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The text read to me like it was, first and foremost, a translation from Russian. It wasn't the names that gave it away to me. It was the text itself. Even in English, it had unmistakable Russianness all over it. I switched the blog language to Russian. Didn't feel like an LLM. Felt rather like written by someone who had read a lot of Viktor Pelevin or maybe Leonid Kaganov.

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I'm pretty sure it was. The wordplay on the Russian “пока” meaning both "goodbye" and "for now" (as in "not yet") is key here

Oooooh. This seems key. (As an aside, I think "until later" could be a good English translation?)

It could indeed, but it wouldn't work well with "No one won't be making cheese for me for now". Yeah, it's a bad translation overall. The original wordplay is not too good.

Maybe it could be a bit better like:

Gosha: It's not like anybody would take care of making cheese for me.

MC (confused by the word choice): "Take care"?

Gosha: Take care. (hangs up on MC)

Oh! I mean that could be a good explanation. Written in another language and then translated over via LLM.

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