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Paladinus posted:I guess it's something inherited from the Soviet past, and people still think that good thing only exist West of border. At airport duty frees you can see plenty of Russia speaking tourists buying copious amounts of alcohol, even though the same stuff is available in the supermarket five minutes from their house, but maybe costs a dollar a bottle more. It's ridiculous. I might be brain broken in the morning, but I feel like you missed the link that started the discussion: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/apr/11/eu-moves-ban-sale-lower-quality-branded-food-eastern-europe
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Gobbeldygook posted:That's really weird; honey bees require very little labor or capital to raise. I'd have expecteed local production to ramp up. This is extremely wrong.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 08:53 |
fishmech posted:I gather the local producers have been selling their best out of country and possibly diluting or otherwise stretching the rest. Also this yeah, it is normal to have all nice goods produced in domestic and export qualities, where the latter is much better than the former. Same vodka bottle in Rīga grocery store and Rīga airport will be two entirely different drinks.
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I think the honey is pretty good here if you get it from the bazaar. It’s more grainy than I’m used to but then I assume it’s straight out of the bee’s rear end. As for chocolate, I don’t mind Roshen or Milka. But the prices have gone up on them since I’ve been here. As for olive oil, the big local grocery store sells it but it’s too expensive for my peace corps budget. I just use sunflower oil for everything. 1 liter of sunflower oil is around 25 hrvs while a small bottle of olive oil will run you close to 100 sometimes.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 09:21 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This is extremely wrong. How's that? You can buy a bee hive (insects + their house) for a 100€. As for the amount of work, I'm sure it's less than keeping livestock and most other agriculture.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 09:54 |
Doctor Malaver posted:How's that? You can buy a bee hive (insects + their house) for a 100€. As for the amount of work, I'm sure it's less than keeping livestock and most other agriculture. A good friend's dad is a professional bee keeper. It's insane amount of work from what I know, and you actually need to know what you are doing. Granted, dude also sells honey good enough that the stock goes to friends&family or rich foreigners.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 10:05 |
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Doctor Malaver posted:How's that? You can buy a bee hive (insects + their house) for a 100€. As for the amount of work, I'm sure it's less than keeping livestock and most other agriculture. Sure, one hive won't be very expensive nor much work. But it'll bring you peanuts. You want to make bees your livelihood, you will need hundreds of hives. And taking care of hundreds of hives is a lot of work, so you'll need specialized tools to make it faster and easier on your back. Especially once you take into account that to make your hives really productive, you'll have to move them to where the flowers are, so that they can start sooner and finish later. That's where you get specialized forklifts and trucks, mechanical extractors, and so on. And then we can add that beekeeping in the 21st century is a lot harder than beekeeping in the 19th century, because pesticides are ubiquitously omnipresent, varroa destructor and vespa velutina and aethina tumida and myriad other invasive species are incredibly professional at loving up bees, and so on. Any of these problems could be faced if it came alone, but since they're there all at once, the extinction of the bees is looking like a very plausible medium-term scenario. In China, they're hand-pollinating their flowers because they don't have bees anymore, and they chemically make fake honey from raw sugar also because they don't have bees anymore. This is the future of beekeeping.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 11:08 |
Yeah, that guy I mentioned has a few hundred hives on himself and hundreds of thousands of euros in infrastructure and technology investments, after you exclude subsidies and other assistance from the Latvian government and the EU.
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Cat Mattress posted:Sure, one hive won't be very expensive nor much work. But it'll bring you peanuts. You want to make bees your livelihood, you will need hundreds of hives. And taking care of hundreds of hives is a lot of work, so you'll need specialized tools to make it faster and easier on your back. Especially once you take into account that to make your hives really productive, you'll have to move them to where the flowers are, so that they can start sooner and finish later. That's where you get specialized forklifts and trucks, mechanical extractors, and so on. Bee thieves can also be a problem, if rare. Last year some local bee keeper in Germany lost like 50k Euros worth of bees. Someone just walked into his forest and absconded some of his hives.
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I know the idea of Polish Death Foods is pretty much a meme now, but some months ago I read a test by a local consumer report magazine that pretty much said the quality of food in EE EU members and Germany is a toss up (sometimes they are worse, sometimes even better, sometimes the same), and the real problem is that the same quality groceries cost more in the East than in Germany. Unfortunately I don't think this regulation is going to address this absurd inequality.
