@randahl > How many Russians do you think are able to buy a house in such an economy?
Those who sign up for army contracts.
They literally advertise seven figure payouts on army posters now.
@randahl > How many Russians do you think are able to buy a house in such an economy?
Those who sign up for army contracts.
They literally advertise seven figure payouts on army posters now.
@randahl There are posters like this everywhere - apartment blocks, supermarkets, streets. They advertise payments of 5200000 RUB for the first year of contract.
These include contract salary (260K RUB * 12 months) and the rest are one time sign-up bonuses (around 2.3M RUB). Also there are additional payments for injuries and certain combat achievements (like taking out valuable enemy vehicles) which are not included.
What is interesting is this large figure they advertise which is enough to buy a modest apartment outside of Moscow and is about half of cost of one in Moscow. And since a lot of people have housing issues and can't tackle credit rates this is the clear message: "Sign up, serve for one year and you'll get your own place you can't afford otherwise".
Some economists here say there is no real need to raise base interest rate and it won't solve anything and just makes things harder for businesses - however this is one thing skyrocketing interest rates do help with.
@freemo @stux But do Dutch have negative effects though? I don't have impression they have bad crime rates.
Statistics also show that e.g. the US have more violent crime per capita so it doesn't look like guns help much.
@BeAware Very fitting image for the Fediverse where "fedi" stands for "fediblock" :)
For the rest of the network we can use much better ꙮ
@BeAware Also this feature is annoying as fuck when it comes to threads completion.
Every now and then I see broken threads because my contact AAA replied to something interesting I don't have so I go to the original page and see public thread where AAA replied to BBB and I can't pull it to my instance because of this - and I am not blocked.
I do not care much for the right of wearing or making people around not wear hijabs or whatever but I strongly dislike the idea ordering people around what they should wear and if they can't choose to cover their face or body for whatever reason.
What comes next, not wearing baggy clothes (can hide weapons! interfere with gait recognition cameras!) and sunshades in public places? I never felt the need to wear face covering but the idea of dictating when it can and can't be done is very very unhealthy.
Сегодняшний день в прошлом был днём препятствий на велодорожках. В 2014-ом дорогу перегородил аж целый "Буран"!
2014-07-05 - "No one is surprised when a bike lane is blocked with a fence or a parked car. So this time they blocked it with a fence, some cars and a SPACE SHUTTLE.
Actually it is the old shuttle Buran (one of experimental replicas) being dismantled and transported to another site from his old spot in Gorky Park. On a not so related note it used to house a bike and velomobile rent underneath."
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#ЛистаяДневники
В 2015-ом мне опять перегородили дорогу. #ЛистаяДневники
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2015-07-05 - Ехал тут вчера от зубного по новой велополосе на Бульварном. Впереди стоит тачло. На велополосе. С открытым багажником по классике. И водила рядом с мобилой. И это в день открытия дорожки, в выходной, когда парковки свободны!
Я прямо напрягся весь и палец на гудок положил: щас подъеду поближе и дуну так, что обосрешься и мобилу уронишь! И наору ещё! И зафоткаю!
Но что-то передумал в последний момент и объехал молча. Объезжая, приметил, что у машины капот открыт и оттуда пар идёт, рядом какие-то запчасти валяются. Видимо, не доехал по жаре...
@kravietz Looks super weird. Is this your screenshot?
The Russian in the prompt is kind of broken, the prompt is rather short to provide meaningful results, what is mysterious "origin:RU"?
Also the account is suspended already and his username isn't really showing in Google related to x.com/twitter.com domains.
@BeAware @johan А что именно там зацензурено?
Но вообще они подзаколебали. Локальные модели тоже уже страдают.
@kravietz @HistoPol > due to the greenhouse gas emissions
As opposed to US imported LNG which is much much greener :)
@a1ba Something doesn't respond fast enough?
KILL. KILLALL. TERMINATE. PURGE. DESTROY.
@feld @Moon @a1ba Also when I worked there my boss started hearing "beeps". One beep every few hours. He made a fuss about it because he thought some UPS was giving out or something (especially since we had makeshift server room right in there).
For quite some time we thought he was just being the mean motherfucker we knew him to be. Then I heard the beep one day as well.
We searched but found nothing. Beeps kept coming, about one per day. Every now and then the boss used them as an excuse to lash out at someone. This went for months.
Then we had to move and when they took out the furniture I found old Motorola phone someone dropped behind the table. It didn't have sim and was extremely low on battery and apparently when it was low on battery it beeped at increasingly longer intervals.
@feld @Moon @a1ba One time a colleague went out and left his Nokia phone (not a smartphone but already with polyphonic ringer) on his table. I took it, reduced the ring volume to minimum, wrapped it in some plastic bags and glued it with the tape under his table. He came back, didn't find his phone and called it.
Then he spent 30 minutes turning the room upside down trying to find where that faintest sound came from. The famous Nokia ringtone turned out to be super hard to pinpoint.
Сколько требуется иностранных специалистов для очистки от снега проезда к московской пятиэтажке на три подъезда?
Правильный ответ будет в комментариях. #ПрекрасноеНастоящее #Москва
@mint @a1ba Their NS records were blocked some eight hours ago (I checked) and now they are back.
I guess domain owner sent an appeal or something.
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