kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

And it also shows how Kremlin is making exactly the same mistakes it was making back in 20th century, which ultimately took it to a collapse of the whole country. Its power relies entirely on military force, which it mastered. But military is expensive and is developed at the cost of other branches of economy. The US suffers from the same problem, but the difference is US can afford it (if barely) while Russia cannot.

Russian gov has quietly informed US embassy in Moscow it will remove the ban on employing Russian staff it announced with a lot of media coverage as a "reprisal" for expulsions of Russian diplomats in response to GRU activity on the ground and the Internet.

When US embassy said it will then only offer services to US citizens and suspends issuing visas to Russians, Kremlin quietly stepped back. Which kind of shows that Russian bargain is quite weak in such international sabre rattling.

@dump_stack

The overwhelming amount of evidence and examples you refer to support your arguments makes this discussion so informed and helpful! 😂

🇩🇪 "Der Mann, der freiwillig ins KZ ging"

https://www.blick.ch/ausland/polen-ehrt-seinen-nationalhelden-witold-pilecki-1901-1948-der-mann-der-freiwillig-ins-kz-ging-id16522036.html

@isagalaev

Dupa is the same as жопа in Russian. Kurwa on the other hand is dual use - it is used as an expletive (fuck!, блядь!) but also as a noun for a prostitute. In this case it's the combination that makes it so funny in Polish even if you don't really dig into meanings.

I mention UK because most people here are well accustomed with "kurwa!" as probably half of the personnel on building sites is Polish so you hear that a lot 😂

@dump_stack So the actual rules are quite a mess - to be honest, I don't know whether they are deporting the people coming for interviews rightly or not. In any case, the best piece of advice is to always say you're coming for tourism. In theory, even when you're coming in for tourism, and happen to open your LinkedIn while in UK, you're engaging in job-seeking activity and that's illegal 🤦‍♂️

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules

@dump_stack you once praised UK's new post-Brexit "clear points based system" 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/13/eu-citizens-arriving-in-uk-being-locked-up-and-expelled

@drq Так обычно у контракторов отдельная позиция в ценнике - "выслушивание идеи клиента", столько-и-столько в час...

This tombstone is source of endless (sorry...) joy for Poles. I don't think KURWA DUPA requires translation for anyone speaking Slavic languages - or living in UK. These are... bad words.

The legend is that a Polish mercenary in Africa was dying in pain and whispered "kurwa, dupa", but the nurse was asking about his name. So his name for carved in stone forever.

Then, nerds from odkrywca.pl found out it's actually a name in Suahili, and this grave is in Kenia 🇰🇪

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2809422/%20KURWA%20DUPA/

That actually works pretty cool, I've just tested with my U2F. As explained above, I wouldn't use it on a random website with no registration, but CAPTCHA is rarely used on anonymous pages.

CloudFlare proposed digital signature using U2F signatrure instead of CAPTCHA. Pretty interesting, although from #privacy perspective it gives the website 100% unique identifier in the form of your public key - or to be more precise, the CAPTCHA provider, which is CloudFlare in this case.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attestation-of-personhood/

Mentions of "Russophobia" by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. Surprising increase after 2014 - any idea why? 🤔

https://ulir.ul.ie/handle/10344/8429?show=full

@werekat @dump_stack

Ah wait, so it's Ukrainian Rada that enacted this resolution - my fault, and my argument is completely invalid here!

@dump_stack

In such case, did you consider the fact that the 2020 reduction of state-funded Russian-language schooling was an *outcome* of earlier actions of Russian Federation, including repressions of Ukrainian-speaking population in Donbass and Russia, Tatars in Crimea,* and mass-scale issuing of Russian passports to people in Ukraine?

* by the way, Crimean Tatars are one of the most vocal anti-Kremlin lobbies in Ukraine due to repressions against them in Crimea after annexation

@dump_stack @werekat

Also this is the best twist I've seen from Russian propaganda in a long time.

So basically, Russia is calling Ukraine an "aggressor country" after it annexed Crimea and started war in Ukraine 😂

In Polish we have a joke:

- What the absolute record of impudence?
- Shit on someone's doormat, ring the bell and ask for toilet paper

https://www.unian.info/society/2241876-ukrainian-cultural-center-on-moscow-may-be-sold-for-70-mln-russian-media.html

@dump_stack @werekat

You might also refresh your knowledge about how Ukrainian culture has been respected in Russia over the last few years - for example:

https://plus.obozrevatel.com/crime/04278-ataka-na-ukrainskij-tsentr-v-moskve-poyavilis-novyie-video.htm

There were also numerous arrests of Ukrainians in Russia, most likely as hostages to exchange for DNR/LNR prisoners of war. Ukrainian books were confiscated as "extremist" (you know, Holodomor is now "extremist" topic), several artists were banned from Russia (e.g. Lyapis Trubetskoi).