Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

The "far-right" candidate, Simion Georgescu lost, with 46,40 % (5.339.053 votes), while the "progressive" candidate, Nicușor Dan won, with 53,60 % (6.168.642 votes).

Simion basically had his votes (3.863.040) from the first round, and Ponta's (1.230.226), as I expected.

Nicușor Dan had his first round votes (1.982.093), the votes of the next pro-EU candidate Crin Antonescu (1.893.312) and another >2 million votes that seemingly came out of nowhere.

In total, in the first round, 9.571.740 people voted. In the second round, 11.641.866 people voted. 2 million extra votes.

Personally I don't trust these results. But this will never be properly investigated. Much more obvious fraud was never dealt with, this won't be verified either.

@djsumdog
>So will human beings ever be able to verify life elsewhere?
Only if we find something on Mars or moons of Jupiter/Saturn. Will we actually? Very small chances, but at the same time, it's the best bet. Recently it was discovered that Mars might actually still have a liquid ocean of sorts, but deep deep underground, on the order of tens of miles. Deeper than we've been able to dig on Earth. So there could be something, but how do we verify it? I expect that the more we keep looking, we'll discover more biomolecules, aminoacids, simple proteins, we'll discover every major building block of life on Mars, Europa, Enceladus, but we won't come face to face with animal life, and if there's bacterial life on these bodies, it could be many decades before we'll find it and even more to be sure it wasn't a false detection because of contamination.
For Europa and Enceladus we might know something by the end of our lifetimes, as there are ideas on how you could melt through the ice and reach the ocean. For Mars though... we might never know for sure, cause I don't see humanity committing to dig down far enough.

Star Trek-like interstellar travel is not gonna happen. I personally think something like that is impossible. For traditional rocket power, you'd need a generational ark to go outside the solar system, and the range will be limited. The odds of finding anything in our immediate vicinity is basically null. We've used telescopes to study our immediate vicinity, and can't even find atmospheres that are clearly life altered (like having a high quantity of oxygen).

If I assume human life will go on indefinitely, I do think at some point we'll find a radio signal that we won't be able to explain, that will look artificial, that will look as if it could be carrying information. But I don't think we'll be able to decode it, and it won't have a societal impact as large as people would like to think such a discovery will have. But something like this could literally be millions of years into the future, and remember, any signal we might hear, would be from a civilization that might have even gone extinct by the time it reached us. If I limit myself within our lifetimes... I don't think so.

>Is life so rare that the planets who have developed it may never find us?
Yes. But more importantly, I think advanced intelligent life is what is incredibly rare. If there are even a handful of civilizations within our galaxy that are at about our level of development, I'd consider that a miracle. And I wouldn't be surprised if we are the only thinking beings in our galaxy right now.
Life could very well be inevitable if you get a planet with the right conditions. But I see no obvious reason why life would have a preference for evolving high intelligence. I consider humanity a fluke. A cosmic mistake of sorts. An anomaly. An interesting one, but no matter how much statistics someone throws at me (but there are so many stars, and so many planets, and even if only 1% bla bla bla) it's not convincing me that it is a repeatable anomaly. I need a valid argument for why in a different ecosystem a high intelligence would be something evolution eventually selects for. If intelligence was important for evolution, I'd expect the Silurian hypothesis to have some evidence behind it.

@kroner No fucking way... I'd love to see the media and DNC squirm their way out of the fact that they were trying to convince people to elect a dead man walking.
I bet this isn't even news. I bet this is "aggressive" because they actually discovered it a year ago, but couldn't start any treatment without rousing suspicion. So now they "detected" a tumor that had been left to develop for too long.

@KaiserKitty
Use whatever works for you and your needs. I've been saying something half-jokingly for awhile: there's someone out there for whom literally MS-DOS is the best OS because of their unique needs.

@BasedLunatic
Suddenly, that LotR meme came into my mind... "We had one puberty, yes. What about 2nd puberty?"

@beardalaxy well... if you're gonna go the rtx route, you might as well do it via openmw instead of the original engine anyway, so it probably would be possible. But for a proper remaster of Morrowind, you still should redo textures and models.

Bethesda: Morrowind is not real, it can't be remastered.

@sickburnbro If someone actually falls for this, he deserves the divorce.

@djsumdog
Define "find". And define "life".

Discovering an exo-planet that we detect as having a large amount of CO2 and other gasses that most likely are a result of technological pollution? Sure. It is possible it will happen at some point, but it will create endless debate about what we actually found.

Discovering an incredibly faint radio signal that is incompatible with natural origins, and can't be explained as radio pollution from our own technology? Will take a lot longer, but I could see it as a small possibility, with the benefit of being a more categorical find.

Discovering bacteria or similar simple life forms deep in the Martian ground, or one of the moons of Jupiter, quite possible, maybe even the most likely of these scenarios. But it won't be as earth shattering.

But if your "find" involves meeting face to face, and "life" involves alien beings at least as advanced as man-kind, my answer is a no. I don't think humanity will ever encounter advanced, intelligent alien life forms directly. We won't be going to their home planet to visit, and they won't be coming to ours either.

@lnx You spelled "Ponthera" wrong.

@Alex @arcana
You forgot the part where courts can become corrupt. And yes, this can and does happen. If you think otherwise, it's because you've been privileged to live in a rich country.

What if a computer company invents time travel with the sole purpose to use it to remove input lag?

@tomie Ok. I suspected it had to be something like that. I never really followed the story cause it sounded so absurd on the face of it.

@mischievoustomato
DON'T! I don't need another Steven in my timeline.

So does anyone know the real reason as to why people had an issue with The Coffin of Andy and Leyley? Cause I don't believe for a second that twitter freaks who are into furry porn, and polygamy, and cuckoldry, and pegging, and zoophilia, and every other crap, that suddenly incest is where they draw the line.
Isn't the muslim world like 30% incest? And lefties absolutely adore muslims, so I don't think they're actually that bothered by this.
So what actually created by backlash against this indie game?

@mushroom_soup
>made a tier list of races
Weirdly enough, that one might actually be in character.

I'm gonna hug you. This is a threat.