Also Squidward, but in Russian

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Hehe alright!

Sure. But the demand is here on both sides, not just one.

Male contraceptives allow men to have reproductive agency beyond condoms and vasectomy, and they can be used in couples where women prefer not to use non-barrier contraception for health reasons or personal reservations.

How so? Unless you remove testicles, or your partner is also a trans person, you’re still 100% able to have offspring together

Mostly in sandbox games. This is where I’m going to interact with the environment the most, and I wanna know it feels good.

Also, I appreciate destructibility in shooter games.

Absolutely. I don’t have a leader, but I do have you and others by my side.

Fuck the war. Fuck the so-called “leaders”

Daily life…it depends. Overall, things as running as usual, except for some things that cause everyone’s anxiety.

First is, obviously, heavy Internet censorship. Living without a VPN is so unbearable even older generations call the younger one for help. Government is currently high on pushing the state-controlled messenger Max, but no one, even the older folks, wanna join. So, they do everything in their power, from forcing government services to use Max as a communications platform, to blocking all other options. People keep using Telegram regardless, and find ways not only around blacklist, but even whitelist blocking. Max is nearly universally despised. VK remains a not-much-better alternative for those who didn’t yet find their way around whitelists. Unease grows about plans to use state-controlled apps to monitor VPN connections on Android phones and block respective IPs. iPhones are better protected in this respect, but other plans are devised as well.

Second is war. The last 2-3 years of it were relatively chill for most Russians, but with drone strikes appearing as far as Saint Petersburg, the war knocks back home. The unease is amplified by Russia turning mobile connections to whitelist mode when drones appear. The appearance of circumvention methods (bridging through whitelisted resources into the wider Internet), on one hand, relieves the anxieties of losing last bits of access to the world, but on the other, shows governments inefficiency at maintaining the drone defense.

Third is more broad and globally known - the cost of living crisis, which hits here just as everywhere else. Housing is practically unattainable for most, and rent goes through the roof. Food gets more expensive, and scandals arise about managing the existing supply, such as Miratorg claimed to push government’s hand in exterminating private farms’ livestock under the guise of disease prevention.

Overall, plenty of room for anxiety and sense of instability.

The Putin support has long switched from “go go Putin” to “who, if not Putin?” and then to “if Putin loses, the country is going to collapse”. So, over time it became less of actual support and more of added anxiety about war’s resolution and what it means for Russia going forward. Putin is often seen as a beacon of some, fainting, stability. But even with all that, support does indeed fade.

Iranian embassies already joked about it

Yay blue!

Yep, I went blue! Previously was purple, but blue are more chill

That’s a curious device, but quite expensive at that. Starter array at near-$1000.

As someone living in Russia, it indeed works to trick complex DPI systems. Unlike classic Wireguard, it works.

Alternatively, you can download Amnezia VPN client app on your phone or PC, and it has this amazing function where you provide the IP and root credentials, and it installs server software automatically.

Obviously, only use it when you don’t have other things running on your server.

Advantages:

• No need to install anything manually, just direct Amnezia VPN client to a blank Linux server or VPS
• You can install all sorts of protocols in this manner, not only AmneziaWG. Options include OpenVPN (basic and over Shadowsocks/Cloak), classic Wireguard, IPsec, Xray.

Disadvantages:

• It doesn’t show the SSH terminal as it goes installing things on your server and goes fully automatic, reducing user control and troubleshooting capabilities.

I see :)

I always wondered why each and every video highlights the “step-” part.

Is it not to be caught promoting incest, or is it because actors look obviously too different to be related?

Lol

It’s female feet, after all!

Not so many are into male feet tho

Depends on what you mean by that.

Stupid as in not grasping some concepts quickly?

Education is just a narrow overview of a particular field. Once you’re out the narrow scope of what you’re taught - it’s all about your general knowledge. I know a world-class physicist who does not comprehend basic things about society, economy, relationships etc. And, working in a scientific field, I see plenty of such examples.

Stupid as in unable to aggregate data and synthesize understanding?

The state of modern tech and media more broadly eats heavily into people’s attention span. People have harder time concentrating, and it gets so much worse when they need to aggregate all the sources they have. They just don’t have enough short-term memory to keep it all together.

Stupid as in making weird life decisions?

Everyone’s life experience is drastically different than yours, and, seeing only the surface, people often downplay what others went through and how it shaped their thinking. Sometimes it introduces genuine logical errors into the behavior, and sometimes it just comes from a much different perspective than you can imagine. In their world, the decisions they make makes sense. In your world, you also normally make sense for yourself, even if you’re actually irrational in one thing or another. This does, by the way, include all the typical political rants - high-ranking politicians and their numerous advisors are unlikely to all be stupid. More likely, these people pursue different interests from what you imagine.

Overall, the word “stupid” is heavily overused and applied to a lot of different things. So, it always makes sense to clarify, or else it looks more like a rant rather than a genuine question.

Complaining about people being stupid is as old as the world itself, yet it’s not very productive or done in good faith. Before claiming anyone stupid, try to ask them for their perspective and the way they look at a problem. And if you’re able, unpack what you think is wrong.

Partners can do this to each other, maybe he cooks for her some other time.

I wouldn’t automatically assume she’s always a cook, and even then, it’s okay as long as it’s an amicable arrangement and not societal pressure.