Roscosmos Forks the ISS, Futurama-Style

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This is a two-panel meme that contrasts a serious news announcement with a pop culture joke. The top panel displays a news headline: 'Russia: we'll leave International Space Station and build our own,' accompanied by a photo of the ISS orbiting Earth. The sub-headline quotes a Russian space agency head saying, 'If you want to do well, do it yourself.' The bottom panel features the character Bender from the animated series 'Futurama,' edited to look stereotypically Russian. He wears a ushanka hat with a red star and a fur-collared coat, standing in front of the Roscosmos logo. The caption at the bottom reads, 'WITH PROSTITUTKI AND VODKA.' The humor comes from applying the classic 'Bender's theme park' meme format ('with blackjack and hookers!') to a real-world geopolitical event. It satirizes Russia's declaration of independence in space exploration by framing it as a petulant decision to create a new version of a project laden with stereotypical vices. For senior developers, this mirrors the familiar, albeit less dramatic, scenario of a developer rage-quitting a collaborative project to 'fork' it and build their own 'better' version, often with questionable design choices

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Forking a repo because you disagree with the linting rules is one thing. Forking a multi-billion-dollar orbital laboratory because of 'earthly disputes' is the ultimate 'works on my planet' argument

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Forking a repo because you disagree with the linting rules is one thing. Forking a multi-billion-dollar orbital laboratory because of 'earthly disputes' is the ultimate 'works on my planet' argument
Anonymous

CTO: “We’re leaving the open-source ‘ISS’ and building our own stack.” Staff engineer: “Ah, the Not-Invented-Here rocket - same orbit, now with extra space debris, vendor lock-in, and a mandatory vodka runtime.”
Anonymous

Just like every microservices migration announcement: 'We'll build our own distributed system!' Six months later you're maintaining two monoliths, except one of them is in orbit and the deployment pipeline requires actual rockets
Anonymous

When your API partnership gets deprecated due to geopolitical merge conflicts, so you fork the entire infrastructure repo and deploy your own instance - complete with legacy dependencies and cultural localization. Classic case of 'not invented here' syndrome at orbital scale, proving that even in space, the hardest problems aren't technical - they're organizational and political. At least their deployment strategy is literally out of this world
Anonymous

Announcing “we’ll leave the ISS and build our own” is the orbital version of NIH: great press, but what’s your oxygen SLO, docking backward‑compatibility contract, and rollback plan when prod is literally vacuum?
Anonymous

Leaving the ISS to “build our own” is the aerospace version of rage‑forking the monolith: you drop decades of shared integrations and pick up an on‑call rotation that requires rockets
Anonymous

Russia's CAP theorem play: earthly partition tolerance means solo availability at vodka o'clock, consistency be damned
@Eugene1319 5y

Fucking 21 year of chekist government. Because of that we have been loosing everything in space, high end technologies and so on.
1. @mainfme 5y
  
  We dont asks loosers like you Смешно от таких клоунов как ты
  
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  I suspect, this message was sent from russias moon base, which was promised by Putin aka Huylo to be built in 2015?
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Хохла забыли спросить Dont asks loosers from other countries too
  
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  Ахахсхасхсх, отличный троллинг, бро) Hahahah, nice trolling, bro)
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Go, Ivan, go! Drink some vodka, play balalaika! Dont hesitate to leave us - your bear is waiting for you.
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Dude, it's Friday today. I'm already going to do this tonight
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Its all your live. Nothing more. What a pity.
dev_meme 5y

"strained by earthly disputes" I love that line
1. @Eugene1319 5y
  
  It seems to me that last year we only have "earthly disputes" and nothing else The second part of the meme is very displaying: roscosmos is able to build something, but only as cartoons
@saidov 5y

РА СИ Я
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  Please, keep usage of English for message or at least provide translation like @mainfme does
  
