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Boris Galerkin posted:From that translated letter: Yes, this kind of thing is built in Russian civil service, military and police. Implies that the invasion was someone's pet project that was presented to Putin as managable.
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Nessus posted:That's their domain codes and UA is easier to type than UKR (and just UK has some risk of confusion, Putin isn't landing at Bristol... yet) Bristol is well overdue a de-hipsterification.
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Uhhhh, how are people in Russia supposed to pay for anything? Is Visa/Mastercard as ubiquitous there as it is in the U.S.? Edit: Oh I see someone clarified above, sounds like Visa/Mastercard will work within Russia still but only for cards issues there. Popete fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:From that translated letter: It says they are busy with real problems, so when somebody asks for a report on some bullshit (invasion of Ukraine, lol, imagine that), they just write what the bosses want to read, i.e. we have the resources to theoretically achieve our objectives. But then everybody goes back to work on the real issue and nobody remembers the report on Ukraine even got commissioned, so when the order comes saying "you have 24 hours to put your plan for Ukraine into action", it is as though there were no plan, because it was written only perfunctorily, and because nobody has bothered to study it and make sure at least its basic preconditions remain true.
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fatherboxx posted:Yes, this kind of thing is built in Russian civil service, military and police. Implies that the invasion was someone's pet project that was presented to Putin as managable. Also may imply that they're still passing that kind of report up the chain--i.e., some higher-up people, even Putin, may not properly understand what they're facing.
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Popete posted:Uhhhh, how are people in Russia supposed to pay for anything? Is Visa/Mastercard as ubiquitous there as it is in the U.S.? Internal transactions would still work, it would just be impossible to use with any outside service or outside of Russia.
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Naturally, I've been seeing lots of posts using Kino's Группа Крови (Blood Type)* in the background because drat is it a good anti war song Granted it was written to protest Afghanistan but apparently people are still using it today *this version is the harder to find re-recorded version, not the original
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Boris Galerkin posted:From that translated letter: That seems like pretty classical behaviour to me. During the so called Great Leap Forward in China there had been massive food shortages due to awful harvests, but since nobody wanted to bring bad news, a lot of local leaders transported the planned amount of crops to the capital, starving their local population. Some went even so far that they greatly exceeded their pension. This did not end well... Congrats for placing it in a negative light, SA is now banned in China! cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Tuna-Fish posted:In the US, the credit card company takes a ridiculously huge cut in merchant fees. Then they have all kinds of programs to kick part of these back to the consumer in "points" to compete with each other. That actually explains a lot. I was often wondering why my experience of using cards here is so different from what I hear from Americans. (Not enough to go digging, though  )
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:China can come into Russia and turn the country even more capitalist with the Russian economy tied to cheap Chinese credit. Or, once this is all over, the west could do a Marshall Plan 2.0 for Russia and Ukraine (And Belarus if it falls as collateral damage). But it probably won't, because short term gains are better than long term strategic interests apparently.
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Boris Galerkin posted:From that translated letter: Yes, and they've also been told it doesn't matter, because the scenario is entirely fictional.
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javi posted:Visa and Mastercard are out! Only credit card left in Russia - Russian Express, "Don't leave home".
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Popete posted:Uhhhh, how are people in Russia supposed to pay for anything? Is Visa/Mastercard as ubiquitous there as it is in the U.S.? My wife lives with me in Hungary, but gets her salary in Russia. A significant amount of her savings are in Russia (because transferring money out of the country has been limited for years), now we can wave good bye to it all. loving fantastic. Basically she just lost her savings and her job, and shes been crying all evening before this news even came in.
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Xarn posted:That actually explains a lot. I was often wondering why my experience of using cards here is so different from what I hear from Americans. (Not enough to go digging, though I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points.
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steinrokkan posted:I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points. I always assumed that was because using credit cards is the only way to built credit score over there. Some Stockholm syndrome situation.
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:My wife lives with me in Hungary, but gets her salary in Russia. A significant amount of her savings are in Russia (because transferring money out of the country has been limited for years), now we can wave good bye to it all. loving fantastic. Basically she just lost her savings and her job, and shes been crying all evening before this news even came in. It seems like a really stupid move because it only hurts Russian expats and foreigners in Russia. I'd even go so far as to say that something like this plays right into the hands of the Russian gov and their capital controls.
