We live in a weird world nowadays. I would accept a leader who embraces the weirdness to navigate the current situation.

But I would never vote for right wing populists.

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Gets me every time.

Thank you for your amazing answer! This explains my concerns exactly.

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Goodnight, everyone.

My LED ones were Corsair too, and non LED alternatives were lesser known brands.

My case has RGB fans. Not because I wanted them, but because I wanted a PC between Covid lockdowns, had to pick from a small selection and RGB fans cost less than regular ones.

It’s also a part of “no broken windows” theatre. The story says that if there’s an abandoned house in the neighborhood and hooligans break one window, it must be covered up as fast as possible, otherwise, they are going to smash all the windows because they do not fear being seen anymore.

All of those traffic tickets, small fines for petty crime, etc. are designed to reinforce the idea of “we’re watching you, obey the law” because if you can get away with small crimes, you will be more likely to commit more serious ones.

Personally, I don’t like it, but a lot of petty government functionaries subscribe to this philosophy and that’s why we can’t have nice things.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

You can both be right, because trying to make more conscious health decisions is what actually made you healthier.

I don’t know what any of this means, upvoted everything anyway.

Russia suffered a widespread internet outage affecting users across the country, with access to websites on the local .ru domain down.

The issue was linked to a technical problem with the .ru domain’s global Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, which is used to secure data exchanged in internet protocol networks, Russia’s Digital Ministry said in a statement on Telegram Tuesday.

The ministry said later Tuesday that the problem had been resolved and access restored.

Websites including the most popular local search engine Yandex.ru, ecommerce leaders Ozon.ru and Wildberries.ru, and apps of the country’s biggest banks — Sberbank PJSC and VTB Group — were all affected by the outage, state-run Ria reported, citing Downradar, a traffic monitoring service.

Disruptions were reported in Moscow, the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions, Ria said.

Sberbank and VTB didn’t immediately reply to an emailed request for comment. Yandex declined to comment.

I alternate between US-QWERTY and LT-QWERTY. My biggest problem is typing ž instead of =

I actually did the opposite. I grew up in Klaipėda, a harbor town in Lithuania and moved a 100 km eastward to a small town to live with my wife.

I work from home so I can live here quite comfortably, despite it being boring. Both urban and rural experiences can be depressing in their own way.

There are places in bigger cities that are depressing too, if you venture outside of the touristy parts. In rural areas, however, it is harder to avoid.

You have probably been in big cities where a lot of stuff is happening but visit the countryside and it is full of broken people and dying towns.

Another thing to note is that further south you go, the happier people will seem, while in the north, long winter days and lack of Vitamin D can really mess with local people.

The people over 45 have it especially bad here, since the world they used to know is no longer there, they can’t adapt to it, they don’t make as much as some younger people do, and they are beginning to lose their friends and family. While life is amazing and exciting to the young adults you are most likely to talk to in bars. The contrast actually adds to depression.

When it comes to comparisons, I think the main difference is that in East Asia, people have to deal with too much order and monotony.

In East Europe, the life as you know it might disappear at any moment. Life is fragile and fleeting and everything around you and everything you know will be dead one day. Nature itself reinforces that fact every year.

I guess he hasn’t been to Eastern Europe yet.

BLT is also an abbreviation for a Russian swear word “blyat” which is the appropriate thing to say upon receiving this sandwich.

From an employees perspective:

1. They will prohibit vacation or send everyone away.

2. Your salary will come late.

3. Various people you haven’t seen will visit the office.

4. There’s a running gag of packing up to move offices and being told you have all been fired the next day, Arrested Development style.

From a higher-level perspective:

1. Some investors will write off losses to save on their taxes.

2. Others will try to sell any tech or other properties the startup has managed to create to recoup losses.

3. Creditors and bond holders will be paid first before stock holders. Most vc funding comes in exchange for stock.

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Roman general

He’s clearly anti-Russia