ankalagon
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
We should be more critic with respect to what sources of information we read about something as serious as a pandemic.
On one hand, if Catalans are independent they will be isolated (no EU members thanks to Spain's, and maybe France's veto).
On the other hand, if Catalans are not independent, there will be protests about this, criminality, and maybe even terrorism.
If you like Spain, I would vouch for Galicia (if you like cold climate with rain) or Malaga (international city with mild climate all year).
What I'd also advice all "normal" citizens is to take their part in slowing the global warming by doing simple actions like:
- Recycling cardboard/crystal/plastics/metal.
- Buying local produce.
- Buying second hand stuff: books, clothes, etc.
- Buying hybrid cars, and when there was enough electric-stations, electric cars.
- Installing solar panels in your house.
- Improving the insulation of your house.
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...
- When starting in a startup after I lost many years working for a small no-name company. - When interviewing for an American company in Madrid (I was not offered a position).
Side question: how do you all come up with ideas for side projects? I don't know if my life is dull (or I'm dull), but I have no creative power in my mind to give birth to great ideas, only small libraries, that well, interest few people.
There was a failed coup by the PSOE and left-leaning political groups in 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1934
They failed and the next two years were a sequence of minor scale violent events that ended in a war in 1936. Of course, the coup by the military forces is not justified, but the caotic situation made them choose what they thought was the "lesser of two evils".
The Second Spanish Republic was a failed try to make a modern country whithoug having some kind of agreement between different political parties. All political parties were extremely polarized, the first coup failed (1934), and the second one (1936) succeeded.
The civil war started 40 years of iron-fist totalitarian right-leaning regime (allied to USA). Fortunately it's been 50 years since that ended, although some politicians (soem in PSOE and almost all in Podemos) like to bring the topic up again, and again, and again... Only for divisive reasons and electoral motives.
- Bombing of Cabra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra
- Sinking of SS Castillo de Olite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Castillo_de_Olite
- Paracuellos Massacress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracuellos_massacres
Edit: However, fighting because of what faction was worse in a conflict that ended more than 80 years ago is nonsense. This comment was made only to remind all that both factions made war crimes.
Franco supporters' oppression aginst the losers side ("Republicans" and Communists) was worse after the war, from what I know.
Both sides reached out for allies and got resources, men and machineary from them. National military front got in bed with Nacional-Socialsm and Fascism, and Republican with URSS.
I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.