(FYI, I hold different views than this instance)

TL;DR: for me it’s current russian warsongs and covers of 80-90s classics that put the opposite meaning into them. Polina Gagarina, Shaman are the most known artists due to being banned from YT, but there are dozens of them. What and why - I’d try to explain in following paragraphs.

They don’t feel either inspired or honest, most of the worthy artists don’t want that mark in their resume so it’s left either for newbie artists or oldies who fear they are losing relevance. The western-in-everything ‘Я русский’ is the only catchy tune local media empires could produce, others are even more cringe like ‘333’, they don’t even compare to what repressed guys did and do.

Surprisingly, the same notion is shared with my relatives who do support the war (unlike me) or at least our men there. We still have a tradition of singing along the songs of old over the table when we meet with our elders, or over the fire if camping or meeting in the countryside, mostly soviet songs with inclusion of 90-00s. And itso happens there’s none of the promoted ones in the menu.

But that also tracks with the concerts on the TV we sometimes put on. It’s all older stuff by mostly aging artists. The contemporary russian music culture, as I suppose, was castrated by some sort of negative selection and I can’t think otherwise.

And what is really embarassing for me personally to hear is appropriation of songs that are either anti-war or asking for changes (namely KINO’s ones) sang in this day and this year by those who support both the regime and the war on state TV. That’s like this one republican guy just one hair width from discovering what RatM’s songs are about. There’s some second-hand shame you want to wash off in a bathroom right after hearing.

EMPRESS can impress, as the infinite drama-engine.

At least that’s official compared to how illegal organization had a blank check to parole everyone they can recruit, announcing it via telegram and having it’s own terms of demobilization. That’s the key distinction. Another one depends on how they integrate these recruits, and that we’ll see, as the article doesn’t specify if they are planned to be assigned to exclusive ex-con units or mixed into existing ones.

One loud fartpillow?

Без п. Thank you.

Can you give me leads on what from Yudkovski I may read\watch first?

My favorite episode of X-Files predicted it at a lesser scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

Having an internet connection, a proper AI can easily order contractors around and reproduce, secure and empower itself.

Godbless the hype is about stupid t9 on steroids, but we don’t really have any safeguards against what we assume is a proper autonomous AI.

Follow usual safety procedures, avoid weird links and redirects, prefer services whose name you can google etc and you’d be fine.

Came here to see that and am not disappointed.

Too soon to tell, but I guess unregulated app-as-an-employer model is pretty bad.

Thanks.

I would probably be 100% incorrect, but from a consumer perspective, web 2.0 is all in social network platforms and apps that replaced the need for individual sites, these are their own internets inside the internet that you don’t even want to leave to find something.

Would you describe it further? I don’t see how coming to a subscription-based model makes it not piracy. I feel like I miss something there.

I died a little inside by remembering that I was there when their lifetime CS licenses were sold and that licensing servers went offline at least a dozen of years ago… On the other hand, it raises a question if breaking CS versions is a piracy if they are abandoned. There’s no way to use them even if you are a paid customer wanting to install it on your new PC.

Sure, but can someone guarantee he’s not persecuted only for falling out of line of other corrupt businessmen supporting the ruling party, or that someone wanted to take his business? That’d be a positive life-changing consequence for those standing behind such a case.

Glad we both are.

That’s, like, your opinion, manperson. But what’s objectively true: putting a smile after the dot is indefensible in any court from Dubai to Massachusets. I believe, even Hitler condemned it’s use on the battlefield after being exposed to that in WW1.

It compliments my style, not my point. I’ve explicitly chosen that so some people can embarass themselves with taking a low hanging fruit (:

It’s so funny to read ya from Russia. The lack of research is showing.

Director’s commentary on the blueray: I sleep.

Random drunk person talking on the cam rip: real shit!

Not unpopular, just weird: the way to find your favorite song is keeping one as an alarm sound without starting to actively hate it.