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It's not frugality, it's poverty.

That cooking sidequest at a medieval rpg.

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.

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.

When a plant or an animal is toxic, very often it's a defense mechanism.

I got tired of him saying how great a country was at year X, while ignoring what happened at year Y that made the country collapse at year Z.

Ah yes, Yogthos, the cherry picking champion of Lemmy.

Lol no, having a copy of this would give you a trip to Siberia back in USSR.

As someone from Lithuania, you have no idea how crazy our politics can get and how heavily our democracy relies on a rule that a party, in order to get into the parliament, must get at least 5% of the total votes.

Už Laisvės Partiją :/

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