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And how does it accord with the many statements made early on about the track being renewed recently?


Apparently the weld that broke joined an old segment with a new one installed last year as the tracks are renovated piecemeal.

Still the media in question, "El Mundo", is a mouthpiece for the opposition parties, seeking to create indignation against the government and scoring the head of the Transport Minister in particular.

They also want to make a parallel with the situation of the former President of the Valencian Community, from their party, who had to finally resign one year after being unreachable for hours on a date while hundreds of valencians drowned as his administration waffled aimlessly.

Of course the government is ultimately responsible for the state of the infrastructure, so the Minister well might have to resign after all is said and done, but the innuendo in that piece is pure politicking, not serious journalism.


I have one in Spanish. Seems the latest info is that it broke where the new rails meet the old rail.

https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2026/01/25/697635e8fc6c83c42...


The embodiment of overpriced and mediocre


I'm not a bad person, I just continuously do bad things, none of which is my fault - there is always a deeper root cause \o/


On the flip side, even if you punish the villain, garbage papers still get printed. Almost like there is a root cause.

Both views are maximalistic.


On the flop side, maybe there wouldn't be as many garbage papers printed if there were any actual negative consequences. It's not so simple as you make it out to be.


There have been negative consequences for individuals before it didn't really change anything big.


A national "War on Data", a Data enforcement agency (DEA), and a Data Abuse Resistence Education (DARE) program and we should have this problem wrapped up in no time.

Negative consequences and money always work!


They may not always work, but it's also not the case that they never work - which is what it seems like you're suggesting.


Well, protesting is illegal now


It's not illegal, you just get shot is all


First one by one but slowly getting to Iran levels. If it feels unthinkable, the current events were unthinkable three years ago.


Shot and immediately branded a violent terrorist by the highest levels of government.

It's a bit of a catch-22 that they keep shooting and lying about the people who are filming them shooting people to provide evidence that they lie about what happens.


In which country? In the one I live in, its still alive and well


UK...


Brit here. Yes because the average Brit is insufficiently educated to understand the harm. They are very easily swayed by "think of the children" or saving just one life. They consume huge amounts of propaganda with little to zero critical thinking


I love how powerful the GDPR marketing was that it made people forget that there are massive exceptions for prevention of crime and for the government


Try 2 weeks of seemingly endless cloud up this way lol. This winter has been seriously depressing so far


Remarkably, even most cloudy weather still lets a suprising amount of sun in. And it doesn't stop the wind from blowing. The threat is when the wind stops blowing at the same time it's very, very cloudy and in the middle of winter (short days). This happens, but it's very intermittent.

However, as seen above, there are lots and lots of ways to store (or equivalent) power over long periods, it's just the economic incentive to build them that is needed - and is now on the way. Renewable-gas low-duty-cycle gas peakers, Carnot batteries, and sodium-ion batteries are top candidates, with the first being the low-hanging fruit because they already exist.


> Remarkably, even most cloudy weather still lets a suprising amount of sun in

Lol give over. Who told you that - solar panel companies? Companies selling holidays to the UK?

You ever been to England?


> even most cloudy weather still lets a suprising amount of sun in

It really doesn't. Clouds absolutely kill solar. In the winter we get 10-20kWh/day on sunny days and 0.5-2kWh/day on cloudy days.

I dunno where you got that info but it's dead wrong.


This hit hard


Conversely what does an American mean when they say "wow that's absolutely amazing" for everything ...


In business I find Americans oversell their achievements and I constantly have to decode "the absolute best", "knocked it out the park", "most amazing X" and figure out what has been redefined this month for that to be true. They use incredible contortions in language too to mislead and cover up and make themselves look good

Colleagues also managed to have the most amazing coffee or literally — literally — the best taco ever, every week. It's quite something!

We also get self deprecating in front of Americans because they're purposefully intimidating. Big characters, loud voices, huge military they're not afraid to use etc. UK is often bullied by the US Gov. It's deference too


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