hyptosis
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Jul 3, 2026 2:33 PM
hyptosis
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For varying reasons.
torlogg
Five other Polish olympians auctioned their medals for charity: Otylia Jedrzejczak, Vladimir Semirunnij, Dawid Tomala, Klaudia Zwolinska and Tomasz Sikora
hyptosis
Good to know!! NICE
cousteau
I mean, that's not how you win a medal anyway, so good on them. :) I'm glad there are good people in the world. Hope in humanity +2.
emu314159127001
Breaking news from 2021
hyptosis
Hey buddy, I'm not a news station.
emu314159127001
I mean, it's pretty well formatted and all, maybe consider a side gig
xerasiel
TheFastpaws
The orphan crushing machine demands blood!
awesomeoldguy
“Maria still had her silver medal, but more importantly, she had made a massive difference in the life of a family and captured the imagination of a nation. Her act of generosity inspired thousands in Poland and beyond.
Sadly, Milosz passed away a year later. But the impact of Maria’s gesture didn’t fade. It had already created a ripple effect of goodwill, trust, and inspiration.” And Heartbreaking again.. baby was named Miloszek Malysa
mrsparkle001
Oh man I didn't need to hear that
MichikoTheJungleFox
Aww...
GreenMnM
The orphan crushing machine is about to crush an orphan until a millionaire stepped in and did something that us regular folk do all the time. Cared about someone else that isnt in their everyday orbit.
wuapinmon
A millionaire? In which currency?
hyptosis
So you understood my title, good.
csullivan
cousteau
Oh darn, she's cute!
Multitentaclediy
hyptosis
Fantastic gif
qPRdxH4UXm36HS9rJgLA
Something something orphan crushing machine.
BeaverOnFire
We need more orphans. How else can we meet our president's needs easier?
hyptosis
BHPaperstacks
We simply need to siphon the fuel out of the orpgan crushing machine and reroute it into the billionare flattening machine. Its essentially a large hydraulic trash compactor that you place billionares/trash inside of and then let er' rip.
Potatomanbynight
Wild this isnt an American story.
draconyum
I would be surprised if it was one tbh
DerpyBestPrincess
It is.
SuperGeniusPS
How many Pollocks does it take to save a baby? Apparently only one.
NothingPrince
2 the person who paid
DeepFriedAndSanctified
Presumably, there were medical professionals involved too
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Do Americans have to make everything about them. Fucking hell.
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DeepFriedAndSanctified
Ah, the old "half the story." Indeed, the child was in the US, where she came from her home in Poland to get the surgery. https://share.google/wIGFy1ANS2DZpf88q
DarkwingDuc
Thanks for clarifying. I read another article that said she was raising money for a child in the US, without any of that context.
Marsupialmessiah
Sauce? Cuz that's kind ofnthe thing here lately
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Sounds too cheap of a price for our Healthcare
cameloDancer
It was probably just a flu shot.
ThisIsYourLifeNow
A single Aspirin
urusername2
It certainly could be, if an infant had a problem like that in this country, 1 the doctors would quit trying because there isn't enough insurance, and 2 the bill would have been $400,000.
emu314159127001
The story is from 5 years ago, and yes of course the child was in the US.
hyptosis
Well the child might have been in the US, I haven't researched this enough yet lol
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Yep, its in the US
Flash82
Here's the full story https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1029380896/toyko-olympics-poland-silver-medal-javelin-auction-infant-heart-surgery
Potatomanbynight
Very fair!
cenfou2tout
It is in the US
netutoring
*wince* Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah, had a feeling.
DeepFriedAndSanctified
Jesus. She was a Polish child who had to come to the US to get the surgery. https://share.google/wIGFy1ANS2DZpf88q
agonarch
If it makes you feel any better, Poland was the first place in the world to go all extremist christian on abortion rules in hospitals. It went... well if you're in the US you know how it went, because it went just as extremely badly, only many years sooner.
If only there was someone whose job it was to keep track of what kind of impact this stuff had when done in order to make sensible laws, but sadly that's no-one's job anymore, laws are soundbite tested only.