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It means giving money to the Russian government, so no.

If anyone from the Russian government is reading this, get the fuck out of Ukraine. Thank you.



Well done, it's finally over


Thanks! For my next trick, I'll solve systemic racism by turning my logo black for a month.


Make sure you support LGBT rights by superimposing a rainbow over your rainbow, but only in the countries where LGBT people already have rights - it would be bad for business to do it in those other countries.


"In 2023, the United States imported U3O8 and equivalents primarily from Canada, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. The origin of U3O8 used in U.S. nuclear reactors could change in the coming years. In May 2024, the United States banned imports of uranium products from Russia beginning in August, although companies may apply for waivers through January 1, 2028."

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64444


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If anyone is genuinely curious about this, they were indeed letting Russian gas through and stopped in 2025:

> On 1 January 2025, Ukraine terminated all Russian gas transit through its territory, after the contract between Gazprom and Naftohaz signed in 2019 expired. [...] It is estimated that Russia will lose around €5bn a year as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_gas_dis...


You must be fun at parties


They're a ... gas.


More fun than GP lol


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I don't think voting with your wallet constitutes virtue signaling, especially at a time when end user boycotting is one of the universally known methods of protest.


I am a pragmatist so maybe I will never understand this line of thinking. But in my mind, there are no perfect options, including doing nothing.

By doing nothing, you are allowing a malicious actor to buy the domain. In fact I am sure they would love for everyone else to be paralyzed by purity tests for a $1 domain.

All things being equal, yeah don’t buy a .ru domain. But they are not equal.




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