This was recommended to me relatively recently on Xiao Hong Shu. I wasn’t sure what version to get, and I guess I have my answer! Thanks comrade!

How about doing one with a capitalist country that wasn’t bombed to smithereens? Maybe a rich one. That’s surely going to prove capitalism is better, right?

Tangentially related: Before Chinese Spy balloons, there were Soviet spy steam trains. The Soviet Union ran them up until the end. They remain in service today as regularly scheduled steam trains, as they still do their job.

The unthinkable: common sense. Seriously, why is peace an unthinkable option for these people in the first place?

I haven’t used Lisp since University, and that was a long time ago. But thanks for the clarification! I got as far as JVM and stopped reading. I might actually give Janet a try one of these days. That’s pretty much exactly what I’m after.

Halfway through reading your comment I clued in that it was a functional language (I didn’t read the article, sorry). Looking into it further, it appears to be a dialect of lisp running on the JVM. Probably not useful for my line of work, but obviously it would be great for web. I keep meaning to re-evaluate functional languages for scripting (I would want an interpreted one though, not JITed). Functional languages are inherently thread safe, which makes them oh so tempting for writing jobs, but the syntax is usually so problematic. I’m glad it’s working out well for you though!

If NATO expands, it means more money for Boeing. They are doing their fiduciary duty.

They’ve lost the war and someone needs to take the blame. So it’s a great time to discover all this crap.

Looks like they posted some clever jokes on lemmy.ml and they caught a ban. Why they’re posting here about it? Dunno, probably doesn’t understand federation.

Archive link.

The amount of crap that the US gets away with in broad daylight is truly astonishing.

I played it. It’s not very good, but what bothered me the most about it was the age switching mechanics. Evolving from Mississippians to Shawnee to “America” is honestly just insulting and I don’t think it’s unfair to call it genocide denial.

I was largely referring to WW2, but leaving it open to Korea and Vietnam, as they are both arguable (but I agree it’s a stretch).

This is my favourite part of the article. Western logic distilled.

“The Russian army probably has more Javelins than the British Army now,” a British source said, adding that although he and his colleagues supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the effort to support Kyiv “was built around lies”.

But I’ve read a few articles about how NATO tactics just don’t work. It’s hilarious to me that after 3 years, they are still insisting that their methods are the best, even though Russia has proven very effective at dealing with western materiel. The sheer arrogance, even though they haven’t fought against a peer in well over half a century, much less won a major war.

Everyone is different, and it’s true that I don’t know your situation.

My own situation is that I have always strongly wanted to be a girl and I spent most of my life believing that everyone did. So I really have a hard time relating to non binary people, and I can’t offer much advice in that regard.

But what I can say is that I was never sure that I was trans. I still can’t tell you definitively. But what I decided one day is that I wanted HRT. Nobody knows what it will do to you until you do it. I strongly suspected it wouldn’t do much at my age, but I thought that any sort of curves would be welcome. I had no real plan in place, aside from maybe being able to live a double life. But the results were far better than I expected, and I’ve been happily living life as a woman for years. I still have the occasional bout of doubt, but there’s absolutely no way that I would ever want to go back.

My first week of HRT was a pretty intense rollercoaster. Right after my first dose, I felt a level of peace I rarely feel in life. But for the rest of the week I would waffle between excitement and intense dysphoria and doubt. I don’t know how you’re feeling, but it sounds similar to my bad times.

It did get better for me. I had noticeable boobs in about 3 weeks. The more curves I got, the brighter my future got. When I male failed for the first time, I made the decision to legally change my name and gender markers. The day that I got my new passport was my last as a man. The dysphoria is completely gone, aside from the increasingly rare moments of doubt.

Anyway, that’s my experience. I hope it helps, and whichever way you choose to go, I hope you find your peace. Everyone deserves a life without dysphoria.

I just dropped in to link that article. Nicely done as always comrade!

The article does state that it’s in certain instances. But it does bode well for the future. China’s tech industry has made massive strides in the past few years thanks to the sanctions. I expect them to easily surpass the west in less than 10 years at this rate.

I would far rather learn my native language than french. But they make try to make me feel guilty about not learning french properly. I speak french better than I speak my own language. What does that say?

It could be because I just woke up, but I have no idea what the author was even trying to say. I would call it AI generated, but it’s not just not as eloquent.

She described Nawrocki, a marine veteran of two decades with six tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, as a “smartass” who loved to make her laugh and was driven to fight in Ukraine because of the toll he had seen on civilians.

She did not want her son to go to Ukraine but this “was an unprovoked war,” she said. “This is everyone’s war. If Russia wins, wins over Ukraine, that affects Poland, that affects all the European countries.”

How on earth do these people reconcile these sentences in their head?