I've been following this conflict sometimes closely since the escalation. And since I don't really have any non-lib person to talk to irl about this, you've opened up a bit of a can of worms. Yes it's still a stupid waste of human life. From a detached paying attention to how things are going have been going point of view, it's about to get pretty interesting for a number of reasons. Largely the state of the battlefield, the state of the Ukrainian military, and the tech being adopted

• In Donetsk there are 3 larger towns/cities that Russia has surrounded on 3 sides. (Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkivka) There's about a 20 mile buffer from those cities and were the regular warfare is, but at points it's closer to 4 miles. It's been held that way for roughly a month or so. If I was in charge of the Russian side, I'd be cutting off the supply lines to those cities. Because dumb me is suggesting that, it's likely already happening
• When the war started, there was a lot of talk about how the pattern was going to be advance in the summer, and hold in the winter. Throughout this past winter there were a lot of advancements
• There's been reports that Russia has been in a holding phase for the last month or so. Casualties are down and the Russians aren't making many advancements
• Western media has been portraying this as a big loss on Russia's part. Rather than the plan for a big move it likely is.
• Ukraine has kept the lid on their casualty rates pretty well this past year, but there have been a lot of reports about how they can't keep soldiers from running away
• Ukraine's had a lot of wins with their drone manufacturing/ability, but it's also come to light that their adoption of capitalist tactics has hindered them. e.g. they have a lot of different drones and drone manufacturers, so when a part goes down in the field, they don't necessarily have the parts ready to fix it
• Russia has far fewer drone types. So when one goes down, they can fix it. Russia has also developed insanely cheap drones. Ones that are literally made of cardboard, so the total cost is hundreds of dollars, but I haven't heard of the equivalent from the Ukrainian side
• Ukraine has been begging Central Asian countries to buy their drone/anti-drone tech, but as far as I've seen there hasn't been any real buy in from these countries
• Ukraine has opened up a scary can of worms as there have been reports of autonomous drones both flying and ground that have their decision making powered by ai
• Throughout the conflict, one side makes a tech upgrade, then the other side soon follows. Russia is likely going to be deploying the same types of ai controlled drones in the near future

All of this implies to me that the war might be entering a new phase. I'm not a military analyst, but if the Ukrainians are able to use the autonomous drones to hold territory, we might actually be entering the stalemate that Western media has been claiming for the past 4 years.

I could find references if you want, but this was written strictly from memory. Most of this should be taken with a grain of salt as a result.

Are they unable to design/build a ship competently or did Iran hit them? My money's on both

'illicit' lol

I just heard somewhere that the Chinese were producing and installing so much solar that they're single handedly going to be responsible for avoiding the worst effects of climate change. Some how, that's still not enough.

What kind of monster is against trying to make kids feel welcome?

Most forensics is junk. Doesn't mean it isn't used though. Do I trust software to do that? No. I can identify my friends and family by their walk though.

I just want to say how much I appreciate you people here. It's really nice to see people with memory and a sense of justice. All the time I'm seeing people just buying the propaganda. Then I come here. It's like a palate cleanser.

all of the editing on this film is suspect. I've heard of a gay kiss that was removed. Now this

This was a referendum on biden. People don't like him. They voted him out, and at every opportunity Harris showed that besides the gender, age and race, they were the same person

Entire world is showing how much they want cheap evs. US automakers: check out this truck

ALL violence is political

There's some weird disinformation going on. Hexbear is leftist for sure, but my short time there I've yet to see any of the rhetoric that people claim is everywhere there.