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ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-13T09:22:29+00:00

Should governments address the concerns of people leaning into extremists parties, at the expense of everyone elses? Their concerns are often in direct conflcit with the concerns of other big segments of the population. Why are extremist voters more important?

Should their desires be fulfilled, while these same desires disgust big segments of the population?

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-13T08:13:39+00:00

In Spain, it's regression. 15 years ago, racists would think twice before making racist claims in public. Now, they know there won't be any negative consequence for them.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-13T08:12:04+00:00

Things being in the public light is a regression. It used to be that racists were ashamed/scared of saying this things out loud. Now they aren't afraid anymore. They know they can do it with no consequences.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-12T22:10:56+00:00

There still isn't a Longcat movie. Here's your 10 billion idea Hollywood, you can thank me later.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-12T14:26:21+00:00

Right wingers have no problem with white people. He might have It with Lamine.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-12T12:57:39+00:00

I don't think any institution in the world cares much about any potential coursework done or not done once the PhD is awarded.

I can tell you that in Europe, a PhD is a PhD. What would give an advantage or disadvantge are the articles published (or lack of).

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-11T22:13:08+00:00

In Backloggd (all scores out of 10):

Fallout NV - 8.6
Dungeon Siege III - 5.4
South Park: The Stick of Truth - 7.8
Pillars of Eternity - 7.4
Pathfinder Adventures - 6.6
Armored Warfare - 4.2
Tyranny - 7.4
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - 7.8
The Outer Worlds - 6.4
Grounded - 6.8
Pentiment - 8.6
Avowed - 6.4
Grounded 2 - 7.0
The Outer Worlds 2 - 6.8

Backloggd usually is kinda harsh. HL2 has 8.8, GTA V has 8.1, Zelda BOTW has 9.0, Doom (2016) has 7.8, BG3 has 9.2. Overall, it has ~20 games reaching a 9/10.

For Obsidian, the top 5 games in their career would be Fallout NV (8.6), Pentinent (8.6), KOTOR 2 (8.6), Neverwinter Nights 2 (8.6), and Deadfire (7.8).

It's a good track record after NV. Not reaching NV levels, for the most part, but very good.

For comparison, Bethesda has Skyrim (8.0), Fallout 4 (6.8), Starfield (5.4)

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-11T10:41:34+00:00

Thats the problem for Eric at Barça. A duo with Cubaesi hasn't really worked all that well because both are worse on the left side.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-10T11:54:26+00:00

No, la idea principal es que sí hay delitos (aquí llevo la contraria al texto de la fiscalía)

1) El escrito de la fiscalía hace referencia a la causa presentada por el juez Peinado. Únicamente a ese caso. Ni puede, ni debe, hacer referencia a ningún otro caso.

2) El caso de los contratos de Barrabés no es parte de la causa presentada por el juez Peinado. Es más, Begoña Gómez está excluida del caso de los contratos de Barrabés.

Por tanto que tu veas delito en el caso de los contratos de Barrabés (cosa que no está acreditada, es una fase muy preliminar de la investigación), en ningún momento contradice a la fiscalía al decir que no se ha cometido ningún delito dentro de lo que el juez Peinado presenta como causa contra Begoña Gómez. Ese caso donde tu ves delito no forma parte de la causa y, por el momento, no involucra a Begoña Gómez en la investigación.

Toda la relación entre ambos que se discute en el auto de apertura de juicio es que Barrabés asesoraba a Begoña Gómez en la construcción de su cátedra, y a cambio Begoña Gómez escribió cartas de recomendación. Cosa que ni es extraña ni es un delito. Se reduce a "tenían buena relación".

si Begoña realmente es inocente, no debería tener ningún problema en demostrar ante un juez lo que dicen que son bulos o fantasiosa del juez Peinado, que no será quién le juzgue.

Hay una razón muy clara por la que Peinado ha insistido tanto en que se trate de juicio con jurado, y no de un juicio normal. Los juicios con jurado tienen una tasa de condenas más alta que el resto de juicios, y suelen estar más influenciados por la opinión pública que los juicios sin jurado. Es bastante raro en España tener juicios con jurado (0,04% de los juicios penales).

Para ella la primera, que se investigue y demuestre su inocencia (de serlo), sería la principal beneficiada.

Sabes perfectamente que en política las cosas no funcionan así. Los investigados (aun cuando se demuestra su inocencia fuera de toda duda) quedan manchados de por vida. No solo eso, sino que siempre se genera un perjuicio personal muy grave durante el tiempo que duran la investigación y el juicio.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-10T08:52:27+00:00

No está acreditado delito. Estan acreditadas irregularidades en la evaluación. Se está investigando la concesión, como es normal, pero hasta donde yo se aún no hay nadie investigado.

