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

Seaborgium-258 has a half-life of 3*10^-3 miliseconds. Half-Life 3 CONFIRMED!

There's some weird shit going on in Romania. Beyond what you've probably heard so far.

So everyone knows that we had an election cancelled, because the guy who was came in first in the 1st round was... dubious, according to authorities. This isn't really about that.

It's about the lady that came in 2nd. A lady named Elena Lasconi, from the USR party (United we Save Romania). Her politics and the politics of the party matter less (they're supposed to be right wing, but at the same time they're considered "progressive". Make of that what you will, I personally resigned myself to the idea that our politics are backwards for a long time).

What gathered my attention, and what I'm concerned about, is that her party is suddenly retracting their support of her running for the do-over of the presidential elections. And for the life of me, I can't comprehend why.

While she personally scares the shit out of me, because her face reminds me of Hillary Clinton, from my point of view she has proved herself that she has a lot of public support, that she could win the race. She already achieved a great result for her party in the cancelled elections. Why is she getting replaced by her party?! She already proved that she can attract votes, that among her party, she is likely the best candidate.

Considering USR was one of the smaller parties before this (and it still kinda is), and that they never had a candidate pass the 1st round of presidential elections, shouldn't the person that managed this performance for the first time in the party's short history be kept as their go to candidate for the do-over of what is basically the same election?

I haven't seen her say or do anything in the past few months since this whole fiasco started that would justify taking away their support of Lasconi.

There have been some changes in polling, that is true. But that's after a new guy, Nicușor Dan, who used to be a big figure head in the party (not sure where his home is these days) announced that he's joining the race, and USR members have been slowly showing their support for him. And now the party is doing it officially. So it feels like it's not something Lasconi did wrong, but rather the party went behind her back and got the new guy, so the polls started to reflect what the party was doing. If the new guy hadn't come into the picture, and Lasconi had her party's full support, I don't see why her score couldn't have been the same.

Which has me worried. Why bring Nicușor Dan into this, when you had a candidate that proved herself? My concern is that someone is trying to protect the guy from the law, cause the president is completely immune from prosecution. What did he do that we're not aware of? Who is pulling the strings? How deep do things go?

We've already had 2 presidents that were deeply corrupt before. Well, technically all our presidents post communism were corrupt in some way or another. But the last 2 were a bit more spicy. Are we getting another bastard that we'll find out afterwards that he did god knows what, and nobody does anything about it for a decade?

And are we gonna struggle again with 80% of the media playing defense for the corrupt bastard? I still remember them playing defense for Băsescu, and insisting that he didn't work for the Securitate (our version of the KGB), only to find out AFTER he left office that he was indeed a snitch for communist secret services, which actually rendered him incompatible to serve office in the first place.

I'm still waiting to see if we'll find out how the president after him managed to buy 7 houses, when he and his wife were just highschool teachers, and if it has anything to do with the child trafficking rumors.

The solution to escape crimes over here seems to be:
1) become president
2) put your favorite state prosecutor into place, and have him owe you one (and possibly your party too)
3) ....
4) profit.

So far Băsescu is the only one that has gotten any attention from the justice system, and that's only for the Securitate (KGB) thing. He's suspected of a lot more things. So the method works.

Of course, the beauty is that EU had no issue with these bastards, and were perfectly happy with them. And Nicușor Dan and USR are perfectly happy to repeat the "EU is ALL GOOD" mantra, so they're definitely not rocking any boat either. So I'm of course also a bit worried of the possibility that Nicușor has been picked to some degree by EU leadership, so that he'll maintain the servile colony status-quo that we've had since 2007. The only Romanian party that is viewed as progressive, I mean, what's not to like from an EU perspective? And between Nicușor Dan and Elena Lasconi, this is gonna sound weird, but somehow Lasconi seems to have more of a spine and balls than Nicușor does. So he'd be a better pick for them.

You know what this reminds me of... Hilary Clinton getting the DNC support over Bernie Sanders back in 2016. Yeah... it just smells fishy to me...

>South Park | Season 27 Teaser
I wonder, what exactly would it take for South Park and The Simpsons to just stop?

This is why I HATE the free software (or open source, or whatever terminology people prefer) fanatics. The point of GOOD software is that you DON'T need to stalk random forums to find notes for a potential solution to your problem. The point of GOOD software is that you don't encounter problems. FULL STOP.
You're not advocating for good software. You're advocating for people to torment and torture themselves with shitty, incomplete, buggy and messy software, just because it serves your deranged political views on computer code.

I take good software in whatever form I can get it, whether it's free software, open source, or proprietary. I'm not interested in bugs, I'm not interested to spend days having to configure things via text documents, I want software for humans.

>I'm high on life
Yeah, well I'm high on death. Now stay still.

This is so fucking cursed...

This gets bonus points for using Romanian music.

Bucharest Busses becoming old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGallZBXKI

Accurate.

Truer words have never been said.

Dennis The Menace died... we are finally safe from his terror... George can finally rest and relax.

Let's Minecraft!

Hadn't checked on Babymetal in a while. Still good? Still good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayP_YUrf9I

What was the game that got flack last year for having an insanely long end credits?

Who here remembers: I R Baboon?

