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Cosmopolitan no more: Russians feel sting of cultural and economic rift
Guardian UK ^
| 5/20/2022
| Pjotr Sauer
Posted on 05/23/2022 2:37:46 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: LS
As their currency soars compared to other nations’. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face asked to pay in rubles.
All the FR ruble scoffers are missing the little fact that the Russki teller at the commodities window gets told by the supervisor what the euros or dollars of the petitioner for natural gas are worth at the moment of the transaction - regardless of what the exchange rate is.
Coming soon to Urals heavy crude oil, wheat and a whole list of other real physical Russian goods. IF you've been on The Nice List...
Hey, at least WE have "digital money" and "Bitcoin". 
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posted on
05/23/2022 5:11:53 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Vermont Lt; LS
“The ruble is rubble” - PuppetBoy KiddieDiddler, 2022
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posted on
05/23/2022 5:12:53 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: LS
Yep, the article is largely propaganda. The buying power of the average Russian is now higher compared to pre-2014 when the first sanctions were applied.
IKEA, Apple, GM, H&M pulled out -good grief.
Two months were enough for electronics and car dealerships to find alternative sources and they are offering the same at lower prices than official distributors did before the war.
For lower margin clothing retailers it takes more time but they’d definitely fix it in a few months.
To: kiryandil
Instead of paying tens of thousands $ for CAD software his is soon to find out that he can get the latest for free from the Chinese pirate servers.
To: NorseViking
I don’t think the Western software guys thought this one through - they don’t have any enforcement mechanisms any longer.
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posted on
05/23/2022 7:34:19 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: NorseViking
Loaded with CHICOM spyware. Just another way Russia is becoming China’s prison b****.
To: BiglyCommentary
Clean it up. Or hire Russian coders to hack. It beats paying $4k per workstation for authentic software anyway.
To: NorseViking
LOL! That is a clown answer. I can see you have no experience with multi-million line code bases.
To: BiglyCommentary
I probably didn’t, but others did. Do you think there is no free AutoCAD out there?
To: NorseViking
Free hacked AutoCad is great if you are designing something for personal use but it is a total clown show for a multi-million dollar company. Just wait till those Chinese hackers install ransomware and shut down the company.
To: BiglyCommentary
There is a government program to fix this issue. I think they’d solve it very soon.
To: Vermont Lt
Looks like we are the ones increasingly with the closed economy.
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posted on
05/24/2022 6:39:24 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
To: LS
You have no concept of how big the US economy is. Or how insignificant the Russians are in the world.
To: Vermont Lt
As an economic historian, I think I do.
In both cases.
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posted on
05/24/2022 6:44:38 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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