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  • Germany Wants Recruits. But ‘No One Wants Their Children in the Army.’

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  • Be my fucking guest! You and your children can go enlisting, I just have to do this thing and will be right behind you...

  • Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending

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  • 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'??

  • Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending

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  • I don't think that's right. This other link (from another commenter in this thread), also euronews, says 47%. Anecdoticaly I get €1800 in my bank account every month, but cost my employer €3200.

    Kinda tricky to compare taxes from one country to another.

  • Trump Threatens to Double Spanish Tariffs Over NATO Spending

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  • 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.

  • Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

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  • I've been pirating since Napster, never have hidden shit. It's usually not a crime, except in America it seems, to download content, or even share it freely. What is a crime is to make a business distributing pirated content.

  • $32 Million In Two Weeks: The Cost Of Responding To Anti-ICE Protests In The City of L.A.

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  • I'm not sure it's possible to bankrupt a city like LA, they can go into massive debt and you and your children will end up paying it. They can also take the money from elsewhere in the budget: a shepherd will stop feeding the sheep but not the dogs.

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  • Do you have a bit of info on these Linux mobile OSs? The FP5 didn't convince me as a main phone when I needed a new one last year, but if it can take a real Linux distro it could be a cool toy.

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    Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was [abducted] by masked [ICE] in Southern California

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  • It doesn't matter if you only saw the orphans in a spreadsheet, you and the guy in the article kissed the book and have done the same shit to others in the name of the same government that is now doing it to him.

    Also in the remarks of his service and also in yours, even if as a pen-pusher 🫡, I get some hints of pride which makes this article a leopards eat face of unrepentant supporter imho.

    stupid

    dipshit

    There's no need for that mate.

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    Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was [abducted] by masked [ICE] in Southern California

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  • How many brown fathers did you kill or kidnapped acting as a thug of your government? If, after that, other thugs from your government came to kidnap yours, I would say it's a clear 'never thought the leopards would eat my face' situation.

  • Zohran Mamdani appears to pull ahead of Andrew Cuomo, according to new poll

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  • What mistakes? Everything's come out perfectly according to their plan.

  • Trump got rid of veteran benefits and cut food boxes for seniors.

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  • What is exactly an American issue? Because all the issues here are not exclusive to the US, they're pervasive all over Europe, and as far as I know (second hand), the rest of the world as well.

  • Rust Belt Voters Are Sick of Both Parties

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  • No amount of primaries can solve it either, imo. The problem is parties. One party, two parties, many parties... they all end corrupt. A politician loyalty is not to the voters, or the people, or country. It is first and most to the party, because the party put them in that place, and it can take them away if they don't stay on their lane. Parties can be, and so most have been, easily infiltrated and corrupted since money is what wins elections.

  • YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers

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  • It is not a matter of more or less aggressive, some materials dissolve more easily in one type of solvent than in others. You can try, dissolving a teaspoon of salt in water is much easier than in oil. Have you ever eaten chocolate or drunk water while chewing bubblegum? Here the opposite happens, the fats in the chocolate dissolve the bubblegum rubber and make it softer while water doesn't, it just chills it which makes it firmer.

    Now plastic, rubber, or paints, finishings... can be many different things. IPA is safe to use on natural rubber while oils will make it swell and degrade, or even melt it. But most rubbers are synthetic, basically rubbery plastic. These plastics and other engineered materials can have all kind of different properties, while looking exactly the same. So the only thing you can do, other than research on that particular material and solvent, is trying it on a safer or hidden part of the thing.

    In my experience: oil isn't good on most rubbers, IPA is ok. For metals (iron, steel, mechanical parts...), contrary to you I usually advise to clean them with oil/grease, alcohol is appropriate if you don't want it to be oily, only in rust resistant metals. Consumer/industrial products paints and finishings are usually fine with both ipa and oil if applied swiftly and dried quickly– acetone, kerosene, toluene... will strip them away probably. For wood, almost everything will fuck it up.

  • American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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  • money, the copyright and the politics

    Of course, the things that haven't affected the internet or haven't been affected by it at all.

  • Honda is entering the affordable EV game with this funky new electric car

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  • Designed as an A-segment electric SUV

    From the article.

  • Your favorite learning resource for...Windows

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  • It's a good thing they don't actually think lol

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  • Divert all the power from life support to the thrusters!

    Car: turns off the AC while going uphill.

  • Trump Organization announces mobile plan, $499 smartphone

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  • Had to take a look at it and... nope. It seems clearOS is a linux (or you know gnu plus linux) distro, but clearOS mobile is android.