MrDisposable

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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Exactly this, on all counts. Killing brown civilians is somehow fine, while killing white civilians is somehow isn't.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Not the OP, but "yes" on the US, and "yes" on the Saudis. "Yes" for ANY country waging ANY war. But, sadly, that won't ever happen.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> The deal is simple: when Russia stops slaughtering Ukrainian civilians, the rest of the world will stop isolating their economy. The world will not stop isolating Russia while Putin is still in power. And even after he's gone (dea
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> I'm sorry but you can't tell me you weren't aware of wars in Afganistan or Chechnya? I am. See my "untangle" response in this thread.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Okay, time to untangle. 1. Identity is an internal belief, which may or may not correpsond to the facts. 2. Factually, Russia never was a country of peaceful defenders (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_inv
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
I feel that the Russian identity has been dealt a fatal blow. The load-bearing pillar of the Russian identity is the idea that we are a nation of defenders, who fought off the biggest invasion in history. We defend, not intrude. If you reme
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Sadly, I'm not that young -- I'm about 50. Absolutely, older Russians ("The TV people" as we call them here) did support Putin before the war. However, I haven't yet formed my opinion about what they think now. Reme
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Thank you. My overall mood is grave, but I have a business to save and a family to feed. Yes, I'd be able to live quite well with the cheaper ruble, but that requires being able to retain the foreign revenue flow into Russia and being
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
It isn't changing. I may be projecting, but this grave mood has been dominant since the first day of the war. On the contrary, when Puting announced the recognition of two Donbass republics as independent countries a few days before th
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> In Russia the situation is that most people actually support Putin Russian here. I'm not so sure about the public support. I've yet to see a single [Z] or [V] sticker on a car in my city. I haven's seen a single
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> Russia has a military doctrine of "Escalate to De-escalate" And we all can see how spectacularly it backfied this time – the entire nation is getting retroactively cancelled for at least a decade.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
LibreOffice is a decent replacement.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
In recent years, no. Everyone was afraid of huge fines (and maybe even jail terms, if memory serves) for pirated software, and there was a time when police actively searched office computers for pirated software from major suppliers that ha
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> I was trying to figure out why the passed this law now. Because now he won't be facing any resistance (anyone opposing the law would be deemed unpatriotic and dealt with accordingly). And also because he doesn't want
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Even if he does, who will enforce that?
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Yes, but now he can apply the same principle to literally every bureaucrat, with minimal effort.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
This exactly.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
If you have a phone with stock or close-to-stock Android, this is a great feature.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
I'm afraid when Putin is gone (he's not immortal), our "elites" will fall to their knees before the West, begging to get their seized assets back. And they will bring offerings in exchange for that: unilateral demilitari
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
This is a message to mid-level bureaucrats: stay loyal and don't get any ideas, or else we'll look into your spending history.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
This isn't monitoring. This is to send a message that dissent will not be tolerated.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
They also do this in airports, to people flying out of the country (e.g. to Armenia, which is an extremely popular destination among IT people right now). Their approach is working. We've configured our "watercooler" chat to
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Yes they still buy our oil and gas, and neither side attacks the pipeline despite the war, but I think it's a matter of time. In a couple of years Europe will stop buying our energy, but the consequences of this war (police presence, p
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Putin is assembling another Security Counsil today. We'll see how it goes, but, in my opinion, an announce of a series of nuclear tests is not off the (comically long) table.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
In the long run, even if they win (and that's a pretty big if), they'll have to: 1) Neutralize and disarm the "territorial defence" militias who currently have about 30K assault rifles. 2) Maintain police precence on a l
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
If they don't have that wage, how do they eat?
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Thank you. Given that from now on we are the most hated nation on the globe, this means a lot.
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> I sincerely hope all this goes away as fast as possible I'm thinking 10-15 years. Though I may need to adjust my estimate, because Putin doesn't have easy access to the world's best medical services anymore -- wh
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
Which is extremely sad. We (the humanity) have LOTS of common enemies: diseases, viruses, aging, poverty, drugs and drug violence, warmongergs, corruption and cheaters (ironic, I know), and countless others. It saddens me that Russia won&#x
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by MrDisposable 5y ago
> Can I ask, how are these economic restrictions affecting you in your daily life? My company may soon be unable to receive revenue from western customers. My company has two ongoing long-term projects (both took about 10 years),

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