They never change.

Could you post a good source on this 1987 fatwa? Couldn’t find any that went into much detail about it other than to complain about how Iran is transphobic (pretty ironic coming from the likes of the BBC).

Retroarch on android is free and doesn’t have ads, not sure what you’re on about. Also, OP is specifically asking about handheld devices.

Gollum. The yellow face in the sky blinds me and I like playing silly games in my dark hideout.

Anybody got links to this leak? Asking for a friend.

Those are torrent magnet links, you need some torrent client to download them. LibreTorrent is okay on Android.

For listening, I recommend Voice.

Both are on F-droid.

This graph is golden. How I’d long for a time machine to show this graph to every annoying redditor talking about how Zelensky would march on Moscow with their “spring counteroffensive” 8 months ago.

This other one is also a great visualization. I’ve been in small cities with less than 1 million inhabitants with more territory than that.

If anything, this makes Russia’s new gains sound very unimpressive, if one can only think of war in terms of Paradox game map painting. Clearly that’s not how it works, but I won’t opine on how the war really is going because I haven’t done enough research.

Could this war perhaps be over this year? I wonder how it’ll affect USA elections or the inevitable riot upon Confirmation Day if it ends before then.

Rice and beans and rice and beans and rice and beans.

Lots of beans and bean-like foods (chickpeas, lentils, peas, soy beans) can be made into a variety of shapes. If you have a pressure cooker you can even cook them relatively quickly in mass and freeze most of it for later. No idea how much that costs in your country, but it’s supposed to be cheap.

You can just make regular bean “soup”, or you can “fry” them in a pan (specially lentils). You can eat chickpeas like popcorn or you can mix them with flour and something sticky (overcooked rice if vegan, egg whites otherwise) and make burgers. Just remember to put something oily like olive oi or butter for taste.

You can also do some really low-nutrition despair foods by mixing wheat flour, salt, water and butter, and frying that in a pan. It’s not healthy, but it’s filling and easy to make, tastes like bread. But of course, if you add to this you can make other cool stuff like pancakes (less salt, lots of sugar, baking powder).

All of the fried stuff get a very homogeneous consistency so they might be fine for your sensory issues.

On the matter of taste, you just need a lot of seasoning.

I really love birds, so it’s hard to choose one. So I’ll choose two.

Here we have the Anu-Preto, it looks like an angry chibi crow.

And also the Biguá, which looks like something out of a dinosaur movie. But don’t be fooled, he’s tiny.

But all birds are beautiful, specially weirdo tropical birds.

Found a new emoji.

I’ve not been paying attention for a while and Cherizier looks like he aged years in a couple months. I even completely missed Henry’s renunciation.

Despite the promise, I don’t think there’ll be any “compromise” from the “international community”.

The United States is not Ukraine’s only ally, but it is the only one with the willingness and means to supply Ukraine’s war effort. Many European nations lack a political tradition of arming other countries. They have sent Ukraine some impressive weapons, like German tanks and Swedish shoulder-fired missiles. But “they cannot pump out munitions,” Julian said. “They cannot produce large numbers of artillery shell rounds — the No. 1 thing Ukraine needs.”

This whole paragraph is truly a piece of Yankee writing.

The USA is the leading tiktok-using country, I’ll give them that. But according to this statista page, the following three countries already double the total of USA users.

That means ByteDance stands to lose way more by divesting themselves of TikTok than losing their USA audience. Not only are they isolating themselves diplomatically and economically from the rest of the world, now they’re backing down in hubris culturally as well.

Although I really dislike the TikTok business model for obvious reasons, banning it on USA territory is going to be really nice for the whole TikTok ecosystem.

So, when poor oppressed Americans are going to start getting VPNs to escape their Great Firewall?

The year is 2224, all of humanity is fractured between two factions: those who write in Emoji (Traditional) and those who write in Emoji (Simplified)

:sicko-yes:

I need hexbear emojis.

I enjoyed Korra a lot, but my trick was reframing the entire show in my mind as Korra being an accidental villain who blocked any chance for social change because she was too ignorant and bullheaded to understand the situation.

Like it’s some kind of Bad Ending where the avatar reincarnates as a gamer.

The big point: she seems to enjoy your friendship despite there being no romantic interest, so you shouldn’t feel too bad.

The small points (which my just be me projecting my own quirks on her, but bear with me)

Anyways, our friend group went on a vacation back then and I tried to kiss her towards the end of it which she just kind of pushed me away.

I don’t know how it works in your culture, but in my experience people are pretty okay with being asked if they want to kiss beforehand. I know movies make it look like it’s always some spontaneous single braincell situation, but it’s usually way easier that way in parties or whatnot.

Might be worth a try with other future crushes, a “no” may still sting, but won’t keep you awake in dread late at night. The power dynamics are also flipped into something much more manageable.

I’m also scared that I’ll never find somebody and my time is running out

I’m assuming from you still having friends from high school times that you’re not over 45. No, there is no such thing as “time running out”. Take your time and enjoy it, be it with friends and dates, but you absolutely don’t need to conform to some notion of having specific age slots for doing romance (or that you even need romance to be wholly happy in the first place).

If you like somebody and they like you back, cool. If not, you’re not “adulting wrong” or anything like that.

I then decided to shoot my shot and ask her out for dinner.

Going from the way you’re telling it, I want to at least congratulate you on having managed to ask, even if it ultimately a “no”. It can be really stressful and from the way you describe it was a comfortable interaction.

What am I supposed to do? Try to forget about her or keep taking it slow? I feel like her response was quite clear and I don’t want to annoy her anyomre if the feeling isn’t mutual but then again I can’t imagine there are no feelings at all on her side and feel like I shouldn’t give up on it yet.

I don’t speak neurotypical, but I think you got a “no”. Whether it was because of inconvenience or whatever else, that’s what you got. In fact, if you think your intentions were clear (and since you said she was pretty smart), you can assume that she understands you’re interested in her.

That means you should do: nothing.

If she reciprocates but was constrained by whatever, it’s in her court now.

If she doesn’t, well that’s that and you can enjoy the friendship if you can.

It also strangely made me glad I don’t do “interpreting” or subtlety. People are told upfront what I want to say, no “did they notice it was a date invitation” horror.

I’m too busy not wanting to have a body or expression to think of which gender this body should express itself as. To be fair, I’m not sure if this counts as cis, but it’s similarly easy.

This video by Vihart encapsulates my feelings on gender pretty well.

But on the “straight” part, attraction is a very complicated thing. Lots of people will never or hardly ever feel any sexual attraction to people of a gender for a myriad of reasons.

And I suppose that, for a lot of cis people here, they actually like the role at least a little bit. Considering how toxic the enforcement of those roles are, I think we should also cherish our cis comrades who feel the most comfortable in them while being receptive of trans people and being good people in general.

Nothing wrong with being cis, just with being an asshole about it.

Edit: I couldn’t tell it wasn’t actually serious.