Russia did that several years ago too, though I forgot which one we stuck with. It’s very convenient never having to think about it anymore.
Edit: it’s been 8 years apparently lol
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I have a feeling you will like this book
(honestly)
That’s good!
And can we pls do away w/ time zones also, while we’re at it?
How about Stardate?
With my fup’d uck circadian rhythm I can get used to noon and midnight being at arbitrary times, as long as there are 12 hrs between them. Oh well, I guess I could also live with a decimal time system.
Different but cool suggestion by the awesome Randall Munroe:
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Thx for the suggestion …
I’m not Allerleirauh but the reviews I found made me want to read it … and found a used copy, German translation, 7€ incl. S&H 
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All of that just to get rid of leap years and yet you still need to backtrack 4 hours at a “random” time (regular people don’t keep track of lunar phases these days) with some bizarre extra rules that will never work on any existing software and hardware. I can’t see how this is better.
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I see. It was too much for me to notice.
Well, it is easier nowadays … not only traveling is faster, but the weaponry is more “exciting” and more part of the “pop-culture” (movies, music, games etc), not to mention that a lot of people get to play “pretend” in militias, hunting groups, targeting clubs and stuff.
Meanwhile I was watching a video of one side supposedly checking a building for troops of the other side and it was hillarious to watch soldiers walk side-by-side, facing forward and face-checking rooms that “might contain enemies”.
People might see that and go “hey, I can’t do that!”, but it really ain’t like that at all. 
I saw one such story in a British newspaper where someone “volunteered” and “had an incident” and then quit very fast, but I won’t post it because it very well could be made up, considering that here the NATIONAL TELEVISION was claiming for weeks that they had sent a reporter to cover the war and that dude was making his “reporting” from his home, in Athens 
what is even funnier is that most of the allegations are made by the previous reporter of the national TV in Moscow who tried to re-apply for the job and “didn’t make it” and they hired the other person instead. The original reporter remained in Moscow under the employ of a private channel and he was like “I’ve been here all this time, noone has ever seen this reporter in this country”
2022 strikes again, eh?
This video isn’t from 2022, but it also is in a way.
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The cat will sell it on tiktok for fish
(The person responsible for this flight is a lousy professional. Imagine if, instead of the cat, was some object or device, something dangerous for the machine or the people. What if the poor cat died?)
ETA
Copied from comments:
Pilot: “Let’s make a flight video”
Cat: “This is now a cat video”
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On the other hand there’s more information about how terrible it actually is. All these weapons that can target you by your mobile phone signal, easy to die before you even see the enemy. Back in the day you could go into attack with proudly raised head. Which reminds me.
And this in turn reminds me of Jonathan Pie doing the same.
Ah, since we’re reminiscing on old flying videos, could’ve been worse. Remember this one?
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Interesting video where Kazakhstani in the street are interviewed about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The channel seems to be South Korean, reporting mostly about (East) Asian affairs:
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Stumbled upon a reddit thread with 30k+ upvotes discussing russia implementing a knock-off for the mcdonalds chains in place of the existing ones as part of nationalising the brand.
It’s an interesting topic if only they weren’t discussing a fake that came somewhere from 2ch (russian 4chan) and was passed around as a meme in the russian internet.
Also saw there a comment about the name of that chain (dyadya vanya - uncle vanya/ivan) that tries to explain the naming and then says that “dyadya” doesn’t work with “vanya” because vanya is a female name. Nobody was there to debunk that comment and it got responses like “i learned a lot thanks”.
Nobody was there to debunk the thread either. Not in the first ~200 comments that I scrolled through.
That was enough of this american culture for the rest of the month for me.
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I didn’t expect to ever say that, but some people need more Chekhov in their lives.
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2ch is 2chan, the original Japanese image board that 4chan is based off of.
It’s not Russian.
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Ours was originally called 2ch.ru, then renamed a bunch of times but everyone still calls it 2ch. I haven’t visited it a lot recently but I think it’s currently 2ch.hk
２ちゃんねるについて教えてくれてありがとうございましたね。意外ですね、同じドメイン名
Where it all started - march 10th, a speaker in Duma said the following
Надо защищать людей, потому что компании, которые сейчас уходят, хотят заработать, при этом используют наше российское сырье. Вот “Макдональдс”, 100 процентов российское сырье, заявили о том, что они закрываются. Ну и хорошо, закрывайтесь, но только завтра там уже должен быть не “Макдональдс”, а “У дяди Вани”. Рабочие места должны быть сохранены, а цены – снижены. Вот такой подход
It was said as an exaggerated joke and metaphor obviously, and as of march 10th that logo didn’t even exist yet. But there already existed a company(holding) with that name, selling pickles.
https://companies.rbc.ru/id/1025003215093-ooo-russkoe-pole-logistik/ - the company in question. It’s also the company from your link with the patent proposition.
https://kskgroup.ru/about/clients/ruspole/ - here’s the company group that owns that company.
https://dyadya-vanya.ru/ - Here’s their website and the credentials in the footer.
https://dyadya-vanya.ru/news/dyadya-vanya-mac - here’s their official statement that they’re not planning to launch a fastfood chain under that brand, that the logo was created as a meme response to that speech and that everything else related to this situation is fake.
This could all be found in less than 30 minutes if you know russian.
I’m not sure what your objective was, but it reads as if my comment has rubbed you the wrong way and that you tried very hard to appear right and defend what I called “american culture”. While also trying to derail it to some obese schizo obsessed with the original chain.
Make the conclusions yourself. But I’m not responding to this topic anymore because I said that I had enough of this american culture just to get it shoved into my face right after, so I’m not repeating that mistake.
I prefer his newer idea:
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Don’t believe everything in Wikipedia. To take the easiest first: Iraq’s nuclear program was essentially a myth, not propaganda. Saddam’s scientists were afraid to admit their failures, so they concocted a Potemkin program to fool their boss. They succeeded in fooling Saddam, as well as U.S. intelligence. Consequently, fear about their program was an honest mistake, not propaganda. When the mistake was discovered, it was publicly admitted and discussed in the media. A splendid lesson from the “world of mirrors.”
However, poison gas—also classified as a WMD—was the main focus of searches over many years, which yielded considerable results. As early as 2004 (IIRC), the U.S. Army issued a public report detailing the discovery of about 400 missiles and gas canisters (generally nerve gas), usually stored together, but not armed, in scattered depots. The largest depot contained about 100 missiles. This was dismissed with sneers by the media, the thrust of which was that 400 was not sufficiently massive for mass destruction. However, the searches continued with virtually no publicity until March 2014 (I don’t remember the exact date), when the New York Times published a summary article revealing that the U.S. ultimately found some 5,000 missiles and gas containers. Some of these were in buried depots. The really interesting part of this was that the public had been deliberately kept in the dark about these discoveries because Karl Rove advised Bush that to ballyhoo the discoveries would be bad politics, since it would revive an acrimonious debate that he regarded as disadvantageous to the Republicans. So Bush kept mum. This is how what passes for “history” is made.
All of this exists in open sources.
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