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steinrokkan posted:The Czech Republic has elected Petr Pavel, former head of the NATO Military Committee, as its president, beating former PM Andrej Babiš 58:42 Great, just what we needed - a Bohemian (I know, that other guy wasn't really böhmischer...) Nenonen fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jan 28, 2023 |
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Clearly this infiltration of civilian power by the military is further proof that homonazi corruption has given the Bohemian scoundrels an insatiable bloodlust.
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steinrokkan posted:The Czech Republic has elected Petr Pavel, former head of the NATO Military Committee, as its president, beating former PM Andrej Babiš 58:42 Babiš eating poo poo is 
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steinrokkan posted:The Czech Republic has elected Petr Pavel, former head of the NATO Military Committee, as its president, beating former PM Andrej Babiš 58:42 Don't get me wrong, he's obviously a better option than Babiš, but I somehow can't muster any enthusiasm about adding yet another right-wing conservative to a system dominated by right-wing conservatives, so we can all pretend everything's well with the world while healthcare and social services collapse around us. e: Now Fiala is on and I just wish someone shoved a ripe tomato into his smug mug. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 28, 2023 |
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Well you're right, but for one, this country is just cursed by an extreme abundance of slobbering bootlickers and it's not gonna change because unlike elsewhere even the young generation loving sucks with its spiessburger philistine values, and second, I can't get too worked up about this vote since the president's office has been turned into an embarrassing joke by its two previous inhabitants and hopefully it's going to stay irrelevant in the future as well.
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Yeah, agree on that. Honestly, the ideal solution would be to abolish the office altogether, but that's obviously not gonna happen - kicking them out of the Castle would be a pretty good start. Might make the people realize the president is an official, not a bloody king.
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Jan 28, 2023 19:23
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Would you kick him out... through the window? As is the tradition?
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alex314 posted:Would you kick him out... through the window? As is the tradition?
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anilEhilated posted:What it's really proof of is that we just got a president who'll happily help out whatever nonsense austerity scheme the current government comes up with. Hey don't worry, the new president will happily help out any government!
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Did Czechs fail to develop the technology behind patronymics... Just slap on -ov, -ko, -ski or -icz there, don't give your kid your name as his last name. Just setting up a person for failure, gonna get bullied by all the slav presidents
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Somaen posted:Did Czechs fail to develop the technology behind patronymics... Just slap on -ov, -ko, -ski or -icz there, don't give your kid your name as his last name. Just setting up a person for failure, gonna get bullied by all the slav presidents It would be -ic (well -ič) if anything but even then most would think that's some kind of Serbian name.
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Looks like Saskaņa is completely falling apart, pretty much as expected from the election results. Urbanovičs ousted, Elksniņš and the Daugavpils city deputies have spun off a party of their own, and the party is now debating kicking Bartaševičs, and Rēzekne and Ludza wings of the party are in an open rebellion. The latter is especially funny, since the reason for the rebellion is the Riga wing's accusations against Bartaševičs, that he was proposing, e.g., to refer to the war with “conflict”, when the general meeting of the party did also “officially” conclude that they lost due to Urbanovičs calling Russian an aggressor – I think they're actually planning to double-down into vatnik politics?? GLHF I guess.
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Somaen posted:Did Czechs fail to develop the technology behind patronymics... Just slap on -ov, -ko, -ski or -icz there, don't give your kid your name as his last name. Just setting up a person for failure, gonna get bullied by all the slav presidents Au contraire, patronymics are an inferior adaptation developed by non-West Slavic lands which lack good beer or wine and have mediocre spirits at best.
