I would also recommend avoiding traffic or any situation that could cause danger to the governments poorly planned aus alert.

Good advice. Here in Romania the alert sounds are quite annoying:

youtube.com/watch?v=yJnEekVNX_…

No relevant EN podcasts from me fwiw. I do have some Romanian recommendations if you want to:

• Știrile Zilei Recorder - daily news from the independent investigation publication Recorder - they mainly quote other media sources, but they’re a good and fairly neutral digest of general daily news in Romanian.
• Recorder Talks - a collab with politica la minut - a (social) media project aiming to better explain the political events in simple terms in order to combat disinformation
• Vorbitorincii - hosted by Cătălin Striblea, a journalist at Europa FM, together with writer Radu Paraschivescu and a few others. It is a bit right leaning, but they positioned themselves firmly against fascism and our far-right political forces
• Istoria României (The History of Romania) - as the name implies, it is a history podcast. Although the host previously worked in IT, she manages to provide a comprehensive, fairly balanced and non-nationalistic vision of the events. She also declared that she is a fan of Mike Duncan.
• Arhiva de Sunet (The Sound Archive) - a listened history of Romanian music. All genres and subgenres, from jazz, to rock to manele.

money maybe?

It’s weird that it’s not working. I tried opening it in a private window and it opened just fine

It’s still available as a separate game tho

I have nothing to hide, but I don’t have really much to show either.

Teal is a wonderful color

Ok so if app stores like f-droid don’t care about the play store catalog

I’m assuming this would be highly debatable. I mean, you do get some of the apps that are in the Play Store. You do not get them from Play Store directly.

Also, apps like NewPipe are on F-Droid too. Not sure how good this will go to Google.

@solbt saving this

oh, I know about this one. Too bad they’re being forced to go FOSS this way 😁 I thought Valve explicitly took away someone’s Steam library or something.

@Sunshine wait, what? Any context?

I assume the whole world was pretty divided on this one

If it was Europe, the guy couldn’t have burnt the flag in the 1st place /s

wait, you mean they will deliver a finished bug-free product straight from the first release version? without the need of any bugfix? I’m surprised

This is such a fail on behalf of them, honestly, even if it was a Ukrainian drone or a Russian AA system. In fact, if they actually faked the video to show it was actually they themselves who blew up that lid speaks volumes about how stupid they are.

sCaRy AsIaNs

@FoxtrotDeltaTango Thanks for also pointing out where Saddam’s hideout is relative to the strait. Highly useful graph!!!

They probably misheard his statement. He probably meant “world piss”

Any other party. But only one other party is needed for a coalition government.

That pretty much has to do with how the population feels about it. Transylvania was ruled for hundreds of years by Hungary, then it became an autonomous province under the Ottoman Empire after Budapest fell to it, then part of the Habsburg Empire, only to fall again under the dominance of Budapest under the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. Yet the Romanian majority was largely persecuted, firstly because they were Orthodox and not Catholic (and later Protestant/Evangelical), then because they were, you know, Romanian. And as in 1859 the southern provinces of Wallachia and Moldova united to form the nowadays Romania, they naturally gravitated towards it. Likewise, there’s now a strong unionist movement in both Romania and in the Republic of Moldova (which is mostly named as Bessarabia to make a distinction from the Eastern part of Romania also called Moldova) calling for the reunification of both countries (albeit not strong and cohesive enough to create real political pressure, but that’s a different story).

Regarding Crimea, the issue was not who owned it and for how long, but basically who owned it in recent times. You see, after WW2, people decided it would be too dangerous and too unpleasant to go to war again, so we adopted a series of treaties. And Europe, where some of the bloodiest territorial conflicts occurred, made no exception. Even if it was mostly owned by the Russian Empire throughout its history, then by USSR, Crimea had all the reasons to stay Ukrainian, as to not create a precedent in violating the said agreements.

Otherwise, if we take the population into account, I would be for an independent Tatar Crimea, but we know there’s a certain state which doesn’t like independent states. And that is not Ukraine, which still views it as an autonomous province.