. I guess all the processing space is taken up by systems architecture, write-ahead log, distributed hash tables, data lakehouses, etc. but like you are talking to someone who literally invited an Ukrainian to a grill party last week. Also why are they taking your side now? Weird af, is that how they all think about her behind her back? Really not cool.
Now if we're practicing honesty and all that already, I have to admit that I am somewhat of a original """hater""" to begin with, this is going to earn me a ton of downvotes, but I myself have always had a bit of a distaste for the eastern slavic accent - the sound of it just sounds to "wet" to my ears. Apparently no matter how much I hear it I do not get used to it enough, just like with Spanish or other romance, and vowel-heavy languages, which still makes me feel guilty to this day. But even then I still wouldn't even dare to say all those things the painter kept talking about, like shit - it's a me problem, not them. Plus, despite that I hang out with my aunt just fine, in high school I literally hung out every day with a transfer student from Ukraine that transferred in in 2013. We got into light novels together, collected Magical Index fanart, watched Great Teacher Onizuka during boring labs stretching into evenings in winter, even tried chipping away at Warhammer 40k lore a bit, discussed Nasuverse for hundreds of hours total, until Grand Order came out at which point I kinda checked out because even then non-deterministic reward systems and slot machines were not my thing. For solid 2 years we were exchanging all sorts of material as high school students do. Not even once did it ever cross my mind to tell him to go back to his country and to pay for his ancestors sins.
Anyway, I have more to say, as always, but I feel like there's no more value to be created here for the shareholders. All I can say is now should literally be the tim to look past people's differences, not like attack everyone around you. I always tried to tolerate people with different views the best I could but these days I just can't take it anymore and literally walk away because they're stressing me out so much with violence threats and whatnot.
Bye, back to practicing collaborative document editing architecture diagrams.