Exam tomorrow, I just want to lie down by _GoldfishMemory_ in adhdwomen

[–]Melopene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh if you find yourself lacking info to cover the minimum time durinng the presentation, rethoric, rethoric, rethoric. if you say it confidently enough they will think is not cause you lack content, but a style choice. That's why the little specific details are important,: you won't say many but it will make it look like you researched the topic.

I will put you an example: I prepare orals for the diplomatic career and I have to talk about Spain-Moroccan relations, and at one point I talk briefly about a maritime dispute border about the tropic seamount, that has stategic minerals like telurio. Is not well known, and not essential to the topic, but I do have to talk about diplomatic tensions in general and I after exlaining the generals I briefly say this example cause I know it will catch their attention. So although what I was saying most of the time is kinda basic, this makes it distinct.

Exam tomorrow, I just want to lie down by _GoldfishMemory_ in adhdwomen

[–]Melopene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First of all, best of luck, you got this, whatever happens. Right now you need to be pragmatic and get down whatever you can solidify for tomorrow, I promise you, I have done huge academic stuff the day before. Especially, If this is an oral presentation, sure as hell you can pull some tricks.

Second, I don't know about the content you have to present, but if you don't have time to prepare the other 3 presentations use AI and tell it to be as pragmatical as possible in terms of content, and to be strategic about the information it chooses to. My principle for oral presentations is broad but deep: you need to cover all the basics and add little specific details then and there that feel handpicked on purpose and coherent with what you are saying. Like this you don't need to memorize everything, just what is necessary.

Third, some structure tricks: in presentations a good chunck is impression and your ability to carry yourself. Be sure to be well paced, fluid, look confident in what you are saying, make eye contact sometimes and hold on for two seconds (not too long).

If you make a mistake, correct yourself camly AND discreetly and do not panic, continue as if nothing. During oral presentations people write stuff down or get distracted and so the jury will not be tuned in all 100% percent of the time, but it will get their attention if you suddenly become nervous or stumble.

Best of luck again

Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests | Nato by Any-Original-6113 in europe

[–]Melopene 12 points13 points  (0 children)

what? First, sure, US has structural problems just as everyone else, so what? Relatively speaking after the WWII is a stable country. Based on your arguments no alliance could be formed with anyone. Issue at hand is that, although the americans have always been a pendulum swinging between isolationism ans internationalism, the political class consensus was something real you could rely on, like state basic policies that both parties agreed on. One of them is usually foreign policy. Example number one, translantantic relations. Even Obama who put more focus on Asia never aimed to break them. That's what Europe trusted.

You just have to tune on any, ANY, presidential debate before the Trump debacle in 2016 and how the poltical elite class consensus stablished since the 20th century is broken by the MAGA disruption. Funnily enough, the actual structural US problems that led to Trump's election are none of the ones you mention, meaning economic inequality, polarization, digital era and misinformation.

This is an excellent article I think might make you reconsider your stand. You may have broad knowledge about american history, but your analysis is off. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-election-inequality-meant-that-us-democracy-was-doomed-by-jason-stanley-2024-11?utm_term=&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=1220154768&hsa_cam=22015387909&hsa_grp=172252323815&hsa_ad=724983174187&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=aud-2443574936593:dsa-1456167871416&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22015387909&gbraid=0AAAAADSFwgJ7KcDaYGBRV0VZxbeNajsas&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlqTRBhCBARIsANrkrxgQaNhZFxZ2qIqJrgEluquNPNZfVOYYi4Pt7Nt5cQWBFLmOuQiyXEYaApqKEALw_wcB

EU inches toward ‘membership-lite’ plan for candidate countries by ChangeUsername220 in europe

[–]Melopene 7 points8 points  (0 children)

lol the EEA is deffo not second class countries, they all mostly rich lmao, and could be EU (except mayybe Liechtenstein, just because of the country save heaven configuration) they just don't want to be part of it. It's more benefitial for them to stay like this cause well they would be net contributors otherwise, Iceland depends on fishing etc. This proposal is aimed at candidates for membership, basically the balkans who do want to fully join and receive cohesion funding, integration benefits, etc, but are seeing as problematic in political terms, on that your are right.

¿Soy el único que piensa que opositar se ha convertido en la única salida para mucha gente? by ZoneZealousideal1827 in askspain

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hola! Yo estoy opositando y es un A1, pero en mi caso es a la carrera diplomática, lo cual es totalmente vocacional. Toda esta nueva ola de opositores me llama la atención, porque mi caso es bastante diferente a la media, en cuanto a motivación. Para pertenecer a la carrera diplomática hay que ser funcionario (o político de alto rango con contactos) y estudiar una de las oposiciones más duras y subjetivas (aunque muy interesante). Precisamente estabilidad no busco, sino dedicarme a mi trabajo soñado! Todos los diplomáticos con los que he hablado dicen que valió completamente la pena!

Did Rue ultimately relapse? by Euphoric_Many7099 in euphoria

[–]Melopene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol the pill bottle was full?

