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Skarven retweeted
Esta no es una canción más de Los Meconios: esta es LA CANCIÓN.
Ojalá podáis sentirla con la misma intensidad y emoción que nosotros pusimos al componerla.
Os dejamos sólo un pedacito. Tenéis el videoclip completo de "PERO NO TANTO" en nuestro canal: youtu.be/7I0ZGp9gcaY
Skarven retweeted
yo hay cosas que ya no consigo entender
aparte del surrealismo de un gobierno que lleva ocho años en el poder alentando (¿y convocando?) una huelga general en plena campaña contra "los rentistas", alguien me tiene que explicar la mecánica:
¿qué puede hacer exactamente Suministros Manolo S.A. desde su nave del polígono de Getafe para bajar el precio de los pisos y por qué sus trabajadores deberían perder un día de sueldo haciéndole huelga?y... qué culpa tiene Manolo de que no haya pisos?
si el que tiene el BOE es el que te anima a parar... ¿a quién demonios se está presionando exactamente?
a BlackRock? cómo? si se puede saber
el trabajador pierde un día de nómina, a Manolo le jodes los pedidos de la semana, el jubilado votante del PSOE que tiene tres pisos alquilados sigue cobrando la renta religiosamente el día 1, y el gobierno que ha metido a millones de personas sin poner un ladrillo se pone detrás de la pancarta a quejarse de que está todo carísimo
es la primera huelga de la historia donde el piquete lo organiza el consejo de ministros y la factura la pagan a medias el currito y la pyme
en fin, la única explicación es que se ven fuerísima y quieren ir calentando las calles
broche dorado para una legislatura surrealista
📺 TV EN DIRECTO | Bustinduy hace un "llamamiento a los trabajadores para que secunden la huelga de mañana". "Todos los derechos de la clase trabadora se han conquistado luchando y haciendo huelgas" social.elpais.com/rhcr4
Skarven retweeted
George Floyd was a drug addled violent criminal hobo who died of a drug overdose and then was venerated as a literal saint while leftists burned down entire city blocks in revenge. Charlie Kirk was a political commentator who never committed any crimes and was gunned down on camera while speaking peacefully in front of an audience, and nobody responded by rioting or committing any acts of violence or reprisals anywhere at all. So, no, joking about George Floyd is not the same as joking about Charlie Kirk. The two men, and the circumstances around their deaths, and the subsequent reactions, have no resemblance at all. There is no comparison except that they both died, and that's it. Anyone trying to draw this moral equivalency is lying or stupid or both. And any conservative claiming that we have to tolerate the Charlie jokes because we criticized George Floyd is a submissive cucked shill and should be disregarded on this issue and every other.
Skarven retweeted
“Siempre he sido libertario. Dejad a todo el mundo tranquilo. Que cada uno haga lo que quiera. Simplemente, no os metáis en la vida de los demás”.
- Clint Eastwood -
Skarven retweeted
If students are cheating on exams, stop treating them like criminals. Treat it as a signal.
An exam that an AI can pass for you doesn't measure your intelligence. It measures exactly what the machine already does: recite, apply, return the expected answer. When a student cheats with ChatGPT, he isn't gaming the test. He's proving the test no longer measures anything of value.
And that's where the problem gets dizzying.
For fifteen years, school trains our kids to do precisely what AI does better than them. Find the right answer instead of asking the right question. Follow the method instead of challenging it. Fit inside the grid instead of thinking outside it.
What it destroys along the way is the only thing that still makes us irreplaceable: divergent thinking and critical thinking. The ability to see the problem differently. To say "no, that doesn't hold up" when everyone else is nodding. To reason from first principles instead of repeating the consensus.
We are mass-producing humans optimized to be replaced.
But once again, someone thought through the alternative. And he didn't just talk about it.
In 2014, Elon Musk pulls his five kids out of their private school in Los Angeles. Not some neighborhood school: one of the most prestigious in the city, built for gifted children. He didn't think it was good enough. So he did what he always does. He built his own.
It's called Ad Astra, "to the stars." It sits right on the SpaceX campus in Hawthorne. He hires one of his kids' teachers, Josh Dahn, to design it. And he opens it to the children of SpaceX employees, for free. Around forty students at its peak.
What he said about school explains everything he built.
He said he hated school as a kid, that it felt like torture.
He said you should teach the problem, not the tools. His example became famous: if you want to teach a kid how an engine works, you don't give a lecture on screwdrivers and wrenches. You hand him an engine and tell him to take it apart. Then he understands why he needs the screwdriver. The tool becomes obvious because the problem is real.
