I can see qui prodest of this productivity disruption, but it doesn't point to Putin.
Maybe they can get rebanked by some Dubai establishments who for some reason will not identify their new passport with that sanctioned identity.
I'm only half-joking because all of that is absolutely possible.
What's the practical difference other than timelike distance between you rather than spacelike distance?
Karl Marx was European. His publisher was European. His early adopters were Europeans. The evidence that Europe cannot be communist is not there. Soviet Union is a pinnacle of socialist achievement. It is possible that your communism will have mass starvation and hoe strikes breaking skulls phase which is not followed by space exploration and nuclear power phase.
You are miserable now, let's asusme. People were miserable under socialism (not all of them, but the vibe was off). We can't rule out you will be happy under socialism, but no facts support that even indirectly. It will require a leap of faith.
P.S. I was replying to much longer, non-tautological and less-borderline-racist version of your comment.
I remember seeing anything in the street (a payphone or a playground for kids) and assumed it will only degrade because as a general principle, things in the streets are unmaintained.
You could say that Soviet Union was bad specimen of socialism because of these stupid Russians?
Except, Russia actually got 100% out of socialism with our space exploration, passenger planes and nuclear stations. It's just that 100% of socialism is worse than your average capitalist dystopia.
I have some traffic going in and out on private TLS-enabled ports, including to Russia. I have noticed persistent attempts to connect to my endpoints. I've not shared these endpoints to anyone and they're not on standard ports. So the only option is Russia's GFW knockoff is picking up host/port pairs from traffic and trying to abuse these. The thing is, they are using UK/US address space to do...
By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"
Это к вопросу о эпицикле Оракла-Нвидии.
That's a funny perspective. USSR just before that time mostly killed communist apparatus members¥ and with them innocent people. In such an environment, there naturally won't be too many dissidents, so I don't think they registered.
They did kill a lot of supposed sympathiers of pre-Soviet Russia, though.
¥ As they say, internal competition is the most fierce one.
Otherwise why not sell them for $9.99 along with the house?
After all, Telegram is a worldwide platform and you can directly read Ukrainian news feeds there if you wish so. What would a concerning channel make compared to that?
YouTube was constantly blocking Russian channels and striking down videos, whereas I only remember Telegram banning a single channel in three years, due to a direct US sanctions hit.
Same for YouTube. If it gets blocked for good, does not mean you can't go to jail for speaking out while on YouTube.
The obvious take away at the moment is to think twice what you write anywhere in the Internet, as well as to avoid doing things with such dire consequences, or at least not bragging about them anywhere on the net.
Perhaps because they had some agreement in the end, perhaps because they simply couldn't.
In any case, it is now vital information infrastructure in ways YouTube isn't. Even though YouTube definitelt is critical. It's not just an amusement source.
Whatever stuff you want to see, you may consume there.
Indeed, news on the web are going the way of newspapers.
Of course I should have said "those who can bear healthy children late in their lives".
That would surely manifest in a few generations, sans some big civilization collapse. Or artificial uterus, for sure.
I hope they're happy with the zoo they have.
Made me chuckle as I would imagine these two should be least concern real estate supply-wise along with Russia.
"First, a deficit of oil. Then, a deficit of sand."
For smaller nations.
Larger nations receive too much scrutiny to get away with having fake history.
Then again, they have more resources to try and tweak the history as a science...
Funnily enough, even Poles don't like descending from themselves and keep inventing Sarmathian lineage.