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  • slaacaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    393·
    1 month ago

    It’s incredible how Putin was able to turn Russia’s image from “occasionally drunk, but beloved funny uncle” to “scumbag murderer rapist” in a bit more than a decade.

    It has always been a sketchy place, but they at least kept an okay image up, and a lot of people in the cities enjoyed a significant quality of life increase since the 2000s. I have some Russian colleagues who fled before/after the war, and I see their sorrow as they see the horror Russia is doing to Ukraine and its own citizens. You cannot choose where you are born, and they are sad to see the decline of the country they grew up in.

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      291·
      1 month ago

      The war started in 2014 but somehow half of Europe and all of the US forgot.

      Not to mention what happened in Georgia. Or what happened in Chechnya.

      Or with people living in Moscow just because Putler wanted to start a war. Or journalists.

      Sorry,but Russia never was a beloved uncle. Russia was always the “shady, violent, uncle who can’t keep his hand off his kids but everyone ignores that because some family image they need to uphold and furthermore while he is quite poor he makes great gifts to the rest of the family. So everyone tolerates him.”

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    241·
    1 month ago

    “I lost my phone” is gonna be heard a lot from now on over there.

    Then they can say the classic line, “Don’t you all have phones?!”

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      Then you’ll get 4kg ankle monitor with 200$ deposit, which you’ll never get back, even if you return it. Complaints will be handled by spending undetermined time in a government “resort” with fun quarry themed activities.

      Ruskies have this all this figured out.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Surely the pro play would be simply not to go to Russia in the first place. Thinking about it that was always the pro play.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        We need to wait until we’re all there at once, and then decide that air travel out of Russia is too much of an international threat, and ban it. They can have a long and informative drive across half of rural Russia in order to get back.

    • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Yes, but it’s basically just some former soviet states and China that visit in noticable numbers.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    91·
    1 month ago

    Why do they need an app instead of just using cell tower data? I guess you just take a flip phone then.

      • Infernal_pizza@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        How would they gain your fingerprint? I didn’t think iOS or Android actually passed that on to apps I thought the OS handled biometric authentication and just informed the app that the fingerprint matched?

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Yes but the fingerprint wouldn’t match would it so they don’t actually have to see your fingerprint they just need to get the error back from the phone OS

        • logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Looking original in telegram:

          Tap for spoiler

          “Предложенной депутатами поправкой для иностранных граждан вводится: 📍 обязательная регистрация по месту нахождения; 📍 дактилоскопия; 📍 биометрическое фотографирование; 📍 мониторинг геолокации абонентских устройств.” Or “The amendment proposed by the deputies introduces for foreign citizens: 📍 mandatory registration at the place of residence; 📍 fingerprinting; 📍 biometric photography; 📍 monitoring of the geolocation of subscriber devices.”

          it will just be collected throught immigration police not just throught the app.