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:My wife lives with me in Hungary, but gets her salary in Russia. A significant amount of her savings are in Russia (because transferring money out of the country has been limited for years), now we can wave good bye to it all. loving fantastic. Basically she just lost her savings and her job, and shes been crying all evening before this news even came in. That blows rather hard. I guess one could hope that the ruble will rise again? Well, you could hope.
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steinrokkan posted:I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points. You don’t pay interest on credit cards if you pay the balance off immediately or at the end of the month in which case it’s just a bank card with points. Plus it helps build your credit rating which lets you get better rates for loans and mortgages. It also protects you from scams and poor service because you can cancel charges whereas if you use your bank card it’s just gone. Credit cards are a doubled edged sword if you pay them off immediately they’re better in every single way than bank cards. If you use them to spend money you don’t have or you forget and didn’t set up autopay they will loving destroy you.
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Credit card fees are charged to the merchant, not to the customer. Some higher end cards do have annual fees though
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:My wife lives with me in Hungary, but gets her salary in Russia. A significant amount of her savings are in Russia (because transferring money out of the country has been limited for years), now we can wave good bye to it all. loving fantastic. Basically she just lost her savings and her job, and shes been crying all evening before this news even came in. Sorry to hear this, hope things turn out ok
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:China can come into Russia and turn the country even more capitalist with the Russian economy tied to cheap Chinese credit. That is pretty much going to be a fallout of this I think. I think China has a lot to win out here with influence over Russia to get it back on feet. While I’m sure Putin would gnash his teeth he’ll probably have to let them in to survive.
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Also keep in mind re: credit cards is that at least in countries like Belgium and Netherlands a credit card needs to be paid in full every month, whereas in the US it’s basically a loan with a 25% rate for most people. A lot of people are using credit cards out of necessity for literally not having enough cash to pay for things otherwise.
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steinrokkan posted:I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points. For me, I pay mine off every month and so I pay no fees or interest, so it costs me nothing, plus I get points on payments I would have made anyway through some other means and I build my credit. Other people use them differently, though. Sir John Falstaff fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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steinrokkan posted:I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points. The merchants are the ones who pay the fees unless you are arguing the merchant is raising their prices accordingly. Besides rewards the fraud and security protections of a cc makes it much better to use as well. If you get bogus charges it’s vastly easier dealing with a CC vs debit.
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fatherboxx posted:Yes, this kind of thing is built in Russian civil service, military and police. Implies that the invasion was someone's pet project that was presented to Putin as managable. I’m picturing Russia’s version of the my pillow guy walking up to Putin with a folder of papers titled “invasion of Ukraine.”
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fatherboxx posted:Yes, this kind of thing is built in Russian civil service, military and police. Implies that the invasion was someone's pet project that was presented to Putin as managable. It's also built into most bureaucratic systems that rely on reports being fed up the chain: if someone asks you how things are going, for the most part people are going to paint a rosy picture and think "if something comes up, it's only a small setback and we can handle it before it affects anything so we won't mention it". Then all of a sudden you try to perform an operation that requires many moving parts, each of those moving parts has unrevealed weaknesses that aren't accounted for in timetabling, resource management etc and all of a sudden the entire system comes crashing down.
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Another convoy abandonment. Out in the middle of nowhere. Where do these abandoners go? https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1500206061403443203?cxt=HHwWhsC4vdzd5tEpAAAA
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PerilPastry posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1500168055850213382?s=20&t=0rl4bw0Mv1HCXzRfWilVWg
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It’s Kharkiv just like walk a bit and you’re in Russia again
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the popes toes posted:Another convoy abandonment. Out in the middle of nowhere. Where do these abandoners go? That's a lot of riot gear.
