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3 years ago
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on: Rational Dress Society
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.
bprieto
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3 years ago
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on: Rational Dress Society
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 use bags, so they don't need pockets the same as men do.
Again, you can think that this is wrong, sexist, patriarchal or whatever, but it will only change when the people making shopping decisions actualy ask for that change with their money.
bprieto
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3 years ago
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on: Rational Dress Society
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 women value esthetics more than utility.
bprieto
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3 years ago
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on: Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country?
Relax, the planet can't be destroyed by climate change. Hyperbole are not useful if we want to have a reasonable debate.
bprieto
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3 years ago
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on: How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
In Spain the lockdown was deemed unconstitutional by the Tribunal Constitucional, our equivalent of the Supreme Court.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
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.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Cities should not pay for new stadiums
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.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Cities should not pay for new stadiums
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, which is one of the 5 top art museums in the World, but Real Madrid museum in their stadium.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart
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 would suffer most would be the real criminals. I don't think there would be much more crime, perhaps even less. Justice and Police systems are there not to prevent crime, but to prevent the people to turn into lynch mobs, which tend to be very unreliable.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
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 the vaccine is necessary or beneficial for them.
But right now you must be in one of the two fields: you are either an anti-vaxxer or you believe in science and will do everything your government says. There are no room for rational discussion about important issues anymore. You just choose your team and fight for it till death.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated
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.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
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 though you are not getting any money. So people prefer to have an empty house than to rent it to a person they are not sure will be a reliable payer.
And if they decide to rent, that includes demanding the tenant has a stable job, running debt checks on them and asking for several months rent in advance, which makes more difficult to rent for people with low wages.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
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 and justice system.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
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://www.youtube.com/user/FrenchGuyCooking
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study
> 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.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: The Swiss reject key climate change measures
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, they produce the food that the rest need to eat...
But around a hundred years ago, most democracies decided that every person should have a vote, and that all votes should count the same. Including men who don't own land, women, people of color, poor people, uneducated people and young people.
And I think that, although it might seem worrisome that so many idiots vote against my personal preferences, it's better that way. Because the alternative of having an elite that consider themselves better than the rest always ends in justifying killing all who don't agree or who don't offer enough value.
bprieto
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4 years ago
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on: How to Start a Novel
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 that just happened, it was some memory that was brought by the proximity of death.
bprieto
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5 years ago
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on: I Violated a Code of Conduct
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 they commit their crimes tirelessly in the name of Good. They were the Pharisee, the Priests that condemned infidels in the Middle Ages, the sans-culotte in the French Revolution, the revolutionary communists in the USSR, and the nazis in Germany... and they are now the SJW. They will cancel, abuse, exile, banish and even kill those who don't agree with their worldview, because for them their worldview is more important that any human being.
Fortunately, most people care more about other human beings that about ideologies, so no, most people won't behave like that in any circumstance.
bprieto
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5 years ago
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on: I Violated a Code of Conduct
> 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 roles. And RMS and Linus can be eccentric and unpleasant, but they have made my life much more easier through their contributions in a real and concrete way.
"Those people" are worse than the people they prey on. They are dementors, ghouls that suck life, intelligence and innovation out of every space in which they crawl.
bprieto
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5 years ago
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on: MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
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.
