Month: April 2022

100% concentrated happiness // The dog’s joy

Harry Potter is leaving Russia

“As reported by the TJ publication, Russia’s largest ebook sellers LitRes and MyBook will remove the entire series of novels by J.K. Rowling about Harry Potter from access starting April 8. Both stores stated that the removal was mandated by the copyright holder.”

It reminds me of Splean

Great lecture in Russian on Francisco Goya

Look at the Tesla plant recently launched in Germany. That’s fantastic!

P.S. There is an old Soviet joke about AvtoVAZ, a Soviet automobile manufacturing company which had been producing for decades a car called Zhiguli, which was a ruggedized version of the Fiat 124, and which became notorious for poor quality, was one day bought by Mercedes. The whole plant was rebuilt, all processes were repaired, new equipment was installed, and the new assembly line was eventually launched and —

Bam! The same Zhigulis left the gate. WTF? All equipment was carefully inspected, many components were replaced, the whole assembly line was replaced with brand-new. The plant reopened and —

Bam! The same Zhigulis came out again! Half of the personnel had been let go. Then thousands of specialists came from Germany to replace them. Everything was carefully inspected again. The shiny assembly line restarted, and the first assembled machines left the gate.

WTF?! The same Zhigulis rolled off the assembly line.

A former chief engineer and a former director look at the plant from the nearby hill.

“I told you beforehand that the entire place was cursed, and what you responded to me? That my hands grew out of my ass, yeah?”

Original:

Mercedes bought the AvtoVAZ factory. They reconfigured the production, started the conveyor. . . Bam! Zhigulis at the output!

They dismantled the equipment, brought in new ones from Germany, installed and adjusted, started. ! ! ! Yet again, Zhigulis!

They fired the entire factory staff, brought in workers from Germany, adjusted, checked, started. DAMMIT! Again – Zhigulis at the output!

There is a hill near the factory, where the former chief engineer and director (both prefixed with ‘Ex’) are resting. They look at all this. The engineer to the director:

– I told you – the place is cursed! ! ! And all you said was “hands grew out of your ass, hands grew out of your ass”