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An organized, disciplined military is more effective at defending against an organized, disciplined military.

That’s true. The thing is: defending what? The country? The government? The king? Going to war is trading my (relative) safety for theirs, and I’ve never been too fond of them really.

Defending myself and going to war sound like complete opposites to me.

Be my fucking guest! You and your children can go enlisting, I just have to do this thing and will be right behind you…

Remember that unemployment rate here counts only people inscribed in the unemployment services. I don’t think half of them are working illegally, at best that would be a rounding error.

Downsizing the bureaucracy would take many years, since public servants ‘cannot be fired’ (bit of an oversimplification, but the reality in practice), and would take some strong political will, which we lack in Spain.

And about the armed forces, I know some ex-military that are kinda left-leaning, but the average is absolutely right leaning (from straight up nazis, to ‘apoliticals’ that if you talk with them for a short while will let go some racist, homophobic, or generally reactionary comments very casually). And that’s the rank and file, if you go to the higher ups you’ll find, well, as many fascist as you can expect from a military that wasn’t purged or rehabilitated after a fascist regime.

Even then, when a coup was attempted, the majority of the armed forces shut it down

Do you mean the coup that the king himself organized so he could stop it afterwards to come out as the hero that saved the day while also putting some fear in the population?? That coup d’état ‘attempt’??

I don’t think that’s right. This other link (from another commenter in this thread), also euronews, says 47%. Anecdoticaly I get €1800 in my bank account every month, but cost my employer €3200.

Kinda tricky to compare taxes from one country to another.

Spain’s budget is ~21% of its gdp (with >10% unemployment you can imagine how bad they fucking bleed us with taxes, the poor I mean, for the rich is the same as anywhere else), but more than half of it goes to pensions, and we have a huge ,dense, and expensive bureaucracy that takes a good chunk of the rest (I don’t have numbers sorry).

So, I think you are right, there’s just no more money: touching the pensions is political suicide (and very unfair), scaling down bureaucracy is just impossible, rising taxes would suffocate us (even more), taxing the rich is as much of a fairy tale as it is in any other country…

On top of that, if you read a history book you will see that the Spanish military is a much bigger threat for Spain than the Russian. I don’t think it’s in the best interest of the Spanish people to give them more money.

I’ve been pirating since Napster, never have hidden shit. It’s usually not a crime, except in America it seems, to download content, or even share it freely. What is a crime is to make a business distributing pirated content.

Thank you!

Do you have a bit of info on these Linux mobile OSs? The FP5 didn’t convince me as a main phone when I needed a new one last year, but if it can take a real Linux distro it could be a cool toy.

money, the copyright and the politics

Of course, the things that haven’t affected the internet or haven’t been affected by it at all.

I am from a ‘developed’ EU country. The first three days of sick leave you get nothing (this accounts for the vast majority of ordinary leaves) then 60% of the ‘regulatory base’ (which takes out ‘pluses’ or ‘bonuses’ that in some trades/jobs make for a substantial part of the wage) till the 20th day from there 75% (again without those extras).

In 22 years of working I’ve not been paid one single sick day.

Wait, you Frenchies have 100% pay for ordinary sick leave??? I guess we’ll have to get some hi viz vests and a handful of lighters over here.

Edit: is it just for civil servants? Do workers for private companies get a 100%?

Nope that’s French, I think, my French est terrible, but definitely not Spanish.

Why is the word Israel, consistently through the whole site, between quotes?

Yep I know. These are the ones the company buys. I’ve tried others when I had to buy a box while out and about but n a hardware store or even a supermarket. Latex gets destroyed very fast, I didn’t notice much of a difference with vinyl… but you are right I have to try if some other material goes better. The thing is I don’t have a clue what the fuck they put in the inks and nobody seems to be able to tell me.

I sincerely doubt these newcomers can achieve at their first try what well established manufacturers haven’t through revision after revision of their machines. The price is the first clue, flatbed uv printers this size start at about ten thousand. Also, important information like which printhead they mount, printing speed (m2/h), uv lamp wattage… is missing which is suspicious at best.

Not at all like a resin printer. Imagine a hybrid: the top part is an inkjet printer with a printhead that goes side-to-side shooting ink but instead of paper sliding under it there’s a flatbed not unlike the one in a filament 3D printer. The ink is cured by a uv lamp (or more than one, but I suspect this printer has only one and very small and weak since the smaller lamp I work with costs more than this hole printer) usually fixed to the side of the printhead ‘carriage’.

No. Just don’t! You nerds, tinkerers, hackers, makers… listen to me: DO NOT BUY THIS.

I didn’t think I’d have to read the words ‘Consumer UV printer’ ever. It’s just a deranged concept. UV printers are the worst kind of machines there are. Imagine an inkjet printer but a thousand times worse, I’m not joking. I work with these, but professional/industrial ones, in professional printshops, and they are an absolute toothache for my customers (again, professionals that make a living with printers and similar equipment). The customers like me, because I’m the one solving them problems (even if the bill for the solutions is more often than not a few thousands) but I’m sure the salespeople look under their cars every morning.

This will only be a hole in your pocket, a piece of junk taking up space in your home, and even a hazard to your health or your kids’ or pets’–UV ink is some nasty shit before curing, some of them make my hands itch even trough the nitrile gloves, and you have to handle and dispose of the waste ink properly ie hiring some waste management service.

It’s true that you can make beautiful things with them, but for a home it’s just not worth it, just take your designs and your media (the things you want to print on) to a print shop and have them printed there.

The installation in my home follows my country’s regulations as they were ~15 years ago. It’s divided into several circuits, the ‘general use’ outlets one is rated for 25A in total AND at any point, ie you could plug a 5750W appliance in any of those outlets. The lights circuit is the lowest rated at 15A, still letting you ‘plug’ up to 3450W.

He’s not wrong. Schools are day-prisons where parents leave their kids while they slave away to make the rich richer. Most teachers (in my experience at least) are absolute shit, and so are the education systems (again in my experience). And before the ‘in the Scandinavian countries…’ bunch comes: I know a few Nordic people, not impressed, they just have lots of money to throw at the problems (which I would say is the secret for every other statistics they excel in).

Quick edit: that being said I don’t know anyone, including myself, that has learned a language with Duolingo. Can be fun but it’s useless for actually learning.