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I especially like their useful sites subsection, which makes for great web surfing (say, when's the last time you surfed the web?) but also here's their section on HRT, or maybe you'd like to see some tools to improve this dysfunctional website?

[arrow points to the bit where it says "anticommunist opposition activist/person oppressed politically 51%"]

This is what Poland is

This is our country in a nutshell

Are you ready to join this ride with me? This is going to be a ride.

It starts out reasonable you get your standard student/PhD student/child/pupil, disabled child, caretaker of disabled child, Big Family Card, Child until 4 & Teacher (which is not really a classic one in a lot of places but kinda nice)

But then. Then it starts getting progressively weird.

Officials on duty (ew) Non-occupational soldier (why? And also why more than teacher's 33%?), honorary blood donor (????? That exists as a discount category? I mean, nice? But what???)

A blind person unable to exist independently (good only at first glance, why specifically blind and not just disabled? Why distinguish?), A person unable to exist independently (why the radical drop in percentage in comparison with the former category you ask??? Why make distinctions between whether the disabled person is blind or not you ask??? I don't know!!! I'm just as clueless as you are!!!) Caretaker of a disabled person (alright, are we back to normal?) a caretaker of a blind person (nope, we're not, why even is this a separate category if the percentage doesn't even differ to the last one???)

Ok ok. I won't get into the first one, Pole's Card, coz I'd have to do a history lesson.

Needing a History Lesson to explain Polish Railway Discounts sounds about right. Remember this remark, we'll come back to this later.

Pensioner/Retired, 2 trips in a year. (WHY THE HECK ONLY 2 TRIPS? WHAT EVEN IS THE BENEFIT OF THAT, WHAT WHY) Valid with documentation (Don't the others need documentation? Why did they have to spell it out here specifically I'm dying)

A blind victim of war unable to work. Super-hyperspecific, this one?

Blind person

I am dying. You just made your Super-hyperspecific category from before completely redundant. I am crying, I am tearing at the walls,

More history. Anti-communist opposition activist/politically oppressed person & veteran who's disabled.

POV: You are in a Kafka novel.

Caretaker of a disabled war veteran of group 1. (you thought we had covered caretakers? How is this different? It's the same percentage... What is group 1?) A disabled veteran, war or army. Group 2, 3. (Percentage...) Combatant/Member of the corpus of veterans (you are slowly losing your sanity. Maybe it all doesn't matter. Is there a Goncharov discount?) A disabled veteran, war or army, Group 1.

You want to enter through the door but you get denied.

You get to the last one.

A blind victim of war action that is unable to exist independently.

You pause. This looks familiar. Didn't we see this before? You scroll up to the beginning. Blind person unable to exist independently, there it is, we did have it before! The percentage. THE PERCENTAGE!

You’re going to go on Vinted or eBay and put in “made in Italy”, “moda Italia” or (translation of same.) add the search term “silk top.”

What you want are tops that consist of these really thin jersey vest tops with a floaty pure silk layer over them. You’re looking to spend £8-20. You might need to specify “floaty” or “lagenlook.”

There will usually be a healthy secondhand collection of these online. Try to get a pure silk overlayer if you can - some of them are silk blended with viscose.

You’ll probably find the designs kinda mid or old-lady-ish. Don’t worry too much about this. They’ll actually look pretty cool on, and everyone will be jealous of your freedom from suffering.

Quite compatible with office looks.

I find they don’t do the rumpled-commuter thing as badly as linen does. I like a linen trouser + these tops

Swishy silk layer is cooler than wearing nothing.

Keeps the sun off the arms/ chest.

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for: