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As much as I'd like to rant about the privilege one must have living abroad in the EU, benefitting from arguably higher standards of living, better healthcare, better salaries and better infrastructure, to vote for a pro-Putin scumbag when we're SO CLOSE to finally entering the Schengen area, but I think people just didn't know him when they voted.

I mean, they had interviews in the amphitheatre where Antena 3 CNN was stationed all day and night to track the votes, they interviewed people that voted for Călin and besides one woman that claimed he was intelligent and different from the rest, nobody fucking knew who he was.

And to no one's surprise, he had an initial majority hitting second place after the rural votes have been counted, because people just vote unknowingly some of the time, which is deeply worrying right now.

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As much as I'd like to rant about the privilege one must have living abroad in the EU, benefitting from arguably higher standards of living, better healthcare, better salaries and better infrastructure, to vote for a pro-Putin scumbag when we're SO CLOSE to finally entering the Schengen area, but I think people just didn't know him when they voted.

I mean, they had interviews in the amphitheatre where Antena 3 CNN was stationed all day and night to track the votes, they interviewed people that voted for Călin and besides one woman that claimed he was intelligent and different from the rest, nobody fucking knew who he was.

And to no one's surprise, he had an initial majority hitting second place after the rural votes have been counted, because people just vote unknowingly some of the time, which is deeply worrying right now.

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I think Lasconi now has to push hard until December 8 (second round), because so far, PMP, reper and FD are backing her, with a possibility that PNL and PSD would also back her against Călin which has support from AUR so far.

Drop the family stuff and the humbleness, attend more interviews (she attended 2 vs Georgescu that attended 8 before the first round), try to garner more votes from the anti-system voters, and heavily push into pro-EU stuff.

I don't think there's another way to conceivably win the second round. She needs to tap heavily on the European diaspora because everywhere else around the world, she was the majority pick, but surprisingly enough Călin Georgescu had the majority in the EU for whatever reason.

Push against this prick, shine a light on his pro-Putin views, because people don't really know him. People in diaspora voted with him without knowing anything about him, his occupation or political views! They saw him for a couple of seconds on TikTok and said "Okay, I'll vote for him".

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I think Lasconi now has to push hard until December 8 (second round), because so far, PMP, reper and FD are backing her, with a possibility that PNL and PSD would also back her against Călin which has support from AUR so far.

Drop the family stuff and the humbleness, attend more interviews (she attended 2 vs Georgescu that attended 8 before the first round), try to garner more votes from the anti-system voters, and heavily push into pro-EU stuff.

I don't think there's another way to conceivably win the second round. She needs to tap heavily on the European diaspora because everywhere else around the world, she was the majority pick, but surprisingly enough Călin Georgescu had the majority in the EU for whatever reason.

Push against this prick, shine a light on his pro-Putin views, because people don't really know him. People in diaspora voted with him without knowing anything about him, his occupation or political views! They saw him for a couple of seconds on TikTok and said "Okay, I'll vote for him".

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@smaurizi I agree with the paper, that the institutions are more innovative because they're secret. It's likely because they have more funding and possibly better talent than public underfunded projects. The Manhattan Project, despite its nuclear bomb casualties, was very innovative because the US government brought on the best of the best, and gave them a blank check to work on this.

I mean, the World Wide Web itself is based on the military initiative that kickstarted ARPANET to facilitate communication between research and military institutions.

Granted, MKULTRA was allegedly never successful, and its research was inconclusive (shocking, I know, dosing people with LSD and cocaine isn't effective for research purposes). At least OXCART and CORONA benefitted consumer-grade satellites that now allow us to monitor the weather, and aerospace technology in general due to the development of materials capable to withstand the conditions in space.

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@smaurizi I agree with the paper, that the institutions are more innovative because they're secret. It's likely because they have more funding and possibly better talent than public underfunded projects. The Manhattan Project, despite its nuclear bomb casualties, was very innovative because the US government brought on the best of the best, and gave them a blank check to work on this.

