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Someone hasn’t seen what Spanish cities look like outside the casco viejo…

Source: the beneficiaries of such fraud, were it to occur…

That’s what nearly all UE regulation is. Most of these regulators are on the payroll of 200 year old companies who maintain their control of the economy by preventing any real chal…

> It's so naive to think that Meta/Google(Youtube) doesn't have power to manipulate people's opinion We have that here too, except in our case it’s the government using the good ol…

Well, most things, considering the absolutely pathetic average salary, the rising cost of living, and the ever-increasing tax burden.

Unhealthy people get left behind in Europe all the time. I hope as a European you’ll never have to go through the hell of trying to deal with any kind of complex chronic illness. T…

Yes, there is a public health system, but people tend to avoid it when they can. Most opt to go private for their dental, for example. And if they have any kind of systematic (sibo…

The divide goes back even further than the USSR. The enlightenment era gave us two separate definitions of freedom. At its foundation, the US govt is granted whatever rights it has…

Europeans will continue to buy the hardware, except rather than being able to afford the Apple devices they’ll buy some very low quality knockoffs from Shein.

>liveable work conditions How does low pay affect the “liveability” of work conditions? A waitress in the US makes as much or more than a software engineer in most of the EU. While…

Twenty years ago it was quite expensive for an American to visit Europe. Typically only the upper middle class could afford it. Since then the European system has become stagnant a…

It will be interesting to find out why Cortes is depicted as a Roman. Considering the church inventory, it reminds me of the Holy Week processions in Spain where you often see peop…

+1. Even if many of the mid-twentieth century French philosophers were incomprehensible and self-contradictory, they certainly provided a lot of useful raw material for more ground…

170,000 terawatts of free solar energy per day has to go somewhere…

People who think the world works on facts have a hard time grokking LLMs. With chatgpt you find solutions to problems the same way you do with humans: through conversation. Persona…

This is generally true, except that it’s not necessary to travel to the US. You can see a local private doctor or dentist (often accredited by a US university, using US developed m…

>wrongdoers This goes all ways. The USSR had their hands in Spanish politics. Spain’s extensive gold reserves were drained and shipped off to Moscow, for instance. Spain was dragge…

>humans for the majority of existence… This is not globally true. Animal products have always been the most important part of the Northern European diet. Earlier, nomadic herders i…

Depends on what you replace it with. For the majority of people less beef means more soy, more seed oils, or more chicken (the meat most easily modifiable by modern industrial tech…

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People below the age of 29 are still likely to believe what they were taught in school, and haven’t yet suffered the consequences of the lifestyle they’ve been told their whole liv…

Covid broke our institutional reality. There's clearly something about the events of the last two years that's caused a large segment of the population to instinctively reject what…

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less yo…

There's a difference between "vaccines work," and the vaccine specifically developed for COVID works. Most of us who are skeptical of the second statement are not skeptical of the …

I’d be less hesitant to take the vaccine if midwits weren’t so eager to convince me that science says what I know science cannot say.