It was a necessary step and test before starting to kill American citizens.
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Or use a slower companion crop that support it.
Maybe take advantage that the grain is higher for partridges and bunnies to reach it?
- Not Spain. This was Bedford (UK) in June 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bedford_train_collision
The train collided rear-end into the rear carriages of the other train and derailed, which also resulted in the three rear carriages of the first train to derail
- This was Białośliwie train collision (Poland) in June 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bia%C5%82o%C5%9Bliwie_tra...
One carriage was reported to have overturned and four more were derailed. 44 of the passengers were injured
- And this was the Cleon Derailement (France) by sabotage in September 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9on_derailment
In this last case Police suspected sabotage after a 300 Kg piece of rail was found deliberately laid in the railway.
"A fire was detected in the rear cabin of the high-speed train. Following safety protocols, the 283 passengers on board have been evacuated"
This was an AVE passenger train in the line Madrid-Barcelona, in October 2026. Most probably another case of sabotage.
People would still blame Waymo, not the government, so there is not any gain unless you are a Waymo's competitor.
Is speculation of course but at this moment we must evaluate every hypothesis.
Politicians are the kind of people that are caught in the highway driving at 200 Km/h, just to arrive in time to a meeting in a 20 people's village. Could explain the strange control behavior.
Is even worse. See: Operation Doppelgänger [1]
The fact is that last week a wave of fridges operating under old software were attacked in France, apparently using LLM to abuse vulnerabilities; and this week one of the last high-speed routes still operating under the old security system crashed at every level. The "postmortem" of this failure will be very interesting to read.
FIFA Peace Prize level of entitled at least, it seems
Workers that toke half of the Friday agreed with their companies to start Monday-Friday one hour earlier, so what's the problem exactly?
Update. A second security system should had stopped the train automatically in the next red semaphore (or reduced the velocity to 40Km/h) without machinist intervention. That system was down also. And control had 17 minutes to warn the incoming train and to talk directly with the Italian train, but they apparently failed to do it.
So at least there are two different automatized computer security systems that failed on a row, plus a control center that acted in a strange way, plus a machinist that may, or may not, had tried to pull the brakes and she is missing.
And now they are saying that a former minister of employment was traveling in that train and she is also missing.
If you have a better explanation by all what is happening in Europe just right now, with perfectly coordinated teams of people seeding chaos and unrest, I will hear it with maximum interest.
And yes, I know that Trump is not exactly a friend of anything latino related unless he can take advantage of it, and is specially unfriendly with the Spanish president.
My bet is that all of this will suddenly stop after Russia collapses by the self-destruction of their economy triggered by a chain of Putin's unhinged decisions
The problem is while the trains were being built, the laws changed, requiring now extra space between trains and tunnels to evacuate people.
The only solution would be to dump all the trains and start from scratch in a new design for narrower trains that still keep the same comfort and safety levels. This is not realistic.
If you order a car that has legally given the green light to be built in 2026, the government can't say in 2027 that your car must had measured 1m less. Would be unfair for buyer and maker. Unless the government can show a very solid reason, they must accept the car model for the expected years of car life. This is why we still can drive legally cars with no airbags, and with toy seat belts. Cars that no way would be accepted to be built today.
Who ordered the trains was doing everything right, the problem was created by who changed the specifications in the middle of the process.
A computer system failed, stopping 6 trains, we don't know why. The proprietary automatic brake system of Siemens was working fine for 30 years, but it was too old, maybe too expensive and being replaced by a different system (non proprietary?). This shouldn't had caused any problem, as stopping the trains when a problem happens in the railway is the by-default security protocol.
Somebody then ordered the trains to keep moving, even if there was still a train stopped. We still don't know why this person didn't saw that light in the screen, or why in the age of mobile phones and internet, he/she was unable to warn about the second train.
And a Spanish train that should be moving slowly after such events by protocols, was moving at 150-200 Km/h near a train station before to crash into the Italian train, in a perfectly sunny day. It does not make any sense and, seemly, it goes directly against the security protocol.
We don't know still if the machinist tried to stop the train and the brake system failed, or didn't even tried to stop the train (maybe suffered a dismay or a heart attack?). Survivors say that they didn't noticed a decrease of speed before the impact. Black boxes will clear that in the next weeks.