He said sorting kids into grades by age is an assembly line. That some kids are great at math or languages and others aren't, and education should match each child's aptitude instead of moving everyone forward at the same pace.
So at Ad Astra, there are no age-based grades. No report cards. No foreign languages, because he believed real-time translation would make them obsolete. Instead: AI, robotics, coding, solving concrete problems. The kids build robots, run projects, defend their ideas in front of each other.
And above all, ethical dilemmas. "Conundrums." A town, a factory that employs everyone but pollutes the lake. What do you do? There's no answer key. You have to reason, argue, change your mind, persuade. The exact opposite of a multiple-choice test.
Musk even came in himself to teach the kids first principles thinking.
The school left the SpaceX campus in 2020, when his kids finished the program. But the team didn't disband. It became Astra Nova, an online school open to kids around the world, and spun off Synthesis, collaborative simulations where kids solve complex problems as a team. And today, Musk is relaunching an Ad Astra school in Texas, right next to the SpaceX, Starlink and Boring Company offices.
Think about the symbolism. The man who sends rockets into orbit and lands them back on Earth looked at the education system and concluded it had to start from zero. Not reform it. Rebuild it from first principles.
Students who cheat aren't the problem. They're the symptom. The problem is a system that trains humans to do what machines already do.
AI is making school as we know it obsolete. The only question is who will have the courage to build the next one.
The left wants you to stay dumb. And even if you went to an elite school, they got to you too.
Here's how it happened. Decision by decision. And the names of the people who tried to warn you.
It starts in Prussia. In 1807, after Napoleon crushed their army, Fichte delivers his Addresses to the German Nation. His thesis: the state must shape the child so completely that he can no longer want anything other than what the state wants. Prussia builds the first modern mass school system on that principle.
In 1843, Horace Mann visits Prussia and comes back in awe. In 1852, Massachusetts passes America's first compulsory schooling law. The model is imported almost intact: age cohorts, bells, standardized curriculum, obedience as the real lesson.
To be fair, at this stage it isn't the left. It's kings and industrialists. In 1913, Frederick Gates, who ran Rockefeller's General Education Board, wrote openly that they had no intention of turning rural children into philosophers or men of learning. They wanted workers.
So the machine was built to produce compliance. Then the progressive left took over the machine and did something worse. It kept the obedience and threw out the knowledge.
In 1918, William Kilpatrick, at Columbia's Teachers College, publishes The Project Method. Knowledge becomes secondary. What matters is the child's "experience." Teachers College goes on to train the people who train America's teachers.
In 1955, Rudolf Flesch publishes Why Johnny Can't Read. His point is simple: kids are no longer taught to turn letters into sounds. They're taught to memorize whole words by sight. It's a bestseller. The education establishment treats him as a crank.
In 1967, Ken Goodman publishes a paper describing reading as "a psycholinguistic guessing game." Literally. Out of it come whole language, then "balanced literacy," then three-cueing: a child stuck on a word is told to guess it from the picture.
From 1968 to 1977, the US government runs Project Follow Through, the largest education experiment in history. Around 200,000 kids, nearly a billion dollars, about twenty competing teaching models. One model wins in every category: Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction. Explicit, structured, demanding. It even wins on self-esteem, the very thing the "child-centered" models claimed to protect.
The result? Buried. Schools of education, foundations and publishers attacked the data, and they won. The models that failed kept being promoted. Engelmann spent the rest of his life trying to get someone to listen. He died in 2019, still ignored by the institutions he had proven wrong.
In 1991, John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, quits. He announces it in the Wall Street Journal: he no longer wants to hurt kids to make a living. In Dumbing Us Down, he lists what school actually teaches: confusion, your place in the hierarchy, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, self-worth that depends on outside approval. The system filed him under eccentric.
France, same story. In 2003, Rachel Boutonnet publishes the diary of a teacher who had to teach phonics in secret because her training institute pushed the global method. Marc Le Bris, Jean-Paul Brighelli with La Fabrique du crétin: all labeled reactionaries. Fifteen years later, neuroscience, led by Stanislas Dehaene, proved them right. Meanwhile French fourth graders finished last in the EU in math.
Back to America. Lucy Calkins, Teachers College again, sells her reading curriculum to about one elementary school in four. Three-cueing everywhere. It takes a journalist, Emily Hanford, and a podcast, Sold a Story, to blow it up in 2022. Calkins rewrites her curriculum. Dozens of states ban cueing. Sixty-seven years after Flesch.
