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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Let's not forget the Belarusian nuclear power plant is closer to going online. It's already online. Kind of. They keep having completely normal and totally planned outages once in a while. And, really, I don't know if they are actually planned, because they never inform about them in advance. But for a good month in the past half a year its been working at 100% of its full capacity.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Let's not forget the Belarusian nuclear power plant is closer to going online. The belarussian nuclear power plant just got 10 KW more powerful
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https://twitter.com/inquirerdotnet/status/1385105036192124928 https://twitter.com/Ian_Willoughby/status/1385222302023962636 Shrinking down Russian embassy to 5 diplomats and 29 staff from the 100+ last week.
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https://twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/1385191802060296197 Still trying to figure out if the Havana flu is some kind of targeted power beam weapon or a bad case of food poisoning.
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Apr 22, 2021 15:17
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Absolutely wild that this is taking so long to figure out
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Apr 25, 2021 00:21
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love that they originally deleted it and then decided to post a revised version https://twitter.com/NowBelarus/status/1385894130333650945
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aphid_licker posted:Absolutely wild that this is taking so long to figure out Something seems to have happened, but beyond the fact that Cuba almost certainly wasn't responsible and it wasn't microwaves like some news outlets claimed, we just don't know what the gently caress. At least not from the publicly available evidence.
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Apr 25, 2021 01:48
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Guess what the top Russian libertarian was just arrested for.
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Necronormiecon posted:Guess what the top Russian libertarian was just arrested for. Overdue library fines?
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Necronormiecon posted:Guess what the top Russian libertarian was just arrested for. It's always child porn. Always.
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Apr 25, 2021 20:05
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Oh no! What did Amaliya Palpatin-Morgenstern do this time?
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...actually looks like it’s article 20.2 Organizing illegal public meetings. My SO who is more in-tune with Russian politics says it’s common knowledge the man used to have a livejournal blog with CP-adjacent content... as well as something called “crush porn”. I refuse to google the details, but supposedly it’s footage of small animals getting murdered.
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Yeah he is a known nonce
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It's yet another of those cases, where the guy should probably be in prison, but not for the reasons he actually gets arrested for. If it wasn't part of Russian government's pre-emptive crackdown on all opposition in the attempt to avoid protests on the Belarusian scale, I'd just lol at his getting what he deserves. But as it is, I'd very much rather he didn't get arrested for something that should be legal (i.e. organising peaceful protests). On the topic of Russian libertarians, I despise how distinctly American political discourse manages to replicate itself outside of America. Svetov is quite literally an American libertarian/classical liberal with strong opinions on a wide variety of culture wars topics that are not even close to mattering in the context of living in Russia. And to be fair, it's not entirely his fault. It's more of a sad consequence of an authoritarian regime leaving complete vacuum where national discourse should be. Naturally, some people gravitate towards foreign thought leaders out of sheer desperation. Still, it is my strong belief that people outside of US, generally speaking, shouldn't know who Ben Shapiro is. Inside of US, too, preferably.
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On a daytrip to get vaxxed (30-39 yo slot). How’s the situation in your countries?
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In Estonia we're opening up vaccinations to people 50 and up on Monday, with plans to expand to the rest (well, 16 and up) "in the second half of May". Here's hoping.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:On a daytrip to get vaxxed (30-39 yo slot). How’s the situation in your countries? Tevery Best posted:Zaszczepiony B) still waiting edit: still no news, best I got was "sometime in mid-May"
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Anne Frank Funk posted:On a daytrip to get vaxxed (30-39 yo slot). How’s the situation in your countries?
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Mess is the name of the game. In Poland there was a major gently caress up on April 1st of all dates, whee people in their 40s could get early dates before seniors.
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I was about to ask the same thing, but differently. How's the situation in general in your respective countries? We're intending to return to Latvia at some point this year, some time after getting our shots where we live currently. However, the general vibe of things, admittedly based on social media posts and news reports, suggests that there's a lot of pent up frustration/aggression lately that spills over to day to day interactions, including things like aggressive driving, general rudeness, vandalism and low level violence, etc.
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Tevery Best posted:still waiting Wednesday here. loving hell I can’t wait. My dumb mom refuses to get it „because skutki uboczne”.
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Registered for my jab at midnight. Despite all the promises, there was no appointments avaiable in my town, or the whole district, actually. No problem though, I live right next to a big town with tons of medical facilities... and only two of them make covid vaccinations. From 10am to noon. And only Astra-Zeneca. No joke. The closest place I can take Pfizer is 20km from where I live, and I actually live quite close to Warsaw, so what the gently caress Some of my friends just said "gently caress it" and registered for jabs in Warsaw or Lodz, because not only I think A-Z is poo poo that will gently caress up my guts Also, it seems all the reserves of J&J were used during the large vaccination hurrah in 1-3rd of May, when apparently you could go for a jab if you registered back in January... so the gov practically admits that either they lost control of how many vaccines there are to be done, OR used the ones which were supposed to be in reserves OR not enough elderly folks took the jab. Everything in this country is done in a such half-assed way 
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laserghost posted:I think A-Z is poo poo that will gently caress up my guts Wanting a vaccine but being very afraid of AZ is also some kind of half-assed antivax stance.
