There’s not enough protest against steady loss of privacy.

Agreed. Here in Germany there’s a big problem that even all business have to comply with many regulations meant for corporations, making the expenses for smaller companies enormous.

Given: not all of them are driving innovation, but my entrepreneur friends who run their businesses in Germany plan to move their endeavors elsewhere.

I’m all up for a social state, but not for the laws that only large corporations can easily follow.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer or a businessman myself and only know about the matter anecdotally.

It’s a bit sad for my friends in Russia, but I do hope very much it signals the fall of the regime.

Recently, the Ministry of Education posted on the official report as their accomplishment that less young people go to universities than before, and instead of high school they choose labour professions.

I’ve nothing against handworkers, but where else in the world does the bloody Ministry of education celebrate the lower rate of education in their country?!

Source: podcast in Russian by polititologist Ekaterina Schulman, a bit lazy to find the link at the moment.

Thank you for sharing.

I’m from Russia, and I’ve seen thousands of people running from the police over a decade ago. I’ve left the country before the big invasion started, but I’ve heard of small, quiet protests, and even quieter, but organized sabotage of railways that run towards the border with Ukraine.

Many people still support Putin, might be hard to stand up to the empowered majority.

But my friends from Belarus participated in mass actions against Lukashenko; we know that the majority doesn’t support him at all, and yet nothing changed.

I’m not saying protest is ineffective, but sometimes it’s not, especially when the time passed and the system hardened.

It’s important to protest, a lot, especially when the situation is not dire yet. Not only when people are desperate, but when they’re in discomfort, when the politicians lie, when our rights are even slightly violated.

Now as a German citizen and resident I go to protests, sign petitions, and participate in other civil actions.

3 years might become 10, there’s such thing as a “carousel prosecution” in Russia: your sentence ends, you are ready to leave and get another one for some nonsense; rinse and repeat.

I hope this girl is not that important tho.

Luckily!~

Quite hard to find mean not wrapped in plastic. Here in Germany unpacked meat costs thrice the price of packed meat.

Don’t; no one deserves to be annexed by Russia. Or someone might be very happy making Hungarians very unhappy.

What a joke of a person. Wish he starts burning in hell yesterday.

I see. Thank you for a clarification!

I used Firefox for decades, and now test out forks like Librewolf and Fennec. Sometimes I use Vivaldi if I go chromium.

I usually go for budget phones, whilst my home laptop is 10 y.o. Never had an issue with performance.

Well. I did when I overused redundant extensions, but now I know better:)

Pardon my ignorance, what’s a XUL Gecko?

I’m so sorry for your experience and hope life would be kinder to you in the future. It’s hard to even imagine how you might feel when covering even basic human needs becomes a luxury.

Because Russia pays for spreading it.

I tried to use it for sleep music playlist I listened to on Spotify. Most of it was ok, but at least one song was replaced with some weird audio that said something about cryptocurrency-something-2025 in a loud robotic voice. I woke up several times because of it. The same song on Spotify was a generic ambient track… It was so weird, I stayed with metrolist.

I’m sorry you feel that; I can understand pretty well. But still, you’re alive, and it’s worth celebrating. 🫂

It’s still an achievement. Yay your liver!

Depends on how low your standards are. When we survived to live another day it’s also pretty awesome!

Ah, I needed this reminder, thank you!