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I, personally, use crypto to do art commissions (I'm an artist) and to pay my VPS's rent. Neither is an illicit good or related to money laundering.

And, honesty, it's pretty great, compared to alternatives.
Last time I've used PayPal, it decided to withhold the funds for a month, for whatever reason. Plus, the transaction fee was about a dollar.
Transferring the same amount of money via Monero is guaranteed take only about a minute or two to process, since a transaction in that system would never get withhold, plus the processing fee would be about a hundred times smaller.

The vast majority of "real" currencies are fiat currencies and don't have inherent value or use either.
US dollar hasn't been backed by gold since 1971, for example.
The only reason money has any perceived value at all, is because it's collectively agreed to have some value. Just like crypto currencies.

Almost everything that's not Gnome can be considered lightweight, to be honest.

Personally know several metric nuts who insist on using metric in their day-to-day life.

What a great set of options!

Either become a criminal by deflecting and crossing the border illegally, only to face constant fear of being caught, deported and prosecuted for deflection, illegal border crossing, and treason... Which is basically, a life sentence.

Or become a criminal in the eyes of the civilized world by participating in an attack on a sovereign country. Which, honestly, will most likely result in death.

So, basically: being a Russian, who can't afford to leave the country via the convoluted and expensive ways that are still available, is a crime. Got it! Nice!

You do realize that crossing a border is illegal, even if there's no wall, right?

First: leaving Russia without a permit is illegal and punishable by fines and/or prison.
Second: Entering any country without a permit is illegal and will get you deported and banned from entering it ever again.

Merely being Russian does not grant anyone asylum rights. Poland and the Baltic states, for example, won't consider any asylum requests, even from persons who are being conscripted. At most, the process can be slowed down with appeals to last a year or more, but it will, almost certainly, end up in deportation back to Russia, followed by Russia prosecuting the deflectors.

Even North Koreans get deported back to NK, despite the fact that the country is considered to be hellhole by pretty much everyone, everywhere.

Sons and daughters of Russian oligarchs will.

It was always hard and expensive to leave Russia for a first world country, and right now most of those countries are making it even harder and even more expensive than before.

For example Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, (most of which share a border with Russia) banned Russians from entering the countries outright, regardless of purpose, greatly limiting options for leaving Russia via land.

Other countries introduces other restrictions, like directing anyone wishing to get a visa to their embassies in Moscow exclusively. Which is a bit of a problem, considering the size of the country.

Oh, an of course there are inherent restrictions due to the visa facilitation agreement being suspended.

The article above makes it pretty clear Russia is interested in preventing international cooperation. So I wouldn't expect things like joined research endeavors or exchange programs to be common, if allowed to happen at all.

So, how does any of that facilitate brain drain, exactly?

Most music I have is from "Pay what you want" albums from Ponies@Dawn, VibePoniez, A State Of Sugar, etc.
When I come across artists I like, I tend to check out their other tracks and grab the ones I like.

On my devices like PCs, laptops or phones, syncthing syncs all my .rc files, configs, keys, etc.

For things like servers, routers, etc. I rely on OpenSSH's ability to send over environmental variables to send my aliases and functions.
On the remote I have
[ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] && eval "$(echo "$LC_RC" | { { base64 -d || openssl base64 -d; } | gzip -d; } 2>/dev/null)"
in whatever is loaded when I connect (.bashrc, usually)
On the local machine
alias ssh="$([ -z "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] && echo 'LC_RC=$(gzip < ~/.rc | base64 -w 0)') ssh'

That's not the best way to do that by any means (it doesn't work with dropbear, for example), but for cases like that I have other non-generic, one-off solutions.

Spaces are a way to group things together.

Unlike something like folders in Discord, spaces can contain rooms or other spaces. Spaces can also be shared across several users.

Spaces can be created by anyone and any rooms or spaces can be added to them, even if you don't have control over said rooms of spaces.

Admins of rooms can configure them to only allow members of specific spaces to join, turning them into an approximation of a "Discord Server".

Making things that were never about race into things about race, just to have one more reason to be potentially offended by, is not productive and doesn't help anyone.

By exercising enough mental gymnastics almost any term could be twisted into something supposedly offensive. The real solution to that problem: don't do mental gymnastics.

Odysee seems to be doing relatively well. Probably 20-30% of the YouTubers I watch are also on there.