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Hannibal Rex posted:It's been a bit that I watched it, so i might get some of his wording wrong, but a pretty glaring mistake he makes is that he conflates America and the EU as "the West". It's easy to declare Russia a regional power that's of no threat to America, and that the real focus of America should be on China. But Russia and Ukraine are very much an existential issue to Europe. Either Europe expands democracy East, or Russia expands authoritarianism West. It's been the assumption that Europe can afford to be patient, eventually Russia would acculturate, and Ukraine could serve as a bridge between them in the meantime. Putin has categorically taken that option of the table, as long as he and his clique remain in power. Europe really, really can't ignore that. I believe the segment you are thinking of is when he said that as time goes on more focus is going to be put on China which is 100% correct. Russia is a dying and decaying power that is losing influence as each day passes. The invasion of Ukraine isn't them flexing their power, it's a death throes. The fact that Ukraine has held Russia off to this degree is further proof of that. Meanwhile China is a rising superstar that already has the highest GDP PPP in the world and with a larger population than the U.S., EU, and Russia combined it has a lot more room to grow. IIRC there was a post today stating that China increased it's military budget by 7% this year and that seems to be a trend. He never stated in the video to take focus off Russia completely, but that in the future new powers will rise and world politics will gradually be something closer to a few existing great powers rather than the single sole hyperpower world we have today.
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steinrokkan posted:I always wondered why Americans were so excited to have CC companies steal their money in exchange for some stupid prizes and points. Well before the late 70s/early 80s the credit card was basically non-existent. There were some individual big stores that had a primitive version of credit for big, longtime customers but that was about it. Most Americans saved their money in the banks and bought things when they had the means to outside of big purchases like a home where you would need a loan. Even auto loans weren't super common back then. Then you had Reagan and the deregulation of the banking and financial sectors in so many ways and the rise of the credit card. For many years credit was something that only well off people had for a lot of reasons, but in the early to mid 90s the credit companies had grown and started to try to get not only lower income customers but also compete against each other for existing customers. See the rise of "value plus" cards which you have points, miles, prizes and then later cash back. Europe has better consumer protections thankfully but in the United States the credit industry runs wild.
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Also “meteorites?” Are Russian missiles/artillery/shells called meteorites and the translation just translated it literally?
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Chalks posted:It seems like a really stupid move because it only hurts Russian expats and foreigners in Russia. I'd even go so far as to say that something like this plays right into the hands of the Russian gov and their capital controls. I mean, I think that is the point, they don't want foreigners dealing with russia. That is kinda what a sanction does. They wouldn't want russia to feel the strain of isolation then have a bunch of foreign money streaming in from like, bargain seeking tourists or something.
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the popes toes posted:Another convoy abandonment. Out in the middle of nowhere. Where do these abandoners go? Probably either surrender or try to find shelter.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Also keep in mind re: credit cards is that at least in countries like Belgium and Netherlands a credit card needs to be paid in full every month, whereas in the US it’s basically a loan with a 25% rate for most people. A lot of people are using credit cards out of necessity for literally not having enough cash to pay for things otherwise. Yeah, Credit Cards used like that are pretty much just convenient loan sharks preying on the desperate. Your little Visa card would totally break your kneecaps if it could.
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evil_bunnY posted:https://twitter.com/econinbricks/status/1500191526927880196?s=20&t=qkG6P0uPkORrT8IJMEcTNg The perfidious Dutch strike again
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the popes toes posted:Another convoy abandonment. Out in the middle of nowhere. Where do these abandoners go? Looks like crowd control/riot equipment? A symptom of their over-optimistic planning I guess - I wonder how much of their supply convoys contain equipment that's completely useless at this stage of the conflict.
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the popes toes posted:Another convoy abandonment. Out in the middle of nowhere. Where do these abandoners go? I guess the classic scenario is that the point vehicle gets RPG-d or Javelined. The convoy stops, everybody bails out and once the situation calms down they just board one of the trucks, turn around and get back to wherever they came from.
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Family Values posted:"The Day After" That movie reminded me of how obvious people can be to current events, that even in face of some huge danger they'll be in denial to the end. I figured.. well that's disaster movies for you, but if Covid and this crisis is proving, yeah it's not a movie thing at all. Some lady at Costco today didn't understand why gas prices were up a buck a gallon since last week, I shook my head.
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