Looks like a Russian caramel candy with cranberry

Never tried this one but most of the candies and snacks that I’ve tried from Russia were really good

lol I was so confused by Firefox not needing to restart that I tried running update again and then closed it myself because I thought something went wrong

Learn a language! There’s been a lot of research in language learning being greatly beneficial for your brain. It’s also an incredibly useful skill to be able to communicate with more people

Currently not far, but I’m going to be moving to another country in a couple months and it will be about 5,000 miles away

Road to Vostok looks absolutely insane and it’s being made in Godot. I’ve played demos of it a bit and it definitely still is in development but there’s serious potential in my opinion

It performs insanely well, too

Seriously! I could read a post title and then accurately guess what the top comment would be way too often and it was just slowly driving me insane to be on there

I deleted my account after the API changes that killed the Apollo app and I basically only go on there now if I get a post as a relevant result in my search engine lol but I’m never going back as a regular user

Yeah half the reason I left Reddit was that it felt either like a hive mind or like it was just full of bots, or both, and I left before LLMs took off. I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better since then

It’s not abandoned, it just happened to be very foggy this day and I thought it looked really cool

I took this by the Medeu ice rink in Almaty

I think it’s a joke about people sitting outside at cafes in Europe?

I’ve heard this is a thing a lot of Americans find weird but I’m American and it’s not weird at all to me, we do literally the same thing here (at least in my home state)

Context was that I just saw this from the back seat of a taxi in Kazakhstan while I was visiting, thought it was funny that it had a baby chair strapped to it and took a photo

The sign is in Russian and says for sale for 55,000 Kazakh Tenge

That’s 55,000 Kazakh Tenge ($100 roughly) I took this photo in Almaty, Kazakhstan

And yes absolutely the safest way to bike with a baby

I had the same problem when I started learning Russian and honestly the only thing that helped me improve was just speaking and writing in Russian more

the grammar is also really hard, but I found it best to just not overthink it and just get used to speaking and making mistakes but improving over time. It’s easier to focus on correcting grammar when you’re more comfortable just constructing sentences in that language in general and don’t have to think as hard for each word you want to say

I’ve been learning Russian for a few years, I’ve also started learning Serbian and Ukrainian a little bit.

I can speak Russian pretty decently, it’s my girlfriend’s first language so I’ve had a lot of regular practice with it, I don’t consider myself fluent at this point but I can hold conversations with native speakers without too much of an issue

With Ukrainian I can understand quite a bit but I haven’t had much practice speaking it with other people at all yet. I have the basic phrases memorized, things like привіт, будь ласка, доброго ранку, добрий вечір, дякую, як справи, etc. but I don’t think I could hold a conversation speaking only in Ukrainian. I’ve been studying it kind of off and on for a year or so, and I listen to some Ukrainian music fairly often

Serbian I’ve been struggling to learn, I’ve been working on it for about 5 months. I think learning Russian first made it weirdly harder since the sentences are structured fairly differently. When it’s written, I can understand quite a bit, but if someone walked up to me and just started speaking Serbian I’d be completely lost