OfCourseNot

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[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Yeasts are fungi, not bacteria.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't know about the glue thing, the smds were put by a machine, but they would move like the one in the picture if you didn't set the machine right. I can't say for sure with that resolution but I think those white things are the shiny reflections on the pins/solder. I will look into these smd glues tho, that could come handy.

And about the tape I have to say that my experience with wave soldering is not very vast, literally just one place, but they used painters tape, of the cheapest kind, and it worked just fine—no melting (it's paper?), and no burning since the solder doesn't get that hot (~200°C), the tape might stay a bit wet from the flux also idk.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To the second and third issues, I think they happened because of bad settings in the wave soldering machine, and/or not prepping the board beforehand. Maybe the wave was to high, or the speed too slow. Many times you have to cover the smd components with a bit of painters tape. Even the orientation of the board on the frame can matter.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In Spain we study the American Revolution, as the first of the liberal democratic revolutions, in as much detail as our own civil war. Or we did 20+ years ago. So I guess the Brits do too and the other commenter is just teasing or something.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Oh no! I can't unsee it now!

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An organized, disciplined military is more effective at defending against an organized, disciplined military.

That's true. The thing is: defending what? The country? The government? The king? Going to war is trading my (relative) safety for theirs, and I've never been too fond of them really.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Defending myself and going to war sound like complete opposites to me.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Be my fucking guest! You and your children can go enlisting, I just have to do this thing and will be right behind you...

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Remember that unemployment rate here counts only people inscribed in the unemployment services. I don't think half of them are working illegally, at best that would be a rounding error.

Downsizing the bureaucracy would take many years, since public servants 'cannot be fired' (bit of an oversimplification, but the reality in practice), and would take some strong political will, which we lack in Spain.

And about the armed forces, I know some ex-military that are kinda left-leaning, but the average is absolutely right leaning (from straight up nazis, to 'apoliticals' that if you talk with them for a short while will let go some racist, homophobic, or generally reactionary comments very casually). And that's the rank and file, if you go to the higher ups you'll find, well, as many fascist as you can expect from a military that wasn't purged or rehabilitated after a fascist regime.

Even then, when a coup was attempted, the majority of the armed forces shut it down

Do you mean the coup that the king himself organized so he could stop it afterwards to come out as the hero that saved the day while also putting some fear in the population?? That coup d'état 'attempt'??

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think that's right. This other link (from another commenter in this thread), also euronews, says 47%. Anecdoticaly I get €1800 in my bank account every month, but cost my employer €3200.

Kinda tricky to compare taxes from one country to another.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Spain's budget is ~21% of its gdp (with >10% unemployment you can imagine how bad they fucking bleed us with taxes, the poor I mean, for the rich is the same as anywhere else), but more than half of it goes to pensions, and we have a huge ,dense, and expensive bureaucracy that takes a good chunk of the rest (I don't have numbers sorry).

So, I think you are right, there's just no more money: touching the pensions is political suicide (and very unfair), scaling down bureaucracy is just impossible, rising taxes would suffocate us (even more), taxing the rich is as much of a fairy tale as it is in any other country...

On top of that, if you read a history book you will see that the Spanish military is a much bigger threat for Spain than the Russian. I don't think it's in the best interest of the Spanish people to give them more money.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been pirating since Napster, never have hidden shit. It's usually not a crime, except in America it seems, to download content, or even share it freely. What is a crime is to make a business distributing pirated content.

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