Previously, the pair founded the Russian social network VK, which they left in 2014, saying it had been taken over by the government.
VK was founded by private entrepreneur Durov in Russia, no relation to government at all, and was later taken over by the government in 2013.
Telegram which is entirely unrelated to VK has no connection to Russia at all, and was never based in it, it's inception was a direct response to the Russian government's authoritarianism.
Neither of these are "Russia-founded", while forgivable to say this for VK as it is very much government run, Telegram has no relation to Russia and it's raison d'etre is explicitly anti-Russian gov't.
Ah yes what the world needs right now - even more scam peddlers. I for one thank our corporate overlords for deciding for us. A waste of natural resources in scale second only to the data-harvesting-marketing ouroboros
Yeah. Doesn't make any sense honestly. I think he thought he could power check it but didn't understand the actual mechanics of how it works. Glass onion eh.
No. Alex Kurtzman primarily, who is the showrunner for DSC and PIC, handed such a role for his previous successes like writing Transformers 2 - movie well known for it's gripping story - and making smash hits like TASM2.
But not just him, also Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon and Kirsten Beyer. You know, the four horsefolks of the apocalypse that ran trek into the sorry state it's in today.
JJ is actually a decent director (I'm a clovefield fan from back in the day). These people on the other hand are all talentless hacks.
Projection. Just because I'm not a moron consuming mindless corporate slop with more plot holes than plot and contrived drama doesn't mean I'm some rightoid just because both upset you.
If anything you make them look cool, were I not pretty far-left I'd probably now think the anti-woke people must be onto something if they don't consume actual garbage and upset those who do. After all, It's a natural desire to not want to merely consume product and get excited for the next product but to engage with stories and think about them critically, an ability you evidently lack.
Besides, modern trek isn't really woke at all actually. It doesn't really explore any challenging themes or any real dilemmas, the non-binary thing in DSC was genuinely less thought provoking than the clunky TNG episode from 40 odd years ago.
If you want some actual woke AF sci-fi, go watch For All Mankind, made by people who know what they're doing, like Ron D. Moore, you know, the guy with probably close to a hundred lead writer credits on some of the best TNG and DS9 episodes and showrunning BSG under his belt.
Hell the Expanse is more thought provoking and uplifting than PIC, who's most thought provoking character is a guy who cuts people's heads off with a sword.
It's actually easy to tell whether you'll have a reaction by going to the store or humane society and asking to hold them for 5 to 10 minutes.
Well I've been around cats all my life, pretty much since very early childhood and I've never had any reaction really. I've not been allergic to anything in my life period.
A few months before I adopted the cat, I was at my gf's friend's house and she had a cat there that I held and played with and petted.
Just before I adopted the cat I did end up adopting I went to see and converse with the folks I was adopting from and I def was around the cat for over half an hour.
While I had the cat she'd lick me all the time, never any issues. The effects would start maybe a day or two after we got her. It didn't even fully stop until at least a day later.
So in my case I guess not. Thanks for the advice though. I was thinking of looking into adopting a Siamese cat at some point. Ofc I'd try to do a lot more due diligence allergy wise, but I really don't know what I could've even done realistically. I don't think I could stand having to give a pet back because of any health issues on my behalf again. Thanks
I likely think there was something she would emit, some sort of fur particulate or something else because she loved sitting on my lap and just being right in my face and I was fine. Only literally being in the house with her would mess me up, and after like half an hour outside I'd be okay again.
This lack of direct correlation made me think I was just sick for the longest time until I connected the dots that time outside made me feel immediately better.
She was an odd cat. Fur was unreal silky, extremely impressive even for a cat, and also quite long, and the previous owner said how they've never really had to trim it or do anything to her coat at all because she maintained it herself really well. I've a gut feeling it's connected to that.
I don't believe it honestly. Been burned on DSC and PIC already which were raging trashfires. Is the transformers guy and his bad robot nepo babies still involved?
Had a cat that I was somehow allergic(?) to. Just constant itchy red eyes. Eventually coughing and wheezing. Never been allergic to a damn thing in my life, including other cats. Never understood it. Shed go all around my face and I would be fine, then suddenly she'd just be about the place and my eyes would get so bloody I swear blood was actually leaking out of them. Had to return her. Loved her to bits in those few weeks. 😭
Nah it did jack shit for me in that regard. Don't get me wrong, transitioning fixed my gender dysphoria, but that's nothing to do with self-worth.
If anything prior to transition I never fucking worried about this stuff, because I wasn't even really a person, I wasn't even afraid of dying because I wasn't really living in the first place. Most of the time I wanted to die throughout my teens so what I figured out to be gender dysphoria would just stop torturing me. Transitioning saved my life.
Now, I'm 10 years in. What a ride. Now I actually quite like my life, I like myself, both physically of course in that my body basically doesn't cause me any dysphoria at all anymore, a sentiment I find baffling really, and even just my character, I've had a tough life and a tough time transitioning, but I've come out so much stronger at the end of it.
But that's just the baseline. I'm a woman. There's like a fuckton of women in the world. Who am I really? What makes my life worth living? If anything - this is exacerbated by how hard I worked to even just have some peace. What is it all for, just to reduce suffering, or am I capable of more than merely that?
The problem is though, how do you even call yourself an artist? What's art, and what's a doodle? Is it a degree? X amount of sales? Doing it under employment? So not indie? X hours of effort per work? X listeners on Spotify? Talent? Skill? How does one judge that? What criteria? How could one apply such criteria to oneself when we are so biased? When is someone a kid just putting blocks together in FL studio, and when is someone a musician? A composer? An artiste? Can I call myself an artist if my friends swear my songs are good? Am I going to be discovered after my death as a secret genius, or am I just churning out cacophanies that make sense to no one but myself, making me little more than a living argument that perhaps tools should be reserved for those who know how to use them, an ape armed with a musical shotgun?
Thinking about all this stuff just makes my silly empty head spin. I'm only a hobbyist, but I know an actual published playwright, theatre manager and hobbyist game dev who I greatly respect and admire as an artist and person once said "oh I'm not an artist though" as she was explaining game dev to me - a CS major, and it just obliterated something deep in my soul. girl, what then who even is.
Always Sunny gave a comforting answer in an episode once, it's when the right people say it is art, then it's art. As nonsensical as this answer is, it's at least an answer.
Such a common thing in the SelfHosted communities on Reddit and here too. It's always train this or that or learn this and that this cert that job this goal that performance bruh if you're a computer nerd it's okay to do stuff with computers just embrace it.
*Nothing wrong with goals or practicality, but so many are clearly just reaching for noble justifications for what they find fun, which is capitalist christian work ethic brainrot of the highest order.
Re-read your own quote:
VK was founded by private entrepreneur Durov in Russia, no relation to government at all, and was later taken over by the government in 2013.
Telegram which is entirely unrelated to VK has no connection to Russia at all, and was never based in it, it's inception was a direct response to the Russian government's authoritarianism.
Neither of these are "Russia-founded", while forgivable to say this for VK as it is very much government run, Telegram has no relation to Russia and it's raison d'etre is explicitly anti-Russian gov't.