petrescatraian

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@Cephalotrocity yeah, we'll see how potent the orange guy is

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 2 days ago

@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.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

@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

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 4 days ago

@LaFinlandia a bit off-topic, but for those wondering, the song is not played by Rammstein. It's Eisbrecher - Verrückt:

youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDp…

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 8 points 4 days ago

@MudMan That's pretty much how war is. Imagine you had to basically shoot some people yourself. It would be terrifying.

@LaFinlandia

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 4 days ago

@Fubarberry War Robots. This shit really got me hooked as of late.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 4 days ago

@Mothra yes, It is, haha. I was testing to see how well it updates on Lemmy's end after editing. Right now the second edit didn't seem to go through.

 

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 4 days ago

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):

preview.redd.it/utmakul7otyd1.…

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…

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 5 points 5 days ago

@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. 😁

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

@0x815 the situation was simply insane, with clear voter fraud schemes, election tourism and bomb threats across polling stations in Europe, which were meant to disrupt the voting process. However they failed to disrupt it.

After Sandu's last term, I expect the country to be firmly onto a European path and pass more much-needed reforms on it's way to EU. Hope she and her government will not take too much time like it kinda did in her 1st term imo.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

@0x815 it fortunately is. I'm happy that Moscow lost another foot in Europe.

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Hi all,

Today it's the 2nd round of presidential elections in Moldova. The candidates are:

  • Maia Sandu - the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), pro-EU
  • Alexandr Stoianoglu - Socialists (PSRM), less pro-EU, rather pro-Russia, supported more or less by the Kremlin.

Get your Moldovan friends to the ballots if you have any. I'll try to keep you posted about any updates as much as I can (I'll be on a hike so I likely won't have that much cell service).

Here's the Election Commission's official website where you can see the presence in real time (as well as the results after the polls close): pv.cec.md/

Right now it's around 10:00 AM here in Romania, I guess it's the same in MD

Edit: if you know any Romanian/trust Google Translate enough, here's a live feed: hotnews.ro/live-alegeri-in-rep…

 

 

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Few of you might know today it is election day for the Republic of Moldova. Moldovans have to elect the president, as well as answer to the question of whether Moldova should change its Constitution for a future EU membership.

While the election results seem to be pretty clear in favor of the current, pro-european president Maia Sandu:

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Things are different regarding the vote for the referendum:

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The "Da" yellow bar, for someone who does know a bit of Russian, means yes (Da is actually one of the few words that Romanian and the Slavic languages have in common). The blue bar on the right means No and as you can see is a bit longer as of now. These are just the preliminary results, as votes are being counted as we speak. The hope comes from the urban centers, where votes are still to be counted, and more people support the European direction than the rural areas (Although at the current growth rate, the Yes camp doesn't seem to be hitting the 50%+1 mark) and the diaspora which has a solid majority in favor of the revision of the constitution:

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As I understood, the diaspora vote will only account for something like 5-10% of the total result (which is a bummer, since the diaspora has increased a lot in the latest years), it will not be the average (I'll update this part of the post if things are different).

Why is this important?

Moldova is a small country, sandwiched between the war-torn Ukraine, and the already EU and NATO member Romania. Its current land and some more which is part of Ukraine, (also known as Bessarabia) belonged to the medieval-era Principality of Moldova, which lost it to the Tsarist (Russian) Empire in 1812. That Moldova later united with Wallachia to form the modern-day Romania in 1859. After WWI, Bessarabia united with Romania and stayed so until the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939, when Romania retreated its administration following a Soviet ultimatum. The current borders of modern Moldova were drawn by them, as it was only an administrative province.

Nowadays, compared to Ukraine and Georgia, Moldova is the EU candidate in Eastern Europe which is the most advanced on the path to accession. The referendum has currently passed the threshold for validation, which means that enough people have voted, irrespective of their option. If the majority of the votes are no, it will be a huge blow to Maia Sandu and her pro-European program. Besides that, the economic situation might get worse with some foreign investors fleeing the country. It is highly likely that Maia Sandu herself will even lose the elections in the 2nd turn - which would bring even more trouble for Moldova and for Ukraine, which already has two hostile neighbors (Russia and Belarus). If the referendum does pass, but with a small majority, there will be room for contestation, and it will be a huge headache going forward. It is necessary that the referendum will pass with an as high percent of Yes votes as possible, in order to eliminate any doubt concerning the European integration of Moldova.

If you've reached all the way here reading this, thank you! Here in Romania it is 01:28 AM Monday morning, just like in Moldova, so the polling stations have closed a while ago (my Friendica node also seems to currently have a 2-hour delay, so you might see this post even later when I'm already sleeping). But across the Atlantic, voting booths should still be open.

As anyone has seen with the Brexit, the results of a referendum can hardly be overturned, if at all.

If you have any friend or acquitance from Moldova, go tell them to go out there and vote, and vote Yes no matter the other option they're choosing for president (I hope they vote for Maia Sandu tho, but I believe in the free will of the others). There is no way one could choose "No", absolutely no way! By choosing this, they will choose for their country to have relations with a country under international embargo.

Source of the pics/realtime info: Referendum, Presidential Elections (it's basically the same page but I made it easier for you since it's only in Romanian and Russian. To view the diaspora votes select Externe in the drop-down above the map of Moldova.

Edit 10:30 AM local time: good morning (from here)! Seems like the Da camp has the advantage with 50.03% (looks like they're now on to the diaspora vote count). We're getting there! 🤞

 

Too bad my netbook is dead. Don't know if I can find a replacement motherboard for it...

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