“Bitches, come out of your burrows like rabbits, you are nymphomaniac whores, I promise you that you are all going to fuck in the capea, let’s go Ahuja!”: these are the runaway screams of a student from the Elías Ahuja Male Residence Hall in Madrid towards the students from another girls’ school. An event that has escalated into a political debate due to the sexist message it represents and that shows not only the lack of sexual education of many young people, but also the tacit silence that institutions, centers and students have around them. the toxic culture of colleges…
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The Government has decided to extend in perpetuity one of the anti-inflation measures that is working best: free subscriptions to travel on commuter or medium-distance trains. A plan that was intended for three months (until December 31) but that has managed to lower the CPI considerably and to which 700 million have now been injected into the budgets to continue financing it throughout 2023. This is just one of the measures included in the anti-crisis decree with which the Government intends to contain the inflation caused by the war in Ukraine at 3.5%. Something that has cost him 15,000 million…
One of the great obstacles to the implementation of the Low Emission Zones in Spain (ZBE) is the possible impact it may have on low-income car-dependent families. In fact, the one in Barcelona, the largest of those established in southern Europe (100 square kilometers in area) was suspended by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), who indicated that it was excessive both because of its extension and because of how it could negatively harm the lowest incomes. But since pollution and health are more important, the City Council was able to appeal to the Supreme Court and it…
The bison has historically been one of the most widespread animals in Europe. This species, the largest herbivore we have on the continent, roamed the entire territory peacefully. Nevertheless, hunting and habitat destruction of recent years brought them to the brink of extinction. Like them, bears, wolves, lynxes, beavers and countless other species suffered the same fate, decreasing for millennia and increasing their decline especially in the last 500 years. Now, new data shows us that many of the continent’s mammal populations are flourishing again. Bears, wolves, bison, beavers and even turtles they are making a comeback in Europe. Let’s…
If there is something that has suffered this 2022, it is the pocket of consumers. This year has come with a general rise in prices in practically everything: gasoline, electricity, the shopping basket and real estate. One of the main causes, as we have discussed in Magnet, is war. During 2022 the rises in the CPI have been enormous, a trend that began at the end of 2021 and has been accelerated by inflation. this september has been 9%, coming from 10.5% in August. To mitigate the setback for tenants, the Government established a temporary cap of 2% on the…
Eduardo Galeano said that soccer is the only religion without atheists. If you also put Argentina, a World Cup and perhaps Leo Messi’s last chance to lift the coveted golden cup in the shaker, you have, however, much more than a belief: you have a force of nature capable of provoking a crisis of social and economic overtones that results in a matter of State. Sounds like an exaggeration, but no. And if not, ask the Secretary of Commerce of Argentina, Matías Tambolini, who a few days ago retweeted a message from his department —with an institutional portrait included— on…
The threat of another “Lehman Brothers” but in Europe grows with a great candidate as the protagonist: Credit Suisse. The second Swiss bank and one of the largest banks in the world is in serious trouble and is already fighting for its survival. An unfavorable result could be settled with an impact similar to that caused by the bankruptcy of the US bank Lehman Brothers in 2008, when the financial institution declared bankruptcy and caused a domino effect that led to the greatest economic crisis in history since the Great Depression. Now, speculation about the future of the Swiss banking…
Sometimes, when life gets tough, an unavoidable thought of wanting to disappear pops into our heads. The desire to leave everything behind, including those problems that keep us up at night, that tide of obstacles that do not allow us to reach our goals. If you’re depressed, you may feel like you can’t do anything right, and fantasizing about disappearing before messing up your life even more is a common recourse. It’s too tempting: you shouldn’t even have to explain anything to anyone, you wouldn’t have to deal with your idiotic boss or the dishes in the sink. It is…
Currently, a handful of tech giants dominate the Internet without any competition. These are Google, YouTube and Facebook Together, the top three websites amass 152 billion monthly visits, outperforming the next 47 websites combined and dwarfing the usage of nearly every other website in existence. However, removing search engines from the board changes things completely. The web has not managed to completely homogenize its users and how each one prefers to spend their time on the Internet continues to sculpt the notable cultural differences. For example, Peruvians spend more time watching series and movies than anyone else, Filipinos spend an…