The bill: in 2024, 12th grade reading hit the lowest score ever recorded by the Nation's Report Card. 40% of fourth graders are below the most basic level.
And the elite schools? "I went to a top school, this isn't about me." Wrong. Harvard's own 2025 report found about 60% of grades are now A's, versus roughly a quarter twenty years ago. When everyone gets an A, the grade no longer measures mastery. It measures conformity. The elite weren't spared the sanding. They just got finer sandpaper.
Look at the pattern. It's the same every time. An ideology replaces evidence. Whoever brings evidence is labeled a crank or a reactionary. Decades later, the system quietly corrects itself, nobody is held accountable, and a generation has been lost.
Flesch. Engelmann. Gatto. Boutonnet. Brighelli. They weren't cranks. They were the only ones reasoning from first principles. Which is exactly what school was built to prevent.
And now it's no longer a debate about pedagogy. In a world where AI does compliance better than any human, a system optimized to produce compliance produces obsolescence.
The future belongs to those who survived the sanding.
Skarven retweeted
Si todo te parece fascista, esta es tu canción.
Gracias a los locos que habéis participado.
Y por la grabación y edición de vídeo, a Dharma Torres y @diazvillanueva.
Skarven retweeted
The question to ask socialists is:
Would you still support feeding, housing, educating, and providing healthcare to everyone if doing so required slavery?
They'll say no, of course.
Then ask: If people refuse to provide these things voluntarily, do you abandon your promises or force them to comply?
At what point does someone else's need justify your use of force on someone else?
Skarven retweeted
🧠 J’ai voulu apprendre à raisonner comme un gauchiste, alors je suis allé au contact de quelques militants LFI.
Après plusieurs échanges, voici ce que j’ai appris (c'est pas si compliqué, vous allez voir) :
- Pour augmenter les salaires, il suffit de décider que les entreprises doivent payer davantage. La question du financement est secondaire.
- Pour financer les dépenses publiques, il suffit de taxer les riches. Et si les recettes ne suffisent pas, c’est qu’on ne les a pas assez taxés.
- Quand un service public fonctionne mal, la solution est d’augmenter son budget. Surtout ne pas se demander comment il est géré.
- Quand une entreprise réalise des bénéfices, c’est qu’elle exploite quelqu’un. Quand l’État dépense à perte, c’est qu’il investit dans l’avenir.
- Pour lutter contre l’inflation, il suffit de bloquer les prix. L’offre, la demande et les coûts de production sont des détails.
- Travailler moins tout en gagnant plus est parfaitement possible. Il suffit de voter une loi.
- Si quelqu’un remet en question ces raisonnements, inutile de lui répondre : traitez-le de néolibéral, de privilégié ou de fasciste.
Donc si je résume, les contraintes économiques sont TOUJOURS FACULTATIVES. C'est une règle d'or si vous voulez devenir de vrais gauchistes.
Skarven retweeted
According to BloombergNEF data, global investment in the energy transition (public and private) has totaled around $16 trillion since 2004, all of it financed by taxpayers and consumers.
What effect has had this on flattening the curves of CO₂ and temperature? Not a single part per million of CO₂, not even one-hundredth of a Celsius degree. Quite the opposite: the steepness of the curves has increased.
The only thing these burdens have achieved is to slow economic growth, increase energy costs, and cause millions of jobs and industries to move to... China.
Isn't any politician, “environmentalist,” UN or WHO official going to be held accountable to anyone?
What else do you want us citizens to do? Pay even more taxes and fees on top of the 50%–60% we already pay? Pay even higher prices for energy and goods? Or perhaps burn ourselves alive in the town square as an expiatory offering to Pachamama?
The Climate Crisis is fuelling disease outbreaks.
The Climate Crisis is driving higher rates of heart and lung disease.
The Climate Crisis is driving higher rates of cancer and asthma.
The Climate Crisis is making healthy diets less affordable.
I call on leaders ahead of #COP31 to put people's health at the centre of negotiations. @WHO recommendations are here: bit.ly/4A8LPgm
Skarven retweeted
The “climate crisis” is the biggest scam in scientific history.
Not one doomsday prediction has come true in the last 40 years.
There has been little increase in the vast majority of extreme weather phenomena.
Tropical cyclone frequency and intensity have not increased since 1980 or 1900 globally.
Tornadoes have not increased in the U.S. since 1954. The increase in tornado outbreaks is largely an artifact of better detection from the advent of the WSR-88D radar in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Since 1990, there has been little change in tornado outbreak occurrence.
