bprieto

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by bprieto 3y ago
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 bend to fit your ideas.
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by bprieto 3y ago
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 inside, are bulgy and ugly. Plus most women like to buy and us
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by bprieto 3y ago
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 have some things in, are not esthetically pleasant, and most w
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by bprieto 3y ago
Relax, the planet can't be destroyed by climate change. Hyperbole are not useful if we want to have a reasonable debate.
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by bprieto 4y ago
In Spain the lockdown was deemed unconstitutional by the Tribunal Constitucional, our equivalent of the Supreme Court.
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by bprieto 4y ago
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 considered bad for your health because of the sugar.
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by bprieto 5y ago
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.
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by bprieto 5y ago
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 number 1 visited museum in Madrid is not the Prado, whi
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by bprieto 5y ago
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 in your experiment the people who woul
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by bprieto 5y ago
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, have high levels of antibodies and they don't think that
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by bprieto 5y ago
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.
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by bprieto 5y ago
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. And you are still legally bind to pay for utilities, even tho
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by bprieto 5y ago
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. Lynching is what happens when there is no police an
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by bprieto 5y ago
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 tools. And he is funny and entertaining. https:/&#x2
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by bprieto 5y ago
> 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.
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by bprieto 5y ago
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 invested in the territory, they pay more taxes on that land,
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by bprieto 5y ago
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 random remembrance t
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by bprieto 6y ago
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 the Good. They are the worst people you can meet, because the
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by bprieto 6y ago
> 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 that forced RMS and Linus out of their
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by bprieto 6y ago
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.
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by bprieto 6y ago
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 I need them for 2FA) - contact book synced with Go
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by bprieto 6y ago
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 of promotion inside. 3.be a likable person. Have a coffe
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by bprieto 7y ago
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 little more pay. So maybe there is a study to be done about what
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by bprieto 7y ago
"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 air pollution are dropping [3] Thanks to techno
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by bprieto 7y ago
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?
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by bprieto 8y ago
This is exactly the case. Here in Spain it takes months, even a year to get a judge to evict a tenant that has stopped to pay rent. In the meantime, you need to keep paying for utilities or you will be fined, not the person not paying t
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by bprieto 8y ago
Software like Decidim or CONSUL [0] are meant to be used by the city council or maybe at the regional or even national government level, like is the case of CONSUL. If you really want Citizen Participation having real decisions made in the
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by bprieto 8y ago
The coach then will be an american living in Thailand, half the team will be girls, the sport will be american football instead of soccer, one of the rescuers will be a woman who happens to be an ex-girlfriend of the coach, there will be a
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by bprieto 9y ago
Most phone plans are 3 part tariffs, at least in Spain. You pay a fixed amount that includes some minutes of talk and some GB of data. If you go beyond the limits, you pay for each additional call or each additional 100MB block or whatever.
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by bprieto 9y ago
If you have some niche or specific knowledge, you can set up a blog and sell infoproducts (courses, books, templates, etc.). I've done this on the side and there is money to be made. I had earnings of low thousands some months. But it&

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