yes, but the majority of russian citizens don't install node modules. This is hitting a demographics where you have the least possible support for war and regime (which is also not small, but maybe, hopefully, not a majority)
who said puritanism has to be right-wing. It's also not necessarily about sexuality. It's about putting up a set of idealistic moral standards and trying to force everybody to comply or pretend to comply.
Property crime is not minor, it's what the common people paying taxes actually expect law enforcement to deal with. Like, being able to leave your bike and find it where you left it, you know
i think the laypersons definition of solve is getting their stolen things back. That's what i would expect. How much, if at all, jail time or fine or whatever the person gets is between them and the state, i need no revenge
i can think of so many ways to get the visitor's DNA, like he will naturally lose some hair somewhere, or use the toilet, etc. Maybe the refusal is more a reaction to the mistrust implied in the request to take "their" Test
yup, stuff like cars, or, god forbid, houses, are not only expensive AF, but the buying requires skills most people never had a chance to practice.
fuck it, I'm cycling to save the planet and my nerves
in the west buying stuff usually requires no human interaction at all, even the cashiers are getting replaced by automatic checkout. But, on the other hand, you do need negotiation skills, be it in career, private live, or elsewhere. So maybe we all just need to do a year of backpacking and learn how to haggle
Yes, sure, but this is still not comparable with using weapons of mass destruction. We need to keep in mind though that the reason why corporations are not, say, nuking away their concurrence, is that they are prevented by the states. so its not as easy as "state bad, corporate good", it's rather, "as an unimportant civilian person on this planet right now, i need to be cautious of governments more than corporations"
that's an easy one, military dictatorship is much worse. The last time when companies committed war crimes by themselves, independently of governments, was long ago.
well, have you tried to get the Dell's wifi working under MacOS? its one thing to use a preinstalled OS, and another to install one yourself. Of course there is more hassle if you choose the second option. But you don't have too, there are laptops with Linux on the market.
it's tolerated by the west. The most effective way to punish regimes would be to:
- take away (arrest, freeze, whatever) the elite's real estate in the west
- same thing with other assets, banc accounts etc
- ban them from living in the west or going to the west on vacation, for medical treatment.
- ban their families from living in the west, their kids from studying there.
this is not my idea, you will find similar suggestions a hundred times in different forms on the Russian-speaking internet.
maybe there is no legal base right now to do it as described, but the alternative is broad sanctions that hit the small people harder then regime collaborators.
this is purely a question of being able to afford it. To just quit, you should be able to afford living costs not just for 3 Months, but rather a year or so just in case you need more rest, and/or your search for a new job takes longer.
edit: didn't see it in OP's post, he's got the money. so maybe its a way for him
look, i know the numbers, it's a big issue, I'm not saying it isn't. But blaming all Saxons an associating them with the far right is similar to blaming people of being criminals based on their ethnic background.
it will result in a growth of the far right in Saxony, because people who are not far right will either move away, or end up in a far right bubble because everyone else is bashing them
Germans are bringing this up every time Saxony is mentioned in a conversation, it has become a commonplace joke, saxony==nazis. I believe it's unfair. Dresden is not only a beautiful city, it has great people. Far right exists, but they're still a minority even in the rural parts of Saxony. So it is a bad idea to associate the rest of society with them.
I have been to the city multiple times on business trips, and witnessed the PEGIDA demos, and the counter-demos. The latter were bigger, and, obviously, more fun to witness as a foreigner.
Another episode: I was walking to my stay through Dresden at night, i crossed on red. A yound girl in police uniform addressed me in English and asked me to please wait for green next time. It was late, the streets empty, she was half my size, unarmed and out of duty. She was probably not even a real officer, rather an Azubi. I'was big, bearded, tactical style clothing, obviously foreign. I was shocked.
the thing is, there is no way for the workers to own the means of production, unless its a set of tools or stuff like that. But with a factory, you only have 2 options: owned by capitalists, who's goal is maximizing gain, and owned by the state, who's goal is in theory common wealth, in reality it depends on the people actually making decisions. And those people can be corrupt, or ideological lunatics, or just unmotivated clerks waiting to hit the clock at 5PM.
in EU when they check your certificate, if they do it correctly, it IS checked against a database that has your name and date of vaccination. So the schemes to get a certificate include an IRL doctor doing the paperwork and submitting it to the database, and probably discarding your vaccine.
In fact, people get this "service" by corrupting their family doctors with no need for darkweb.
it depends on the climate. In Russia, for example, balconies in old panel buildings are either used for storage, or converted to an unheated exra room, with wood and glass railings, which are different for every apartment. This makes the house look like a vertical favela.
there's more then enough evidence, and places where all the defense lines are marked and labeled. Best thing you can do is take a bike tour along the Mauerweg.
Of course, like with all historical evidence, it doesn't help those who don't _want_ to see
a simple blocklist might be just the cheaper and easier solution. After all, blocklists were, and still are being used to filter human output as well.
And fail-safe. A person with a hobby project does not have a legal/pr department to deal with the consequences of AI having a bad day
it also doesn't reflect the views of Navalny and his team, this is tactical voting driven to the extreme. But when there's no one left on the lists to vote for, what would be your alternative?
Also it's not asking, it's a ruling by a court in Russia in favor of a small wool trading company who just happened to register 'Smart Voting' as a trade mark.
the problem is, many, very many people love to tell others how they should live, speak, and especially how they should feel.
I have come to the conclusion that my own political preferences are not with the left, the right or any other particular pole.
I just dislike people trying to force their opinion on me, and especially those who try to do it by manipulating my feelings. Doesn't matter what their beliefs are.