I wonder if it’s sensational or it really hits. Some pieces of grocery felt off my list, but since Centrobank measures and completely unobvious pricing of goods (sales, loyal customer cards, new noname brands replacing those who ‘left’, normalizing poor men’s stores - warehouses where items are staying in storage packgages and employees are minimal to cut prices down) and a long-term habit of prices keeping cimbing at ridiculous rate, it’s not the breaking point. How it would hurt the big players tho is the question because big firms cutting their wants = unemployment, and their budget is as challenged. When I drop another portion of meat from my diet, they drop a dozen of employees off.

My perspective is too small but I’ve noticed an old off-tone joke reposted more frequently.

Dad, you having your wage cut means you’d drink less?

No, my pleasure. It means you’d get to eat less.

For what it seems, there’s still ground for maneuvers in average Ivan’s grocery list. More lifehacks and thrift options are discovered by many. The frog is boiling on slow fire.

It is more about politics to proclaim that, for everybody knew it is like the best route to deliver munition to this area. And maybe a warning to those who are still planing to have a vacation here.

The article is too centered on mines because the guy is dealing with them.

But yeah, they had time to dig in and to defend themselves with whatever they can, including USSR-worth of mines.

I’m worried civilians would die to them decades after this war because some of them were invented way before some countries thought about them becoming dud after some time. We still find them in years after World War 2 and Balkan conflicts, rendering some places inhabitable for that reason.

That’s how majority-vik party becomes the government on display.

Denying big powerful entities from controlling you is both anarchist and communist, and is based.

I’m sure if it comes to being ruled by Meta, many previously .lm users would get it.

From the side of Fediverse, there’s like no argument to accept Facebook but WE NEED TO GROW. And no, the influx of some millions of users won’t bring life or quality to Lemmy, it would replace it for what culture of communicating is in the Insta. And I don’t feel like many people there would vote to have this.

Once you accept it, your community is overtaken (and you need to serve another thousands of users as an admin). I don’t feel anyone would be open to include them.

Would aiming this rage at a corrupted official who did nothing change that?

I am on board with creating less violence but I weight it with not creating the ground for more violence in the future. Would violence stop after getting ceasefire now? Won’t it repeat? When it started in 2014 but then came to a slow burning everyone forgot about, it set a precedent that one may do that with minimum repercussions, and so it restarted anew in 2022. And so it may once again until doing that would be impossible for one reason or another.

Global MIC is evil but that’s a different issue. It should, in my mind, being fought against with international treaties for disarmament and creating allianced armies like NATO so no one would have or need it’s own military. But it’s a long game and we are likely to die from heatwaves before we agree to give up bombs.

What is your solution and who’d benefit from it the most?

A grumpy teacher-person said you can’t have fun there.

Thanks for your detailed answers.

Not much work around there and the market only decreases + most men came through obligatory service so they believe they know-how + employer DGAF if you are an ex-con or a neo-nazi + you earn in a month what you may not do in a year + shooting hardly armed brown people was pretty safe + and with mobilization there is a promise you’d be better treated, equipped and trained there if you sign contract with them. They previously hired from ex-Yugoslavia countries since there are many sympathizers and not the best economics in EU too; and Ukraine is probably the only post-CIS state they don’t have a recruitment campaign in. The only limit I see is funding, and they deal in oil and food catering for government for that. I see their numbers get reported pretty conservatively while they are a big deal to actually be concerned about. Yet it took only 9 years to proclaim it as such.

It’s just I see one collab having a gateway on their PC for russian-based labs to operare rather than the whole scheme based oin Ukraine.

Cell-tower data would be hepfull to locate the guy, but do web\apps collect it?

Do you need to connect to actual celltowers tho? I know legit SIMs are a kind of a barrier, but then…

Using a portal through KZ to an UA endpoint via VPN\proxy, faking geoloc and other identifying stuff on your device.

For me, it sounds like enough, and a collaborant is only holding an exit node that is easier to defend in court than having all infrastructure at their place.

Agreed, wholeheartedly.

It’s also a fun bit that our special services and oligarchs has a lot of handshaking with your politicians and having same talking points. Both have their own goals in that, but they do cooperate to secure their standing and wealth.

It’s kinda weak to ask your people to not help my own propaganda, but seeing Rogan and Carlson shortly translated into russian and spreading it as the opinion at the very heart of the US of A, while Biden is joked at every single time he trips over something causes me headaches.

