Ciralinde

Since it's Kyiv it would mean it's finally over I guess. Russia has open borders so if we eventually end up in Russia we can just leave.

You can, like you said about the girls, just leave if you don’t like the Ukrainian government’s conduct of the war.

I wish I could. It's very hard. All cities are full of blockposts that check docs of all men, there are conscription officers with police at subway station entraces/exits, at bus/train stations, etc. It's hard to even get out of city, it's hard to travel between cities, and borders is a whole different story. EU borders from Ukrainian side are patrolled with night-vision drones, photo-trap cameras, even some helicopters. It takes extraordinary skills and luck to cross the border. And regarding Crimea, can you open the map and tell me how I'm supposed to travel there from Ukraine even if there were no blockposts? I mean, it requires crossing the battlefields. Those who are in Crimea though, they can leave through Russia and go wherever the fuck they want, even go back into Ukraine through basically any intermediate country after leaving Russia.

You don't understand the situation in Ukraine. Military is terribly mismanaged and nobody wants to fight anymore. Since the last spring conscription offices started kidnapping people on the streets, beating, torturing them and forcefully delivering them to polygons. That's why I'm (and many other men who can afford it) not leaving appartment for 10 months already. So it's not only the borders, we can't even leave our homes. Our government doesn't do anything about that terrible mismanagement at battlefields or corruption or about crimes conscription officers commit daily, they only leech help from west and sacrifice people unwilling to fight in return without even trying to win or to fight war efficiently. So US/EU giving money to Ukraine is basically sponsoring kidnapping/torturing/killing people who don't want to fight. Articles like this is pure propaganda.

Do you consider the right to give up a basic human right? I do. Military service should never be mandatory. Also, the whole concept of nation-states is obsolete and harmful and humanity should try to move to stateless/borderless forms of society.

Could be many things, maybe even major depression. If your doctor fails you, I suggest reading about St John's Wort. There are pill formulations standardized to hyperforin content which might help with depression and possibly other conditions. Helped me with chronic fatigue of unknown cause.

JAV

So, I don’t know if you’re aware – and your client may work differently, if you’re not using a browser – but in the Lemmy Web UI, you can expand images that are directly posted by clicking on them.

The main difference is images on imageboards are posted not only as topic or for sharing content, but WITH EVERY MESSAGE in discussions just for fun and for the sake of it. So a person might start posting every message in a thread with a new image of his anime waifu, even though the discussion might be about linux kernel or whatever. This format of conversation is already a culture in itself, but there's more to imageboards. You just have to try both to feel the difference in vibe.

https://imageboards.net/

Thanks! I've been digging myself and somehow this is first time I see this particular catalogue! I wonder what's wrong with my google-fu.

I actually would be interested to try a non-anonymous imageboard, but I've never seen one. What I'm seeking there is not anonymity but the way it's structured: linear chatty threads with easily expandable images/videos attached to posts, references to other messages using post number backlinks that show referenced post on hover. The way redditlikes feel with this tree-like structure is totally different and it breeds different types of discussions and totally different vibe. This works better for stricter, more formal, more serious discussions, while imageboards work better for chaotic fun chatty threads with incidental RP and whatnot. In a way, imageboards feel more like chat, but turn-based one instead of real-time, and it's really quite unique vibe.

This platform is good, but I don't see this format as interchangeable with imageboards. For me redditlikes and imageboards are totally different beasts. And even within imageboards, there are actually 2 totally different non-interchangeable types: those like 4chan, a format I'm talking about, the one most often associated with the word "imageboard", and those like gelbooru, which are closer to stuff like pinterest. Still thanks for letting me know about mbin/piefed because I wasn't aware of those.

NEET draft dodger type. I prioritize life and wellbeing over nation-state things. Living off savings, never leaving apartment, and waiting for opportunity to sneak out of country after ceasefire or defeat.