The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

Getting a lot of press coverage lately. I fondly remember the days where we'd only get mentioned when the yearly happiest people report came out.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/05/edward-snowden-us-government-jet-wait-copenhagen-denmark

[DGuller]

It's a different language, with a different vocabulary.  Just because many Ukrainians, especially in government, have a difficulty speaking the language without heavily and often comically mixing it with Russian doesn't mean the languages are similar.  I for one cannot understand Ukrainian anymore, not any better than Polish anyway.

So somewhere along the way you stopped being Ukrainian and became Russian?

Sounds similar to the process in Crimea and Donetsk, and in not too long Kiev and then Galacia.

My family was always Russian-speaking.  I was able to speak Ukrainian when I was living there, but I forgot it within a year of moving to US.

[celedhring]

It's a different language, with a different vocabulary.  Just because many Ukrainians, especially in government, have a difficulty speaking the language without heavily and often comically mixing it with Russian doesn't mean the languages are similar.  I for one cannot understand Ukrainian anymore, not any better than Polish anyway.

So somewhere along the way you stopped being Ukrainian and became Russian?

Sounds similar to the process in Crimea and Donetsk, and in not too long Kiev and then Galacia.

My family was always Russian-speaking.  I was able to speak Ukrainian when I was living there, but I forgot it within a year of moving to US.

How old were you at that time? Just curious.

[Syt]

[DGuller]

It's a different language, with a different vocabulary.  Just because many Ukrainians, especially in government, have a difficulty speaking the language without heavily and often comically mixing it with Russian doesn't mean the languages are similar.  I for one cannot understand Ukrainian anymore, not any better than Polish anyway.

So somewhere along the way you stopped being Ukrainian and became Russian?

Sounds similar to the process in Crimea and Donetsk, and in not too long Kiev and then Galacia.

My family was always Russian-speaking.  I was able to speak Ukrainian when I was living there, but I forgot it within a year of moving to US.

How old were you at that time? Just curious.

I was 12 when we moved to US.

[Razgovory]

Must be weird to watch your country die.

[Malthus]

Must be weird to watch your country die.

He lives in New Jersey. He's used to that. 

[alfred russel]

Must be weird to watch your country die.

He lives in New Jersey. He's used to that. 

And he already saw the USSR die.

[DGuller]

Must be weird to watch your country die.

It's not going to die any time soon.  Putin got small chunks, but galvanized the rest of Ukraine against Russia.  If anything, he gave it a new lease on life.  Russia was slowly culturally absorbing Ukraine and subverting its government, before Maidan and Putin's retaliation wiped all that work away.  But while Ukraine may not die, it could very well remain in a persistent vegetative state due to oligarchs whose corruption is nothing short of treason.

[Razgovory]

Must be weird to watch your country die.

It's not going to die any time soon.  Putin got small chunks, but galvanized the rest of Ukraine against Russia.  If anything, he gave it a new lease on life.  Russia was slowly culturally absorbing Ukraine and subverting its government, before Maidan and Putin's retaliation wiped all that work away.  But while Ukraine may not die, it could very well remain in a persistent vegetative state due to oligarchs whose corruption is nothing short of treason.

I sorta meant the previous country dying.

[Eddie Teach]

His previous country didn't die, it just lost weight.

[Josquius]

This is my second weekend of not going out. Facebook lockdown has now passed the one week mark. Should I stop or keep going I wonder. 

[Syt]

Parents play hide & seek with their toddler and strap a GroPro camera to his head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o27tIdYggY0

[barkdreg]

It's not going to die any time soon.  Putin got small chunks, but galvanized the rest of Ukraine against Russia.  If anything, he gave it a new lease on life.  Russia was slowly culturally absorbing Ukraine and subverting its government, before Maidan and Putin's retaliation wiped all that work away.  But while Ukraine may not die, it could very well remain in a persistent vegetative state due to oligarchs whose corruption is nothing short of treason.

Indeed. Met quite a few Russian speaking Ukrainians, descended from Russians, that hated the Russians. Quite strange.

[The Brain]

It's not going to die any time soon.  Putin got small chunks, but galvanized the rest of Ukraine against Russia.  If anything, he gave it a new lease on life.  Russia was slowly culturally absorbing Ukraine and subverting its government, before Maidan and Putin's retaliation wiped all that work away.  But while Ukraine may not die, it could very well remain in a persistent vegetative state due to oligarchs whose corruption is nothing short of treason.

Indeed. Met quite a few Russian speaking Ukrainians, descended from Russians, that hated the Russians. Quite strange.

Russians being racist? What a shocker.