Despite predictions of larger hailstones, there has been no statistically significant increase in severe or very large hail reports since 2000 in the U.S.
River flooding has not increased globally since at least 1961. There are just regional and local increases and decreases within the bounds of internal variability.
Cold waves have decreased since 1900 virtually everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, and especially since 1990.
Meteorological droughts have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1950 globally, or in the U.S. and Canada since the late 19th century.
Only heatwaves and heavy rainfall events have increased since 1950, and those increases are largely regional. Heatwaves have not increased since 1900 in either the U.S. or Canada, and there is evidence that heatwaves in Australia were worse than recent years prior to 1910.
Increases in hydrological and agricultural droughts are primarily due to poor water resource management and land use change. Obviously, that can be an issue, but it’s perfectly manageable.
Global wildfire burn area has decreased by over 90% since 1900, mostly due to fire suppression. But even since the early 2000s, it has continued to decrease. Forest fire burn area has not increased since at least 2002. Increases in, say, the western U.S., are primarily because of poor forest management.
Great Barrier Reef coral cover has made a significant recovery in recent years, even being at a record high in 2024.
Arctic sea ice extent / volume have not changed much since 2007, despite predictions that the Arctic Ocean would be “ice-free” by 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (that was even in a peer-reviewed study), 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Climate models in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 suites have warmed the bulk atmosphere twice as much as real observations from NASA satellite data (from UAH and NOAA STAR) show.
In 1985, the EPA predicted that global mean sea level would rise 26.2–39.3 cm (10.3–15.5”) by 2025. Satellites, however, estimate that sea level only by ~11.8 cm (4.6”) over that time. They were off by more than a factor of two.
In 2006, Al Gore said that there would be no more snowfalls on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania by 2016. But as it turns out, it still snows there.
The 2001 IPCC report predicted that we would see a decrease in heavy snowstorms in the mid-latitudes. That did not happen, and some scientists now claim we’ll see more.
And in general, apart from the cumulative inflation crisis, the quality of life on Earth has never been better.
Global average life expectancy has more than doubled on every inhabited continent since 1850.
The number of people living in poverty is at an all-time record low.
The number of people malnourished is at an all-time record low.
Global crop production and yields are at all-time record highs.
Total deaths from extreme weather or weather-related phenomena have decreased by 96.2% since 1920 despite worldwide population increasing by over six billion persons since then.
Our ability to adapt outweighs any kind of adversities Mother Nature may throw at us.
The only person full of it is you. 🫵
Skarven retweeted
Yo soy mucho más pesimista, Eduardo. Sí que creo que Occidente se ha quedado sin relato y ha perdido la fe en sus ideas y valores. Pero, en mi opinión, el problema es aún más grave que la ausencia de relato: lo peor es que se está imponiendo entre nosotros un relato autodestructivo de que nosotros somos los causantes del mal en el mundo por nuestro capitalismo, nuestro colonialismo y el resto de nuestros pecados históricos.
Roger Scruton denominó oikofobia a esta forma de autoodio, es decir, al rechazo o al desprecio sistemático hacia lo propio: hacia la propia cultura, la propia civilización y la tradición occidental. Y una de las cosas que estamos haciendo (empatía suicida) es abrir la puerta a sistemas operativos que son incompatibles con las democracias liberales. Creo que tiene mucho de suicidio. Fue Toynbee el que dijo que las civilizaciones mueren por suicidio.
Skarven retweeted
Atención: Hacienda lleva 248.327 M€ recaudados en 9 meses: un +10 % frente al mismo periodo de 2025.
El 58 % del aumento proviene del IRPF. Al no deflactar, la inflación te sube de tramo y pagas un impuesto mayor por ser más pobre. Desde que llegó el social comunismo en 2018, la recaudación ha subido un 72,5 %, con una inflación acumulada del 30%.
Y lo peor, estamos con los servicios públicos más nefastos de nuestra historia, con miedo a coger un tren, miedo a que te invadan, miedo a que ocupen tu casa...
¿No os dáis cuenta de que el socialismo está arrasando con vuestra riqueza y país?
Skarven retweeted
Una política pública puede aliviar una necesidad inmediata y, al mismo tiempo, crear incentivos que dificulten dejar de depender de ella.
Entiende zurdo: ayudar a alguien hoy no garantiza que estés contribuyendo a que mañana necesite menos ayuda.
El problema no es reconocer que existen personas en dificultades.
El problema es creer que toda intervención estatal destinada a ayudarlas es la solución, por el simple hecho de perseguir un objetivo noble.
