Yep.

Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.

Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don’t even want to argue with them anymore.

You don’t understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn’t really another choice.

You don’t understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.

You don’t understand, we CAN’T be on f-droid.

You don’t understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.

Did I miss anything?

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What makes you think that “European independent payment processor” would not pressure companies to follow similar (or worse) rules for “compliance”?

I don’t understand what this article is about.

I also get RSUs at my job. Every “performance review cycle” together with salary increase I am awarded N shares that will vest over some period of time (multiple years). A few times a year those shares are vested, and after they are vested I actually own them and can sell them (or hold them for as long as I want). So they are part of my compensation package. If I get laid off (or quit) I will obviously not receive my unvested shares. The same as I will not receive any salary that my company would pay me if I continued working there.

So I don’t understand how complaining about not receiving unvested shares is different from complaining about not receiving salary that you would get in the future by continuing working for the company…

It’s the best I have. The alternative is believing Russian propaganda, who are the aggressors here. Collecting accurate polls is nigh impossible though.

So believing one propaganda is better than believing another? Zelensky’s propaganda doesn’t even make any sense, how come everyone supports him, yet no-one joins the army and thus the need for a hundred thousand TCC “draft officers” roaming the streets and hunting people? How does that make sense to you?

Don’t forget that Russia also uses conscription too

Russia conscripts, that’s true (although there are also a lot of volunteers joining the army due to monetarily incentives, in contrast to Zelensky’s regime which treats us as his slaves). Zelensky’s regime kidnaps people off the streets. https://uadraftmuseum.ch/ Masked people with rifles are hunting people, beating people, putting people into vans to send them into the meatgrinder, in front of their crying mothers/viwes trying to fight them off (who in the extreme cases process to suicide bomb the draft centers in revenge…). This is how much people hate Zelensky’s regime, and you are believing in Zelensky’s approval rating…

So there’s absolutely precedent here.

There definitely is. It doesn’t change that the opposite is also possible, if Zelensky really wanted to (but of course he doesn’t, war is the only thing that keeps him in power).

And both are going to heavily interfere and neither will accept the results if it’s not what they want

“Interference” is what happens with every election ever, it’s just that sometimes it’s used as an excuse to not accept the results of people’s will.

“Neither will accept the results” is a speculation/opinion that I don’t think is based on anything.

And how is your vote supposed to count

Just like in every other election ever.

The war needs to end before a proper election can happen

Well, remind me, who is against this war ending? Is it Putin? Is it Trump? Is it people getting kidnapped and sent to “fight” it? Or maybe it’s Zelensky? I don’t see a realistic scenario of war ending with Zelensky in power, he is going to fight until the very last of us is dead. That’s why there must be elections.

Ukraine will lose

It already did. It loses more and more territory every single day. All the “counter-offensives” but one were total failures. The Kursk gamble is falling right now (the offensive that was tried a month ago failed so spectacularly that medias are not even talking about it…). But some people want it to continue until there are no more people to sacrifice.

Because that sounds like a very pro-Russia take

It doesn’t make it false.

doesn’t really jive with the approval ratings I’ve seen, which are still positive

You believe in “approval ratings” from a country which people are forbidden from leaving, where people are mass kidnapped off the streets (and then either die or get tortured by Zelensky’s regime), where news media are censored (you are basically getting sent to die if you write something Zelensky does not approve of).
What other fairy tales do you believe in?

The problem with elections is they just aren’t feasible without a ceasefire

Dozens of countries did elections in the wartime (including US). This is only an excuse for Zelensky to stay in power.

and I don’t think anyone will really accept the outcome

USA and Russia are literally pushing for those elections, they will accept them. Most of the countries would probably do the same (except a few EU countries maybe) if USA/Russia tell them to.

But I do know Ukrainians should decide that

But that’s exactly what I am trying to tell you - we CAN’T decide that. You literally support a dictator that prevents us from deciding anything. How are we supposed to decide anything if we cannot vote??

Neither do, they both want concessions. Trump seems to want resources, and Putin wants land and no NATO expansion. Neither wants what’s best for Ukrainians, they want spoils of war.

They both want there to be elections in Ukraine so that we can vote. Zelensky (with support from Europe and previously USA) wants to continue being a dictator without elections.
Zelensky will not stop the war until the very last of us dead. As long as there is cannon fodder he will continue.
So don’t matter how bad Trump’s deal will be, no matter how much concessions will be given to Putin, it’s still better than continuation of Zelensky’s regime (and war as a direct consequence, with millions dead and wounded).

