People mainly use Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and WhatsApp. I think yeah, Abelardo campaign used a lot of AI-generated videos, I think far more than Cepeda’s campaign but I don’t know much of an impact they had.
Btw, it’s Colombia, not Columbia.
“Ají”, which is hot sauce. Your typical Colombian ají looks like this:
What about you? Do people usually eat empanadas in your country?
I’m glad :)
I think there’s only like 3 active Colombians in Lemmy, so I try my best to make any remark/clarification about it. If you have any question, I’m happy to answer.
Examples of Petro’s missmanagments:
For context, keep in mind Colombia is a rather poor country, that has been in an ongoing armed conflict spanning several decades.
See for example his “Total peace” program, in which he wanted to resolve conflicts with armed groups via dialogue rather than violence. While this sounds very good on paper, the reality is that the majority of said groups simply acted in bad faith, and used the program as an opportunity to grow bigger. Number of combatants in said groups grew like 50%; extorsions: up 25%; terrorism: up 90%; kidnappings: up 290% (!). And yet he and Cepeda insists on the program, instead of realizing you can’t take that route with some groups that simply act in bad faith.
Both of them are also pushing for a “Constitution Asambly”, a way in which we can create a complete new Constitution. Our current one is from 1991 and allows it to be constantly modified, but enforces some limitations of power to the president, which they want to remove (like the CNE, an election overviewer and also the National Bank independence from there current president’s hands). He famously promised not to do that in both his 2018 and 2022 campaigns, but once he got elected, started pushing for it in 2024.
Health sector also got hit baddly (it was bad, but not this bad), corruption has been rampant (which, being fair, has always been the case) and the country got bankrupted. Petro genuinely also looks like he’s constantly high in drugs, I’m not even kidding.
He’s also constantly crying on Twitter about how the elections have been fraudulent, despite not showing evidence, or spreading missionformation proved to be false. All of these generate an uneasy feeling of his party keeping the power for other 4 years.
Colombian here, I can give some context, at least from my perspective.
Current president is Petro, a left wing president. Cepeda is the candidate from there same party. Abelardo is the far right candidato that won.
Petro has done an awful job. I’ll add some examples in a comment. Cepeda seems better than Petro, but lacks criticism against him, so people add Petro’s shortcommings into Cepeda’s candidature.
On the other hand Abelardo got sold as an outsider to the classical politics, as he came out of nowhere, and 1 year ago nobody knew who he was. He’s actually been an ally of Uribe (our most controversial president in recent history; far right as well) and the traditional right, just simply not as involved in politics. He also got his fortune by defending and being an ally of criminals (think an IRL Saul Goodman). He’s beyond awful and like OP said, a genuine scumbag (e.g., in an interview, he laughed while remembering how he used kill cats with explosives).
Some people were gonna vote against Petro no matter what. Some people really ate the lies that Abelardo, a man that got his fortune by allying with criminals, will fight really hard against criminals. Some people think both candidates were awful, and had to choose the least awful of both of them. And that’s how we got him as our next president.
Not really, Petro did an awful job. Some violenta crimes were going throught the charts (e.g., kidnappings increased by 290% since 2022). The health sector was also hit very bad.
I think it’s is precisely Petro’s blunders and Cepeda’s lack of criticism a main reason of why we’ll have this Aspriella clown as a president.
He has a long history of ties with the traditional right here. His “outsider” image is one of the biggest lies in his campaign.
Hatred. I know it’s edgy for the sake of being edgy, and is not top gameplay, but I enjoy it as a fun passtime from time to time.
I’ve been following reitti for some time. Happily surprised to see you on Lemmy :)
Didn’t knew it allowed live location sharing, thanks for the info.
You can also search “Pirlo TV”. These sites have F1 as well.
Slaughterbots - If human: kill() explores the consequences of this.
He definitely has US backing, but Petro has also been very incompetent and malicious in his administration, so the population is also kind of fed up with him. Add the fact that Colombia has been a historically right-leaning country.
Colombia*
And Colombia is already in a lot of violence and corruption, and has been for decades.
Tangential, but I also love when they keep adding bugfixes decades after launch / last content updates.
To be fair, there’s a huge difference between some countries human rights records and China. China is IMO easily a bottom 25%.
I use backrest. It’s incredibly powerful, but has a steep learning curve. A way simpler (not as powerful) alternative is Timeshift. Your distro/DE also probably has a backup app.
I would suggest you start to play around with whatever machine you have in hand. Later on you can migrante to a more serious solution. If you want to first play on a VPS, Hertzner’s are like 4€/month
As for utilities, you could start with (in suggested order over my perceived usefulnes/coolnes/difficulty) Immich, videogame server, Jellyfin, Wireguard, Jupyter server (if you code Python), backrest.
When you want to scale up and migrate into a more “serious” setup, it depends on that you want and your budget. Still, I recommend a multi-disk bay PC (NAS), and go for a dedicated Linux distro (I’m using TrueNAS; not perfect, but overall a very good experience).
Immich has a built-in backup solution, iirc. Still, I would use a different one, so it can easily be used over non-Immich related stuff.
To prevent things like this from happening, you can create alarms in Grafana to notify you of unusual behaviour. Something along the lines of “If water consumption in the last 6 hours is > 10L / hour, fire the alarm and notify me”.
I like to think of stuff like that as an error culture: errors are bound to happen, be it a wrong Whisper transcript, a broken pipe, etc, and that’s okay. You can’t never be fully sure you are error-free. What you can do is create a culture that can catch these errors in their early stages, without having to wait, say, a whole month for the water bill to be astronomically expensive for you to say “Hey, something’s wrong” (that wasn’t the case here, but bear with me).
For real? WTF lol. I mean, if you like them, obviously go for it, but I’ve never seen an empanada with that. We usually put some beef/pork/chicken with rice/mashed potato, and dip in salsas as well.
The one in the picture I sent you is veeery easy to do: simply cut and smash/add together some tomato, onion, cilantro, a bit of water, a bit of lemon juice, salt and mashed chilly pepper seeds (or any hot thing you can get your hands on). You can also use a very similar recipe to make guacamole, just add mashed avocado. Despite the similarities, it should also taste different to a salsa fresca.