@schizoidman this is interesting news

@alyaza I hated this so much lmfao

@along_the_road Their existence is threatened anyway, so they are rightfully so. Plus, I do think their intelligence services know a thing or two about their arsenal, especially if it works or not.

@schizoidman

@schizoidman highly likely imo. Nuclear weapons are generally a sensitive thing for all the countries that have them. Perhaps they did not want to set a precedent or something, or maybe China’s businesses in Europe would have been affected if a nuclear explosion occurred anywhere on the continent.

Who knows…

@Powderhorn these seem only temporary blocks (at least declaratively). And as far as I remember, no state imposed border checks along its entire border. So you could i.e. bypass the blocked border by just changing your route I think.

Anyway, the fact that we, bulgarians, and by extension also greeks and hungarians had official border checks made things much more dificult in the region. One prime example would be the fact that many Romanians go on holidays in Greece or Bulgaria because the prices and conditions are terrible in our the sea resorts. Hungarians also shop in Romania because of the lower prices. And examples can continue.

@SweetCitrusBuzz well, they freed their speech, now they gotta silence the other’s.

@silence7

@contrapunctus I wish more people would use XMPP… It’s so simple as a decentralized network… literally the analogy of email, but for chatting.

@tanakian both Moldova and Transnistria hold parts of their territory on each other’s side of the Dniester river. I think that’s where the elections were held by Moldova. Otherwise, I don’t know.

@tanakian afaik they do. Transnistria is still a territory internationally recognized as part of Moldova so elections were held there as well. What was curious is that Maia Sandu and the pro-EU camp got more votes than Găgăuzia, which is just an autonomous territory.

@tardigrada

@remington The edit to my previous comment doesn’t seem to appear on Beehaw, but here are a few snippets of what Georgescu said in all his glory:

@iii He really was unknown, and I can tell you that as a Romanian. He was actually more known by some parts of our political establishment (or should I say, our former political establishment now) than the public. Literally every single person I spoke with was like, “who is this guy? I don’t know him. I only read about him a few days ago”. So no, it’s not like he had any public notoriety at all. Many people said online that they voted for him especially because he was unknown and wanted to “waste”/“cancel” their vote. I personally barely heard about him, I remember I heard about him when he was proposed by AUR as a prime minister a few years ago and that was it, I completely forgot about him again.

I only heard about him a few weeks prior to the election, but I always thought it was some weird ass candidate who thinks he’ll win the elections, but will barely gather 5% at best (we have these types across all the political spectrum). Then I also Googled a bit to find more info about him and found who he actually is. But I still thought he won’t reach the mainstream. Again, there are people that were more vocal during the campaigns, and they didn’t even reach 10%.

For reference, Trump had appeared in various TV shows like Fox&Friends or The Celebrity Apprentice, he appeared in the Home Alone series, he even got the Trump Tower. And overall, he was a really notorious and successful businessman. Georgescu had none of these. So even if the people were justified to vote for him (hell, I’m not denying this, vote for whoever you want, we’re a democracy after all), given this fact and declarations like the chance of Romania is the Russian wisdom and others like that, this is something that should be investigated.

@Kissaki

@iii Nobody said that. It is not about not liking the outcome of an election. It is about the unchecked active disinformation happening there that literally brought a schizo who practices pseudoscience in the 1st place.

And it is also about DSA.

@remington Yea, I do. And I did as well. However, I kinda feel this guy is actually worse, lol. Like, the dude is almost a schizo, hardly has any idea how tech and social media actually works and looks like he was backed by whatever secret intelligence or anything. There’s no way this guy would jump from total irrelevance with almost no public exposure as well (orange guy did appear in various TV shows fwiw). For example, he said he doesn’t use his phone because he fears 5G, yet he uses the headsets instead.

