@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.

@DmMacniel@feddit.org wrote:

Added Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack and Discord channels!

Here! But yeah, the lack of Lemmy is a bummer. I suppose that other services like Misskey are also supported via Mastodon support though.

AI Features: Copilots, AI Auto-complete, Canva-like editor.

yeah, no thanks; putting out AI slop on social media is not the way forward.

I believe this is cathering more to business users. But I fully agree, AI is literally turning social media into dogshit. And the internet as well…

@Hirom it’s probably lacking decently trained cannon fodder.

@hedge

I genuinely hope to see a coalition in power, but on Instagram (from @rferl 's page - they don’t seem to be that active around here anymore), I saw that the Georgian Dream is leading in the polls, with 53% 🙁

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…

@Midnitte right. I didn’t think about this, sorry 😁 however, modern Android versions have this option built-in. I used Twilight as well in the past, however, I no longer feel like I need it.

@Tucumano88 Settings > Display > scroll all the way to “color”

@tardigrada it isn’t escalation if Russia does it

@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.

@hedge I don’t think it checks everything on your list, but there’s also a fediverse project called „Flohmarkt”

@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.

@Faydaikin Eh, there were some efforts in the '90s-2010s to make things less dangerous, but it now seems that everyone moved away from these smh

Did he ask someone to slap his face the hardest they could for multiple times prior to this?

@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

@Joseph_Boom I just go to the biggest file, and it is usually the movie

@LukeZaz@beehaw.org wrote:

than they used to be

Than they used to be, when? In the '50s or '60s, when the arms race was in full swing? Yes, I think that is true. But if we compare it with the last 2-3 decades, I do think however that things are gloomier. Firstly, the greater powers were more focused on cooperation rather than confrontation, and they focused more on maintaining the peace rather than creating their own spheres of influence.

I don’t think even the '70s or '80s were like that from a geopolitical standpoint.

@DarkThoughts We’ll have a global warming, and then we nuke each other so we can compensate with a nuclear winter. Who said climate denialists don’t have the big brain in here?

@0x815

@0x815 Since when and why did the world become such a dangerous place again? I hate to be this pessimistic, but it looks like we won’t stop until we will start nuking each other smh…