@maniacalmanicmania well, companies can make money without abusing user privacy if they so want. It’s been done before.

@BlackLaZoR Oh, right, so it’s the same nazi-calling-of-whatever-they-don’t-like stuff they usually do. Kind of a far left version of “Look what’s happening in Sweden” kind of thing.

@goat

@peron Thanks!

@0x815 the situation was simply insane, with clear voter fraud schemes, election tourism and bomb threats across polling stations in Europe, which were meant to disrupt the voting process. However they failed to disrupt it.

After Sandu’s last term, I expect the country to be firmly onto a European path and pass more much-needed reforms on it’s way to EU. Hope she and her government will not take too much time like it kinda did in her 1st term imo.

What’s the state of Poland, though?

@Lugh Yeah, I don’t think that exec understands art and artists. But I’m glad he understands money.

@Lugh Wow, now that’s something coming from the future!

@UrLogicFails I didn’t celebrate Halloween either, but I have recreated the mildly disturbing Halloween mask from the TF2 game a few years ago. It’s my only Halloween stuff I have, lol.

@gravitas_deficiency Both Poland and Romania will buy it, so South Korea will become a hell of a supplier on the NATO’s eastern flank. We are also getting 54 K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers from them.

@HobbitFoot

@sugar_in_your_tea @gravitas_deficiency on the sea. They could get it through the Pacific, then Atlantic through the Panama Straight and then on rail in Europe. Or, since the ice cap is melting, they could be shipping upwards through the Arctic Ocean.

Shouldn’t he fry the bacon on both sides?

70 schools still had “inadequate toilets”

Only 70 left? I’m surprised. Guess that’s the result of all these EU funds. They’re probably the only schools where the politicians managed to actually steal these funds, as they are notoriously hard to steal.

Shout out to all these people in the countryside that vote for PSD on every election, then complain that they do not have anything.

A while back this year, a commune was left without running water due to not paying the debts to the water company. What did the mayor say: Y’all have gotten used with the good times. You neglected your wells, destroyed your backyard toilets, and now you suffer. People have gotten mad, the mayor said he’ll resign, and then the debt were paid, and the mayor announced he’ll no longer resign.

At the latest local elections, the mayor received more votes than at the previous elections. And that thing is just an example…

@hedge just so, upfront? Kinda is, yeah. But if you talk to them about Signal and that you’re using it and how cool is it before that, it’s okay, imo.

@alyaza Are you guys voting already? Good luck and hope the orange man only gets to serve fries for the rest of his life. Here it’s a cold day. We’re already experiencing temperatures as low as 1°C and the radiators are cool as well! I’m basically waiting for the heat to come already. Yesterday, I heard some water going through the pipes but when I touched them they were still cold. I don’t know what’s going on.

I think I’ll get my plants inside the house and I also tried to look for a bigger pot for my ficus. Sadly I cannot find anything in the regular supermarkets, so I think I will go to a specialized store.

I’m happy about the outcome of the Moldovan elections (about which I wrote more broadly in the Politics community) and I’m looking forward to our elections too. They are the most anemic presidential elections to date and I’m really not sure if I should vote for the lesser evil or cancel my vote…

@14th_cylon they’re using duckduckgo though.

@jawa21

@Pyflixia This one might be a very obscure thing, but back when I was in high school, I used to download music from a website called mp3ostrov.rucom (edit: it was .com, apparently). Of course, the website was in Russian and I couldn’t understand a damn thing, so I had to resort to the Chrome translation for it (Or I guided myself with the icons). But it had so much music on it, and it was really easy to get. And whatever I could not source from there, I downloaded from YouTube, but the downloader I used had too many ads.

@Varyk Unfortunately the YouTube video is not my upload, the uploader has to add them afaik.

And given the video is a few days old, I think this is a re-upload. Probably the channel owner re-uploads these videos regularly so he can keep a low profile.

@0x815 just like in any totalitarian regime…

@BrikoX voter bribe sometimes happens in my country too (or at least there were documented cases in the past 35 years since we had free elections). But candidates themselves expressly telling people they would pay them to vote in a way or another is… a totally different level.

@101 In my country the Russia-friendly folks are more creative: they take advantage by the crime that Moscow did prior to WW2 in order to justify their opinion that we should not involve in helping our neighbor. And the fact that they somehow discriminate the Romanian minority in the territories formerly owned by us (of course they do not do that as they’re eyeing European integration, but fake news need to go round) is used to somehow temper the sympathies for Ukraine.

It doesn’t matter that Ukraine is fighting an enemy that is even less likely to return these territories to us, who will more than certainly treat the Romanian minority in these territories at least 1000 times worse than they are treated now just to get rid of any trace of Romanians living there if they control these lands by any means. It doesn’t even matter to them that the enemy that Ukraine is fighting actually owns our entire national treasury since the end of WW1 (comprised of old documents and art pieces but also tons of gold) and if we would border them, we would share half of our border with a hostile neighbor owning the biggest nuclear stockpile in the world.

All it matters for them is to not get involved into other’s wars