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https://lvportals.lv/norises/348563-zinami-2022-gada-vards-nevards-sparnotais-teiciens-un-savarstijums-2023 Have to say that I’m a huge fan of gājēju pārbrauktuve  For non-Latvian context, it’s a wordplay on “pedestrian crossing” along the rough lines of “pedestrian cross-out”
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://lvportals.lv/norises/348563-zinami-2022-gada-vards-nevards-sparnotais-teiciens-un-savarstijums-2023 It's an untranslatable wordplay, but pretty drat good. I'd vote if I knew where to. By a simple switch of two near synonyms, "pedestrian crossing" becomes "place to cross over pedestrians". Cinci, what's your take on the CVK mess? Sounds bad, but the silver lining is that Ritvars Eglājs, a Twitter hate-follow of mine, is among the officials that might be indicted. a podcast for cats fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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a podcast for cats posted:It's an untranslatable wordplay, but pretty drat good. I'd vote if I knew where to. By a simple switch of two near synonyms, "pedestrian crossing" becomes "pedestrian run-over/hit&run spot". CVK mess is a bloody fine mess, even by the remarkably low Latvian standards. It seems to have been farmed out to people who mismanaged it so badly that I'm not even sure this is graft, as they absolutely were too stupid to even steal properly and pretend to have had proper procurement auctions. They basically locked CVK into perpetual contracts with a single private company supplying a proprietary IT system to run the elections on, overspending both on purchases and on support contracts. The rest of their procurement strategy seems to have been equally smart - KNAB is investigating even a suspicion of document forgery. As a consequence, their budgets have been bled dry, and so they were running in austerity mode with poo poo morale even before Valsts kontrole, and then KNAB both came down crashing on them. Possibly, the most toxic combination of institutions to be investigating you, minus like VDD, which made almost every career employee to flee. They're down to just 12 employees, several of which have announced their resignations (including the chief lawyer), and Saeima is further firing everyone on the nominal committee, excluding your Twitter guy that I'm not particularly acquainted with. In other words, being out of money and out of people, it has collapsed, and we don't have an election committee presently. Apparently, the time to establish one is 6+ months after you get some physical people, due to security requirements for the electronic equipment. We have the EP election this year (with no confirmed budget yet, which will only be calculated and approved after the CVK is reformed), and the municipal referenda starting from the next year. What this means is that the same scammers could by force majeure get locked in as the IT supplier for the next elections so that everything could be ready for the EP election (not sure if the date for that has been determined yet). Another cool consequence here, besides our Saeima being able to gently caress with money in multiple ways, is that CVK 2.0 supposedly will be a sidecar institution to something else, and ministries have been mentioned as an example (in addition to more sane options, like VRAA). If CVK is under a ministry, then it stops being politically neutral. Basically, everything about this is bad, and I hope that we get helicopter VDL very soon, to scare some fear into our clown coalition.
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in more very eastern "europe" news (hey if turkey is europe, it's eastern, and therefore azerbaijan is... easterner europe!), this is not a collection of countries i expected to see in a news article https://twitter.com/joshuakucera/status/1620811092699258881 israel/azerbaijan coalition against iran or w/e and retaliatory strikes on the azeri embassy in tehran by iran is uh... weird news, especially given whatever the hell else israel was probably doing but hush hush about in iran recently wtf geopolitics i am confusion
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Getting a report from the USGS of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hitting Turkey near Nurdagi. This appears to be the largest earthquake to hit the region in recorded history, by a significant margin. AP: https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-shakes-turkey-b927808f6a5c54bdb669120faa40b7bc NYT liveblog: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/05/world/turkey-earthquake Epicenter was near Gaziantep and the Syrian border. USGS site: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000jllz/executive https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1622416291872051205 Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Blimey. Given Turkey's past earthquakes consistently revealing corruption in how well building code is followed, this could have an effect on the elections either way. If houses built in recent years withstand the disaster then Erdogan can take credit for that, but in the opposite case the opposition gets fuel for their campaign.
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Nenonen posted:Blimey. It's also right next to Syria which... likely has a lot of heavily damaged housing.
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Turkey has a lot of the country within danger zones from seismic fault lines, which is making me a bit nervous about their plans for nuclear power tbh.
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Over 2,700 dead in Turkey and the number is still climbing.  Turkey has formally requested NATO help.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Turkey has a lot of the country within danger zones from seismic fault lines, which is making me a bit nervous about their plans for nuclear power tbh. Metsamor hasn't killed everyone in the area so far, so hopefully some lessons have been learned (hopefully other than "we cannot afford both safety and electricity").
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Mr. Apollo posted:Over 2,700 dead in Turkey and the number is still climbing. My news feed today was like a really dour version of the stonks meme, loving hell
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I can see why the death toll is so high. It happened around 4:15 AM and I've seen 2 videos on the BBC so far of 8 - 10 storey newish looking buildings in Turkey completely collapsing.
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Mr. Apollo posted:I can see why the death toll is so high. It happened around 4:15 AM and I've seen 2 videos on the BBC so far of 8 - 10 storey newish looking buildings in Turkey completely collapsing. Yeah, the city of Kahramanmaras looks like it was recently liberated by the Russians. I am actually really proud of both Finnish and Swedish governments that it took them less than 12 hours to declare that they would help, no decency from Erdogan, or paybacks expected or required.
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Mr. Apollo posted:I can see why the death toll is so high. It happened around 4:15 AM and I've seen 2 videos on the BBC so far of 8 - 10 storey newish looking buildings in Turkey completely collapsing. Which means it's near certainly going to get much higher 
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Bartaševičs kicked out of Saskaņa. End of an era, huh. His success to staying in power forever was he knew enough people in the right places in Rīga to pull money in for the municipality, which is now going to be an entirely different calculus from now on.
