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The "Plan Sur", during Franco's autocratic dictatorship, to redirect the Turia river as a response to the terrible 1957 floods.
No need to be vague.
Interestingly, the new riverbed was what saved the city of Valencia from the damage of the horrific flood in October 2024.
The Turia Gardens are, in my opinion, a huge differential feature of the city. And of course, I'm personally in love with it, and my life is deeply connected to it through memories and daily habits.
Yes, same government. 0 resignations, 0 political consequences, 0 apologies.
As an example on the other side of the spectrum, there may be plenty of bad and forgettable movies with incredible and unforgettable performances from a very small part of it (the sound recording or design, one of the actors, a single superb scene, one of the scenerys) while the rest is mediocre to bad.
And Spain's economy is far, very far away from "going like a rocket", like your misinformation echo-chamber tries to parrot.
But, anyhow, the thing you're looking for is the "open" format that already exists in other competitions like chess, where there's an open category and then any specific categories.
Ironically, in dance competitions (specially swing dancing at least), the open category is done the newbies, and higher levels have other more speciallized categories: advanced, invitational, ...
Why try to make it as if it was the "opposite side" doing it while I'm reading it?
What should I be getting out of your argument? Asking in good faith.
For example, that there's more to it than that simple rule, or that once a certain level of general population prosperity is reached it stops working, or that impoverished populations have a culture that better benefits from such policies... ?
Perhaps there could be a static 1.0 version we can read or listen to?
edit: Okay, I get it now. It's an automatic aggregator! Only the style auto-change is egregious then, but the actual webapp is great!
another edit, sorry: The call-to-action button should be at the top, not the bottom. On mobile you have to scroll to see it and it can be missed.
Yes they would, as they have been doing so far.
You should widen your sources of information.
You won't know this, but us living in the Czech Republic know that your "democrats" are left of center left. And for a lot of other countries that exist in the real world.
Is this proof that the "democrats" are indeed extreme left? If not, in what percentage does or does not? Do the politics of all these countries affect the "democrat" alignment in any way?
See? That is a non-argument, and it signals more about the person using it than the "democrats".
His only overtly political leanings with age became his catalan nationalism and devout catholicism.
I don't know why people keep stating lies on the internet with arrogance. Please stop lying.
> because if the current system was scrapped there would not be more tax money available for other things
But I would retain more of my money.
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You're being presented with perfectly valid arguments, clearly proving that your point is false, and still insisting on ignoring them because they don't agree with your narrative.
You're in bad faith.
I found this necessary because I tend to remember the "oh, this happened earlier..." but not the "... and this is the approach we followed succesfully" that should follow. The information is slotted in my brain, but not accessible unless I have some key reminder.
Also serves as a communication device between my past and future self, and between coworkers. The error-solving information tends to live transiently in your and your coworkers minds, and it is very valuable.
I haven't solved the method to properly identify-and-recalling. I simply save new information per project, per language, etc, with not much thinking. This would clearly be the next point of improvement.
For example, the point of there being close to no technological advance in thousand of years is intentional:
1. Saruman's plan consists on mass industrialization. Beginning in Isengard, but at the end of the books projected even further: globalized. And he is one of the villains!
2. During the millenia that technology hasn't advanced, the elves did rule. Other than the disaster caused by the villains of the story, Tolkien intentionally made the elves not need such technological advance. They had no incentives to, they had enough. Same with the rest of the races.
Those are two are messages Tolkien is telling to the reader. Shallowly described by me, of course.
I also understand this as the reason for the worldbuilding to be so limited and sparse. The world that we find is enough for his vision and messages to get across, and adding anything more would make it repetitive or distracting.