A certain level of officials in Russia kinda has to make this sort of proofs of their work. I don’t think it’s a law or anything like that, but it’s a strong cultural thing. Similar to how companies can send employees to “volunteer” with something, expecting them to make photos with brands visible and stuff.

It’s all PR work. Ever more important when your party is busy doing everything it can to ruin the country further.

Ganz korrekt. Nicht oft, dass man auf dem Netz Kaufkraft versteht oder bringt, wenn man über die Preise in den Kommentaren spricht!

Doch wir sind auf Lemmy, einer der Kluge Örter.

Bei mir ~€1.24 und man glaubt, dass est scheißteuer.

In Russland.

They wouldn’t read that far to catch that /s I’m afraid

This.

You work in software just a couple of years, you learn to appreciate the mechanical solutions on a whole other level. Especially in cars.