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Libluini posted:Bee thieves can also be a problem, if rare. Last year some local bee keeper in Germany lost like 50k Euros worth of bees. Someone just walked into his forest and absconded some of his hives. Also bees have been getting genocided in many countries recently, which I'm sure has nothing to do with climate change or all the barely tested high tech disruptive pesticides being used, no sir. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/honeybees-decline-pesticides-study-a6925936.html e: also, for how poo poo imported foods in EE can get, one just needs to try the warsaw pact nutella. at least the they try to make it taste like it's something else in the western versions, here it's just cheapest straight cocoa and sugar mixed from the nearest supermarket lmao Truga fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ep2uL3AfA Serbian foreign minister sings a Bosnian song to Erdogan. A mufti tips him.
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https://twitter.com/ow/status/986130203960279040 https://twitter.com/ow/status/986160447152885760 HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/ow/status/986130203960279040 Yeah our Russian partners are literally on fire over this. It sucks major rear end. For more details, you can check my post history in yospos security thread (hard to repost from phone).
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AWS disappearing should definitely be a contingency though. Hasn't it happened before due to a fuckup on their end?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 16:44 |
mobby_6kl posted:AWS disappearing should definitely be a contingency though. Hasn't it happened before due to a fuckup on their end? Not at this scale, no. When Zello was being run out of Russia, 4.5k IPs were blocked and threat was to ban further 15 million if Amazon did not comply (which they did). This time around, government just banned 11-12 millions of Amazon IPs and started DDoSing some of the proxy services and VPNs inside the country. AWS, or any other Western something with no legal representation in Russia, disappearing should be a contingency, but as always everyone has underestimated how much a Slav can shoot themselves in a foot to prove a point.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Yeah our Russian partners are literally on fire over this. It sucks major rear end. For more details, you can check my post history in yospos security thread (hard to repost from phone). And for extra fun, it sounded like they didn't actually manage to block Telegram anyway?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 17:30 |
OddObserver posted:And for extra fun, it sounded like they didn't actually manage to block Telegram anyway? They did not, in fact. I still use it to talk to Russian friends and coworkers on hourly basis, and most of them don't even use a VPN of sorts, to my knowledge. Just so you understand how funny is that, just today Roskomnadzor's Telegram-related bans did manage to take down the system in place for enforcement of said bans, as it both got overloaded by the ban volume and relies on American cloud services for statistics management.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:They did not, in fact. I still use it to talk to Russian friends and coworkers on hourly basis, and most of them don't even use a VPN of sorts, to my knowledge. I'm imagining some Russian IT guys working on the ban project with Yakity Sax playing in the background.
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Chadderbox posted:I'm imagining some Russian IT guys working on the ban project with Yakity Sax playing in the background. I'm imagining Russian internet infrastructure as the digital Admiral Kuznetsov.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 18:09 |
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I predict that someone's close friend is going to get a huge grant to integrate blockchain in Russia in order to avoid this sort of situation in the future.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 18:17 |
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Paladinus posted:I predict that someone's close friend is going to get a huge grant to integrate blockchain in Russia in order to avoid this sort of situation in the future. So Russia is going to turn from an energy exporter into an importer?
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 18:39 |
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This is a funny piece of news: https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/baltic-translations-for-fox-tv-undergo-russian-censorship.a275385/ posted:Baltic translations for Fox TV undergo Russian censorship
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This is really hosed up: https://www.aldrimer.no/ber-russiske-myndigheter-stoppe-gps-jamming/ googletranslated from Norwegian posted:Yesterday, Aldrimer.no reported that Norwegian aircraft flying to Kirkenes on March 14 this year experienced a loss of GPS signals.
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 10:50 |
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They don't have inertial systems to serve as a backup when GPS craps out?
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# ? Apr 28, 2018 12:02 |
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welp, wrong thread
Sekenr fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Apr 28, 2018 |
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Cat Mattress posted:They don't have inertial systems to serve as a backup when GPS craps out? If not, they will very soon.
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I don't think those are accurate enough for the landing system...
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:I don't think those are accurate enough for the landing system... You don't use GPS for that either, normally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
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# ? May 1, 2018 17:49 |
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Anyone got a picture of a huge buttplug sign left before Roskomnadzor building? I cannot find it anymore.
