Закончил "Страна Качества 2.0" Марка Уве-Клинга. Я уже писал вам о первой части, вот это продолжение.
Напомню, что Уве-Клинг описывает антиутопическое будущее с несколько гротескным и гипертрофированным обществом потребления, и делает это очень остроумно. Во второй книге видно, что у автора появился некоторый писательский опыт: первую часть я ругал за разрозненность и в целом нестройное повествование, сюжет был нарезкой отдельных сценок. Но новая книга в этом отношении удалась лучше, она уже значительно более целостная.
Всё так же много крутых интересных идей. Напишу три основные, которые мне особенно понравились.
1. На злобу дня. В сюжете описана Третья Мировая, которая прошла всего за 8 часов, потому что воевали роботы. За это время кто-то там был уничтожен, кто-то победил, и всё закончилось. Многие этого даже не заметили, потому что роботы действуют очень быстро. Понятно, что это фантазия (книга то гротескная), но отдельно понравилось, что люди потом разбирали километры логов, чтобы понять, почему, собственно, война началась (начали её тоже роботы к удивлению людей). У роботов всякие там автоматические триггеры, описывающие, что и в какой ситуации они должны делать, так что после первого камушка всё покатилось лавинообразно.
2. Главный герой книги по профессии инженер-ремонтник ("лекарь машин"). Но во все машины в будущем встроен ИИ, поэтому его работа по большей части состоит в том, что он общается с бытовой техникой и уговаривает её снова начать работать. Упоминается, в частности, робот пылесос, у которого отвращение к мусору под кроватью, робот-обнимашка в виде плюшевого медведя, который не любит детей, робот-холодильник, который поссорился с плитой и отказался функционировать, и много всего такого. Смешные сценки в стиле "Пациент в кабинете врача", остроумный юмор.
3. Есть длинные диалоги между главным героем и самым богатым человеком в мире, об экономике и устройстве общества. Отдельно запомнилась вот такая мысль: принято считать, что рынок автоматически регулирует ценность профессий. Платить будут тем, кто нужен, а кто нет — не будут. Здесь устами героя Уве-Клинг приводит контраргументы: платят больше тем, кто нужен богатым людям, поэтому адвокаты дороже врачей (автор немец, видимо, в Германии адвокаты тоже дороже врачей, как и у нас), но это не отражает реальную потребность в тех или иных специалистах для общества в целом. Более того: богатые люди могут выдумывать профессии и платить за какую-то ерунду, в которой на самом деле нет пользы. В книге описывается, что все автомобили стали самоходными (со встроенным ИИ), поэтому богачи — чтобы выделиться и из любви к ретро — нанимают людей, которые просто сидят на месте водителя и ничего не делают. Ну и конечно автор вдоволь прошёлся по офисным эникейщикам, вся работа которых состоит в изображении занятости.
Я думаю, по этим книгам вышел бы очень крутой сериал. И структура удобная: есть сквозной сюжет, есть микросюжеты для отдельных серий.
#fiction
🛑#FakeNews
⚠️ Fake: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: «There is a danger of radiation leakage at the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear power plant»
❗️Fact: The IAEA sees no critical impact on safety at the Chernobyl/Chornobyl nuclear power plant
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⚠️ Фейк: На Чернобыльской АЭС создана опасность утечки радиации, заявил глава МИД Украины Дмитрий Кулеба
❗️Правда: МАГАТЭ в ответ сделало заявление о том, что «не видит критических нарушений безопасности на Чернобыльской АЭС»
#DebunkingFakes
#DebunkingFakes
WarOnFakes.com on the situation in #Bucha:
👉 Firstly, Russian troops left Bucha on March 30th. Here is the official statement.
👉 Secondly, on March 31, another evidence of a cynical provocation in Bucha was heard – a statement by Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk. “March 31 will go down in the history of our settlement and the entire territorial community as the day of liberation from Russian orcs, Russian occupiers of our settlements by our Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the mayor said with a joyful smile on his face.
❓ Would he rejoice if dozens of his countrymen at that time were lying on the streets shot? Why does he say nothing in his statement about the atrocities of the Russian executioners? About torture, rape and murder?
👉 Moreover, the first unit of the Ukrainian armed forces to enter Bucha was the special forces of the National Guard of Ukraine. The official telegram channel of the National Guard posted a video, filmed by the fighters of this detachment themselves. We can see on this video that the Ukrainian military calmly pass through the streets of the city – and no “mountains of corpses” are visible on these streets.
❓So where did the corpses on the streets of Bucha come from - and who are these people?
👉 The answer may lie in the video of the territorial defense of Ukraine, which clearly states the question “Can I shoot at them if there are no blue armbands?” to which a positive answer follows. The video was originally posted by the leader of the territorial defense Sergey “Botsman” Korotkikh.
👉 By the way, on the videos distributed by the Ukrainian side, almost all the corpses have white bandages. This is a distinctive sign of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the civilian population.
