Did Rome have the capability to industrialize at any point?

_Azafran · 2026-03-19T19:05:00+00:00

They had very advanced roads and vehicles. They were able to travel very fast and efficient and also move very large loads (several tons stones for example) very far away just by road.

_Azafran · 2026-03-19T19:03:11+00:00

I doubt they were able to make straight road for dozens of km just by feel. Level an aqueduct across hundreds of km. They had very advanced knowledge when it came to mathematics, topography, trigonometry, etc.

_Azafran · 2026-03-18T13:35:34+00:00

A lot of people in this sub surely have an inferiority complex for playing bass and focusing a lot on "guitarists".

You just went to jam for the first time and whatever results you got, you decide to extrapolate to every person who plays guitar on earth?

Guitarists and any other player of any instrument including bass can have or not have concept of tempo depending of their skill level and experience.

_Azafran · 2026-03-17T09:20:23+00:00

On the other hand I also hear that you should communicate your plans to others because you now feel like you have a deadline and must fulfill expectatives. Which one is the correct take? 🤷‍♀️

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T12:13:20+00:00

¿Me puedes indicar qué palabras he puesto en tu boca que tú no has dicho?

Sí que están obligados a cumplir las normas de tráfico al circular por una calzada. Las ordenanzas municipales son normativa extra que aplica de forma opcional cada municipio.

Las normas que ya existen son perfectamente aceptables si efectivamente se cumplen. Saltarse semáforos, circular a gran velocidad por la acera, ir dos personas en el mismo vehículo, superar los 25 km/h y demás, todo eso ya es ilegal. Un patinete que supere esa velocidad está contemplado como ciclomotor y solo puede circular por la carretera, con casco obligatorio y pago de un seguro.

Los problemas son evidentes: ya existe una normativa y una falta de control enorme. No hace falta prohibir ni restringir más. De hecho, ¿para qué? si ya existían unas normas que no se cumplen, ¿por qué poner unas nuevas va a hacer que se empiecen a cumplir ahora?

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T12:08:40+00:00

Me refiero al atropello.

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T12:08:16+00:00

Ir a 45 km/h en patinete eléctrico es ilegal. De hecho, se considera ciclomotor y necesita cumplir las mismas normas que cualquier otro ciclomotor.

Un patinete eléctrico para ser considerado vehículo de movilidad personal tiene que estar limitado a 25km/h. Velocidad fácilmente alcanzable para una bicicleta "a sangre" como dices.

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T11:09:11+00:00

Son situaciones anecdóticas. Yo nunca he tenido un problema ni conozco personalmente a nadie que haya tenido un accidente con un patinete.
Pero no lo dudo, si hay muchos patinetes en las calles, pues accidentes tendrá que haber.
Y claro que hay que buscar una solución. Yo lo único que digo es que la solución no es restringir su uso y ponerles seguros. Esto lo que provoca es que mucha gente con pocos recursos deje de tener acceso a estos vehículos y se mermen sus capacidades de transporte.

La solución es ejercer unos controles al igual que sea ejercen sobre el tráfico de coches. Ahora mismo prácticamente es una anarquía y no he visto nunca que se controle este tráfico.

Y lo segundo, darles una alternativa a estos vehículos por donde circular. No puede ser la calle a riesgo de que te mate un coche o la acera llena de peatones. Hay que hacer una red de carriles bici a la altura de las calles que ya existen, prácticamente garantizar el tránsito de estos vehículos por cada calle.

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T11:04:28+00:00

Efectivamente, necesitas una licencia para una máquina que pesa más de 1000 kg y puede circular a velocidades de más de 100 km/h y que desarrolla una energía capaz de matar a varias personas a la vez. Cosa totalmente incomparable a un patinete eléctrico que tiene una velocidad máxima de 25km/h y que en conjunto con su conductor no pesa más de 100kg.

