Mastodawn

Česko je černým pasažérem EU (obrázek) i NATO (odkaz).
A kvůli podnikání několika oligarchů se zase několik let můžeme stydět, odkud to jsme. Co s tím uděláme?

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-czech-government-cuts-defense-spending-below-nato-target/

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pmjv s klapkami na očích Feb 27

@[email protected] why is greece EL :')

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Reid

@pmjv @tomulinek @gettie because of how they call themselves; "Ellene" or something (prob misspelled it)

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xenia

Feb 27

@reiddragon something like that. sometimes i don't quite get country codes

@pmjv @tomulinek

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Reid

Feb 27

@gettie @pmjv @tomulinek I'm pretty sure they're based on the country's local name for themselves for the most part

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pmjv s klapkami na očích Feb 27

this isn't always true, at least for the czech republic, which is CZ, but there's no Z in the local name

(same for HUngary)

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@qrstuv.bsky.social Feb 27

It's actually almost never true. Usually it's just a random pair of letters. For example, Japans' code is "JP", but there's neither a J nor a P in 日本. It's just which ever two letters the guy at google picked that day in 1998.

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pmjv s klapkami na očích Feb 27

This is probably exactly what happened.

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pmjv s klapkami na očích Feb 27

never heard that, thanks!

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Tomáš Vít Feb 27

@pmjv @reiddragon @gettie

While the world knows the country as Greece (from Latin Graecia), Greeks call their land Elláda (Ελλάδα) or Hellas.

GR = The International Standard (ISO 3166). Used for car plates, ISO codes, and the .gr domain.

EL = Based on the Greek name for the language/nation (Ellínika / Elláda).