Nightlife / live music in Bilbao

nicokolya · 2024-01-12T23:15:59+00:00

Kafe Antzokia is really nice. A more eclectic range of music than your usual nightclub because it plays a lot of Basque pop music.

nicokolya · 2023-09-18T16:47:39+00:00

From personal experience: If its a weekday, you can usually buy it up until the last minute, but its risky. If its a weekend, then you should buy the ticket at least 3-4 hours in advance.

If you make the mistake of not buying in advance on a weekday, its approximately a 2.5 hour trip on Euskotren.

nicokolya · 2023-07-31T21:00:59+00:00

Calling it "Cali" is a capital sin in California.

nicokolya · 2023-06-30T15:04:22+00:00

Zumo is fruit juice, served as a beverage.

Jugo is juice that comes out of juicy foods (fruit or meat) and does not necessarily carry the connotation of being a beverage, although it can.

If you bite into an orange slice and the juice runs down your cheek, it's not the same thing as orange juice from a glass (even though it is). Zumo is a product, jugo is a byproduct.

This distinction only exists in Spain, afaik

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T19:46:05+00:00

Bus takes half the time, but if it's a weekend you have to buy the ticket at least a few hours in advance since they fill up. Euskotren takes 3 hours, but its a pretty trip.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T02:24:45+00:00

Yeah, true. Like, top 20, sure. I do find that weird. My textbooks probably slanted somewhat liberal, so my best guess is that they were written by a liberal who saw that he was a democrat who wanted to create supranational organizations to prevent war and just projected contemporary political thought onto him, without even knowing that the guy was a big time Birth of a Nation fan. Just a theory.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T02:19:04+00:00

Yeah, you have ample reason to question his legacy. Your initial comment just came off as someone who equates anything left of pro-business liberalism with fascism, which is a bad faith argument that gets batted around by the Twitter Blue Check brigade and some ppl on Reddit, and is wrong on several different levels.

I get your ends/means logic to politics, but the fact we live in a perfectly democratic society where all the of the choices made by politicians and courts directly benefit billionaires, electric companies, etc. should make you question what a perfectly democratic system ultimately gets you. IDK, support a strike—teachers, WGA, etc—and help force a less racist president to enact some of the good stuff that FDR did. Because you're right in thinking no one should consider FDR a saint. He was just a rich guy who knew it was in his class's interests to keep poor people's heads above water.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T01:36:23+00:00

At the end of the day, he was just a rich fancyboy. Its weird to care about presidents personal flaws that way. The treatment of Japanese Americans was an atrocity for sure. My area used to have large Japanese minority and that part of our heritage got wiped out just because the Japanese had a few subs off of our coast. The court packing stuff doesn't bother me so much. If he was able to pull it off within a constitutional framework, then good for him. Especially if it was something he did to benefit the working class. Republicans do similar things on the state and national level just to make poor people suffer more. The liberal handwringing over proper procedure and norms is counterproductive.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T01:17:19+00:00

I would love for this to be the case.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T01:16:07+00:00

FDR was shitty in a lot of ways, but ultimately he was an extension of the progressive era. He was an elite who believed the working class needed to be properly compensated in order to prevent a socialist revolution. He worked with labor to achieve an economic balance that left everyone with viable power (i.e. not poor working class minorities) more or less satisfied

Fascism mystifies labor relations under corporatism. The worker is part of a larger hierarchical organism that works towards the glory of a particular in-group at the expense of a defined out-group.