I mean, the World Wide Web itself is based on the military initiative that kickstarted ARPANET to facilitate communication between research and military institutions.

Granted, MKULTRA was allegedly never successful, and its research was inconclusive (shocking, I know, dosing people with LSD and cocaine isn't effective for research purposes). At least OXCART and CORONA benefitted consumer-grade satellites that now allow us to monitor the weather, and aerospace technology in general due to the development of materials capable to withstand the conditions in space.

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His meteoric rise on TikTok is probably due to over 5000 bot accounts using his name, with many comments all saying they'd vote for him, as was revealed by Antena 3 CNN last night at ~11PM.

The second big shock is PSD (the "Social Democratic" Party), the largest political party in the country, whose candidates have never left the first or second place in presidential elections since 1992, whose candidate Marcel Ciolacu, a thieving scumbag that has ties with the secret services (SRI) didn't even make it in second place, being edged out by 2000 votes from Elena Lasconi, the USR liberal candidate.

USR will most likely be backed by PSD, PNL, possibly UDMR and the rest of the centre-left and centre-right parties, because the next round is decisive, and it's between pro-Putin ball washer Călin Georgescu and pro-EU, no-service-affiliation, liberal and quite honest Elena Lasconi.

Funnily enough, this is basically a parallel to the US elections. Pro-Putin Romanian version of MAGA vs Romanian version of Harris

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His meteoric rise on TikTok is probably due to over 5000 bot accounts using his name, with many comments all saying they'd vote for him, as was revealed by Antena 3 CNN last night at ~11PM.

The second big shock is PSD (the "Social Democratic" Party), the largest political party in the country, whose candidates have never left the first or second place in presidential elections since 1992, whose candidate Marcel Ciolacu, a thieving scumbag that has ties with the secret services (SRI) didn't even make it in second place, being edged out by 2000 votes from Elena Lasconi, the USR liberal candidate.

USR will most likely be backed by PSD, PNL, possibly UDMR and the rest of the centre-left and centre-right parties, because the next round is decisive, and it's between pro-Putin ball washer Călin Georgescu and pro-EU, no-service-affiliation, liberal and quite honest Elena Lasconi.

Funnily enough, this is basically a parallel to the US elections. Pro-Putin Romanian version of MAGA vs Romanian version of Harris

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You have to understand from the recent first round of presidential #elections in #Romania that the results are ACTUALLY, legitimately shocking, it's not media sensationalism this time around.

None of the major sociologists and politologists (political scientists) could have foreseen this.

Călin Georgescu has been a member of the far-right AUR party, and has been proposed by AUR as a prime-minister, but left the party mere days before the election because of some ideological differences. RFK Jr., who's known Călin for 15 years, allegedly may come visit him any day now as he's got in the second round in first place.

People voted for him because they saw him on TikTok, but they know very little about who he is.

He's a far-right pro-Putin scumbag that minimised the COVID-19 pandemic, but funnily enough he's pro-environmentalism and ecologism (?) - which, to me sounds like a cover for Russian bootlicker, because we've seen other 'Green' parties (cough Jill Stein) and even EU green parties suck up to Putin.

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You have to understand from the recent first round of presidential #elections in #Romania that the results are ACTUALLY, legitimately shocking, it's not media sensationalism this time around.

None of the major sociologists and politologists (political scientists) could have foreseen this.

Călin Georgescu has been a member of the far-right AUR party, and has been proposed by AUR as a prime-minister, but left the party mere days before the election because of some ideological differences. RFK Jr., who's known Călin for 15 years, allegedly may come visit him any day now as he's got in the second round in first place.

People voted for him because they saw him on TikTok, but they know very little about who he is.

He's a far-right pro-Putin scumbag that minimised the COVID-19 pandemic, but funnily enough he's pro-environmentalism and ecologism (?) - which, to me sounds like a cover for Russian bootlicker, because we've seen other 'Green' parties (cough Jill Stein) and even EU green parties suck up to Putin.

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@hkrn Oh wow, nice website (and article)!

