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I agree with Ukraine, but only when it comes to the first two or so years of the war, by now most of those that didn’t respect those rules (I’m talking both sides) are either dead or missing some limbs. With that told, just recently the Russian MOD has started applying heavy penalties to its soldiers close to the frontlines who were still using Telegram and/or the Ukrainian mobile network (?!), so it looks like there are still some behaviors left to correct.


It's also a morale issue. It's easier to get people to huddle in a cold and damp hole if they can play video games and watch anime.


It's not a "cold, damp hole", it's called my basement, and there's also Dr. Pepper.


How many Russian deserters does it take to change a basement lightbuld?

I don't know either, must be more than 24 though because it's still dark as shit down there.


In my day, playing video games and watching anime didn't imply a network connection.


Boy, do I have news for you!

But joking apart, almost everything is connected and calling home these days...


Normies used to deal in binders full of pirated music and movies. Then for a time they got into portable hard drives, but gradually this culture of media ownership was lost to the streaming services. Now your average normie doesn't know what a file is, wouldn't know where to put or what to do with a media file and only thinks of "apps".


LAN parties were popular in the late 90s


anime?


A style of animated TV show from Japan


What's a modern war fighter do without PreCure?


You may know it as Japanimation.


The Russians are having problems with Telegram because their own military comms don't work.

Russian units have requested fire support via telegram.


Another interesting development is the ridiculous amount of background bluring in photos. Turns out you can find surprisingly large number of garages, warehouses, treelines, etc based on a single photo.


Geoguessr stuff can be mind blowing. Being able to identify down to the county from some random sky and corner of a power pole type stuff


TG ist another case. This is more a crackdown on the uncensored internet. My guess Ukrainians are also using TG without problems.




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