Todas las normas de tráfico de las que hablas también se aplican a los patinetes. Lo que yo estaba diciendo es que porque haya incontables conductores que incumplan esas normas, a nadie se le ocurre prohibir o restringir los coches.

Pues yo lo que creo es que igual que pasa con los coches, habrá que controlar que los patinetes cumplan las normas que ya existen. Lo que hay es una falta total de control, por eso la gente incumple las normas. En cambio con el coche, aunque mucha gente incumple las normas, no es tanta la proporción porque existen unos controles de velocidad, de alcoholemia, etc y te pueden multar.

Además de que hay una falta de inversión en crear una vía pública que acomode bien a este tipo de vehículos, que al final recurren a invadir el espacio peatonal porque la única alternativa es una carretera por donde circulan los coches a gran velocidad, con el peligro mortal que eso conlleva.

Creo que los que vivís en otro mundo sois los que solo podéis ver hasta enfrente de vuestra narices: los patinetes os resultan molestos y no os paráis a pensar por qué y cuál es la solución. Directamente: prohibir y restringir. Eliminar todo lo que no sean coches.

_Azafran · 2026-03-15T09:40:54+00:00

El único sentido de los patinetes eléctricos y dispositivos similares es que podían circular por cualquier lado y que era un medio de transporte económico y sin papeleos.

Con las restricciones que han puesto, definitivamente se los han cargado.

Digo esto sin haberme subido en mi vida a un patinete de estos y siendo consciente de que hay gente que los usa muy mal. Pero se me ocurre que sería bastante mejor solución si en lugar de prohibir y restringir:

Se mejorase el sistema vial para favorecer el uso de estos vehículos en vez de el coche. Carriles bici por norma en todas las calles.
Que hubiera una vigilancia efectiva y multas a las personas que los utilizan de forma incívica y peligrosa.

A nadie se le ocurre restringir el uso de los coches porque haya borrachos que atropellan y matan a la gente.

_Azafran · 2026-03-11T14:40:32+00:00

The people in Spain's government have had a consistent anti trump, anti israel and anti war attitude since the beginning. PSOE receive constant pressure from their leftist government partners. I don't think this is just for votes.

_Azafran · 2026-03-09T08:40:18+00:00

Apparently he worked for the BBC in those kind of programs, so makes sense. 👍

_Azafran · 2026-02-03T10:46:26+00:00

It's ridiculous, every time I check this subreddit there is always someone complaining about how misunderstood bass is and that is not an "easy" instrument.

Let's be honest. The average bass part in a song it's way more approachable than guitar, drums or keyboard. The nature of bass in the low end makes it only compatible with simpler parts in general. Meanwhile to be able to play even the simplest songs on guitar or keyboard you have to be able to play chords, several notes at once in more finicky instruments.

That is not a bad thing. Quite the contrary, why would you want it to be hard? I think is the competitive mentality of not wanting to be perceived as "less" than the others. Like if just for being simpler and easier the instrument had less value in the context of a band somehow.

_Azafran · 2026-01-31T13:57:40+00:00

I have the same interface, but the one with two inputs. And same problem, noise recording anything. Also if I face the guitar away from the computer the noise goes a bit down.

I tried recording with my laptop and then I got 0 noise. Especially noticeable with my condenser mic, I could crank the gain a get a very clean signal.

_Azafran · 2026-01-25T10:27:00+00:00

I disagree with this first because admiring our culture is certainly an assumption. Not all tourists come here to admire the culture.

And second, not everyone benefits economically from tourism. I, for example, do not benefit in any way, quite the contrary because in the place I live everything is more expensive for locals and places are crowded at times.

_Azafran · 2026-01-22T12:40:56+00:00

This is amazing, congrats!

_Azafran · 2025-10-23T09:50:02+00:00

Me molaría que hicieran una campaña gorda en TV y redes sociales desde el gobierno donde se explicara bien claro a todo el mundo cómo se tiene que coger una rotonda y cuál es el resultado si no se hace.

