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  • with no modern appurtenances like internet service and smoke detectors. One electrical outlet per room, small windows, no irrigation in the yard, just a hose. Plain telephone service to one jack. Rabbit ears for TV only. No microwave or dishwasher and only clotheslines for drying laundry

    Bruh. All that is like pennies, comparatively speaking.

    Also, pretty sure you’ve described is like every other property on sale right now, so no need for calculations - just check the local zillow or something.



  • That’s the face I’ve made just yesterday when my friend told me she’s now eligible for a subsidized IT mortgage. That thing was one of Russia’s last ditch attempts at stopping skilled workers from fucking off to different countries. The problem is, she’s a web designer. I guess that counts as IT nowadays, so good for her. But it’s bitter to hear as sr. backend tech who never hit the criteria…


  • Nope. I’ve had a script with almost 100 regex’s that automatically blacklisted around 200 people every time I opened Twitter. Two years in and upwards of 300.000 accounts in the blacklist, I realized that it didn’t even make a dent in dealing with all of the spam I was seeing, and just deleted my account. Best decision ever. I advice you too, to try it out.




  • From what I gather, he didn’t. He joined a bunch of dipshits the so-called DNR’s militia. It’s still a quesion how he got there in the first place, as it would require him to transit through Russia, which in turn would require a Russian visa, which isn’t that easy to get and immigration is one of few things that Russia actually cares and is very strict about. And after all that, hesomehow had to illegally cross the Ukrainian border… Some hefty bribes took place, no doubt about it.

    By the way, a thing to note is that Russian police is infamous for making up cases, and also for beating and torturing out testimonies for something that people didn’t do. The convicts and their families now deny allegations and claim the case was fabricated. But, at the same time, it is extremely rare for an entire group of closely connected people to be arrested under such false premises. Just wanted to point that out so there is no double standard of accusing Russia of lying about everything, but then just taking some random statement at face value.


  • I really don’t understand people that prefer Google over Mozilla. Firefox works like a charm and Google already knows enough about us IMHO.

    Firefox objectively has poor responsiveness in some apps, hence why some “works only in chrome” banners are justified. Can’t quite put my finger of it, but it got a lot worse somewhere between quantum and heartbleed(but not because of it, I checked), and it never recovered. In my own projects that were time-sensitive, like 3d games and music apps, I couldn’t find the source of it, but found that while some approaches led to major performance hit on firefox, others majorly hit chromium, and vice versa, and it was all about juggling to finding an approach that doesn’t hit either as hard. But in some cases there were none and so I had to choose. Obviously the browser engine with a higher market share wins. And because of that, to be on par with Chrome, Firefox not only has to be better, it has to be not worse in all cases, which is a rather tough challenge.




  • Here ya go.

    Before you go on to tell anything,

    A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching […] parades may also hold a role for propaganda purposes, being used to exhibit the apparent military strength of a country.

    The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon is a 24-man rifle platoon led by a Captain and Platoon Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Often referred to as The Marching Twenty-Four, the unit performs a unique silent precision exhibition drill. The purpose of the platoon is to exemplify the discipline and professionalism of the Marine Corps

    This is definitely a parade. Don’t think I need to argue that synchronously throwing rifles at each other counts as pass juggling.








  • what’s preventing China from just taking ALL of Russia

    What for? Russia is already drifting into becoming a China’s satellite state. Besides, there’s another resource-rich, sparsely populated, 99.9% Asian country right by their border, with barely any security and which would’ve been part of China already if not for some weeb. If they are going for conquest, Mongolia would be the second target right after Taiwan, but attacking it would tip off Russia to go all in on defense.

    Russia would never threaten China with nukes, because 1) China ALSO has nukes, and 2) China has been the only thing keeping Russia afloat recently.

    The problem here is the amount of them and population density. Just one bomb dropped randomly somewhere in China would probably cause more casualties than the entire Chinese nuclear arsenal targeting the most populous Russian cities. And Russia has an order of magnitude more…