@remington Romanian here. It’s all just so surreal…

Key takeaways after the election results (it’s 10:28 now and the votes are still counted, but I will edit/update this as necessary):

1. The Romanian democracy still works! Despite Iohannis, Ciolacu and other influent politicians’ best efforts, despite the intelligence increased inference in the politics, there is still room for surprise. Whether Georgescu was supported by the Romanian intelligence in a bid to get a runoff between Ciolacu and him (to the advantage of the latter) or by the Russian intelligence to get a pro-Russian president in one of the most important Eastern flanc members, that remains to be seen. The thing is that, politically, neither Georgescu nor Lasconi were widely known on a national level before the elections. Georgescu has been previously proposed by AUR as a prime minister while a member of it and Lasconi previously won the City Hall of a small mountain town called Câmpulung Muscel (after this summer, she was now at her 2nd term). But both were pretty much no-namers in the national politics.
2. Lasconi showed herself unprepared in the debate and it showed. Now she has to prepare herself a lot more than she should have done before if she wants to win the race. I do not think it’s enough for her to pose as the more democratic candidate. Also, any democratic party (or at least that calls itself democratic - looking at your PSD and PNL) should back her and support her with all their power. PSD should give its entire apparatus to her in these elections, or else it has much to lose after these elections. These are the first ever elections after 1989, where none of the established parties made it to the 2nd round. I don’t think however that Lasconi will get unconditional support from them, as she would do in an ideal world. This leads us to…
3. This will be the first ideological battle for the seat of the president after a long time. I’m not sure if in the 1990s the situation was different, with Iliescu running against Ion Rațiu, or Radu Câmpeanu, or even Emil Constantinescu for that matter. Probably in the 2000s when Iliescu ran against Vadim. But as of late, the discussion shifted a lot towards corruption or administrative related issues. Nonetheless, despite her conservative past, Lasconi called herself Kamala Harris of Romania (which was a bit cringe for me tbh, in this regard), so we will pretty much have a re-run of the US elections on a smaller scale, as Georgescu is an open fan of Ion Antonescu and the legionnaires, and had a court decision of him abusing his wife.
4. I’m sorry, Andrew, the Matrix did not break today.

@Kit Sorry for being late to this thread. As someone else said, if it’s also getting cold where you live, you can put things outside, in the shade. Here there are 12 degrees Celsius, but in the night it will be 1. Either way, in my country, if there is any vegetable out there we pickle it (we’re mostly doing this with cucumbers, green tomatoes carrots and cabbage, but you’re free to experiment). Here’s a simple recipe for that:

youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1sCw00Zz…

You’re basically putting these vegetables into salty water, or in a mix with water and vinegar, along with other stuff. If it’s not that cold, it’s even better, as the vegetables will become pickled faster.

You can also search for Romanian pickles or reteta muraturi on YouTube (if you’re okay with not understanding the language).

Another thing that we do is polenta. We usually eat it with cheese and sour cream, but as these require a fridge to keep, you’re free not to use them.

youtube.com/watch?v=WUmbtQu1eL…

This video is in Romanian, but the steps seem pretty clear. Here’s what you need:

• hominy
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• water
• butter/olive oil (optionally, for a more creamy consistency)

The rest should be self-explainatory.

@UngodlyAudrey Whatever you do, don’t plan on moving to Eastern Europe. Trump will leave us all at the mercy of Russians*.

*That is, if you think the situation under the Russian influence will still be worse than under Trump

Update Monday, 11:50 AM local time: Ziarul de Gardă published the map of the preliminary results of the elections.

There is also an easier to read map on r/Moldova, back on the spez site.

With the elections coming to a close, international reactions started to flow, most of them congratulating Maia Sandu, with Emmanuel Macron even writing a message in Romanian on X (formerly known as Twitter):

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Translation:

I would like to congratulate Maia Sandu on her re-election as President of the Republic of Moldova. Democracy has triumphed in the face of all interference and maneuvering. France will continue to stand by Moldova on its European path

Other leaders who congratulated Maia Sandu were Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola, as well as the exiled leader of the Belarus opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

As a personal note, I would also like to thank you for following my updates on this thread, as well as the previous one. I thought that there is too little content regarding the Romanian-speaking space here on fedi overall, hence why I decided to take the matter in my own hands. Do you have any feedback to give me on this? Perhaps you’re just as unsatisfied with the federation issues I have as much as I am. Or just write me any other nice stuff that you want 😀

If so, I created a form below:

nc.libranet.de/apps/forms/s/2a…

@alyaza can I vote even if I’m not a US citizen? Haha

@0x815 as long as it has troops in Transnistria they will surely continue to interfere and do it rather efficiently (not to mention about Găgăuzia), but yes, for now it seems the tide has changed in favor of Moldova - at least for the time being.

Also, what I did not mention was that Maia Sandu won in the county of the runaway Ilan Shor. How the turns have tabled. 😁