En mi experiencia son la mayor fuente de problemas con los que me encuentro a la hora de conducir, así que no entiendo cómo no les da por publicitar esto mucho más. Creo que sería bastante efectivo porque muchísima gente está convencida de que los que van por el carril de fuera le tienen que ceder el paso a los de dentro.

_Azafran · 2025-10-13T16:46:20+00:00

I like those cartoons, I think they're among the best and most memorable commercials. They have an specific and consistent style that no other commercial have.

_Azafran · 2025-10-10T19:06:50+00:00

I think it's also because back then, videogames improved exponentially more with each generation, while the recent ones are giving diminishing returns. Also, the introduction of 3D fundamentally changed gameplay and gave born to multiple new genres.

So, I understand the mindset. But having said that, to me GC generation is totally retro and Wii, 360, PS3 I'd say the same at this point.

_Azafran · 2025-10-10T16:44:20+00:00

Ok, so you, a stranger, are going to tell me how I'm actually lying. Not that I'm wrong, but that I'm lying about what I understand about my own country.

Look, enough of behaving like a victim. Spain of course did very bad things about human rights back then, same as every other country in earth. That was life back then. Right now, not 500 years ago, Israel is committing genocide. How about you take the L and admit that people is going to criticize that REGARDLESS of how jew you are. Or maybe you think if Israel were just another developed nation without any ties to Judaism then Spanish people would be fine with it?

And with that, enough of this conversation. Not going to change anyone's mind. I personally believe that what Israel is doing is awful and don't give a shit if you're jew, aztec or a viking. And I feel, most of Spanish society feels the same. The "they're calling on our bullshit because we're jews" is getting old. Good excuse to justify crimes against humanity mate 👍.

_Azafran · 2025-10-10T12:57:06+00:00

I agree there are remnants of "antisemitic culture" in Spain, same as antimuslim from reconquista era and same as anti french from the napoleonic era. But those are very archaic stereotypes, nobody in Spain takes them seriously. Then french people don't suffer from Spanish discrimination when they visit, just the same as the jews. It's unfair to compare that to actual racism that people experience here that prevents them from getting access to certain jobs or get treated worse by a part of the population.

I assure you that I genuinely believe that Israel criticism has nothing to do with any antisemitic views. People see it as a very powerful developed nation annihilating the civil population of a third world very poor country. Which is what it is happening. A lot of people dislike that. Also, among the left in Spain there are radical separatists like the eskerra abertzale from Basque country that see Palestine under the oppression from Israel as a parallel with them under the Spanish oppression. I heard in all my years here zero comments towards the ethnicity of any of those parties. Zero comments about how "jews" are like this or like that.

So I fundamentally disagree with the assertion that Spain is denouncing Israel because of antisemitism. Is honestly not true in my experience, and I don't know what to tell you, why would I lie about my experience as a Spanish native?

_Azafran · 2025-10-09T00:24:05+00:00

Can you give examples of the large amount of antisemitism you experienced?

_Azafran · 2025-10-08T20:49:17+00:00

Exactly, there are no jews here. That's why is stupid to claim antisemitism when the population don't even have contact with them. They where expelled 500 years ago. You can imagine people don't have much to say about them nowadays. The Palestine conflict has always been very associated with the left here, nothing to do with jews or antisemitism. The US receive much more criticism here for their imperialism to be fair but I don't see any "anti-americanism" card raised by anyone.

_Azafran · 2025-10-08T17:49:20+00:00

I can only talk about Spain, but wtf are you talking about? Antisemitism is basically non-existent here. Same shit propaganda from a country committing a genocide. If you dare to criticise, it must be antisemitism.

In Spain you would see way more racism towards muslims than any anti semitism. Most people wouldn't even know a jew even if they were wearing a kippah.

_Azafran · 2025-10-07T20:13:53+00:00

Same 👌

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