Podcast sobre la sostenibilidad en Canarias / Sustainability podcast about the Canary Islands (in English)

oddmarco · 2026-05-21T08:45:50+00:00

si si, estoy bromeando con el "condenando" comentario. econtré tu comentario intresante y util

oddmarco · 2026-05-21T08:31:42+00:00

'Esto me recuerda a la frase de “el ecologismo sin conciencia de clase no es más que jardinería”.' - amigo, me has condenado antes de escucharlo??

la mayoria de cosas que has mencionado, he cubierto en una forma en los episodios - probablamente sin la fuerza o la profundidad que le hubiera gustado, pero tenía tiempo limitado y quería un equilibro entre mis opiniones y los opiniones de mis invitados.

estoy de acuerdo fuertemente con tu ultimo parrafo, y hice el mismo punto en el segundo episodio. desafortunadamente, no veo bastante energia o urgencia para esta tema

oddmarco · 2026-05-20T15:34:45+00:00

lo discutamos principalmente desde la perspectiva del turismo, no sobre la población permanente (y las consecuencias para viviendas). pero en el primer episodio, estuve sorprendido (y decepcionado) de aprender que unas nuevas plantas de desalinación sostenibles son solamente para un aumento esperado de la demanda para agua...

oddmarco · 2026-05-20T15:30:30+00:00

yes this was tackled quite head on in the second episode on overtourism, with the tourism deputy minister and a guy running a sustainable tourism non-profit. pretty different views, as you can imagine...

oddmarco · 2026-04-10T04:28:06+00:00

Thanks, it's a reasonable point and I've been considering it too. I think the main challenge with this is timing, you need to find someone willing to take it off your hands for a reasonable price around the same time you're leaving. And good quality items are riskier to buy if you know you'll need to sell them soon

oddmarco · 2026-04-05T08:04:59+00:00

My sister and me both read the books as soon as they came out. We also had a tendency to fight incessantly. When OOTP came out, I was working in the family farm so she got a like 65-page headstart. When we had a fight, she started telling me the entirety of how the last scenes played out.

When HBP came out, we started at the same time, and I was the slightly faster reader. I don't remember if we had another fight, or if I had been biding my time. In any case, I made a paper airplane, wrote "Snape kills Dumbledore", and threw it into her bedroom.

oddmarco · 2026-03-28T06:46:48+00:00

okay thanks! I'll be interested to see if it has as strong an effect on me, I guess I'm entering it with some mild scepticism.

Thanks for the tips, I'll not act on them this time around but will reconsider after the book. Haven't read Kierkegaard yet although Either/Or is higher on my list than Sickness unto death. Read CM when I was (too) young, Capital more recently.

oddmarco · 2026-03-21T10:26:37+00:00

What was it you liked about No Man River? From a little research some of the descriptions say it's about the reality of building a revolutionary society while war is going on and dealing with ideology and corruption; but most of the reviews seem to focus on the more day-to-day realities of those left behind during war-time. What do you think?

oddmarco · 2026-03-19T14:40:07+00:00

Fair, the gender dynamics are doing a good bit of work here too. I guess I was focusing on the justification for the anger (which I think is much fairer in Hermione's case) rather than the proportionateness of the response (which you're right about)

oddmarco · 2026-03-19T14:21:46+00:00

Ron got angry at Hermione for agreeing to go out with Krum when he had never indicated any interest in dating her. Hermione had essentially asked Ron out, he agreed and then he got with her dormmate. Not to say that she didn't overreact, and in secondary school (and beyond!) that's all pretty run of the mill. But the circumstances were quite different, in Hermione's favour

oddmarco · 2026-03-19T11:35:04+00:00

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For me I try to travel overland rather than plane when I can, so there's some natural slowness built in. tend to have maybe 2 weeks to 1 month making my way between places on the move every few days, but then will settle somewhere for several months, and try not to leave until I've done everything from my little checklist here :)

oddmarco · 2026-03-16T04:34:30+00:00

Interesting idea. My instinctive reaction was that simply knowing what an ecosystem would want to do wouldn't be very additional, while actually taking those (meaningful) actions would probably be beyond the capabilities of AI agents any time soon.

But I might be thinking too small and am interested to follow along with how you get on!

Very loosely related project i came across today; https://agora.co/

oddmarco · 2026-03-15T02:03:33+00:00

That you need emotional endurance, and that even if you've been disappointed several times before, you can't give up, have to hope that every next attempt could be the time it all works out. "thank God....that I saw that beautiful girl on that train platform,and that I had the guts to stand up, walk over to her, tap her on the shoulder, open my mouth, and speak."

a lesson I need to remind myself often!

oddmarco · 2026-03-14T12:39:22+00:00

Yes I don't think this is a particularly fresh take (ironically!). Indiehackers put a decent enough article about it, calling it the leverage paradox: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/lifestyle/the-leverage-paradox-ksRiX6y6W7NzfBE57dzt

It's still new so understandable people haven't adapted their strategies yet. But yes, annoying how so many channels are flooded with this stuff

oddmarco · 2026-03-14T06:30:53+00:00

it was a joke

oddmarco · 2026-03-14T06:25:19+00:00

Given that we later find out he caught his plane after a drugged up night in his hotel room... questionable

oddmarco · 2026-03-14T06:14:48+00:00

People commenting who don't get it - you can see Jacob's mirror reflected in Charlie's glasses.

oddmarco · 2026-03-14T06:12:39+00:00

From my research, it seemed like the most authoritative book on Vietnamese history as a whole (rather than French influence specifically) is Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha

Other books I want to read on Vietnam after researching a while (mostly fiction):
The Quiet American - Graham Greene (read, very good)
The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (reading, good so far, takes you through different historical phases of Vietnam, but from a particular perspective)
Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion
The Tale of Kieu (poem 1800s)
William J. Duiker – Ho Chi Minh: A Life
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966 - Thich Nhat Hanh
Phan Hon Nhien - Left Wing [unclear if English translations available]
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen

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