🇷🇺 Navalny’s death, which comes nearly two years to the day after Russia invaded Ukraine and ahead of sham elections in March, is a reminder that Putin’s regime is waging a war on two fronts — externally against Ukrainian citizens and internally against its own.
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@RustyBertrand
Who's the little guy in the upper left corner? 🤔
@bjeelka
As much as I might even agree with this, not be his avid supporter, consider his team to be a bunch of useless fuckers and not support his decision to return to Russia and be a martyr — yeah, I do think he could do so much more if he wasn't in prison, helping impose more effective sanctions being the first that comes to mind…
And even though I get that it could be that last day when this could be considered "funny"… still, I don't think that mocking his team today is appropriate 😩
@tedu @feld
I don't think you have to go that far — UBO has an option to disable scripts, large media and third party content by default. It breaks a most websites, but at least in this case I have to approve each of these things myself — often it makes cookie consent and other such things pop up, but at least in this case I know what I am in for.
@Janika
Now they have a great excuse to wear a respirator to hinder facial recognition, which might be used instead or in addition to that 😅
@oku_yama_old @cunyxa
https://theins.ru/news/269213
Там тоже никаких подробностей нет, но есть ссылка на Telegram-канал, где «информация дополняется» — может там что-то потом появится 🤷
@fsan
I've always thought you have quality dairy in Argentina so maybe they do it for different reasons, in Russia they do it solely to reduce the costs. Rumours have it, they have started importing copious amounts of palm oil, and it's not even food grade — the one usually used to make paints and stuff like that.
I'm not sure all of it is entirely true, but it's always a wise idea to stay away from the cheapest of food products in Russia 😱
@gemlog
@gemlog
Of course they couldn't call it cheese anymore, but they still have to label it somehow and they came up with "cheese-like product". It became a running joke in Russian political Twitter, how cheese-like product gets sold to human-like creatures 🤣
@gemlog
In Russia they've been doing it since 2014 when importing quality food from EU became problematic or too expensive for the less wealthy to afford. Volume of course also got reduced up to %25-40%! 😱
The most funny thing was with cheese — quality cheeses are relatively expensive to make so local producers attempted to do something to reduce the price, most often by replacing animals fats with vegetable ones.
@Granwalder
🤣
In Moscow it's more like ~70k for a man, which makes life slightly more bearable, but still: you pay for utilities (if you're lucky enough to own your concrete box), make four of these tours to the supermarket — and that's it. But somehow you have other expenses too so those who have average salary don't spend that much on food.
@justnormalkorean
> The great dildo nerf
Doesn't work like that! Who knows what they might start using: cucumbers, eggplants, bats — baseball and of COVID kind, armadildos (I hope I got that right, did I? 😏 )
@useless_idiot
I remember in early 2000s half the iron fences in Moscow had penis patterns — ah, the careless times, everyone was laughing, no one even thought about censoring this. Nowadays you can get arrested for using yellow and blue clothespins or something like that 😂
The kids are 14 and 16 y.o. they can't even be criminally charged with such crimes — I don't even know how they plan to prosecute them. Shit's surreal!
@rvps2001
In Russia such a law exists since January 1st 2022 and as in some regions "partial martial law" is in effect, I suppose, so is this law.
If somewhere else in the world Russians get sanctioned — Russia did that first, Putin remains the master strategist!
@mia
Clockwise or counterclockwise? 🤔
@mirabilos @yurnidiot
That's the sight you have to "enjoy" quite often when you keep a bobtail cat. Coming from the one who has two of them 😹
@kevinrothrock
So it would be just and outdated copy of Wikipedia with "truth" from Medinsky. Why would anyone use such a thing when there is original and updated Wikipedia without all the "truth" — probably the ones who don't have access to it 😂
@garrison @StefanThinks
Da-a-amn! Who could've expected that! 😲
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