Lesson I learned today: don't mark your post with "doomposting" if you intend for people to ignore it.

I guess it's true even on Fedi. People are searching for rage-bait. For things to be upset about. For negativity.

When I realized my post was gonna be a massive shit fest of a TL;DR, I thought I'd to the courtesy of putting a content warning, so it won't display it whole on people's timelines by default.
And "doomposting" seemed the most accurate title to give it. And I thought that the obvious negativity would make people less interested in it...
As Trump would say, WRONG!

Have you ever had an issue where for a second you weren't sure if it's spelled "small" or "smoll"... Internet culture is fucking with my brain so much sometimes.

I'm actually surprised people took notice of my doompost.

Again, I probably should have stressed more than my hypothetical scenario is a long shot. But it's one of those worst case scenarios that tends to keep me up at night, because scientific and technological development has always been something that fascinated me, and for the first time in my life, I see a possibility, even if it's a small one, for it to not just stop, but eternally reverse. And that kinda freaks me out.

I don't think anyone likes seeing their hopes and dreams potentially being crushed, and my hope and dream is basically for humanity to one day become a galactic civilization.

I've been thinking about something last night. I'm starting to think that this could be it, that what we're experiencing right now is the height of human civilization on Earth.
I think that, because we didn't build up nuclear energy in time, we will fail to make the transition away from fossil fuels fast enough, we'll run out, and we'll reach a point where we won't be able to make enough energy to sustain societies as they are today.
A collapse will come. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is that without an abundance of oil anymore, without that much cheap energy, human civilization won't be able to rebound, and will basically remain stuck to somewhere around steam engine stage. At best we might see steampunk become a reality.

I've been thinking about something similar for some time. Humanity owes its technological advancement to fossil fuels. To forests and critters of countless millions of years ago that died and got buried before they could decompose.
As such, ANY intelligent alien civilization NEEDS to evolve on a planet that has fossil fuels in the ground already. If an intelligent life form evolves before fossil fuels get created through geological processes, or where they don't exist for any other reason, that's it. That's a technological dead end for them. They'll be stuck at a medieval stage, forever.

"But muh solar power" NO! You're not gonna make solar panels from burning wood. If you're struggling to barely melt metal, you're not gonna have the cheap resources needed to experiment and research anything more than a basic axe and a sword.
And remember the social panic there was in the 90s, that we were cutting down all trees to make paper? Now imagine trying to sustain a high population civilization that BURNS only wood for everything.
You are not building a technological civilization off of wood. At the very minimum you need coal, but realistically you need oil. No civilization, alien or otherwise, will EVER make the transition from burning wood to solar panels. Same goes for wind. You think you'll create fine copper wire to make electric engines and generators by burning wood?

Now going back to humanity. If societies collapse. That's it. We don't have readily available oil. The reserves we still have need highly advanced machinery to extract. Machinery that might not survive a collapse, or that we'll lose the knowledge of how to use.
We still have a lot of coal, but I'm not sure if even that is easily exploitable anymore. Can you still find coal with nothing more than pickaxes as tools?
After the collapse happens, there will be no more smartphones, no more computers, no more internet, anymore. Ever. For as long as Earth continues to orbit around the Sun, humanity will continue, but will remain stuck in much more primitive societies.

This is not something I expect to happen in the next decade. Not in our lifetimes either. Could take a few centuries. But I think it could happen.
Our energy needs are growing too fast. First cryptocoin and now AI have been the world's dumbest ideas when we're struggling to deal with finding energy alternatives. And dumber ideas are sure to be on the horizon still.
IF nuclear energy had been abundant, this wouldn't have been an issue. But instead of growing nuclear capabilities, we've decimated them. Now there's talks about a revitalization. But projections for the first batches of new generation nuclear power plants are for like 2050 or something. And that's assuming the political willpower is maintained until then. Which... fucking hell people... western nations can't keep it together for 5 years, let alone decades.
Even if I assume mere stupidity, and not outright malice, the world's political system is essentially trying to kill humanity.

But going back a bit, with energy usage growing so fast, at some point something will collapse. If people start rioting and pillaging AI server farms and solar plants, if people start chaos and revolutions, you think energy plants will survive? You think fragile solar panels will be intact? You'll have South Africa style situations where the infrastructure will be compromised, and left in taters to the point where you can't even use every bit of energy making capacity you have left to create new solar panels, new windfarms, etc.
You won't be able to grow back, because trying to ration energy for basic industry instead of population needs will just get you a free noose around your neck as part of a new population revolt.
And solar panels wear out. So do wind farms. You won't be able to replace them, more and more of them will fail, until you have nothing left and are back to burning wood to stay warm during winter.

If you had an abundance of cheap oil, gas, coal, sure you can build back. Just burn more and more. But you're not building back from solar and wind.

I don't think it will happen within our lifetimes. So unless you care that much about your great-grandchildren, this really isn't something that will affect you. Not something you should care about.

But if you have some deep optimism and hope that one day humanity will reach the stars, if you're like me and hope humanity will exist forever more, discover everything there is to discover, explore all the deep blue and the cosmos, reach the pinnacle of science and technology that we can't even imagine yet... If you're romantic in that way... this is a sobering thought to consider.