Ahahaha priceless!

I didn’t try to do the purchase, but very nice to know the company blocked the purchase! I was also very happy with the product too. What a difference from the likes of Adobe.

I almost bought publisher last week, and postponed till Black Friday. Just wow!!!

When I use a Turkish pot, I add a little of salt and pepper, cinnamon and a bit of cardamon. But generally, it’s great to experiment with coffee!

I live in Germany for over 6 years, and come from Russia. I don’t appreciate generalisation, but some things he mentioned just ring the bell. Some Germans I met definitely fit the description, but not the others.

I don’t think art here is complacent, but I also see how artists from outside of Germany (and generally, foreigners), often tune down their criticism towards Germany.

At work, my German colleagues are very sensitive if a foreigner criticizes late trains or long bureaucratic procedures. There’s a notion we should be grateful, and if we don’t like something, we should go back to places we like…

Germans themselves seem to be critical of their society though, so I wonder how it works from the inside.

Perhaps Ai Weiwei’s point is a perspective of an outsider who’s expected to express gratefulness and complacency.

This album, along with Sam’s town, are the favorites of my teenage years.

What could that be, I wonder?.. Ah, I know, might be all those working and studying women that abandon their sacred duty to repopulate the Motherland. Definitely not the trenches in foreign countries where the men are dying…

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Loved this one! Never heard it before.

Yes! The good thing, it’s repayable! My number one game ever.

To the moon! The game was so emotional.

Then end of the line is got him to be charged and put on trial. Was he ever charged?

It’ll still have plenty. It still trades outside of the West, it still has enough manpower. Russia would probably solidify it’s decline for decades, but it still have enough resources to squeeze for the rest of Putin’s lifetime. And, you don’t need to be a superpower to cause a lot of harm, if the intention is there.

So there is nothing better for them to do? No bigger problems? Seriously.

How dreadful! For many trans people it’ll endanger their lives.

It all reminds me of what was happening in Russia over the decades, just smashed into an impossible timeline. Small steps lead to irrevocable disasters.

I believe the results mainly reflect the anti-immigration sentiment.

I’m a naturalized immigrant in Germany myself and don’t understand the trend at all. I imagine that supporting certain immigration groups might stretch the social support system in the country, but it’s the faulty of the system itself, no? I get the vibe that it’s the immigrants who are the problem, and that we are somehow worse humans than the natives and set our minds on causing problems just for the fuck of it.

Can someone explain why immigration is a problem for Europe? It seem to be the good old xenophobia… Or maybe I’m biased.

Exactly! So many people fall in this Russian trap, not even understanding that it’s only goal is division and destabilization.

What’s mysterious about it? As it’s said in Russian, it’s a fight between a toad and a snake.

Sounds like something Russia would be very invested in - I mean the right-wing propaganda and causing chaos across Europe. It terrifies me those idiots are being played just like that:(

Thanks a lot! I looked into it, and it seems it doesn’t run the last version, but works fine with the old ones. I’ll look more into it!

Not really. To be open, I don’t live in Russia for over a decade. There were minor incidents even before the big war, like people abruptly stopping speaking to me upon hearing my nationality, or asking why I support (I don’t) Putin or why I don’t stop him. One guy explained to me very matter-of-factly that all Russians are intrinsically evil and deserve supervision because of it… Didn’t know how to answer that one. Very rarely I was thrown insults in the streets. But other than a very few incidents, all people I know outside of Russia were always welcoming and supportive. Recently, I received more threats and hate speech from my pro-putin compatriots than I ever received anywhere else in the world.