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This is so ridiculous. For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit. I'm
by throwaway22032 5y ago
This is so ridiculous.
For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit.
I'm not Russian.
It's not as if Russians can't just register .com domains either. This is just fucking people around purely for the sake of it.
What should I do here? Fly to Russia and tell Mr Putin to stop?
It feels like corona all over again. Bad thing A happens, so you react by doing something that's about ten times more damaging.
The whole 'least worst case' scenario in which the West being directly responsible for a revolution is somehow less likely to cause fallout than just getting involved in the war is insane. The actions of people (e.g. the Russian government) aren't a set of if-then-else chains that you can find a loophole in.
- thatwasunusual 5y ago
- 4ggr0 5y agoBlocking .ru URLs is ten times worse than a war and desinformation?
- throwaway22032 5y agoNo, the cumulative impact of attempting to erase the existence of a nuclear state by trying to find a loophole is.
- shukantpal 5y agoBlocking links is not trying to "erase the existence" of a country. That's a particularly foolish comparison.
- throwaway22032 5y ago"Cumulative impact".
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- justinpowers 5y agoThe hyperbole is strong with this one.
- 8note 5y agoWhy does their nuclear status matter? Are Russian websites a branch of the Russian military?
- unicornporn 5y ago> For christ's sake, I use Yandex translate because it's better for Russian. I now can't link that on a language learning subreddit. I'm sorry that you can't post translation links and it may seem blunt, but currently people are dying and fleeing. If every Russian can see what an inconvenience it is to have Putin as a leader the hope is that they will be more inclined to do everything in their power to have him replaced. Some will of course just blame "west", but there will a also be those who will come to question power.
- throwaway22032 5y agoNo shit, I have friends in Ukraine and have been over there multiple times this year. The citizens of a country don't see their existence as being a bargaining chip. There is no situation in which the Russian people simply think "oh, ok, let's just do what those people who disabled my bank account say". None. This whole thing is an exercise in seeing just how little people know or are even interested in the world outside of their tiny bubble.
- odessacubbage 5y ago>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_2003–present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_2003–present this may sound blunt. but people are always and will always be dying. most of them will be poor people in some bush conflict you do not hear or care about but there has always been a war 'somewhere'. if conflict demands we suspend all of our principles and all modes of sensibility 'for the sake of the dying people' then we will do so indefinitely.
- Markoff 5y agojust out of curiosity, have you tried DeepL, I use it daily for Slavic languages Yandex has also .com domain, won't your links work through that?