If you’d read rhe article, this is People’s party (PP), the right-wing one. These news show that there is corruption in PP as well, not just the left PSOE.

Just when Spain’s opposition People’s party thought it had the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez on the ropes over a series of corruption scandals, it has been hit by a controversy of its own over alleged trafficking of influences by Cristóbal Montoro, the former finance minister.

If it wasn’t more noticeable before, that is because everyone’s attention has been elsewhere post-COVID, so this stuff never came up for the 50-cent-army to pick up.

Aren’t those aged in bourbon casks? Ok, not the peaty ones.

It’s like playing https://catmario.eu/

They are on the way to become better than namba 1…at this rate they’re going to become namba zero.

European confederation vibes 🤩

Cool, can we now get the right to purchase any laptop without windows (and the corresponding discount)

Hydro storage is pretty good paired with solar but you need to have lots of hydro to start with.

Great stuff, just needs some mass-produced cheap industrial batteries to buffer inter-day variation and some backup to ensure winter.

Now do December/January, those are the hard months for solar.

Yes, indeed, socialism is an intellectual offshoot of capitalism/liberalism/enlightenment (not neoliberalism, of course) that emerged as a reaction to the industrial revolution (and the French revolution, or you could go as far back as the English civil war, with the levellers) as a reaction to the wealth inequality it creates and it predates Marxism, but communism coopted the term and made it seem exclusively authoritarian (because that was supposedly the only way to beat capital).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Etymology

Engels wrote that in 1848, when The Communist Manifesto was published, socialism was respectable in Europe while communism was not. The Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists while working-class movements that “proclaimed the necessity of total social change” denoted themselves communists.[54] This branch of socialism produced the communist work of Étienne Cabet in France and Wilhelm Weitling in Germany.[55] British moral philosopher John Stuart Mill discussed a form of economic socialism within free market. In later editions of his Principles of Political Economy (1848), Mill posited that “as far as economic theory was concerned, there is nothing in principle in economic theory that precludes an economic order based on socialist policies”[56][57] and promoted substituting capitalist businesses with worker cooperatives.[58] While democrats looked to the Revolutions of 1848 as a democratic revolution which in the long run ensured liberty, equality, and fraternity, Marxists denounced it as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a bourgeoisie indifferent to the proletariat.[59]

Yes, but that is no reason to disparage socialism itself. In authoritarian socialism, it is the authoritarian part that sucks.

Democratic market socialism is a perfectly moderate ideology (too moderate, because often it lets the market win over and the democracy decay). You can also consider weekends, paid leave, women’s vote, public education, healthcare, public media and social security as socialist policies. It is one of the main political currents founding the EU and in South America. Only in the US is it used to describe radicals or as an insult.

I’m even reluctant to point this out to magats now, because they never get the point and may even get it in their head that these are the things to destroy wherever they exist, just because they’re socialist in origin.

Well, this is where specific targetted protectionist policies can work, provided they are used just to buy time to catch up, deploy industrial policy, subsidies, to differentiate and for RnD and not just to bury your head in the sand and keep making expensive shit products.

If .ml were a lefty echo chamber people wouldn’t hate hexbear, but they do.

Hunter-gatherers used to forage in a radius up to 10k 😁

elon didn’t rest until his minions lobotomized an llm that was mostly like the others into becoming openly nazi…is anyone out there still going to defend elon?

Peak car brain. Dude can’t even imagine how society worked before cars claimed the streets.

We’ll see. It’s a good approach, better than putin’s (or trump’s)

But why should the user feel the strike, what is the use in that? The strike is against the employer, not the user. It happens to hinder the user as a side effect, but ideally you’d have fare strikes that only hurt the company and not the users.

PS: ok, if it is to show users how useful you are to them (but that is just an indirect way to pressure employers), besides, that could just be used as an excuse for the employer to raise the fares in order to pay workers (and management) more.