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OddObserver posted:Which means it's near certainly going to get much higher I'm not sure who these folks are but these numbers sound a lot more realistic to me, given 2 earthquakes comparable to 1999 over a massive region with awful construction https://twitter.com/risklayer/status/1622728877868191744 Btw I encourage discussion about this everywhere as much as possible of course, but I hope people consider Syria too, and of course the large Kurdish and Arab populations straddling the region. Pics from nyt showing affected areas for each quake respectfully:   https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/06/world/turkey-earthquake-damage.html I'll post this in the ME thread too I guess. It's so bad!!! Don't look on social media for posts made by people stuck underneath as they were making them, horrible screams. E: EE-wise, Ukraine and Russia have offered support. Some Russian planes have been dispatched https://twitter.com/ravi4bharat/status/1622646624265568272 mawarannahr fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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The WHO says the death toll could increase eight-fold. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64533851
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Mr. Apollo posted:The WHO says the death toll could increase eight-fold. It struck in the dead of night. In Syria buildings are damaged and even the older ones probably didn't have the best regulations or construction to withstand this, new ones are probably useless. I wouldn't trust Turkish building regulations to be much better, especially not in the relatively impoverished and neglected south east. The weather's also been bad, there's been a snow storm if I read it right, and temperatures are below freezing. Road infrastructure and airports have been destroyed or critically damaged. The rebel-held areas and the Turkish border regions are chocked full of Syrian refugees. Yeah, this one is going to get much worse.
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Mr. Apollo posted:The WHO says the death toll could increase eight-fold. Well, it's at the very least has doubled since the morning. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/world/middleeast/earthquake-turkey-syria.html  mawarannahr posted:E: EE-wise, Ukraine and Russia have offered support. Some Russian planes have been dispatched Russia also seems to be considering doing a quick law change to allow draft soldiers be sent on humanitarian missions abroad. If that goes further than talking, they could send some army engineering cadets/digging equipment to help with clearing works too.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Russia also seems to be considering doing a quick law change to allow draft soldiers be sent on humanitarian missions abroad. If that goes further than talking, they could send some army engineering cadets/digging equipment to help with clearing works too. That would be welcome and a better use of soldiers
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Big rear end RKN leak, very interesting to read about https://zona.media/article/2023/02/08/rkn-filesmawarannahr posted:That would be welcome and a better use of soldiers I'm afraid I ended up misreading that on the bylines, they seem to be hurting for manpower in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Moldovan government has resigned, long live the new government.quote:Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Friday nominated a new prime minister to keep her country on a pro-EU trajectory after the previous government fell earlier in the day, following months of rising Russian pressure amid the war in Ukraine.
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rather belated at this point, but in very eastern "europe" news, central asia's hottest president is... sorta out, but not? https://eurasianet.org/turkmenistan-look-whos-back https://twitter.com/SLonCentralAsia/status/1623652369476243456 Serdar Berdimuhamedow, nominal leader of Turkmenistan, has been kinda supplanted by the former president, his father, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who now holds the revived office of "national leader" and head of the people's council, after apparent dissatisfaction among elites with Serdar's performance as president. Gurbanguly was, to a degree, still more or less in charge before, but now he's more in charge, again. gently caress knows, Turkmen politics are inscrutable. Serdar's loss of station raises questions of succession, however--he was the heir apparent but apparently no longer, and there isn't really anyone else set up to take over should Gurbanguly die or whatever in Uzbekistan, the trial of persons charged with inciting revolution during unrest in Karakalpakstan (following proposed constitutional amendments that would have removed the region's de jure right to self-determination) has concluded. almost all defendants plead guilty (probably under coercion) and all were convicted, receiving multi-year sentences, with the one defendant pleading innocent receiving a 16 year sentence. several officers of the security services have also been charged with misuse of force, but afaict not yet tried: The Economist - Squashing dissidents in Uzbekistan https://twitter.com/joannalillis/status/1624024805937750016 ed: (not much) more info on the police officers charged from eurasianet. no specific charges but realistically i would assume abuse of force president Mirziyoyev, while less oppressive than his predecessor, Islam Karimov, is clearly not going to allow popular dissent and is expected to consolidate power and continue his rule past his original term limits with revised constitutional changes Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Feb 13, 2023 |
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VSOKUL girl posted:rather belated at this point, but in very eastern "europe" news, central asia's hottest president is... sorta out, but not? gurbanguly is going to be kept alive as long as necessary by the golden dog statues
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Happy Fat Thursday Goons! I'm presently at 0 pączki, but expect the number to climb higher.
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