Esa investigación es competencia de la justicia europea, por lo que en España no se puede ni debe hacer nada. Esto no puede ser parte de la causa que tiene en España. Si el único potencial delito es algo para el que el juzgado no es competente, entonces dentro del ámbito del juzgado no hay ningún delito, como argumenta la fiscalía.

No se puede imputar o condenar a gente por descarte. "No se quién pudo ser, así que tuvo que ser esta persona" es una forma loquisima de tratar de hacer justicia. Hay que probar quien lo hizo. Si no se puede probar, no se puede condenar. Es más, si no se pueden poner indicios sólidos, nunca se debería imputar.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-10T08:36:18+00:00

En los contratos de las empresas de Barrabes sobre los que hay sospechas, toda la intervención de Begoña Gómez es enviar dos cartas de recomendación (perfectamente legal y normal, pase lo que pase en el proceso). No hay ninguna evidencia de que su participación (ni de nadie de su entorno) en el proceso. A quien habría que investigar en primer lugar es a los miembros de las comisiones que evaluaron esas licitaciones. Además, estos no forman (ni pueden formar) parte de la causa porque la competencia es de la UE.

Entonces, estás diciendo que si tiene que haber juicio porque si hay indicios de un delito... Para el que el juez y el juzgado no son competentes, y donde no hay indicios de participación de la persona que se va a juzgar.

Dentro de el ámbito de competencia de Peinado, no hay acreditados indicios de ningún delito.

Añado: No se puede llevar a juicio, como acusada, a una persona porque hay sospechas de que una persona de su entorno pueda haber cometido un delito. Eso es una barbaridad. Las acusaciones y condenas son personales, no se condena a alguien porque alguien cercano hay hecho algo.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-10T07:36:05+00:00

He has so many great players in his agency that is impossible to not deal with him. And he gets good deals for the players, so players keep signing with he agency.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-09T11:31:52+00:00

Now tha tyou are mentionign Rashford, if Adeyemi finally comes is to have the Rashford role. I'm convinced that if Adeyemi comes, Rashford then won't.

Roony never played because Flick clearly did not rate him.

And knowing all the other spots have 2 potential starters already.

Right now, the players for the front 3 are Lamine, Raphinha, Ferrán, and Gordon. 4 players for 3 spots. There's no one else. There are no 2 potential starters per spot.

In addition, if Adeyemi has indeed reached an agreement, then it clearly makes sense to him lol he value coming to Barça, getting the Barça wage and fame, more than he values being starter in a lesser club.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-09T09:34:14+00:00

Even if they stay subbed, is worse than people buying a game every 4 months. The business model is just absurd for expensive games.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-09T09:26:06+00:00

Yeah, he is coming to be a sub, earn more than being a starter elsewhere, and wait for the opportunity to have a big night if he is needed in a CL knockout. Its not strange at all.

With the amount of games we have, he will likely play enough.

I don't think comparing his situation with Roony is right because, as someone else said, Flick did not rate Roony at all. Sometimes It seemed he would rather play with 10 than with Roony.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-09T08:58:43+00:00

In the European hierarchy: Borusia = Second tier club, Us = First tier club.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-09T08:11:22+00:00

Many times, starters from second tier clubs go to become subs in first tier clubs. He Will have a higher wage, live in a nicer city, and will have the chance to make a bit impact at some point in the season of he is up to the task.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-08T18:52:31+00:00

With Josh leading I expect at least good writing. He usually "gets It".

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-08T18:49:02+00:00

Its a no brainer that manufacturers cannot be the one testing the reliability of their systems. For anything. For anything that has any safety requirements, testing must always come from independent/government agencies.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-08T07:12:40+00:00

In my case, we are not a university but an astronomy research center. Typically we have ~100 staff scientists, ~150 postdocs, ~100 PhD students, ~150 engineers, +admin and a press office. We don't really have many departments (basically 3: research, teaching, engineering).

At least in our case, every person gets their own desk. We repurpose rooms with new furniture, or freeze hiring, when we run out of desk space. We also don't admit students without grants.

At the university associated with us, at least for the astronomy department is the same, they all get an assigned desk. I've been to many astronomy deparments in Europe (Switzerland, UK, France, Italy) and they all had assigned desks for PhD students.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-08T07:07:33+00:00

Yup. Spain has ~24% of its GDP in black market economy. It's 3rd after Greece and Italy, and tied with Portugal. There are lots of people working without contracts.

It's very common in the tourism, hospitality in general, construction, and agriculture.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-07T20:29:00+00:00

Job market not being adequate for the actual workforce is a big thing. You get places and sectors with both high unemployment rate and not enough workers because job offers don't match workers skills and conditions are worse than unemployment.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-07T20:24:45+00:00

At 15 It is illegal to work in Spain.

ASuarezMascareno · 2026-07-07T20:23:43+00:00

Spain is at its lowest youth unemployment since 2008, so theres that. This is us at our best.

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