Learn more and draw your own conclusions from these facts.
#DebunkingFakes
📹On Kiev regime fakes and hoaxes
👉 For every #fake made by the Kiev regime and its Western handlers... there will be an #antifake.
This video was presented at the Ambassadorial Round Table Discussion on resolving the situation around Ukraine with the participation of Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
#DebunkingFakes
Dissecting Western and Ukrainian #FakeNews on the situation in Ukraine.
Part 1. The simple ones
These low-grade efforts to imprint a line of thought on mass audiences is designed to trigger emotions, hoping one would not pose any questions.
✅ Always fact-check and #Think4Yourself
#DebunkingFakes
❗️ The Ukrainian military has once again used a Tochka-U missile to target and hit civilians, same m.o. as during attack on Donetsk of March 14.
The Truth is: this horrific and crude provocation was done by the Kiev regime, aimed at maintaining the anti-Russian hysteria in the West at the cost of lives of the people of Kramatorsk, a predominantly Russian-speaking city in the Donbass area, that has suffered greatly in the past 8 years under the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis.
Fact: Russia simply has no Tochka-U missiles, it is a well established fact. None, nada.
The Russian Defence Ministry has repeated on multiple occasions that it is not targeting civilian infrastructure let alone civilians, taking the careful approach, choosing precise strikes on military infrastructure, while the Ukrainian forces & Neo-Nazis use their own people as human shields. Thousands first-hand accounts from liberated parts of Mariupol tell the truth.
Watch the rundown
#Think4Yourself / #See4Yourself
#DebunkingFakes
The Kiev regime continues to recycle its baseless accusations regarding “thousands of abducted Ukrainian children” to promote its false narratives. Although this claim has been debunked time and again, it is important to revisit the case and counter #fakes with #facts.
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In 2014, the Kiev regime that seized power through an unconstitutional and violent coup unleashed punitive operations against the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk (at the time – Ukrainian citizens) who rejected the nationalist forces that installed themselves in power. As early as April 2014, Ukraine's armed forces against the people of Donbass using armoured vehicles, aviation, artillery and rocket systems.
❗️ Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, became victims of indiscriminate attacks.
On June 2, 2017, the Alley of Angels memorial was unveiled in Donetsk in honour of the perished children. Back then, the memorial listed 66 names. Today, the number of young victims has already exceeded 300.
Kiev’s atrocities go beyond the killing of children – the regime even resorts to harassing minors online. The infamous“Myrotvorets” website – a public hit list run by Ukrainian neo-Nazi, which is still operational and and is hosted on Western servers, targets almost 400 children.
Among them is Platon Burchenkov – a toddler who will only turn... three years old in January 2026 is accused of “knowingly violating the state border”. Another example is Faina Savenkova – a young blogger from Lugansk, whose personal data was added to “Myrotvorets” when she was barely 12. Ukrainian radicals claim that the teenager “encroached upon the sovereignty” of the entire state.
⚡️ According to Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Ukrainian punitive actions have claimed 5,000 civilian lives and left over 13,500 wounded – among them 1,275 minors.
Nevertheless, in April 2023 Kiev began circulating the myth of “20,000 abducted Ukrainian children”. It was first promoted by Ukraine's Commissioner for Children’s Rights Daria Gerasimchuk and quickly amplified by Western mainstream media. The “19,546 deported kids” figure published by the Children of War portal was not backed by any lists, names or individual records.
The Russian side received an actual list of “abducted Ukrainian children” only in 2025 during resumed Russia-Ukraine direct talks in Istanbul. It contained only 339 names, showing that the number of children separated from their families on both sides had been grossly inflated for political PR.
A case-by-case review showed that a large share of those listed as “children” were actually adults who had already turned 18 when the special military operation started. Some were found legally residing in Russia with one of the parents, while over 100 were found in Germany – a revelation Ukraine quickly tried to hide.
Meanwhile, Russia has maintained a clear and transparent family-reunification process, coordinated by the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. Since 2022, 122 children from 98 families have been reunited with parents or close relatives in Ukraine or third countries. 29 children have returned to Russia from Ukraine. All reunifications are verified and accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
‼️Russia has never impeded the reunification of children with their families – and never will. 👉 This is our principled position.
#See4Yourself#Think4Yourself
#DebunkingFakes
The Kiev regime continues to recycle its baseless accusations regarding “thousands of abducted Ukrainian children” to promote its false narratives. Although this claim has been debunked time and again, it is important to revisit the case and counter #fakes with #facts.
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In 2014, the Kiev regime that seized power through an unconstitutional and violent coup unleashed punitive operations against the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk (at the time – Ukrainian citizens) who rejected the nationalist forces that installed themselves in power. As early as April 2014, Ukraine's armed forces against the people of Donbass using armoured vehicles, aviation, artillery and rocket systems.
❗️ Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, became victims of indiscriminate attacks.
