Re: Strange user interface design

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Anton Shepelev wrote:

D to Anton Shepelev:
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I don't know, but if he does fall, we are going to have
some bloodshed, so I fear that moment, especially while
Russia is at war.

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So you don't think he has prepared a mini-Tsar to take
over?

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Mini-tsar?!  No, I think this a problem with both Putin and
Lukashenko: by preventing any real legal opposition and
competition, they have removed any strong future candidates,
as well.  But Lukashenko at least publicly admints that he
is a "outgoing politician".

I'm no fan of Lukashenko, but the guy does seem to have a good sense of humour. An acquaintance of mine who is swedish/russian, lived in Minsk for a couple of months in between jobs, and he told me that white russians are the "latinos" of russians. Apparently much more laid back than his relatives in St Petersburg.
On the other hand, russia is big, and if the north/south cultural divide of europe, also goes for russia, I would imagine that southern russians are more social and open than northern russians.

Or will there be an all out war among his crown-princes?

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Not an all-out war I think, but some criminal wars are
possible, what with the Prigozhine mutiny.  And once it
starts, foreign armies may invade Russia as well, exactly as
it happened during the so-called Allied Intervention.
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The economy is only too good, seeing how much money is
wasted on reconstructions in my hometown, &c.

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Exactly what I suspected! A lot of businesses are done
through the dirka-dirka-stan countries according to an old
acquaintance who has relatives there.

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You mean parallel import to bypass the sanctions?  This is
just one of the factors.
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How is the inflation?

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Quite high, thanks to the colonial policy of our Central

I suspected as much. I think the peak where I live in the baltics was 10% or so. Now it's down to 3. Woho! ;)

Bank.  Did you know that /nobody/ was punished for letting
the West steal $3e12 of Russian reserves, by keeping
them in the banks of our geopolitical enemies?

No? I would have expected a few symbolic heads to roll. No one? Did they just ignore the event?
It will be very interesting to see _if_ the EU will take that money and give it to Ukraine or not. I think they are afraid to set a legal precedence for the future, whereby future dictators could use that situation to justify taking the property of their political opponents.
On the other hand, there are some new laws in some EU countries that let's the government take your property without due process, so things are becoming more and more authoritarian. I find it funny that the politicians are wringing their hands so much about giving the russian property to ukraine, and then not even blinking when taking away EU citizens property without any legal process.
There are strange times!