Oh you’ll bow. Calling it now.

As others have said, to use Russia’s own terminology when they invaded the Ukraine, it’s not an invasion, merely a special military operation. Should be over in 3 days or so.

‘Special military operation’, to use Russia’s own terminology

It’s not an invasion. I keep saying this.

Er… no. They do what Putin says, and that is not necessarily to protect the Russian people.

Ah. So it’s a special civil engineering project now. I think Russia could use more of those.

Me I don’t want to sit next to a republican.

Yeah, but they did it in a special military operational kinda way, so it’s all good.

Seems to be working. Kursk oblast just had a bit of a ‘special military operation’, iirc.

So its just terror?

How does this help their cause?

It’s kinda like the terms in a license agreement. Company can change the terms at a whim.

Damnit! I’ve been using it wrong the whole time!

So when does Ukraine start retaliating within Russia’s borders?

Where’s the crowd? Are they all on strike?

Interesting. But as a prank, it’d be better if they just made some innocuous changes that just sow confusion. Kinda like redirecting a press conference to a war zone.

Yes, but proprietary methods encourage fragmentation. Id rather they build on a universal standard that gets updated once in a while. If apple were to open up iMessage, I’d be on board. But not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

I bet their version of RCS is also minimal. Just so they can complain about how broken RCS is. Thanks to their shenanigans, third party messaging apps thrive outside of the standards and market fragmentation is real. Getting to be a damn pain having to check which apps a person has before being able to communicate with them.

They built an entire industry dedicated to gaming the search results, so I feel your frustration. Nowadays, if it’s not some influencer telling you to try something, it usually a bunch of topic snobs who need the latest and best (read: most expensive) version of anything - completely unusable for a casual query. If you have friends or local communities with the same hobbies, I’d start there. Or start in the shops - you find out real fast of they’re trying to push product on you, versus genuinely trying to help you find what you need.

I could probably pay someone $50 a pop to solve it for me for the rest of my life and not reach even 1billion.