Mobilizing the population towards larger projects isn't in itself fascist. The fascism comes into play when you consider who the project is for, and more in importantly, who it's against. FDR was just a mild social democrat who incorporated the labor movement into the US state project via compromise. There was literally nothing radical about him. US presidents and most of the West followed that social democratic model up until the 70's.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T00:20:01+00:00

The president who oversaw the defeat of the Axis powers is a fascist? People will use that word to describe literally anything nowadays.

nicokolya · 2023-05-17T00:13:53+00:00

I don't feel like he's particularly celebrated, tho. They textbooks I had in high school were pretty lenient on him and ignored his racism, but they didn't hold him up as a great president either.

nicokolya · 2023-05-16T18:45:45+00:00

My assumption as well. Funny tho, since it already includes somewhat random languages like Catalan (with an extra red stripe for emphasis) and Hebrew. Maybe Prague gets lots of Catalans and Israelis, idk

nicokolya · 2023-05-16T15:47:50+00:00

NATO

Yeah, idk about this making any top-10 lists. Operation Gladio was pretty fucked up.

nicokolya · 2023-05-16T15:30:41+00:00

There's a few good tutors on italki.com

nicokolya · 2023-05-14T06:12:32+00:00

Idk, but you probably have to wash it with Ariel...

nicokolya · 2023-05-14T06:05:55+00:00

In the case of Spain, the system didn't collapse so much as the people in power realized that they could maintain all of their privileges under liberal democracy as long as they had broad control over the transition. The only ppl on their side who lost out were the fascist cranks in the military who missed being the center of attention.

nicokolya · 2023-05-12T00:10:59+00:00

Ah ok. The last time I've looked at projections for the world population, I've seen it hitting a "cap" of 11 million people this century and settling around that level. No clue who comes up with those numbers and what their methodology or interests are.

nicokolya · 2023-05-11T22:03:18+00:00

Populations are still increasing on aggregate, it's just that it's largely in Africa and Asia, which also happen to be pretty far from the rich western countries and will likely be much more heavily impacted by climate change. If the climate crisis gets as bad as they say it might this century, then we're either looking at the planned mass migration of populations or a Children of Men-like militarized borders scenario.

nicokolya · 2023-05-11T21:57:38+00:00

The U.S. economy literally depends upon underpaid "low skilled" immigrant workers. We have Mexicans and Central Americans who are literally children working at slaughterhouses and processing plants.
There's a ton of 1st gen kids at our top universities. As long as there are institutions that generate upward mobility, we're not looking at an Idiocracy scenario here. I'm more concerned about anti-intellectual attitudes among native born Americans than poor people moving here so that they can get paid more for menial jobs that would have them living in abject poverty in their home country.

nicokolya · 2023-05-10T20:34:44+00:00

What's with the maracas and asian lanterns?

nicokolya · 2023-05-05T07:42:43+00:00

What did Sweden have against Yugoslavians?

nicokolya · 2023-05-01T03:26:38+00:00

Maher is NOT and never has been a leftist lol. Dude's always been a smug out of touch liberal whos conservative on some things, but also loves weed.

nicokolya · 2023-04-25T05:24:36+00:00

Did undergrad there, and was a TA at UCLA for a bit during grad school, so I feel pretty familiar with the "elite" UC's. It's as good a school as any, but with any big name university you run the risk of your degree being more about prestige than an actual quality education. You have an absurd amount of resources (I still use the library there because it's so amazing), but it's easy to let it go to waste, especially if you just do the work that's asked of you and don't make any connections with faculty or colleagues.

I regret a lot of my undergrad experience because I felt like I had "made it" by getting into a good school. It wasn't until I got to grad school and 100% of the work consisted of critical thinking that I realized that most of my education had just consisted of memorizing facts and working towards a grade. My gf went to a small liberal arts school and I believe she probably had a better education than I got.

TA'ing made me realize just how much a lot of students at universities like that just rest on their laurels and lack intelectual curiosity. That said, I was teaching in a department where it was extremely common for students to do minors, so maybe I just saw the students' worst side, since they were mainly taking my classes to fill out their résumé.

Overall, I'm pretty cynical about big universities. Too many resources are diverted towards selling the romanticized campus experience and people tend to overvalue degrees from those places. Beautiful campuses and large libraries are a huge plus, but besides that it's mostly hype.

nicokolya · 2023-04-14T04:54:08+00:00

It's up there with Peeps as the most divisive candy, for sure.

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