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[Sergarr]

So apparently Russia is now blocking Wikipedia access due to some bullshit. Mobile version still works, though. Hopefully they won't block it, too.

Just out of curiosity, what is the bullshit reason why they're blocking wikipedia of all things?

It's because of the normal version of this page on some drug. Apparently it contains "forbidden information" on this drug, namely - how to produce it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Smoke Charas erryday

[mainiac]

Is the drug Sudafed?  Cuz if you need to know how to make that I could email you a link to how to make it out of commonly available methamphetamines.

[Sergarr]

methamphetamines.

Curiously, I've heard that word from two of my fellow students several times.

And no thank you, I don't need that. In fact, I never heard of that drug before RosKomNadzor has decided, in all it's incandescent glory, to block it, thus increasing the popularity of that wikipedia article by 1000 times. No seriously, 1000 times.

[smjjames]

Is the drug Sudafed?  Cuz if you need to know how to make that I could email you a link to how to make it out of commonly available methamphetamines.

No, it's Cannabis, and the page (english page anyway) really doesn't go into any way of detail on how to make it. Unless it actually is that simple, but if they block wikipedia, they also block Russians from learning the glory of Putin (just making a sarcastic counter-reason).

Edit: Lol Sergarr, sounds like it completely backfired on them, not so much as people suddenly wanting to use it than people wanting to know what the heck the deal is with the page.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

They're actually being backed by Big Hashish and CIA liberals or something.

Reclaim Brest-Litovsk from the Euro dogs!

[Loud Whispers]

It's 6:01AM and I wake up, make tea, think about writing - procrastinate, avoid going on bay12, end up going on twitter - find this

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hahahahahahahaha, fucking brilliant on so many levels give this guy a medal

Endless bants

It seems the thread's moved on, I'll reply later when I'm not so groggy, Yurop thread needs to stop getting invaded by Murrica

Also now I'm on bay12
Fuck this I must leave lest I procrastinate further
*EDIT
What's 5 more minutes of procrastination

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

On the internet "go kill yourself" is how you say hello, my last death threat came from a disagreement over the quality of a poor singer. For context, channel 4's doing a show about "gaysians" and muslin drag/gay bars. The controversy's probably going to be more entertaining than the actual show, but it pleases me deeply. All according to keikaku

[Sergarr]

It appears that Wikipedia has been un-blocked, at least for my provider. Looks like someone has not appreciated losing access to Wikipedia.

[MarcAFK]

The solution to the migrant crisis is the same one that's existed since the dawn of time. Arm them and send them somewhere else. Problem solved.

[scrdest]

The solution to the migrant crisis is the same one that's existed since the dawn of time. Arm them and send them somewhere else. Problem solved.

That's what I briefly mused on - arming them and sending them back Iraq - but not everyone is a potential combatant and not everyone who is is going to be a combatant on your side in the end after you arm them, *cough*Mujahideen*cough*

[Helgoland]

Very interesting! The links in there are worth a click or two as well.
On a different topic: Interesting article about cultural misunderstanding between Americans and Germans in the Eurozone crisis. Written by an American, by the way.

Damn, now I can't remember which economist said most recently a great quote along the lines of "there is nothing stupider then an economist practicing amateur sociology."
The difference between American and German economists is that the camp called "American" (which is mostly not Americans because it's international) predicted this crisis before the Euro was adopted while the camp called "German" (which is mostly not Germans because it's international) has been consistently dead fucking wrong about everything and done a huge amount of harm.
When the ECB raised the prime rates in 2012 it was not the equivalent to a doctor prescribing leeches for your hypertension.  It's the equivalent of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments.  Except it's on a vastly grander scale.  And that's not the only fucking mistake they made.
The challenges that the "German" camp faced were smaller then the challenges faced in the United States, the UK or Japan.  Europe is in worse shape because these fucking assholes played games with the welfare of hundreds of millions of people rather then doing their job.  And the fucking ripple effects!  How much do you think it emboldened Putin's aggression against Ukraine that Europe was too busy lurching from crisis to crisis to care?
It's not cultural differences.  It that some people are shitty human beings who are terrible at their job and want to divert attention from the fact that they are shit.

Somebody call the police because I've just witnessed a massacre

No, you just witnessed mainiac once more demonstrating that he doesn't know shit about how Europe works. He proposed tariffs on trade inside the EU, for crying out loud!

Damn, I really wanted to stop arguing with mainiac - it's bad for my blood pressure, and doesn't accomplish anything...

[scriver]

The solution to the migrant crisis is the same one that's existed since the dawn of time. Arm them and send them somewhere else. Problem solved.

Worked for Rome.

No, you just witnessed mainiac once more demonstrating that he doesn't know shit about how Europe works. He proposed tariffs on trade inside the EU, for crying out loud!

Says the guy who regularly espouses about how the EU should be one country without understanding how a single place except Germany works.

[LordSlowpoke]

i understand how poland is supposed to work because of that one coworker who replaced the fucker who talked about birdhouses every day, and i say the eu should be one country

so

* LordSlowpoke shoos scriver

[Kot]

i understand how poland is supposed to work because of that one coworker who replaced the fucker who talked about birdhouses every day, and i say the eu should be one country

Except Poland doesn't work.
It's just... happening.

[Sergarr]

i understand how poland is supposed to work because of that one coworker who replaced the fucker who talked about birdhouses every day, and i say the eu should be one country

Except Poland doesn't work.
It's just... happening.

According to one Pole that I know, there are "hordes of pilgrims run around the cities knelling every several minutes whith raring thump of thousands knees hitting ground and starting praying in the middle of the road, paralyzing trafiic".

happening indeed