He/him. No one of consequence. Mostly looking for #shitposts, #pooptoots, and #plums.
I guess I have to type all the hashtag variations so I'm discoverable? #shitpost #pooptoot #shitposting #pooptooting
True humanitarian disaster is unrolling in #Russia as the authorities are switching off mobile Internet in places even very distant from the front line to stop Ukrainian UAVs. It has the unintended consequence that without mobile Internet you can’t buy vodka.
Since 2019 Russia introduced very strict regulations, according to which each sale of alcohol is registered in real-time (!) in an on-line system run by tax administration. This regulation is intended to enforce time restrictions on alcohol sales, so you can’t buy it after 23:00 and before 08:00, plus many more - for example on some holidays, in some locations etc.
If Internet doesn’t work, shops can’t register sales so they can’t legally sell alcohol. Risking huge fines and losing license, they won’t even offer “delayed registration” and widespread snitchery makes it really difficult to bypass these regulations.
This is a great read. https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/i-was-a-juror-on-a-murder-trial
> So you say here on your jury questionnaire that a police officer once stole your car, ran over your cat, and crashed it into your living room, while singing a song of her own invention, You Are Stupid And Ugly And That’s Why I’m Doing This, Also, I Can Get Away With It Because I’m A Cop.
> Random people in Alameda County are also fully based and ACABpilled. I think probably a third of the people questioned were asked something like “you said in your jury questionnaire that ‘all cops are lying bastards and I hate them.’ Can you elaborate for us on what that means?”
> In an act of sheer writerphobia and systematic oppression of bloggers, you’re not allowed to remove your notes on a jury case from the courtroom... So every break, I rushed to my laptop—mind full of contraband knowledge—and scribbled down as much as I could remember.
Last January, I was on a jury for a murder trial: it was my job to determine if Bomani Hairston-Bassette murdered Charles Wright. You’re not supposed to sell your story for money for 90 days after the trial is over, but it’s been more than 90 days, so now I can tell you all about it. I’m going to first talk about the case, then about what it was like, then about how the experience affected my views about the justice system.
We've basically arrived in the "don't take any service for granted EVER" era of the web.
> Glitch is basically shutting down
Luke: “you knew my father?”
Obi-wan: “Oh yes. That guy was a dick. Accidentally born stuffed full of magic force-bugs, lucked out a few times pod racing as a child, basically peaked there. Grew up an entitled, incompetent jackass. Crap pilot, liability in a fight, couldn’t stop acting like some crybaby incel even after one of the most powerful women in the galaxy inexplicably took a liking to him, finally carved up a kindergarten and got made an alt-right hero for it. [smiles] Flammable tho.”
True humanitarian disaster is unrolling in #Russia as the authorities are switching off mobile Internet in places even very distant from the front line to stop Ukrainian UAVs. It has the unintended consequence that without mobile Internet you can’t buy vodka.
Since 2019 Russia introduced very strict regulations, according to which each sale of alcohol is registered in real-time (!) in an on-line system run by tax administration. This regulation is intended to enforce time restrictions on alcohol sales, so you can’t buy it after 23:00 and before 08:00, plus many more - for example on some holidays, in some locations etc.
If Internet doesn’t work, shops can’t register sales so they can’t legally sell alcohol. Risking huge fines and losing license, they won’t even offer “delayed registration” and widespread snitchery makes it really difficult to bypass these regulations.
This is of course the case, but then you actually risk methyl alcohol and death, or blindness in the best case.
Of course, wine and booze making is widespread in Russia and when I was in the mountains I’ve met true masters of the trade, but you need to know the people in person and they can be easily denounced.
This is what will end the war.
No vodka?
The Russian people can endure a lot, but not that.
@kravietz @VileOx exactly, their plan to cover *all* goods with these marks (because of quality, ofc) in russian one can check https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_(%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F)
from the other side, "online-only" restriction is about to be changed to "offline with mandatory synchronization later" in 2025
@kravietz Ukraine should smuggle a million barrels of the absolute cheapest stuff across the front to humanely eliminate large number of invading russians.
They should also leave barrels of the stuff in front of their positions...
I stopped following these topics closely when I stopped going to Russia at all - but the problem with alcohol sales I’ve experienced in person ;) Fortunately, in Caucasus where I’ve been almost exclusively going this particular problem is easily solved by wine and moonshine making at home.
As for food certification, I was always puzzled by quite modern but also extremely superfluous Russian regulations in this sphere, but then I saw the unbelievable scale of food counterfeiting. Which, by the way, happens to be also very popular sector in Caucasus - they produced “original whiskey” and “original cognac” of all brands at small workshops in villages in wholesale.
Same problem was prevalent for medicines (!) so that I literally watched an elderly lady at the counter in a pharmacy almost begging the pharmacist to sell her “original” one, and she got a 100% original looking box also having around 90% certainty that it’s a fake. Russian society is extremely cynical in this aspect.
I don’t think there’s a single business sector that is not being counterfeited - I’ve once learned that Polish “Atlas” maker of ready concrete left Russia, but their products were still abundant in shops - except they were completely faked, and this was the main reason for them leaving Russia.
I don’t think the problem is certification or its absence, the problem is absence of prosecution - so no amount of certification will change that.
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