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It's hilarious to see how foreigners deeply misunderstand the political situation in Romania, and how transparent they are in trying to use Romania's shit for a propaganda video against EU. And a bad propaganda video at that.

Some Indian sounding bloke is trying to convince the world that a single Court of Appeal ruling against a decision of the Constitution Court has any merit.
To put it in a context Americans can understand, it's the equivalent to how your courts tried to control how Trump conducts immigration policy. Basically the Appeal Court has no power over the Constitution Court. In fact, no court and neither any other state institution have any power over decisions made by the Constitution Court, just like nobody has power over what the US Supreme Court decides.

And in fact, by the time this stupid video came out, the decision of the Appeal Court was already overturned, and the judge responsible for it is being investigated by his peers (a council of other judges that we have as an official institution) to make sure his decision wasn't influenced by corruption or political bias, or something like that.

There's a lot wrong with what happened at the end of last year, and this year, in Romania, but doing bad propaganda, and trying to use our country for your right-wing grift against EU, isn't helpful.
It serves only to discredit the people here who are upset with the cancelling of an election without a valid motivation, and evidence to back up the reason.

There's still the potential of a foreign cyber attack, or some kind of EMP disturbing the network, but the government will NEVER admit to it if it is the real cause. Best evidence for an attack would be if authorities keep saying they don't know the cause a few months after this.

They're not gonna admit that green energy left the energy grid unstable and caused this either. But if this is the cause of the blackout, you can expect the government to silently take measures to reinforce the grid, measures that are designed specifically to address this weakness. And there will likely be non-governmental providers and investigators that will be able to prove it over time.

So basically, I think people will need to be patient for the truth on this one, but also be careful not to forget about it, and allow their government to escape scrutiny.

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So quick question, why are we allowing the CCP access to work on the biggest OS that powers so much of the western internet infrastructure?

phoronix.com/news/Bytedance-Fa

@alyx german humor is making up the worst political philosophies possible, as a joke. they are very good at it.

Imagine how broken this movie has to be for it to end up being funny in German of all languages.
Cause everyone obviously knows Germans for their joyful humor. /s

What type of anti-woke are you?
(let's re-create this great poll on Fedi)

Vital signs critical! Warning! User death imminent!

I should have this written on my tombstone.

Silly dream for a silly day 

So I dreamed that a Serbian military airplane invaded my country's airspace, and it was all up on the news.
Concerns that we were being attacked, confusion, all that. So we tried to tried to send our own plane, to get close and establish radio contact, and figure out what was up. It took a while, both planes were shitty old Soviet models, so not very fast or maneuverable, but they eventually got close enough together for our pilot to ask "what's up, you invaded our airspace".
The response we got from the Serbian pilot: "I know, I'm just trolling you guys. Bye!". And then he turned around and flew away.

If you're Serbian, a military pilot, or especially both of these, please don't do this.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. We don't know what has happened, but all possibilities are open and we are in contact with NATO. This is nearing 7 hours after the complete outage. If it was something technical they would know immediately
stallman cultists only push people away
they never convince anyone that free software is good

I showed you my country wide power outage. Please respond.

Well... if our power grid drops out due to "extreme temperature variations", I have my ebook reader charged, I have a good amount of AA and AAA batteries, I have an old MP3 player ready (the kind that runs with AAA batteries), a simple portable radio, a few roms loaded in my phone's Retroarch, and a bluetooth gamepad that has a surprisingly long battery life.

I'm fairly confident I'm not at risk of getting bored. Though I can't rely that much on gaming on my phone. Still, it would hold longer than a laptop. And I could probably charge it a few times over from my laptop and power bank.

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