First, they were looking if the person is subscribed to specific Telegram channels. It is quite easy to quickly scan list of channels looking for specific logos.
Second, it is supposed to intimidate others and force the to unsubscribe from telegram channels that post alternative view on current events. Hence, effectively blocking people from getting info.
> It’s the regular folks who could wake up from their comfy lethargy and actually protest their government.
The problem is that many of those who use namecheap are already against the regime because they know English, have access to another point of view on actions taken by the regime in Ukraine.
Fucking them up may turn some of them back to the regime because current narrative of the propaganda is "West companies do not care about you and they will do everything in their power to screw you".
> Isn't this going to have some serious economic repercussions for Russia?
Russian economy is in decline since 2014. COVID-19 pandemic has increased its decline even further.
So it seems that the upcoming EU + US economic sanctions will be used by propaganda as the ultimate explanation of the decline. I mean Kremlin actually looks forward to more sanctions in order to have plausible explanation ("we are at war and our enemies made your life worse; we need to stay strong around our leader mr. Putin" shit).
> How is the bank or Upwork the bad guy here when it is Robin who doesn't want to pay?
Upwork takes:
* 3% fee on each payment on the client side;
* 20% fee of first $500 earnings with the client;
* 10% fee of $500-$10k earnings with the client;
* 5% fee of earnings over $10k with the client.
So in this case Upwork took at least 8% of this $12.5k or 1000 USD but I think they took even more. If they don't take risks of fraudulent payments then why do they continue to take a cut in each time?
I personally still use Python because I miss list and dict comprehensions.
I know there is a `collect` macro in `sugar` module but it is nowhere close to the python comprehensions. The code is too verbose and basically is just the same multiline for loop :-(
As far as I can see you already have a minification task [1] in your nimble file. May I ask you why you are not using it to save bandwidth both for your sever and your visitors?