Countries in exUSSR are quite for a long time used similar stuff. But here, people are poorer and "tech" smarter (blame good STEM ed), so they quite often install software themselves. This software pirates free floating or torrented movies, but for tv, you usually can find pirate service that charges 1 to 5 bucks a month for thousands of channels from all over the world, mostly in Russian.
Since the Ukrainian war, new twist emerged. Authorities in Baltics did not care that much about piracy. But they do care about Russian state propaganda, which is absolutely widespread in Russian speaking households. In this case, they quickly put people in prison for helping to install and subscribe to Russian tv channels, which are banned in Baltics.
Sad thing is, many of us are victims of this situation, because parents might be zombified and ask for Russian TV, while children have nausea and hate thinking about it. Still, to avoid our parents be put in prison trying to do it themselves or be scammed, we have to do it ourselves.
I don't see solution to this.
P. S. Ironically, a lot of Ukrainians use the same services to watch content in their native Russian. Many of them are brainwashed so much they watch Russian state channels living under bombings.
Funny how you believe that your illegal usage is good, but drug dealing usage is bad.
If we were to believe the government, you should not be able to avoid sanctions. So, maybe you should not blindly trust government when it says Bitcoin is ah so bad because it it used by darknet markets.
I actually explicitly said that it's good, also my "illegal" use is buying API credits, games, receiving money for my legal work, and saving my money on a stable coin because the Iranian currency is nowhere near stable id have lost half of my money if I did not save it crypto
Yeah, more than 4600 employees seems wild for Pinterest. Reddit seems to have about 2200 which still seems a lot but is less than half. I wonder how many of those are programmers and how many are infra, marketing, management, legal etc.
I am close to what you describe about your dad, and I am 42. I have no idea what to do. I don't want to live this way. And I don't want to die, not really, although I am at peace with the idea. I can't find what is wrong with me, except for the fact that it is related to pain regulation mechanisms somehow. This has been going on for 10 years already.
The only thing that helps now are opioids in dosages nobody would prescribe. I was prescribed opioids at some point during these years, and I still don't know if this was a mistake by the doctor. Now I am in pain AND opioid-dependent. But I am not sure I would not have ended my life sooner if not for the temporary relief I had.
The government does not allow me to get a few years of better quality life in return for dying early from an overdose, etc. I am bitter about it, and often wish government officials had the pain I do. Maybe I did not do enough, or people close to me could have been more pressing in asking to do more earlier. That's a consequence of a culture where people don't get into other people's business. I sometimes hope it is not too late still, but everything is harder now, and I still don't have any good ideas or the willpower to execute them.
I probably will only need to return newest laptop if I leave the company.
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