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  • OfCourseNot@fedia.iotomemes@lemmy.world•"AI is going to replace you."
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    2 days ago

    You can have beer in a bigger format in Spain, and if you go to a place to drink beer you would order something from a ‘tercio’ (330ml bottle) to a ‘jarra’ (usually 500ml, some places have 1-1.5l mugs). The tiny beer glasses (caña, ~200ml) have another purposes, for example if the place serve good ‘tapas’, a complimentary small dish served with your drink, since they have the same size whatever you order you get more food with smaller beers; or if you aren’t staying at the place and just want, or need, a quick refreshment before going somewhere else.

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.iotoEurope@feddit.org•Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending
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    16 days ago

    Remember that unemployment rate here counts only people inscribed in the unemployment services. I don’t think half of them are working illegally, at best that would be a rounding error.

    Downsizing the bureaucracy would take many years, since public servants ‘cannot be fired’ (bit of an oversimplification, but the reality in practice), and would take some strong political will, which we lack in Spain.

    And about the armed forces, I know some ex-military that are kinda left-leaning, but the average is absolutely right leaning (from straight up nazis, to ‘apoliticals’ that if you talk with them for a short while will let go some racist, homophobic, or generally reactionary comments very casually). And that’s the rank and file, if you go to the higher ups you’ll find, well, as many fascist as you can expect from a military that wasn’t purged or rehabilitated after a fascist regime.

    Even then, when a coup was attempted, the majority of the armed forces shut it down

    Do you mean the coup that the king himself organized so he could stop it afterwards to come out as the hero that saved the day while also putting some fear in the population?? That coup d’état ‘attempt’??

  • OfCourseNot@fedia.iotoEurope@feddit.org•Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending
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    16 days ago

    Spain’s budget is ~21% of its gdp (with >10% unemployment you can imagine how bad they fucking bleed us with taxes, the poor I mean, for the rich is the same as anywhere else), but more than half of it goes to pensions, and we have a huge ,dense, and expensive bureaucracy that takes a good chunk of the rest (I don’t have numbers sorry).

    So, I think you are right, there’s just no more money: touching the pensions is political suicide (and very unfair), scaling down bureaucracy is just impossible, rising taxes would suffocate us (even more), taxing the rich is as much of a fairy tale as it is in any other country…

    On top of that, if you read a history book you will see that the Spanish military is a much bigger threat for Spain than the Russian. I don’t think it’s in the best interest of the Spanish people to give them more money.