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хорошая мысля приходит опосля.
вот мне подумалось вдогонку вчерашнему стриму с @kashinguru.
вот кашин говорит, мол, если ты поддерживаешь Путина то ты поддерживаешь полицейский произвол.
потом он тут же соглашается, что путин сам ничего не решает: петрова и боширова науськал не Путин, навального отравил не Путин , границы на выезд закрыл не путин, и так далее. "Путин плавает в бассейне", говорит кашин.
а (по выражению кашина же) "задержанных дубинками насилует", при этом, точно Путин, да?
и поэтому измена Родине - единственный возможный ответ на полицейский произвол, что ли?
для нас, вне России, ее избранный президент = Россия, и точка.
изберут другого, тогда поговорим.

"хорошо, если на карантин" :-) напомнило советских времен анекдот про клинику венерических заболеваний, где делают анализы на СПИД. пациент выбегает и кричит, "ура, сифилис!" :-)

the party sent out a circular that there will be Spring Forum in Blackpool next year. This is, clearly, for the benefit of the newly crowned cabinet minister for DELUXE and his high-profile new hobby 😂

if they think that Russians stole the formulation for Sputnik V from "the West", then what, pray, is holding up its approval in the said West? same thing, right?

Sanctions in action!
In a live thriller that is the sequel to What Russians Think, UPS heroically thwarted a malignant actor: me.
As one would, I attempted to send an advance copy of the magnum opus to @olegderipaska, who is, of course, the main protagonist of the sanctions chapter.
I did know that U. S. companies are asked to screen mail for sanctioned recepients, but wait... The package was going from London to Moscow. Deripaska is not under santions in the UK, RSISG has no U. S. presence, and yours truly, at the moment of sending, was not a U. S. person compelled to comply with sanctions (it is complicated, so take my word for it). In other words, the United States had nothing whatsoever to do with the package. No U. S. parties were involved, and the package was not going anywhere near the U. S. Customs value of £1 was declared, but the purpose was to inform, not provide material benefit. I paid to send it, and so UPS, a U. S. company, transacted only with me. Sanctions were not violated, right?
Oh, boy! SEVENTEEN people from UPS offices in Kentucky were on an email thread by which it informed me that UPS will not facilitate my malignant attempt to unlawfully associate myself with a dangerous entity, Basic Element. When I challenged one official, he suggested that I myself was liable to sanctions because I am "facilitating a prohibited transaction". Really, asshole? There is a proverb for that in Russian - заставь дурака богу молиться, он и лоб расшибет. Make and idiot pray, he will bloody his forehead. Last I checked, sanctions prohibited transactions, not communication! What business does anyone in Kentucky have policing relationships between people in Moscow and London?! The halfwits only stopped writing to me about the dangers of associating with Deripaska (whom i have never met), when I informed them that I was myself a lawyer by training, and wrote a book about the very same sanctions.
I had to send books to Moscow with an actual physical person to be given out to VIPs, including Deripaska.
It took a week to get the package back from UPS, and when it was returned, it looked as if it spent a week in a barn and horses were made to jump on it. (see pics in a following post). I am still fighting to get my £27 back.
I gave the surplus book to @kashinguru, since it already said "Dear Oleg!" on it.
The morale is, this shit is insane.

oh yes, and the PM's obsession with rewilding is cute. That policy writes itself! firstly, it is already pretty wild in huge parts of the country. just you wait. Second, of course, once we are completely out of petrol, we can just say we are going back to basics and living in harmony with nature.

The Prime Minister just pledged to make sure truck drivers do not urinate in the bushes. Oh well, he must really have his finger on the pulse of the HGV and supply crisis, esp. seeing as this is all he said about it. That and yesterday, when he told reporters it wasn't government's job to solve all problems. which follows the government emailing all German nationals, many of them elderly and most of whom never drove an HGV, nor drove anything for a living, inviting them to hit the road. Not the government's job at all, it's all on those shirking German Cambridge professors and the few remaining drivers' urination habits. Boris then went on to say unicorns were dispersed throughout the UK. this will look nice taken out of context! Yet, of course, he did find the time to lament the European Superleague, almost as if he has ever been to a game. Forgot to mention nationalisation somehow, this time.
This brings me to a point.
I always fancied Gove for PM, but I also always liked Boris. He is cute and fuzzy. However, the pandemic did melt this man's brain, and we must act. It is not the time to breed like rabbits at 10 Downing street, lament improper urination, chase unicorns or expect German professors to sort our fuel shortage. The man looks baffled at the sound of his own speech. Enough!