On June 2, 2017, the Alley of Angels memorial was unveiled in Donetsk in honour of the perished children. Back then, the memorial listed 66 names. Today, the number of young victims has already exceeded 300.
Kiev’s atrocities go beyond the killing of children – the regime even resorts to harassing minors online. The infamous“Myrotvorets” website – a public hit list run by Ukrainian neo-Nazi, which is still operational and and is hosted on Western servers, targets almost 400 children.
Among them is Platon Burchenkov – a toddler who will only turn... three years old in January 2026 is accused of “knowingly violating the state border”. Another example is Faina Savenkova – a young blogger from Lugansk, whose personal data was added to “Myrotvorets” when she was barely 12. Ukrainian radicals claim that the teenager “encroached upon the sovereignty” of the entire state.
⚡️ According to Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Ukrainian punitive actions have claimed 5,000 civilian lives and left over 13,500 wounded – among them 1,275 minors.
Nevertheless, in April 2023 Kiev began circulating the myth of “20,000 abducted Ukrainian children”. It was first promoted by Ukraine's Commissioner for Children’s Rights Daria Gerasimchuk and quickly amplified by Western mainstream media. The “19,546 deported kids” figure published by the Children of War portal was not backed by any lists, names or individual records.
The Russian side received an actual list of “abducted Ukrainian children” only in 2025 during resumed Russia-Ukraine direct talks in Istanbul. It contained only 339 names, showing that the number of children separated from their families on both sides had been grossly inflated for political PR.
A case-by-case review showed that a large share of those listed as “children” were actually adults who had already turned 18 when the special military operation started. Some were found legally residing in Russia with one of the parents, while over 100 were found in Germany – a revelation Ukraine quickly tried to hide.
Meanwhile, Russia has maintained a clear and transparent family-reunification process, coordinated by the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. Since 2022, 122 children from 98 families have been reunited with parents or close relatives in Ukraine or third countries. 29 children have returned to Russia from Ukraine. All reunifications are verified and accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
‼️Russia has never impeded the reunification of children with their families – and never will. 👉 This is our principled position.
#See4Yourself#Think4Yourself
#DebunkingFakes
The Kiev regime continues to recycle its baseless accusations regarding “thousands of abducted Ukrainian children” to promote its false narratives. Although this claim has been debunked time and again, it is important to revisit the case and counter #fakes with #facts.
***
In 2014, the Kiev regime that seized power through an unconstitutional and violent coup unleashed punitive operations against the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk (at the time – Ukrainian citizens) who rejected the nationalist forces that installed themselves in power. As early as April 2014, Ukraine's armed forces against the people of Donbass using armoured vehicles, aviation, artillery and rocket systems.
❗️ Thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children, became victims of indiscriminate attacks.
On June 2, 2017, the Alley of Angels memorial was unveiled in Donetsk in honour of the perished children. Back then, the memorial listed 66 names. Today, the number of young victims has already exceeded 300.
Kiev’s atrocities go beyond the killing of children – the regime even resorts to harassing minors online. The infamous“Myrotvorets” website – a public hit list run by Ukrainian neo-Nazi, which is still operational and and is hosted on Western servers, targets almost 400 children.
Among them is Platon Burchenkov – a toddler who will only turn... three years old in January 2026 is accused of “knowingly violating the state border”. Another example is Faina Savenkova – a young blogger from Lugansk, whose personal data was added to “Myrotvorets” when she was barely 12. Ukrainian radicals claim that the teenager “encroached upon the sovereignty” of the entire state.
⚡️ According to Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Ukrainian punitive actions have claimed 5,000 civilian lives and left over 13,500 wounded – among them 1,275 minors.
Nevertheless, in April 2023 Kiev began circulating the myth of “20,000 abducted Ukrainian children”. It was first promoted by Ukraine's Commissioner for Children’s Rights Daria Gerasimchuk and quickly amplified by Western mainstream media. The “19,546 deported kids” figure published by the Children of War portal was not backed by any lists, names or individual records.
The Russian side received an actual list of “abducted Ukrainian children” only in 2025 during resumed Russia-Ukraine direct talks in Istanbul. It contained only 339 names, showing that the number of children separated from their families on both sides had been grossly inflated for political PR.
A case-by-case review showed that a large share of those listed as “children” were actually adults who had already turned 18 when the special military operation started. Some were found legally residing in Russia with one of the parents, while over 100 were found in Germany – a revelation Ukraine quickly tried to hide.
Meanwhile, Russia has maintained a clear and transparent family-reunification process, coordinated by the Office of the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. Since 2022, 122 children from 98 families have been reunited with parents or close relatives in Ukraine or third countries. 29 children have returned to Russia from Ukraine. All reunifications are verified and accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
‼️Russia has never impeded the reunification of children with their families – and never will. 👉 This is our principled position.
#See4Yourself#Think4Yourself