Here’s for anyone looking for the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stlj_OoVnmY

Just like elections and sociology in Russia! They are such a good couple!

I’m genuinely curious to see their metrics this autumn. It feels like so many old redditors came here!

Typical “product owner/manager” mentality to show percentages of engagement growth or whatever stupid KPI they came up with. And those shitheads are the most incompetent and the most high off AI. I just hope enshittification will be complete some day and everything will be brown and smelly (just like those Claude UIs).

Well, yeah, I agree that almost everything around us is either touched by or a product of capitalism. What I mean is that you can’t just say “everything is shit because it’s capitalism”.

Asking as a non-American, did it change anything for the good? I mean, were there any improvements in approved medical cases, or anything like that?

Yep, men are the only main characters. Everything else is just their possessions.

VK has its own infra in Mail.Ru datacenters. And because they’ve been serving the government in a larger extent (VK is basically your direct line to FSB), it’s pretty strange that Yandex was targeted instead.

Won’t help, they don’t really have an incentive to host their shit on Yandex anymore. Even if there was anything in the first place, I’ve yet to find a good proof of bot activity being disrupted during those bombings. Don’t get me wrong, it would be a very good story, but SWEs in Russia can be pretty competent.

Protest in cars! Block the roads, enjoy the music, grab some snacks.

It still doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote. All the other things you’re talking about are political actions that need citizens’ involvement. It’s a start, not a solution. After you vote, you don’t stop your political life.

This is really why I keep commenting. I’m usually lurking on any platform but it’s so easy to manipulate the narrative with bots, I feel like I have to voice those OBVIOUS things out.

Dude, are you for real? Touch some grass, not everything in life is capitalism.

Are you doing anything about it? How do you actually see it happening? Real questions.

And yeah, I mean, it’s a shitty vote, but it’s harmless to go and just do it. It CAN be worse if you don’t. Fuck, even my compatriots vote while being under dictatorship.

Exactly. People can’t just fix everything in one go. And having a “left” majority will at least give a chance to shift the narrative.

ML kid spotted

Some Americans will justify not voting by using Palestine as an example. Well, yeah, your dems suck too but it’s not a reason to not take action. Voting is easy enough, and at least it really works. Fantasizing about the Revolution won’t do shit.

Yeah, I quit for good after comments about Spain and France. I got recommended subs I’ve never seen before and that look like they’ve been made to lure right-wing folks (with some bot comments and obviously framed posts).

It’s a mess, I don’t even know what’s real anymore and I fear it’s the people who are becoming so unloving to each other, and especially to ones who look different.

Bureaucracy is a bitch, unfortunately. Sometimes it’s much better, according to immigration “experts” (people who analyze asylum cases and help with all the docs), to arrive as a tourist and try to find a time slot to present the case.

Just recently a man crossed the border from Kaliningrad to get asylum in Lietuva (not the best option but it was the closest). He got denied and now he’s facing jail time in Russia for his social media posts.

If you have a RIGHT to apply it doesn’t mean you’re gonna get approved. There are some anecdotes for denying Russians asking for asylum (or another type of visa, I don’t recall exactly) for having a criminal record in Russia for the exact thing they were trying to run away from (it’s usually donations or social media posts “discrediting” russian army)!