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@hkrn Oh wow, nice website (and article)!

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@G4Media Haven't even heard of this guy before the exit polls, it's crazy to see him get 16% in the exit polls.

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@G4Media Haven't even heard of this guy before the exit polls, it's crazy to see him get 16% in the exit polls.

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@G4Media Rares Bogdan as r------d as ever, Ciuca had no chance to even dip his toe in the double-digit range, I'm surprised he even got 14% as some exit polls gave him 9%, he's a dumb yet rather honest idiot. Still, useful idiot / man of the system 2.

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@G4Media Rares Bogdan as r------d as ever, Ciuca had no chance to even dip his toe in the double-digit range, I'm surprised he even got 14% as some exit polls gave him 9%, he's a dumb yet rather honest idiot. Still, useful idiot / man of the system 2.

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So, hopefully if this is true, then it's a 1v1 between Ciolacu and Lasconi in the second and final round, unless Georgescu or Simion somehow get equal or more votes than Lasconi.

So it'd be the vote between man of the system 1 that fucked everyone over vs Lasconi, the somewhat idle-talker that doesn't know a lot, but at least inspires some confidence.

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So, hopefully if this is true, then it's a 1v1 between Ciolacu and Lasconi in the second and final round, unless Georgescu or Simion somehow get equal or more votes than Lasconi.

So it'd be the vote between man of the system 1 that fucked everyone over vs Lasconi, the somewhat idle-talker that doesn't know a lot, but at least inspires some confidence.

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Bahaha! Nobody fucking votes for Mircea Geoana, we all know he's useless.

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Bahaha! Nobody fucking votes for Mircea Geoana, we all know he's useless.

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2024 Romanian Presidential elections (Round I) exit poll at 9PM, after all voting booths have / are supposed to close.

In descending order:
Marcel Ciolacu (PSD) - 25%
Elena Lasconi (USR, the one I voted) - 18%
Călin Georgescu (Independent) – 16%
George Simion (AUR) – 14%
Nicolae Ciucă  (PNL)– 13%
Mircea Geoană (Independent) – 5,5%
Kelemen Hunor (UDMR) -  4%
Cristian Diaconescu - 2%
Others - 1%

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@etcchatter Speaking of mental walls, while 2 of those best friends have accepted me instantly and unequivocally, when I came out to the other best friend (who has a more traditional, conservative view of the world, and is still a somewhat begrudging fan of Tate and Trump), we had to let him think for a couple of hours about this.

It's not that he wouldn't accept me, it's just that his mental brick wall collapsed because he's seen me as a guy for 5 years of his life, and now I'm identifying as feminine / a woman, which combined with his previously-mentioned beliefs took him a while to process this.

What I'd recommend is a calm environment where you can carry an adult discussion about this, and I'd encourage you to have some backup, such as friends or science-based evidence to support your claims. If you have relatives that are similar to you (e.g trans), bring them over, see if that could help ease out this, because it's a somewhat tough pill to swallow when someone tells you they're trans.

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@etcchatter Speaking of mental walls, while 2 of those best friends have accepted me instantly and unequivocally, when I came out to the other best friend (who has a more traditional, conservative view of the world, and is still a somewhat begrudging fan of Tate and Trump), we had to let him think for a couple of hours about this.

It's not that he wouldn't accept me, it's just that his mental brick wall collapsed because he's seen me as a guy for 5 years of his life, and now I'm identifying as feminine / a woman, which combined with his previously-mentioned beliefs took him a while to process this.

What I'd recommend is a calm environment where you can carry an adult discussion about this, and I'd encourage you to have some backup, such as friends or science-based evidence to support your claims. If you have relatives that are similar to you (e.g trans), bring them over, see if that could help ease out this, because it's a somewhat tough pill to swallow when someone tells you they're trans.

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@etcchatter I wouldn't push your luck. I know this response won't show up since there's no <-> between ResetEra and Mastodon, but anyway.

