Jaime Aragón Calvo

Thx for sharing. Where was this published? I am unfamiliar with but pleasantly surprised by the type of analysis, bringing some objective measure to subjective categories, and would like to see more of same.

24.11.2024 13:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Screenshot of The Economist app showing the “listen to this story” button

Did you know that The Economist can not just be read on paper and digitally, but comes out as an #audiobook every week?

Read by British actors, not AI, it is one of our best service to readers I think.

24.11.2024 12:10 — 👍 141    🔁 17    💬 19    📌 5

The scariest story I’ve read in days. This is exactly the sort of law Viktor Orban would come up with: the Treasury can designate a nonprofit/NGO as “supporting terrorism” and the president then revokes its tax-exempt status. In 2020 Trump could have bankrupted BLM chapters with a penstroke.

17.11.2024 22:08 — 👍 152    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 4

Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his Cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

If Only There Had Been Some Clue That He Was Like This. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

16.11.2024 11:48 — 👍 109    🔁 14    💬 9    📌 7

15.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 136426    🔁 17642    💬 883    📌 579

The best generation

Graphic by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

15.11.2024 13:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cartoon of man on plane with hand raised, saying “These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?”

15.11.2024 11:16 — 👍 193    🔁 34    💬 1    📌 0

Change is permanent. And a delight. I remember my HS history teacher describing the Middle Ages as a period when change was ultra-slow. Come back 100 years later to some village and life would be the same. I thought that would be really boring.

13.11.2024 14:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A metric shall be chosen that makes it efficient. May be simply total number of people, or number of regulations, or duties on non-Tesla EVs.

13.11.2024 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Colombia the early XX century is dubbed the Dumb Nation ("Patria Boba") period. We were ruled by incompetents who, among others, took months to realise that Panama had effectively seceded, and the Canal would be built by USA, not French, interests. Just saying explicit precedent exists.

13.11.2024 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots.

For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject

12.11.2024 12:06 — 👍 5685    🔁 718    💬 155    📌 82

It was mindbogglingly frustrating that Dems pretty much conceded that inflation needed more done, when the Admin had basically stopped inflation already, the phenom was clearly caused by a global pandemic (btw, mishandled by Trump), and it was being offset by wages and employment growth.

12.11.2024 14:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0