2022-03-10 at 1:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo
Nobody is talking about how Russian sanctions just push it farther into Beijings orbit, to beijings benefit.
Chiner is the big winner from these sanctions. Russia will just start going east for things it needs instead of west. The west could have won the long game, tolerate Russia, get close, and wait for Putin's siloviki regime of soviet national security holdovers to die off and be replaced by MORALLY SUPERIOR BEINGs and fall into America's orbit. Instead the West kicks Russia off Visa, Mastercard, McDonalds, etc. but keeps buying Russian natural gas. Is Russia even worse off? It's like you have a fight with your wife so you stop fucking her, but keep giving her money. The west really didn't think these sanctions out. It's like the covid shit, more designed for theater and to inflict needless suffering upon ourselves than practical or likely to work.
I'm actually wondering if my cards will even work next time I go to Ukraine if Russia takes over. I mean won't Ukraine get caught up in these sanctions?
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2022-03-10 at 2:07 PM UTC
An example of how dumb the Americans are is that Microsoft and Adobe stopped selling or supporting their software there. That means that Russians will just pirate even more, or switch to alternatives.
Boeing no longer supporting their planes there - guess what happens. Most western planes in Russia are leased from companies in Ireland, so they are all being returned. Russia will probably just build their own planes, which aren't as nice or reliable or fuel efficient, but at least they can't be cancelled at any minute.
As the saying goes it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The new world order has been drawn up, it's Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Saudi, etc, on one side, and the west on the other.
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2022-03-10 at 2:15 PM UTC
Sudo
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I guess they'll have to use the Chinese knockoff "microsilk" instead of Microsoft. Russians are so unresourceful with computers too, What a tragedy.
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2022-03-10 at 2:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sudo
I guess they'll have to use the Chinese knockoff "microsilk" instead of Microsoft. Russians are so unresourceful with computers too, What a tragedy.
In Ukraine I noticed all the PC laptops come with FreeDOS installed (so basically no operating system). Even the brand name ones, like Lenovo, in big stores like Citrus, even in big malls. I'm not certain why, but I'm guessing it lets the shops knock $100 off the retail price, and people go and install a pirate version of Windows or something. The computers I was looking at are ones that wouldn't run Linux well, so it's not that.
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2022-03-10 at 2:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump
I'm actually wondering if my cards will even work next time I go to Ukraine if Russia takes over. I mean won't Ukraine get caught up in these sanctions?
I heard all the chinkies use tether instead of bank transfers nowadays. If you are a Russian chink that travels a lot for business I think it would be better than having to constantly switch currencies every time you cross a border
https://moguldom.com/398008/russians-turn-to-tether-usdt-as-ruble-collapses-now-worth-less-than-1-cent/
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2022-03-10 at 2:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump
I wish Groceries Girl was a Nazi.
That feel when no nazi gf. Tactical Sun Wheels are a nice touch. Uber uns die Swarze Sonne in einer Weisse Welt.
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2022-03-10 at 3:04 PM UTC
Originally posted by Artificial Intelligence
Thinkpads have nice keyboards with a trackpoint that is lifechanging if you do a lot of typing.
Is that the weird ball on the keyboard? I was never able to figure out what the fuck that thing was..
Originally posted by Donald Trump
I wish Groceries Girl was a Nazi.
I heard those sexy pictures are nothing but the work of a modeling agency trying to drum up god knows what and honestly in that part of the world I would be surprised of a beautiful young woman like that doing this all herself without some sleazeball named Yuri behind the scenes
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Russians just took Electro and Kamyshovo
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