If there weren’t these fucks capitalizing on anything, the media hold could’ve been less strong… But at this point we collectively smell our own farts anyway. So it’s more of a wish for you to become better as I lose any hope we’d ever come to what the majority of the world thinks is bad.

And I don’t want another country to come onto that level of a shitshow. We have enough of them rn.

Russian girls part was the best for it shows how unhinged they are if they aren’t a troll.

I happened to be born there, and I’ve seen a discussion about who’s to blame for so long it’s nausiating.

Idk what foreigners mean by that, probs they just react to the news and socialize by saying that without a second thought most of the time.

But the sad truth is regular people were purposefully fucked in the head for two decades (after just ten years of promising chaos). That’s not easy to undo. They won’t magically wake up after wishing another drone strike on Kiyv, they don’t believe they deserve political power or freedom, all they talk is how they are wronged by the world and how they get their sweet revenge.

If they weren’t so submissive it couldn’t have happened. It’s a learnt serf mentality. And they are complicit in that tragedy as well. Not as much, but it sure feels like there we see the whole country acting as a one, not a handful of leaders doing that against their will. And others like me not having means or courage to speak up. I’ve been already disowned by some friendgroups, thankfully without telling on me.

The whole thing about carving out ‘the good russians’ is done by people who didn’t (or couldn’t) do anything before it’s too late, to feel better and to bear with it. It’s its’ own subculture. And I really doubt this distinction means much in the big picture. Unvocal minority not even hitting the margin of error, and not deserving support like those who actually fucking die. A community without it’s place.

And I’m really surprised I see this group named in english language.

edit: Originally there were three or four paragraphs. I sent it too early.

They are catering to hardcore misogynists who want women be treated like pets. The right to decide your apperance, having self respect, being picky about your partner and enjoying yourself as a woman in general is against some imaginary trad values, and what men who are usually in their militant clique don’t like, not to say it’s too ‘foreign’ to their taste. Producing drugs and abusing kids aren’t tho – they walked back on fighting these after initially saying so iirc.

They are a militant cartel with a religious cover. And they bend whatever they want from it to control masses, as they have a local monopoly on saying what is ultimately good or bad by the will of God (since they have guns). Is it so uncommon?

My AK says I am the chad there. That chad wants to fuck and have spare cash. Isn’t it convinient my retelling of the book says it’s a natural order?

Never happened, but there it is once again.

Still, being physically there is weird. Aren’t there reliable ways to fake it?

Is it sarcasm?

Imagine being that pathetic and useless. I bet these idiots have higher pay than regular workers just for harrasing random people while casually walking around. A mall cop, but even less useful to society.

It’s not really surprising. One of the trends consistent for how many centuries is a combination of three things: IDGAF\fatalism attitude or похуй, strong belief in randomness of most things you’d think are pretty clear cause and effect or авось, isolationism\egocentrism\self-distancing from everything not directly concerning their daily life.

Not caring much for it’s out of their power + chances are it won’t happen so no need to think of it’s consequencies + and if it’d happen why would it necessary happen to Them of all people?

It’s mentality of people who have never got free from serfdom, but adapted to it’s rules. With how corrupted were tsarist regime and then soviet union, that’s how laws are usually applied: their harshness is compensated by how rarely they are followed through (waa it coined by Dostoevsky?), and it’s not a responsibility but bad luck to be caught. This logic gets so ingrained the life itself is seen through this lense. My fellow russians and ukrainians I know call people with this mindset ‘совок’, sovokh, a short and humiliating word for soviet sympathisers, also meaning ‘shovel’ in both languages – that equals ‘tаnкiе’ but for those living in ex-ussr.

It was documented by many writers and philosophers of the past, and actually became a point of national pride, the unique way things are done there. You are kind of seeing that with everything surrounding current events. The conflict itself couldn’t happen like that if government hasn’t found the key to support and abuse this line of thought, but it’s also why it has these performance and choice of tactics.

I shit on people who talks about a slave gene in ex-soviet people as it sound like some nazi bullshit, but social traditions and material conditions do form this very mentality. Being determines consciousness. And also causes meme absurdities like vacationing three steps from the frontline.

Sorry for being that verbose. All pieces fell into places for me while I was writing this comment. It’s rare for a comment to trigger me into reflecting on information and thinking about it for this long, so kudos to you for bringing not only a laughter, but also some food for thoughts.

At that stage bots and spam accounts are unlikely tho. Maybe in a year it would be worth it. Especially if\when Tumblr or Threads get into that, but I doubt it.