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# ? May 2, 2018 18:13 |
alex314 posted:Anyone got a picture of a huge buttplug sign left before Roskomnadzor building? I cannot find it anymore.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-26/why-orthodox-christian-nations-remain-stuckquote:Their religious roots, not their Communist experience, support authoritarianism and risk aversion. It’s sort of amazing to see how quickly the conventional wisdom has degenerated to 1950s, High Cold War vintage ‘Slav Brains Work Different’ orientalism
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-26/why-orthodox-christian-nations-remain-stuck ahaha oh god that's some mountainous bullshit. I especially loved: quote:Western Christianity (which gave rise to Catholicism and Protestantism) placed emphasis on rationalism, logical exploration, individualism, and the questioning of established authorities. Just alter this to exclude Catholicism and you had (and sometimes still have) the sort of poo poo people were talking 50-60 years ago about why those gosh darned Southern Europeans and Latin Americans are so rife with the dictators and whatnots (and why those Irish chumps are so poor and blowing things up). Unlike the fine upstanding ubermensch of Protestantism. Also lol at citing Poland as having successfully transitioned away the authoritarian past. Do these types ever have an explanation for anyone bringing up the US South in regards to their first-world making Protestant magicks? Because I feel like they want us to keep thinking of the Dutch and Norwegians, and never Alabama and Arkansas.
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Grape posted:ahaha oh god that's some mountainous bullshit. And Eastern Orthodox is basically OG Catholicism. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 19:42 on May 4, 2018 |
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Grape posted:ahaha oh god that's some mountainous bullshit. They always bring out the next red flag talking point, see, those aren't aren't racially homogenous so of course there's going to be big problems. The nordics are nice countries because they're pure.
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# ? May 4, 2018 19:49 |
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Wife found an old picture of her grandpa chillin' with some Mentat lookin' dude.
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# ? May 4, 2018 20:39 |
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Grape posted:ahaha oh god that's some mountainous bullshit. It's even better/worse because Bershidsky has been one of the last holdouts against the new cold war stuff in the liberal commentariat. If even he has given into the oriental despotism stuff, that's pretty much it in terms of it becoming the standard narrative
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# ? May 5, 2018 00:59 |
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I mean like two days ago I listened to a podcast by bunch of supposedly progressive west coast liberals about rasputin, and they basically kept talking about how the russian soul had been formed by siberia and how rasputin is the model for current russian politics because russians are too dumb to move past medieval mysticism the cold war racism brain rot is here, and it is widespread
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steinrokkan posted:I mean like two days ago I listened to a podcast by bunch of supposedly progressive west coast liberals about rasputin, and they basically kept talking about how the russian soul had been formed by siberia and how rasputin is the model for current russian politics because russians are too dumb to move past medieval mysticism link?
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Meanwhile in Estonia things are getting better. "Better". The Reform party, who were in government for 17 years until fall last year have gotten a lot of their popularity back, standing at about 33% now. They now have a new leader, the daughter of one of our former PMs from the same party. Currently a MEP. Law education. But they still keep some untrustworthy previous cadre around. Oh, and they are a bit broke. Their popularity has risen mostly on the account of the current government being poo poo. The current government consists of the center party, the social democrats and The Fatherland. They all pushed through some unpleasant changes in the taxes, which I've covered before. They reek of incompetence all around. Ministers come and go pretty quickly, these days pretty much nobodies are getting those jobs in preparation for 2019 elections. Probably so the more well known politicians don't ruin anything by accident. The support for social democrats has fallen from their highest 19% down to 8%, which means that they are not far off from that 5% threshold and might not get into the parliament next time. Same with the Fatherland (formerly known as IRL), who are now down from about 15% to 6%. We also have the conservative racist party, their support has gone up to 19%. Mostly on the account of other parties being poo poo. But they still play their typical populist cards, this is an approximate quote from some supporter of theirs: "Rail baltic will come and EU will use it to colonize us with muslim immigrants while using it to strip our country bare of our forests, phosphorite and oil shale" : ) Because we have special kinds of natural resources that refuse to get exported by anything else other than standard gauge railways. It also doesn't help that a minister who had to resign for drunk driving (which went undiscovered for about a month) got 29 000€ in compensation for having to leave the office. How hard will it be for those conservative racists to bring that up in front of an electorate consisting of old-age pensioners or people who get maybe 800€ net? Never mind the center party and their generous compensations to themselves while running Tallinn. We in private sector don't get anything for quitting our jobs.
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