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Moscow Bans QR Codes in Billboards Over Navalny’s Anti-Putin Campaign (www.themoscowtimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Republicans blush at the amount of bans and cancellations of culture Russia is pushing out. The way Putin is dictating their citizens on how to live and what to say is the wet dream of the republican party.

[+] [email protected] -105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

The self same Republicans you leftists accuse of being selfishly in dependant? You really need to get your insults and accusations straight there, mate.

Like how the Biden administration destroyed 40% of black owned businesses a couple years ago, using blatantly anti-scientific arguments.

The fascists in the US today are the democrats and the liberals who changed their shout from "fight the government" to "use the government to get our way", you know, the very definition of fascism.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

you're demented lol. seek help bud. wow.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Your projection is showing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I'm sure DJT's YouTube channel can be trusted to offer unbiased, factual info. Right guys?

I'm shocked that you don't actually know what fascism is. Shocked! Ok not that shocked.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you've got any clue about the definition of fascism, and the distinction between Fascism and fascism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always think it's hilarious when right-wingers talk about "leftists" and "liberals" as though we are billions strong and marching in lockstep, and then throw in shit that no self-respecting "liberal" would ever even think about. It's like there was just too much paraquat in your weed once upon a time and now this is what your brain looks like with a side of toast.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I always laugh when someone calls me a liberal, like bro liberals are center right compared to my beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of leftists that'll be voting for Biden next year. Do our views even matter when we don't have a candidate to vote for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not happy about it but I'll do my civic responsibility to keep a fascist out of office. We gotta keep our views though if we ever want a chance of being represented.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a confession: I might actually be a leftist and not just a mere crunchy liberal, but I have no fucking idea because we no longer live in a world where nuance in the face of oncoming fascism has any real place for expression. I can read books and articles about it, but I'm far more about the practical realities of it: where is it in practice?

Right now, there's no place for that level of distinction. We are quickly distilling ourselves into Team Humanity vs. Team Ovens, with no real idea of who will win, or how long the fight will go on as we slip father and farther away from democracy as a society.

It is, exactly as you said, a matter of simply keeping your beliefs for now, if not outwardly realized, just because of what the relatively sane majority is facing from the rabid, corrupt, and completely off-their-fucking-meds minority.

It is my sincere hope that I live long enough to see what an actual leftist government stands for. Who knows, I might even like it. But for now, it's just all hands against fascism, and whatever the fuck I am, am NOT on Team Ovens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well said. I fight for the post-scarcity utopia I know we can create.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Maybe go outside for a while instead of obsessing about things you clearly don’t understand.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Fucking moron

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So, whose cock you sucking today? Putin? Trump? McConnell? All three?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago

‘Moscow bans being outside while not being Vladimir putin in rare relaxation of tough being-outside rules’

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The most hilarious thing I read about was the Navalny city service line...

If you needed snow cleared or a pothole repair, spray paint "Навальный" on it, make sure someone notices and posts to social media and your issue will be resolved before you could say "СССР".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

So it can honestly be said that Navalny is fixing the country. Literally, lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Barcodes that can accept text (Besides QR):

Aztec
Data Matrix
Code 128
PDF417

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most Barcode scanners included in Android and iOS can't read them though. I know at least for Data Matrix, only a few scanners can handle them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hate that the OG barcode scanner doesn't work on my pixel anymore.

Another useful Google app killed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use Binary Eye now, no ads, free and open source. It is built on zxing. I was a bit pissed when zxing scanner stopped working a few years ago. All the alternatives where ad infested crap back then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the recommendation! Yeah I can't stand the ad infested barcode readers now. I've actually considered buying a dedicated Bluetooth barcode reader.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

"QR codes that serve as an online link contain various information and are prone to changes, which can violate the federal Law on Advertising," writes Ivan Shubin, head of the city administration's media department, adding: "especially considering increased hacker attacks and website breaches."

So, are they banning all urls in billboards?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Little big man

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Carry a roll of QR codes and slap them on Putin's propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It will be stickers with QR codes next, followed by QR codes in general.