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No, yours is the kind of idealistic thinking that creates all kinds of issues when people don't act like you think they should. I just observe the world, you think the world should…

Have you not consider the idea that women actually want to buy clothes with no functional pockets? Most women buy clothes to feel atractive, and pockets, if they have something ins…

What they say is one thimg, what they buy is another. If women really wanted clothes with big pockets, women clothes would have big pockets. But big pockets, specially when they ha…

Relax, the planet can't be destroyed by climate change. Hyperbole are not useful if we want to have a reasonable debate.

In Spain the lockdown was deemed unconstitutional by the Tribunal Constitucional, our equivalent of the Supreme Court.

European mediterranian countries. Bacon wrapped dates were pretty common at parties in Spain. Then they were considered bad for your health because of the fat, and now they are con…

Being the most popular sport league is not the same as being the most popular sport. Out of ten league positions, basket has #1 and #10. Soccer has #2, #3, #4, #6, #7 and #9.

I'm Spanish, and wherever I've been in Africa, South America or Asia, everybody ask me if I support Real Madrid or FC Barcelona, soccer teams of the main cities here. And the numbe…

I once saw in a developing country with no reliable police this sign: "Thief found, thief hanged". I asked the person driving me around and he said "yeah, they mean it". So I think…

Because there is a debate about the degree of immunity that you get after being ill with COVID-19. And many healthcare workers that have been exposed to the virus have been ill, ha…

No, priest are for keeping the doctrine and serving as bridges between the faithful and their god(s). Theologians are the ones who update (or uphold) the church system of belief.

Actually, that is a big part of the rent problem in Spain. Getting rid of squatters is hard enough, but getting rid of a tenant that stops paying takes even more time and effort. A…

I was in Bolivia a few years ago and I saw a big sign at a town that said "Thief found, thief hanged". The person guiding me said that the people there actually believed in that. L…

There is a french guy that has a YouTube channel in which he does exactly that: he learns to cook a kind of food by doing experiments. He's also a maker that builds some of his too…

> Often indigenous history Often indigenous history is not history because it is not written. Usually it's a collection of stories with wildly varying roots in facts.

You are just a step away from defending that votes from people that own land should count more than votes from all the rest. There are lots of reasons for that too: they are more i…

The Spanish original is "había de recordar", and "was to remember" is a good translation. It's meaning is different from just "remembered", as it implies a causality. It wasn't a r…

No. There is a special kind of self-ointed person that thinks they have the right thoughts and the right behaviour and are willing to impose that to everybody else because is for t…

> Like, it sounds like you very much do not want "those people" in your community. I absolutely do not want "those people" in any community I might be part of. They are the ones th…

No, I really like the idea of e-Ink and little or no notifications. What I really want is a phone that I can control, not a device that asks for more attention than a toddler.

I like the idea of a non-intrusive phone, but this wouldn't be enough for me. So here is my wish list for a non-intrusive phone - e-ink - phone calls - SMS (I don't send them, but …

1.choose jobs for their learning potential, not their earning potential for the first years. This will pay off later. 2.be willing to change jobs if you don't have a clear chance o…

The interesting thing about this wage ratio is they had to increase it in the beginning of the cooperative because very few people were willing to take more responsibility for litt…

"it is the worst world we have since the last ice age" It isn't. We have more forests now than 35 years ago [1] Ecological footprint is decreasing in Europe [2] Death rates from ai…

Are you really sure you should also be held to that standard? That you should be ashamed by any of the wrong things anyone does in your country?