as i understand it, there's still quite massive support among the Russian public for what Putin is doing in Ukraine. i'm not sure if the average Russian citizen is aware of how little sympathy this has in the UN. even the Chinese are a bit reluctant to outright endorse these actions, because they don't want to burn bridges.
from Norway's perspective - we share a border with Russia and have a long history of peaceful trade with Russia - our hand has actually been forced by what Putin has been doing. we were trying to strengthen bonds to Russia, collaborate in the Arctic regions. even during the Cold War, Norway's been relatively friendly to Russia, despite having American backing. it's usually a bad idea to be enemies with your neighbours. Norway can't accept what's going on in Ukraine right now. sure, there are historical arguments for having Ukraine as part of Russia, but Russia kind of hoisted its own petard there didn't they...
Putin tries to make it out as if Europe's been trampling on Russia all along, but why would be make much of our energy supply reliant on Russian gas if we distrusted Russia and didn't want to trade peacefully with them? while Russia has always been a bit of a challenge, i can't say the public mood in Europe in 1989 was one of "let's trample on Russia" - more like "maybe this is a new start?"
Putin had other ideas though.
before Putin began his business in Ukraine, NATO had turned into more of an alliance for military operations in other parts of the world than something that was specifically targeted at Russia.
ironically, because he didn't buy that, he made it true again.
prior to Russia's transgressions, the EU was attempting to "play nice" with Russia - it's generally just been a world of pain for European powers to go to war with each other, so this approach made sense, but Putin isn't following that playbook...
in EU legislation circles there is an idea of "harmony" that has some commonalities with the Law of Jante
one mustn't be "unmusical" or rock the boat.
the dark side of this mentality is the (in)famous Law of Jante:
it's perhaps more accurate to consider Norwegian managers as "coordinators" rather than "chiefs"
sure, at times, the top people have to make some calls, but it's usually more about reaching some kind of consensus in most cases. Scandinavia is fairly egalitarian.
making decisions in Norway can take a bit of time. even if you're the supposed boss of some enterprise (whether public or private), you gotta have a meeting about it first...
there are certain benefits to developing and maintaining websites via a shell
my Nostr clients aren't too good at notifying me about zaps but they're coming in. this is a few days worth of them at most. 
who knows, maybe someone's into wet toilet paper that smells like ammonia
on a scale of 1 to 5, how useful is my Nostr web app https://nadar.tigerville.no
i'm hoping it helps for something.
you know, interestingly, i did more processing internally in the past, but i find it helps me think to do it externally, even if nobody's listening. i talk to myself more now than i did when i was younger, so i've actually been moving in the opposite direction...
i've just come to the conclusion, after 40 years on this ball of dirt, that i'm not really persistently/consistently into any one thing. not anything productive anyway. i like posting on the Internet, but it's largely not useful for anything...
i had a profound lack of social intelligence in school. i took everything literally and couldn't read the room. the hardware for that stuff wasn't activated at the time. it came much later. i can read people now in a way that i had no chance in hell of doing when i was 10 or 15.
i was that kid in class who would hold up the teacher with questions about what they were teaching and the other kids hated me for it because they weren't there to have questions answered. they just wanted class to be over as soon as possible.
i've come to the conclusion that i have no true passions. what i have are
1. passing interests
2. fear of failure
3. rage
i'd probably fuck up in a lot of the same ways as Elon Musk has been fucking up at Twitter tbqhwy because i say a lot of not very smart things while i think out loud 😆
there's an awful lot of stuff i don't really feel motivated for unless it gets noticed. i mean, i won't do something that i think sucks just to get noticed, but if there's some level of enjoyability to the task and it gets positive feedback, this is highly motivating to me.
i don't feel dictated because it's still my choice, but i feed on positive feedback.