It's our pet liberal.

It would never happen, but it's hilarious to think about what chaos would happen if Russia were to just say no.

Trump wants them to stop fighting and allow the US to start digging for Ukrainian minerals. The Russians keep winning in clear defiance of this goal.

Americans don't know that there's a world outside of the US. They genuinely believe that the world will cease to function without them.

Chinese Spy submarine.

I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to imply in the first paragraph. Russia shouldn't have mobilised their troops before attacking? They shouldn't have given Zelensky one last try to make things right? 8 years was too short of a time for negotiations? Zelensky needed to go to war so he could look tough? WTF?

The second paragraph is more clear, but just seems to be liberal talking points. Which is fair, because I posted liberal sources, but the primary complaint seems to be that liberals don't support the Russian SMO, so I shouldn't? The war crimes thing is just fluff based on liberal propaganda. I still support the US' entry into World War 2. Despite them being most enthusiastic committer of war crimes on the planet, committing the most horrifying attack on civilians in human history.

In regards to one of his slaves who refused to work, and was whipped for it:

"Your treatment of Charlotte was very proper—and if she, or any other—of the Servants will not do their duty by fair means—or are impertinent, correction (as the only alternative) must be administered."

-- George Washington, slave owner and racist.

First of all, congratulations on opening your eyes and being willing to listen. That's not a small step. Please start with cfgaussian's post, as it's comprehensive and detailed. But I like to keep these two links handy for my liberal friends who call anything written by non-western people propaganda. They both basically say the same thing, but the first is more historical, and the second is more geopolitical. The second one is written by a former assistant secretary general of the UN who "escaped" the USSR.

https://archive.is/20250319094957/https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/

https://www.meer.com/en/74782-will-the-ukraine-war-be-the-undoing-for-the-european-union

Personally, I'm entirely on board with the Russian "invasion", and my support for it is uncritical. The war should never have happened, but now that it's here, Russia needs to see it through to the end. They were left with no other choice.

Verhoeven was too subtle for these people. They're fascists. They're unlikely to ever change. Stalin should have kept going.

Or they will later say that it was a senseless tragedy that shouldn't have happened. Like Vietnam.

Vietnam was started with a false flag attack. Because they wanted to forcibly remove Ho Chi Minh. Because they knew that if an election were held, he would win. Because they couldn't stand the idea of a country halfway around the world having a government that they didn't like.

So millions of deaths later, they're like "Oops! Those poor soldiers had to do terrible things."

These people are so infuriating. They turn a blind eye to every war that the west starts (including Ukraine). But when someone dares to fight back, they all band together to condemn whoever dared to do so. And no amount of documentation will EVER change their minds. In this case even western media is starting to tell the truth, and they STILL won't have it.

I hate liberals.

These people are in a cult. It's all there clear as day. Hell, even Israel told them to stop being such Nazis.

That was the line that irritated me the most too. Imagine travelling halfway around the world to kill people who don't share your values. Assholes.

Is "The Hill" going to be labelled as a Russian asset now? The article does indeed contain a shocking amount of truth, and completely contradicts the western narrative for the last 3 years.

Yeah. It really is. I still have my doubts about whether I'm trans or not. They're fading, but still there. But again, it was a shift in perspective that made me go through with it. Even if the hormones didn't do anything at my age, I would still get some curves in the right places. I would still be happy with that, even if not the dramatic change I wanted. Worst case scenario sounded pretty good to me (totally cis thoughts, right?). If the best case happened, I would figure out what to do then.

It turns out I wasn't too old, and jumped at the chance to switch completely as soon as I could. And what do you know? The dysphoria is gone now, and I don't miss my old life. I'm starting to really believe that I might not be cis. And I think my 60 year old self is going to be proud of me.

What made me do it was a change of perspective. I was really kind of mad that my 20 year old self didn't do it. I thought I was too old at that point. But then I followed that logic, and my 60 year old self would likely be just as angry at me for not doing it. I was never going to stop feeling this way. I couldn't change the past, but I could change the future. There would never be a good time to do it. I may as well get it done today.

As it turned out, it was the perfect time for me to do it. The pandemic lockdown made the early years so much easier. But I didn't know that was coming.

In my case, I called the LGBT hotline at a local LGBT clinic and asked them how I got started on it. (Well, actually I didn't come right out and say it. I just awkwardly said I didn't know what I was doing. but the person on the phone clued in when I got excited she mentioned informed consent). She directed me to call a specific doctor who only dealt with trans issues, and told me that people would know what I wanted just by booking the appointment with her.

I booked the appointment, and somehow managed to get HRT without ever saying the word trans, or even really admitting to it. It was one of the scariest days of my life. But also one of the best.

I haven't had surgery. But I've been on HRT for 5 years, and have fully transitioned. I live in a fairly socially progressive place, my family does not. My family ranges from bigots to allies, but tends to lean towards bigot. My own results were losing about half of my family, but not a single friend. You can pick your friends, but not your family. I chose great friends.

I'm glad I did it. When I made my final decision, I was prepared to lose it all. My job, my family, my friends. It meant that much to me. That said, I didn't have to deal with legal problems, outside of obstructing officials. So I wasn't afraid of being legally punished.

So my advice to you is to not worry about what other people think. You can't control that, and it's minor compared to your legal problems. If they really loved you, they would understand. But the legal problems only really have one real solution. Move. Get out of there any way you can.

The only alternative is to find loopholes in your laws. If you live in a larger city, there's sure to be underground queer movements somewhere. Find them, ask them for help.

Edit: Also, now that I've had my caffeine, I also want to add a couple of things.

1. Things don't change unless people are exposed to new things by the people close to them. It's easy to make oppressive laws when it's conceived as something scary and foreign. Internal pressure is needed to change the status quo. Obviously it won't do anyone much good if they execute you, but even if you came out outside of the country, that still challenges the status quo. There's no need to be a martyr.
2. My mom was a lifelong homophobe. What changed her mind about gay people was that one of the elders on my reserve came out as gay. She'd known him for decades, and the reality was suddenly thrust upon her that queer people are normal people and not so scary as she thought. You might be surprised.

I'm not watching a 20 minute YouTube video. But I did a quick search, and I'm guessing it's about Box64, which does static recompilation. I'm still going to say that it's not going to be perfect or even good enough in many cases (and their website indicates as much). You can't always directly translate what happens on one CPU to another. Neon/SSE for example. You can do some translation, but some things will need emulating in software, and that's going to be slow. Even memory access is different. I'm sure any programmer who's tried writing a lockless queue is going to know that what works on x86 probably doesn't work on ARM without a lot of futzing with memory barriers and atomic flags. It's hard. And it's hard because in order to be fast, it has to be the right code for the job. If you just slap a memory barrier after every instruction, it'll run correctly, but too slow to matter.

This is why emulators exist, and continue to exist.

It's working fine here on Firefox mobile.