For foreign journalists, to paint Spain as a third world country is practically a sport, and they love to write the word 'siesta' for some strange fetish, but the reality is that this is one of the most modern high-speed train systems in the planet, and worked like a charm for more than 30 years until now.
And this must be taken in a whole context of hybrid war, including strange delays and strange train accidents all around Europe in the last two or three years (Poland, France, etc). We can safely assume that hybrid war will be more vicious the more desperate are the Russians, and this another added source of chaos happened suspiciously close to the November Spanish elections with plenty of strikes and riots that happened to occur overnight.
Taking the whole context, the probability of all of that happening by chance at the same time before the elections, is basically zero.
The tree can not stand long periods of temperatures below 15 Celsius.
Merci, Mr. Sarkozy, for sitting in your ass doing absolutely nothing about the problem when it still could be contained to Aquitaine, in the years following 2006.
And what is not being said here, is that this animal can (and will) kill people. Easily.
The bodycount is probably between one and two hundred Europeans by now. Around 30-40 a year probably (joining France, Portugal, Spain and Germany).
https://archivo.infojardin.com/tema/primera-muerte-en-espana...
So if politicians are worried now about that... I'm saying that politely... go fuck yourselves. Some of us got hoarse trying to warn about it. Asturias only started to take seriously the Asian hornet after the brother of a local politician was killed at his forties by one single hornet, in a sort of European remake of "A Quiet Place".
Just a guess. If the facts explained in those records prescribe after four years, agents must be tempted to release the part N/N in four years and a day. Without knowing the full history any demand could be dismissed.
Not different than nuclear companies adamantly repeating for the first years that no one was killed by a nuclear accident.
I miss Will Smith, Emma Thompson or Elijah Wood in that list.
Elijah Wood has worked with Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson, Robert Duvall (The Goodfather), Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd (Connects him with Bob Hoskins, Anjelica Houston and Kathleen Turner). Also with John Stewart (connects him in a small cameo with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Wes Craven, Will Ferrell, Mat Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Rock).
Emma Thompson has made only a few films in America, but those included Swarzenegger, Dany DeVito, Travolta, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Banderas, Robert Downey Jr, Rami Malek, Tom Holland, Chris Hemsworth or Jemaine Clement (voice actor in Avatar, Despicable Me, Moana and A Minecraft Movie, also the bad guy in MIB III).
Most important question for a small group of people in a philosophical and quasi-religious movement that unilaterally redefined the term to fit their agenda.
Millions of scientists don't feel that pain is so special as to receive special treatment. Is just one of our type of sensors. Not more important than to be able to see, to taste or to hear. Definitely not more important than be able to reproduce. And there is a lot of pain involved in how mammals enter in the world.
The idea that to chop a tree is more moral than to kill a mosquito is totally random and alienated from biological reality.
This is not different than saying than pouring molting aluminum in a fire-ant nest creates a new type of pollution: the aluminant.
The problem is that people keep lying to themselves about the definition of the word sentient.
1) Cars use all kind of sensors to collect info about the real world.
They measure how much air is entering the motor in real time. They know if the rear left tire is deflated. They detect when they need to be feed with gas, they know the oil pressure and the ECU, the car's brain, is collecting all this info in real time via its "neurons", the BUS cable.
2) Cars react to this information constantly taking the measures appropriated to assure that the preservation of the car functions.
The ECU sends orders in real time to inject X gas into the motor to match Y liters of air in a perfect mix. The motor enters in panic mode and stops the power temporarily.
3) Cars communicate with their drivers
They send a warning to put more gas, or beep because they detected an obstacle behind them or that the seat belt is not being used.
Cars have lots of sophisticated electric sensors to sense the world so, like amoebas or plum trees, they fit perfectly into the definition of the word sentient
Using sentient as a cheaper synonym of self-conscious is moving the goalposts and a self-scam.
So we know now that moving European rabbits for hunting purposes to Portugal, Malaga or Galicia may be a menace for Iberian Rabbit.
USA has the cotton tail rabbits on genus Sylvilagus that was the original carrier of Myxomathosis virus. They live in swamps and forests.
Rabbit is more "lamb" than "chicken" but none of both. It does not have a strong flavor really. Is a common dish in the Mediterranean and is tasty. Its main problems are the splinter bones that can damage a tooth, and its unappealing look in the butcher shop.
Guinea pig should be similar. More fatty maybe. Very popular in South America, but I never ate those.