I hope that Mazda isn’t a diesel one.

I built a couple of lego sets I got for my birthday and started painting a lasercut airplane model I glued last week.

She’s a veteran politician with her own cult of personality, she will be fine. She’s not planning to be the prime minister though.

This election had some weird surprises, like the young and progressive Laisvės Partija getting zero votes, but it could have gone so much worse.

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)

No, I wasn’t. It took me 2 months to switch jobs. With unused vacation money, I got about 1 month’s worth of my regular salary. The people who stayed didn’t get their salaries for 3 months due to cash flow issues.

If there’s a 1 minute sex scene in a 90 minute movie, you’re guaranteed to have your parents walk in during that one sex scene.

Don’t kill the rich. Exile them to an island and watch them eat each other instead of eating the world.

I mean, we were 17-18 years old, but it was still something I wouldn’t choose to read.

The story I remember reading was about a mother of two young kids, during the events of January 13th.

The Soviet tanks roll by her street, towards the TV tower, she later finds out that her husband left home to defend it. It is not clear if he will come back. Historical context: only 14 people died that night, but the casualties were expected to be higher, because people went against the army with their bare hands.

The other event is how she goes to a doctor, because she is still lactating despite her youngest child being past nursing age. She goes there twice, the second time the doctor sleeps with her. She seems ambivalent about it.

The last part I remember is her walking on a frozen pond with her children. The older child finds a spot where the ice is transparent, and says:

“I see something. A land.”

Hence the name of the story, “A Land of Ice”

She was a writer, an essayist, a poet and a traveler.

A lot of her creations feature powerlessness of women in various dramatic events.

I like my country, but not being born in Lithuania would have meant not reading Jurga Ivanauskaitė back at school and you all should consider yourselves lucky.

It’s review, but written in similar looking Cyrillic letters.

The end of sunny season 😿

The start of heater season 😻

Sometimes it’s used for flavour, and sometimes it is used to regulate acidity.

Autoerotic defenestration is a big fetish in Russia.

Not the cold ones.

Worker is part of industry, da?

Why would an alien civilization colonize us for anything other than natural resources?

Space is full of mineral resources, going to a random planet with a relatively high gravity well just for some rocks would be counter productive. And an advanced civilization would probably use a lot of automation for resource extraction.

And there are several examples where humans weren’t treated well in a resource extraction economy. Sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean were where slaves went to die.

That part is true. But the question is what could the aliens get from us that couldn’t be made for cheaper closer to their planet?

No, none that I know of.

A civilization capable of interstellar imperialism* would be focused on long-term exploitation of less primitive societies, so they would probably manage us better than the current elites do. A more educated, healthy worker is simply more productive than the alternative, especially in the long term.

• unless it is some kind of swarm of space locusts that just devour everything in their path.