I can't even come out to my family because my father's a complete bigot (he dislikes everyone if they're in any way different, for example he's Orthodox so he dislikes anyone with a different or lack of a religion, and he's an obvious homophobe and transphobe).

My mother is somewhat liberal but still tries to strike a balance between my and my father's views, even if she leans more conservative.

I've managed to come out as Bi to a couple of my cousins (they're teenagers, so expectedly it went better), and thankfully I have 3 best friends who support me for being who I am, so there's that.

I don't doubt that both you and I could handle this more delicately. I mean, I tried to explain calmly to my father about why I'm an atheist for a start, but his response is akin to mental kicking and screaming because his concrete wall worldview is very strong, but starts to crack.

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@etcchatter I wouldn't push your luck. I know this response won't show up since there's no <-> between ResetEra and Mastodon, but anyway.

I can't even come out to my family because my father's a complete bigot (he dislikes everyone if they're in any way different, for example he's Orthodox so he dislikes anyone with a different or lack of a religion, and he's an obvious homophobe and transphobe).

My mother is somewhat liberal but still tries to strike a balance between my and my father's views, even if she leans more conservative.

I've managed to come out as Bi to a couple of my cousins (they're teenagers, so expectedly it went better), and thankfully I have 3 best friends who support me for being who I am, so there's that.

I don't doubt that both you and I could handle this more delicately. I mean, I tried to explain calmly to my father about why I'm an atheist for a start, but his response is akin to mental kicking and screaming because his concrete wall worldview is very strong, but starts to crack.

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@snoopiboard hah, I wish

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@snoopiboard hah, I wish

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@root42 @cstross Appears to be, yes. See: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/1 13532635974474186

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@root42 @cstross Appears to be, yes. See: https://neuromatch.social/@elduvelle/1 13532635974474186

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@reidrac I'd rather make my own badges for free, no thanks. $99 one-time payment to get all badges or a dumb subscription where you get the badges and a project page on the site, and any additional pages for $15 each. I also love how you get the same shit regardless of subscription.

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@reidrac I'd rather make my own badges for free, no thanks. $99 one-time payment to get all badges or a dumb subscription where you get the badges and a project page on the site, and any additional pages for $15 each. I also love how you get the same shit regardless of subscription.

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@cstross No, please, don't read past the title and abstract.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11378218/

It certainly doesn't have three cases that have been anonymized under the absurdly, fake Illusionland country on Saturn to illustrate its criticism on neurosurgical practice and ethical dilemmas.

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@cstross No, please, don't read past the title and abstract.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11378218/

It certainly doesn't have three cases that have been anonymized under the absurdly, fake Illusionland country on Saturn to illustrate its criticism on neurosurgical practice and ethical dilemmas.

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@Barbramon1 @sarahdalgulls https://www. google.com/maps/place/Saint+Ma rgaret+evangelical+church+Media%C5%9F,+Pia%C5%A3a+Castelului+2,+Media%C8%99+551019,+Roemeni%C3%AB/@46.1651393,24.3513645,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x474b8eeba24963b3:0xe2c18e06d9f3054e!8m2!3d46.1651393!4d24.3513645!16s%2Fg%2F122dy4xx

The church it was found in is quite well maintained, so the manuscripts were probably in no danger.

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@Barbramon1 @sarahdalgulls https://www. google.com/maps/place/Saint+Ma rgaret+evangelical+church+Media%C5%9F,+Pia%C5%A3a+Castelului+2,+Media%C8%99+551019,+Roemeni%C3%AB/@46.1651393,24.3513645,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x474b8eeba24963b3:0xe2c18e06d9f3054e!8m2!3d46.1651393!4d24.3513645!16s%2Fg%2F122dy4xx

The church it was found in is quite well maintained, so the manuscripts were probably in no danger.

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@G4Media Can't wait for the same politicians that said we're ready for floods and whatnot that this snow took us all by surprise or something, that'd be real funny.

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@G4Media Can't wait for the same politicians that said we're ready for floods and whatnot that this snow took us all by surprise or something, that'd be real funny.