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Mokotow posted:Wednesday here. loving hell I can’t wait. My dumb mom refuses to get it „because skutki uboczne”. My mom's exactly the same, but with the caveat that we live in Ontario where she's been eligible to receive it for at least a month. But no, she only gets all of her information from all other other boomer Polish women that have somehow been able to replicate the same old-village gossip mentality despite being a minority geographically dispersed in the local community. My dad got it as soon as he was able, but somehow she "doesn't like it when everyone tells her what to do". I know as soon as specific friends of hers get it, she will, too, but gently caress is it ever  to convince her to do the right thing. We're like, 80% Pfizer shots here, too.No wonder I feel less and less of an attachment to being Polish, if almost every Pole I know is like this (and most of them do seem to be). Sorry, but I just had to rant about this because it seems inescapable for as long as I'm living again with my parents. Thankfully, my dad is sane for the most part (although he has his moments).
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Hopefully my double dose of 2 Johnsons isn't cancelled. I was fine with getting any make, picked this one over AZ just out of convenience.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Wanting a vaccine but being very afraid of AZ is also some kind of half-assed antivax stance. Wouldn’t say most people are very afraid of it. It just offers a bit worse protection than pfizer/moderna ones and very importantly there’s a general feeling that the government pushes az and jj more than pfizer.
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They keep Pfizer for their Eastern Wall peeps  At least that's how it looked when I've picked my appointment - you can have Pfizer in Białystok, Lublin or Żyrardów (honorary member of Eastern part with Łódź)
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The biggest problem with Astra-Zeneca - although I don't think most people know that - is that you have to wait 10 weeks for the second dose. Okay, the second-biggest problem, it has the worst protection stats out of all the two-dose jabs.
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Anne Frank Funk posted:Wouldn’t say most people are very afraid of it. It just offers a bit worse protection than pfizer/moderna ones and very importantly there’s a general feeling that the government pushes az and jj more than pfizer. I don't know about the worse protection, the stats I read some months ago gave it the same if not better level. And governments do push it because it's cheaper and because of the irrational AZ scare. Tevery Best posted:The biggest problem with Astra-Zeneca - although I don't think most people know that - is that you have to wait 10 weeks for the second dose. Okay, the second-biggest problem, it has the worst protection stats out of all the two-dose jabs. On the other hand, some countries treat you as vaccinated after only one AZ dose.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Wanting a vaccine but being very afraid of AZ is also some kind of half-assed antivax stance. Nah, I'm not an antivax loon. I have asthma and various other breathing difficulties, so I don't want to end up under respirator. But I know about 5-6 people (all of them around 30yo, same as me), and heard about more, who got Astra and were puking their guts out for days. Other folks from the same circle of friends decided to go look for different vaccines in other towns, even if this means a road trip. So it's not me complaining for the sake of it or imagining things, but just, well, I wish I had a different option to pick. I still have made my reservation, but I am all ears when some other vaccines show up near my location.
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I'm gonna hustle for Pfizer because it's the patrician's choice and has bigger numbers and also I have miniscule enough human contact already I can afford to wait a tiny bit longer for what is essentially a whim. Might even get a nice trip to a nearby town out of it.
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Bad things are happening to Navalny supporters:WaPo posted:Moscow prosecutors suspended the activities of the nationwide organization of Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent. Navalny is currently incarcerated in a prison camp after surviving a state-sponsored assassination attempt last year. I wonder if Zoomers even know what a color revolution is: WaPo posted:“Under the guise of liberal slogans these organizations are creating conditions for destabilizing the social and political situation,” read a statement from the Moscow prosecutor’s office. “Their actual goal is to change the constitutional order, including through a ‘color revolution’ scenario.” Being labeled “extremist” is very bad. Glad I didn’t formally join: WaPo posted:The “extremist” label would place Navalny’s organization — a peaceful political movement whose methods include holding demonstrations, supporting opposition candidates in elections and conducting public investigations of government corruption (most notably of Putin’s $1.3 billion palace on the Black Sea coast) — on par with terrorist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Anyone working for the Navalny organization — a network of nearly 40 regional affiliates across Russia — could face up to six years in prison. Anyone donating money could be jailed for up to eight years. Anyone leading or directing the groups’ activities could get up to 10 years behind bars. Intelligent people are not super excited about Eurasian fascism: WaPo posted:During its annual meeting, the Russian Academy of Sciences announced that Russia’s brain drain has reached unparalleled proportions, with the number of scientists and highly skilled professionals who are leaving the country rising fivefold, from 14,000 in 2012 to nearly 70,000 last year.
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The best way to counter brain drain is to exile idiots in equal proportion, unfortunately Putin needs them to run a police state.
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When I was teaching the future perfect tense to a group of teens in Russia, everyone agreed with sentence "In five years' time, I will have moved to another country."
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I imagine Russia is at net gain for pros when you include people moving from Belarus and Ukraine. Those two countries are probably turbofucked in that regard, at least looking at how many pros I get to interact in my work have Belarusian/Ukrainian sounding names.
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alex314 posted:I imagine Russia is at net gain for pros when you include people moving from Belarus and Ukraine. Those two countries are probably turbofucked in that regard, at least looking at how many pros I get to interact in my work have Belarusian/Ukrainian sounding names. Only about 10% of Ukrainian and Belarusian professionals who choose to migrate move to Russia (well, Moscow mostly). Most choose Poland or other European countries. Plus many Belarusians actually move to Ukraine.
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Probably severe selection bias going on but a shitload of the Moscow dating app profiles I came across had some variation on "looking to start a family, not necessarily here in Russia" in them. Middle-class professional with grad degree type ladies, not country bumpkettes.
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Moscow is a different country, vaguely related to Russia, for those not in the know. Moving there from Middleofnowherestock is a serious lifestyle upgrade. https://youtu.be/uribW1-S0Xk
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