  @saidov 5y
  
  Oh, I thought you are from Eastern Bloc :D
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Well, to be honest, hes translation is not correct. In hes russian text he insulting Ukrainian people.
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Ну да, хохол который не закрысил - это не хохол If hohol not doing rat thing - it's not hohol And for you know "hohol(хохол)" means stupid filthy rural Ukrainians, like rednecks. Not all people from ukraine
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  We both know your lying. "Hohol" word is widely used by russian racist, to insult any Ukrainian, who doesnt like to be a russian slave. Come up with better excuses.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  welcome to the internet
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Ну и где тут расизм, у хохлов другая раса? Нет, хохол - это название типичной крысиной особи украинца, вроде тебя А украинцев нормальных, которые живут в Крыму, на Кубани, в Одессе, Днепропетровске и тд никто хохлами не называет Да и судя по твоей риторике - типичный промытый хохол долбоеб Words "hohol" and "ukrainian" linked like "hebrew" and "jew", "gay" and "fag". But you, little man with victim syndrome, never understand this
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  хотя я и из украины, но могу сказать одно: хохлинку порвало))0) Im not from Ukraine, but i can said one thing: hohla porvalo))0)
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Ну) причём он первый начал говном кидаться и по итогу обосрался Yep) hi began this shittalk, but shitted out himself Typical hohol
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Sure you not from Ukraine. I suspect, you also, like a racist above is from Russia 🤷‍♂
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  yo yo man, chill, this is internet, toy're just gonna get trolled even further
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  You should definitely buy some English courses. Or, maybe, youre just on high? Or drunk?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  you can treat me as a dyslexic person, but i just don't put in the effort to write stuff in coments
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  What? Maybe you just missed some pills, prescripted by your psychiatrist?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  man, shut the fuck up, please
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Or what? You gonna tell your mom?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  you're definitely not making yourself a favour by talking like that
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Oh, im scared 😱 Some vatnik in telegram threatening me 😂
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  i'm literally fom ukraine and am ukrainian, retard
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  From Odessa to be precise
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  btw it should to be written with a single 's' but compat and interop are more important
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Oh, so your vatnki from odessa? How pathetic 😂
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  wtf maan, i just don't get offended on the internet at every opportunity
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  So, you good with 15000 Ukrainians l, killed by Russia?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  imagine a true patriot raging from getting called a hohol. A proud ukrainian should wear it with pride, bc they earned it by trolling a moskal'
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  I didnt asked you about your imaginable friends. Im asking you if you ok with 15000 of your people, killed by russians.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  I AM NOT OKAY WITH THAT I ALREADY TOLD YOU
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  no, ofc i'm not ok with killing, who made you assume that?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  So, you against Russia, russian invasion and occupation of crimea and Donbas?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  OFC YES
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  BUT
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  i am not against russian ppl intrinsically
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  just as i am ok with arabs existing
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  or british ppl))
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  That's fine for me. Im also ok with russians, if they are not trying to kill my neighbors or still my property, as they usually do.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  noone tried to do that here, did they?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Sorry, maybe i dont understand you correctly? Russians killed 15000 ukrainians and occupied Crimea and Donbass. One of this russians is here, its Sergey A. Even if he didnt took participation in this actions, hes supporting this. And i, personally, dont like it, even despite im not from Ukraine.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  i would like some proof on that he's supporting this
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  We can simply ask him @mainfme do you supporting occupation of Crimea and Donbass by you country, and killing 15000 Ukrainians?
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  yeah go ahead
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Такой ты дурачок, он выше написал что он из Украины) This man wrote above that him from ua lol
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Why you using russian? And do this make any difference - is he from odessa, or Moskva? It doesn't matter, he still a vatnik😂
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  https://t.me/devs_chat/16041 that's for you
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Ohh, you wrong
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  стався троллінг trolling occured
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  Wait? Ukrainian, living in Crimea? But your fascist country occupied Crimea, saying they are all russian 😂 So, your country occupied part of Ukraine, settled with Ukrainian people, and you admit that? 😂👍 You should be more careful, in Russia you can easily get to jail for this 😘
  
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  man, as a ukrainian, i do not care
@tokimonatakanimekat 5y

Have you already bought a trampoline?
@ArchieWindragon 5y

Fucks sakes lads, this is depressing
Deleted Account 5y

Btw, guys, why you are trying to insult me in Russian? Youve been banned from Google translate?
1. @mainfme 5y
  
  На каком языке хочу, на таком и оскорбляю Потому что могу, ты же все понимаешь Cus we are not morons who try to forgot his native culture and language
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  also, typos are not grammatic errors (unlike your "on high")
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  I'm not so good in English
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  oh, wrong reply, it was addressed to another guy
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  You not good in anything 😜
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  So, at least you found some minimal courage to admit, what your racist and insulting me and Ukrainian people. We have a progress!
  
  @mainfme 5y
  
  Only you, little rat
@pixelsex 5y

just keep them emojis coming lads, that'll show 'em
@mainfme 5y

"Racist" Are the Russians and Ukrainians have different race lol? Yep, ukrainians from crimea, also in crimea live crimea-tatars and russians. In Russia are living 100+ different nationality Silly boy don't know simply facts, so pitty
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  Well, you see, if you thinking you're better than i, its mean your racist. Thats simple!
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offtopic
@NiKryukov 5y

Развели тут shityard
@ImJmik 5y

Rogizin before: they will use trampoline to reach space trampoline works Rogozin now: they don't need our trampoline anymore
@eclypze 5y

russians ivans shall not pass

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