They base their broadcast around hourly cycles put onto this day's frame, let's say it's a 12h circle like on analogue clocks, or a pizza. Each cycle starts with a jingle and ad, so you can divide it into equal 12 parts and eat a 5-minute slice from each. Then you have standardized blocks to peg into them, e.g. 2-3-minutes songs, ads, news blocks, longer blocks to occupy the whole hour like Car talks with Martok etc. Some of them (news, ads, jingles) repeat every hour or two making it trivial. There's not many ways to slice this pizza, so many of their plans naturally overlap. Iirc on music stations it's performed-semi automatically now, the machine can compile a plan to fit pieces from your music library and other components by itself.

Most gas stations still have it there.

That was nice.

I don't know if it's a problem anymore, but there's something in wasting write cycles on a disposable SD card instead of unchangeable drive and also dedicate SD for demanding processes like recording a 4k video while the system drive is free for other processes. Does it make sense today?

Are they going anywhere, tho? They start cheap and are very energy-efficient, so I think they'd stay. If there is a probability to face them IRL it won't be bad to learn how to read them.

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There are no words to distinct russian citizen and russian nationals in English. This line is also blurred in russian though.

I'm curious about what we'd learn about it in the end. Was it an action to make EU speed up their cuts on russian gas? To put more weight onto existing pipes going through Ukraine? What other parties knew about that?

This article puts some additional accent on Germany's opposition to that. It makes some sense in the context of them funding the NordStream project whose pipes were cut (while being inactive), but even more so - if we learn how many russian fingers were in their cake. The codependency between this european industrial giant and Kremlin goes as far as putting ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröeder on the board of russian resource-extracting firm, as a thank-you retirement gift. It's good their police do their job, but you'd need to think twice if they do this for their own interests alone.

(FYI, I hold different views than this instance)

TL;DR: for me it's current russian warsongs and covers of 80-90s classics that put the opposite meaning into them. Polina Gagarina, Shaman are the most known artists due to being banned from YT, but there are dozens of them. What and why - I'd try to explain in following paragraphs.

They don't feel either inspired or honest, most of the worthy artists don't want that mark in their resume so it's left either for newbie artists or oldies who fear they are losing relevance. The western-in-everything 'Я русский' is the only catchy tune local media empires could produce, others are even more cringe like '333', they don't even compare to what repressed guys did and do.

Surprisingly, the same notion is shared with my relatives who do support the war (unlike me) or at least our men there. We still have a tradition of singing along the songs of old over the table when we meet with our elders, or over the fire if camping or meeting in the countryside, mostly soviet songs with inclusion of 90-00s. And itso happens there's none of the promoted ones in the menu.

But that also tracks with the concerts on the TV we sometimes put on. It's all older stuff by mostly aging artists. The contemporary russian music culture, as I suppose, was castrated by some sort of negative selection and I can't think otherwise.

And what is really embarassing for me personally to hear is appropriation of songs that are either anti-war or asking for changes (namely KINO's ones) sang in this day and this year by those who support both the regime and the war on state TV. That's like this one republican guy just one hair width from discovering what RatM's songs are about. There's some second-hand shame you want to wash off in a bathroom right after hearing.

It's a right call. Crossing a border puts a lot of attention on oneself, and with how the recent prisoners exchange went, they won't mind a handful of new tokens. Hence the growing problems of fixing papers without visiting the country.

We all know what else in this vid. The cinematographic rise of Trump from under security agents with a fist. He is nutting over how great he is at that moment.

Someone made them read bumper stickers. In a loop.