And no I don’t even think Russia has functioning nukes based on their performance in Ukraine.

In other words you want to gamble on millions, or possibly billions of lives.

I’d be up for it but only if you were gambling on your own life and loves of your friends/family/etc., not on my.

None of what you mentioned has anything to do with freedom.

What? Being able to move freely has nothing to do with freedom? Not being kidnapped and forced into the meatgrinder has nothing to do with freedom? Being able to vote for your representatives has nothing to do with freedom? So, a person who cannot do any of the is free in your opinion? I guess we have a veri different definition of freedoms then.

If they capitulate to Russia, they’ll permanently lose essential freedoms.

So, how do I sign up to lose the “freedoms” I’ve described above?

should be the Ukrainian people who decide when to tap out.

But we can’t. Only Trump and Putin support us having a vote, everybody else prefers we have no say.

WW3?

So what in your opinion is going to happen if NATO/USA invades Russia? They will just give up and not nuke the shit out of NATO/USA?..

We both agree on stopping the war but bend over to appease the aggressor is not the answer.

Well, it doesn’t look to me like that…
“End the war now by signing a peace deal” and “end the war that has been going on for three years where one side has been almost constantly losing more and more ground by trying to make that side win the war and return all lost land” are almost the exact opposite opinions if anything…

give them nukes / start WW3

That’s a very good idea, but only as long as only people supporting this are going to die. So, you know, you but not me.

more Ukraine lives are lost over something they didn’t choose.

So let’s stop the war so that lives are not lost.

Russia is not known for forgiving population that gave them trouble. Just look at east Berlin.

Are you trying to tell me that people on liberated territories have it worse than people on Zelensky controlled territories? That’s absolutely incorrect. People on liberated territories are free and can leave at any moment. People on Zelensky’s controlled territories can’t.

Saying that people who are kidnapped off the streets, who cannot leave the country (other than trying to cross “illegally” through mountains/rivers), who cannot vote, whose medias are controlled, saying that they are free is so fucking cruel.

Trump is the people’s only chance of survival in Zelensky’s concentration camp.

Liberals are literally more cruel than war.

A person that has even a slightest bit of compassion/empathy recognizes how bad war is and helps people flee the affected areas, ensures there are minimal casualties, supports ending the war.

Liberals have no compassion, no emapthy, they only pursue their goals no matter the human suffering. They support a dictator that stops people from fleeing the country, resulting in thousands of deaths and suffering people. They support people being kidnapped from the streets, homes and hospitals (the same people that they trapped there), and sent into the meatgrinder, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. They would not mind the war going on until the very last Ukrainian is dead. They have no red lines.

Liberals make an already awful thing a level of magnitude worse. Liberals are worse than war.

The only thing more cruel than war is liberals.

What makes a Tankie, is the support of Authoritarian regimes and turning a blind eye to genocides and many other human rights violations when committed by said regimes

That’s exactly what liberals of Lemmy do though.

When was the last time you spoke against Zelensky’s regime, that literally turned my country into a concentration camp that people cannot leave and are kidnapped off the streets (and even fucking hospitals!) in front of their crying wives/mothers, to be sent into the meatgrinder and never be seen again?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course you never did (and those who do, including me, are paid Russian shills, tankies or just bots). Because for a liberal, it’s never “authoritarianism bad” or “Nazism bad” or “human rights violations bad” or anything like this - it’s only bad when the other side is doing it. When “the good guys” are doing it, it’s not just totally acceptable, the guy is a hero.

Yes, you can, it exposes incoming transactions (but not the outgoing ones).

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/viewkey.html

genocide. Which the Russians also attempt to commit against Ukrainians denying them their right for self–determination, my dear Russian friend.

Thank god Zelensky is not trying to commit genocide on Ukrainians denying them their right for self-determination by forbidding people to leave the country and kidnapping them off the streets 1 by 1 in front of their mothers/wives and sending them to the meatgrinder, am I right, my dear Western friend holding the moral high ground?

Unless it’s auditted and open source then you should assume its spyware.

I do. I use Matrix and recommend it to all my friends.

“Telegram is spyware” was not the original thesis I replied to, it was about “operated by the enemy”.

Sure, what exactly would you like to have a proof for?