doombolt

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by doombolt 7y ago
Definitely. I am more concerned with Russian people and our culture, though, than with loyality to a country as a regime plus set of borders. If there was other Russian state, like Taiwan is for China, I think I'd jump ship and go for
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by doombolt 7y ago
1. I have a family and I enjoy living in a place where Russian is spoken primarily and Russian culture is dominant. 2. Maybe I was like that before 2008 or so. Didn't make a difference either way.
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by doombolt 7y ago
The atmosphere is totally unhealthy, wages stagnate or fall for most of workers, and there is no optimism for the future. In some areas Russia still becomes a better place to live, but if you compare it to Europe proper it still lacks in so
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by doombolt 7y ago
I don't really know any LGBT in person so it's hard to say. I think nobody will bother you if you stay clandestine. I guess the public opinion in this area is shitty but it is universal quality of public opinion in Russia. I was o
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by doombolt 7y ago
I'm not planning to leave Russia just yet, due to being a Russian nationalist with a family, but I can sure answer any questions. The trend (or rather, reversal of previous trend) surely exists. Upd: HN, the place where you get downvot
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by doombolt 8y ago
> prevented Spain from becoming a Stalinist totalitarian country, Or maybe it would be a flop and something closer to present euro-socialism which Spain ended up implementing anyway. One should avoid being a brutal dictator since you nev
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by doombolt 8y ago
When you write "places the gulag system in a different light" I can't read it as anything but genocide denial.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Yes it does look nice-ish, but this is stage when human-scale disappears. It would look much less bland if it was ten story high and not twenty. Having that coffin to the left does not help. It wants to dominate the landscape but it's
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by doombolt 8y ago
It looks passable, but as I have said any Art Noveau building would give more eye candy, and there's a huge number of such building around the world, it's not we praise each and every of their architects. It also looks like a side
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by doombolt 8y ago
Yes, her works may be nice when compared to 80s. But if you compare them to the turn of XX century, they don't look so nice. People may smile when zipping along her creations, but you can walk along some of Art Nouveau buildings every
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by doombolt 8y ago
This is architecture for car drivers who zoom past while burning carbon. Spend more than 10 seconds, it stops looking cool and becomes boring. Yet another example how car destroys our cities. It is not walkable, it is not human-scale, it
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by doombolt 8y ago
You could probably start from The Moscow Times, though they are rather softcore. https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/krasnodar-judge-throws-2... Then nobody was sure that this judge had ever study law. She said she wen
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by doombolt 8y ago
It's from the Soviet Union, but basically yes.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Apache Ignite is an ACID key-value CP database that does not depend on clock.
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by doombolt 8y ago
At least they do not seem to have oppression by minorities. One important ultra-unreal piece they don't have.
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by doombolt 8y ago
The difference is that you don't just know that it has actually happened, but also you are footing the bill for it. As a Russian I find chinese ultra-unrealism pretty wimpy. We've got cooler, more fierce stuff.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I didn't know you could just skip this bullet point, get away with it. Makes me wonder why we ever did it. After all, "Intellectual Property" is just a way to siphon money from my country while making our lives miserable. It&
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by doombolt 8y ago
Maybe it's mobile view or something? No banners in text block on my laptop. Some in the right pane, some down below.
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by doombolt 8y ago
It is also an eye-opener that food is so cheap these days you can make more from selling Diamonds mined at 2-3 locations than from selling Wheat grown all over the map.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Nobody knows for sure. Maybe a Syria-style (but ten times stronger) migration from Russia westwards? It is assumed that Syrian crisis started happening when its Oil exports dipped in red, as in existing Syrian economy would consume more Oil
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by doombolt 8y ago
Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports. Economic pressure on Russia leads to increase of importance of oil and gas sector as other sectors plunge. This leads to more capacity, more offering. Which leads to price correction, even
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by doombolt 8y ago
You can't undo colonialism by suffering communism after gaining independence. You just get 2x of famines, mass executions and freedom impairment. Or maybe 3x since communist regimes tend to be more violent than colonial regimes. You al
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by doombolt 8y ago
How do you disallow ownership of means of production without totalitarianism? Imagine a person has a small auto repair or sewing shop. They will not give up on profit unless you raid them, rinse, repeat. That's what communism is about
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by doombolt 8y ago
Communists also tend to start hating people in countries where they rule, put bad tags on them. That's how they deal with the shortcomings of their policy. This is both for internal communist rulers and overseas communistic wannabees.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Stop praising any non-true communists then, which is basically everyone who tried to practice it.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Bad parts: Yes, there is disrepair since the owners do not care about any common property. Everything outside their doorstep is not their concern. They expect "city" or "state" to take care of it. They care even less abo
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by doombolt 8y ago
After the USSR fell apart, in Russia you could turn state-owned apartment that you occupied into your own ownership. Once per person, but basically for free. This means people who "rented" apartments will now own them. Fast forwar
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by doombolt 8y ago
That's why we need tools to permanently ban politicians from law making if their proposal is awful enough. Kind of "[X] No and don't ask again", democracy version. Having thought of it, the main problem here it's no
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by doombolt 8y ago
> It's about the interests of this or that group (e.g. given population vs people coming from outside). Arguments can be made for either, but if a given population is not protected, then those coming from outside wont be protected (
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by doombolt 8y ago
Yes, it is an ideological preference. Rent control is conservative, market distribution is liberal. I just point that people really really want to be called progressive without being one. You can't be progressive and conservative at th

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