But what makes Antonescu say this:

I am caught between the shallow demagogues who will ruin my Romania, and the agents (including Mr. Dan) with ties to the former communist secret police, the Securitate, who, with help from many well-meaning people, have been damaging this country for 20 years,

Is it just political envy or is there substance behind the claims of a fading out politician?

Don’t trust me, see The Independent then. Jokes aside, thanks for the correction, I’ve always been unsure which one it is.

Sorry, but is anyone here claiming that this “mental labor” is quantifiable? If so, would sound absurd to me.

This is drifting off, but number of visits is not an indication of healthcare success. Perceived improvement could be.

I understand you’re fine with measuring everything in revenue. Fortunately, human happiness and satisfaction are not measured in dollars.

I’m working in software. Don’t tell me that I’m more productive when I work in finance than when I work in social services. Because that’s what the numbers show. It’s just that in finance your work generates more revenue and gives you a bigger salary. That’s what productivity measures. And people in many places around the world, including Southern Europe do not really care about revenues as long as they have enough to live well. That’s how they end up with lower “productivity”. Of course in other sectors it’s not ai immediate, but it is the same. If you are a farmer and sell to your community, you’re not productive. If you export to retail chains you’re very productive.

Thanks for putting the effort to detailing this.

I agree for the rest, but wait to see how automotive failing to reform itself will lead to much much higher unemployment in the South of Germany.

I have nothing against Germans or automotive. I have a lot against local feudals and communities that are fine with them as long as they can call themselves a working class. If your slave owner is richer than someone else’s this doesn’t really make you richer, you are still as dependent as a slave.

So working 50% distorts the data by reporting 50% of the hours?

I didn’t think football hooligans are the ones bribing judges. At least in Bulgaria it’s actually the secret services that keep them on a leash for dirty jobs.

This sounded ambiguous, but at the end services keep both hooligans and judges, so I’ll leave it this way.

What worked very well in the UK was banning convicted offenders from entering stadiums.

Hey, actually, your point is very good. I also ha doubts what do they mean as the region. But yes, I think the context is that the earthquake you talk about was very far and in a different geographical region, even if still in Turkey.

The facility claims that the sand on its beach is “clean enough.” Another resort in the village of Vityazevo, near Anapa, is preparing to receive children with respiratory conditions. Treatment guidelines call for swimming in the sea.

https://github.com/CitizensFoundation/your-priorities-app/issues/161

It’s not a straightforward task. And it’s controversial is you want to avoid multiple registrations.

It’s been around for many years now and famously was used in the consultations for the constitution of Iceland. We also used it in Bulgaria back in 2013 and had a community of more than 3000 users, but it lost traction due to being ignored by politicians and controversial debates.

You can see more recent activity on https://www.citizens.is/ , particularly the impact and news sections.

There’s https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt for a marketplace.

I’m really missing something like https://yrpri.org/domain/3

Well, I guess they had a good idea, but struggle implementing it. The ban makes sense as a mechanism to force social media owners to comply with government regulations. If TikTok demonstrates that they are willing to moderate content, they probably should be allowed again. The caveat is that moderation at this scale is very very difficult, they want to convince us that it’s impossible. But behind this alleged impossibility, transpires a political agenda.

Explained here: https://lemmy.world/comment/15815089

It has been hypothesised that Bulgaria could join and this is seen as a hostility by Serbia

https://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=231382

However, winds and governments are changing way too often in Bulgaria and foreign policy is completely unpredictable. The only constant is that it’s toothless.

In Italy the anti-nuclear stance was voted in a referendum in 1987, but they still keep trying.