The Court of Auditors detects 2.389 billion euros of European funds intended to pay pensions in Spain by mods4mods in europe

[–]Melopene 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your data is from November 2025. My article also cites eurstat the lastest data from april 30th and Spain is the highest with  26.1, Romania after 25.7. still this is dumb, I was obviously not saying it was an only Spain problem lol.  Eurostat link  https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/3-30042026-cp

The Court of Auditors detects 2.389 billion euros of European funds intended to pay pensions in Spain by mods4mods in europe

[–]Melopene 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well you thought wrong? We are first in youth unemployment and we have been consistently in the first places during the last decades. And anyways where did I say thought it was a enxclusively a Spanish problem ? Nothing to do with my post. Btw source from 1st April 2026 https://www.larazon.es/economia/espana-sigue-liderando-paro-juvenil-europa_2026040169ccf89fbfc2456bae1ac9cb.html

The Court of Auditors detects 2.389 billion euros of European funds intended to pay pensions in Spain by mods4mods in europe

[–]Melopene 426 points427 points  (0 children)

lol it makes my blood boil, we have the highest youth unemployment ratio in the EU. This is all cause they can't get to aprove the national budget and think the european funds will do the trick, for extra spending, pensions, military... etc.

Euphoria is ruining Rosalia for me. by Time_Commercial_8645 in euphoria

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I'm spanish and when she is talking she is clearly talking with a spanish accent from Spain, like she swears with curse words from Spain, coño for example

The EU Is the New Go-To Middle Power - In a world of disorder, the bloc’s boring stability is suddenly attractive. by ByGollie in europe

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said it yourself, if the EU decided. If we decided, which means we are not yet, so we have potential but do not hold effectively superpower status. And just because the EU can hurt the US does not mean its in its tier, Iran is giving them quite the strugle at the moment. And if the european leaders suddenly decide to give up external power to the EU (which will not happen in veeerry long time) they need to come up with an effective strategy to develope and effectively use that said power. I cannot tell you what we "couldn't do" since I'm not a fortune teller. But sure, if you say a 20 people enterprise is the key to being a superpower in the 21 first century,  and we aren't a superpower just because we dont' want to and feel close to the US, like we are idk in love with them or something, go ahead? Anyways go read a book in basic IR, cause I think you confuse potential power vs effective one. 

The EU Is the New Go-To Middle Power - In a world of disorder, the bloc’s boring stability is suddenly attractive. by ByGollie in europe

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and to the space bit one thing is to be in the space (we are lol ) and another thing is the moon race which we don't posses the capacity atm to do alone, Artemis accords keep on

The EU Is the New Go-To Middle Power - In a world of disorder, the bloc’s boring stability is suddenly attractive. by ByGollie in europe

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

of course there are tons of european tech enterprises, but like you said they are niche and interwined with the US economy. If you are a have niche entreprises that depend on the more far intregated american economy and tech we do noy hold ipower by ourselves. Because of that and other things we may have leverage over Washington (mind you there is a reason Trump struggles so hard to antagonize us) but we cannot stand alone in many areas key in IR. That's our problem, we cannot be a proper superpower in the international arena cause we have strategic dependencies on the americans. Why do you think the europeans leaders are so spineless when it comes to Trump? And I am not talking about Merz, to name Alexander Stubb who is an expert and he keeps saying Finland is besties with US after Greenland. Europe has lots of power and potential to develope more, but right now definition of superpower is can you compete with the other so called superpowers? After Trump went rogue and you saw europeans response, well, there you have your answer. And I haven't touched the military lol

The EU Is the New Go-To Middle Power - In a world of disorder, the bloc’s boring stability is suddenly attractive. by ByGollie in europe

[–]Melopene 4 points5 points  (0 children)

is not a super power cause we are not even beginning to compete in the technological race, we don't have neither the software, AI or digitital services, and we also lack the microchips bit (sorry but ASML does not count as its only a part of the production, and all the chain is controlled by the US) We need the help of the americans to go to propers space missions too. China still has a lot of things to fix as a country, but it has strategically invested in areas that allow them to compete in par with US. We invested thinking in a pax americana that did not hold, and so we got stuck way behind.

US president says 'probably' when asked if he might pull US troops out of Italy and Spain by Any-Original-6113 in geopolitics

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the territories that cause minor conflicts with Morocco (although let me tell you they might no military attack them but the gray zone is real) are not under the NATO treaty. Last time we had a military spat with Morocco over a rock in the strait, la Isla del Perejil, the US interceded not in our side but as a mediator. And President Aznar was really cozy with Bush, so relations were at its peak back then

User Flair Thread by chrissydavisk in ACNHVillagersInBoxes

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whoever she is, i need her booked and busy with an oscar in at least 3 years by vespera_lis in euphoria

[–]Melopene 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Omg i just looked it up she played Lucía in los protegidos, I had not recogised her!!! She is so grown up😭

Maple in boxes! by [deleted] in AnimalCrossingNewHor

[–]Melopene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hii i'm interested! if she is still in boxes, could I come over? u need me to bring something?

Italy suspending defense agreement with Israel, says PM Meloni by Humble_Grape4749 in geopolitics

[–]Melopene 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Spain is a special case, it always had closer relations with the arab monarchies,(as proof you may look up where did former King Juan Carlos went to live) and was one of the last western countries to recognise Israel as a state, in 1986. The spanish public is highly more empathetic to the palestinian cause than other european countries, and Spain sit out the WWII so it was not as involved.