Si de verdad te importa que una persona salga de la pobreza, deberías preocuparte por saber si la política que financias está facilitando su independencia o levantando obstáculos que dificultan alcanzarla.
Porque aliviar una dificultad no es lo mismo que resolver sus causas.
Y mantener a alguien a flote no equivale necesariamente a ayudarlo a nadar.
Ayudar de verdad no consiste en convertir la necesidad ajena en una dependencia permanente.
FIN.
Skarven retweeted
Regardless of how nonsensical it is for a central bank to focus on combating climate change, what has been the result of its policies and of “climate” policies in general?
After decades of paying a fortune in green taxes, tolls, excise taxes, regulated costs, and CO₂ emission allowances—doubling or tripling the actual cost of energy and driving up the price of most products—where is the damn return on investment?
How much has the planet’s temperature—or even Europe’s—dropped after the trillions of euros extracted from taxpayers? Zero. Not a single hundredth of a degree.
Are politicians and these “central bankers” not going to be held accountable to anyone?
What does it mean that “Europe needs better protection against the financial fallout from climate change”? What do they want us to do? Pay even more taxes and fees on top of the 50%–60% we already pay? Or perhaps burn ourselves alive in the town square as an expiatory offering to Pachamama?
Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more severe, and the associated costs are rising.
Europe needs better protection against the financial fallout from climate change and a more flexible energy system, says President @Lagarde in her blog post ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…
Skarven retweeted
Peter is right. But there's a part nobody wants to say out loud.
Intelligence, energy and automation get cheaper every month. Housing, healthcare, education and childcare get more expensive every year.
That's not a coincidence. Look at what the second list has in common.
The state.
Every sector where the state sits in the middle has stopped following the cost curve of technology. Not because the physics got harder. Because the paperwork did.
Here's the loop:
→ The state captures a sector
→ The sector becomes regulated, slow, and full of intermediaries you have to pay
→ Prices explode. Not from real scarcity. From manufactured scarcity
→ People sign 30-year mortgages for a box they can barely afford, and burn out
→ They blame capitalism and vote for more state to fix it
→ The state grows
→ Repeat
In the US, regulation alone now adds $131,734 to the price of a new home. More than a quarter of the price. Up 40% in five years, while disposable income grew 18%.
A quarter of your house is permission.
We're about to have abundant intelligence, and we still need months of paperwork to build an apartment.
The bottleneck of the 21st century isn't technology. It's the right to use it.
Abundance is coming. The only question is whether we let it in.
Skarven retweeted
Nous avons perdu quelque chose d'essentiel sans même nous en rendre compte : le sens de la vraie hiérarchie.
Pas la hiérarchie des titres. Pas celle des plateaux télé. La hiérarchie de la compétence.
Dans notre monde obsédé par l'égalitarisme, on a fini par croire que tous les avis se valent. Que ton opinion sur un sujet pèse autant que celle de quelqu'un qui y a consacré sa vie. C'est faux. Et c'est probablement l'un des mensonges les plus destructeurs de notre époque.
La seule question qui compte quand tu écoutes quelqu'un : est-ce que j'admire cette personne sur ce sujet précis ? Pas en général. Sur CE sujet.
Tu veux apprendre à faire du pain ? Le boulanger qui pétrit depuis 20 ans est un trésor. Tu te tais, tu observes, tu l'écoutes. Son avis vaut 10 000 fois le tien. Et c'est une excellente nouvelle : ça veut dire qu'il existe quelqu'un dont tu peux apprendre.
Tu veux comprendre le futur, l'entrepreneuriat, ce que ça demande de construire l'impossible ? L'avis d'Elon Musk vaut un milliard de fois celui d'un mec random sur internet. Ce n'est pas du culte de la personnalité. C'est de l'arithmétique. Lui fait atterrir des fusées. Le mec random a un avis.
C'est vrai dans tous les domaines. La médecine, la mécanique, la menuiserie, la finance, la cuisine. Il existe des gens qui savent. Et la sagesse la plus élémentaire, c'est de savoir les reconnaître.
Alors pourquoi on a perdu ça ?
Parce qu'à la place, on a donné notre confiance à des entités illégitimes. Des politiques qui n'ont jamais rien construit. Des médias qui commentent ce qu'ils ne comprennent pas. Des "experts" adoubés par des institutions plutôt que par leurs résultats.
Et ces institutions ont été capturées. L'éducation en premier. Pendant des décennies, la gauche a méthodiquement remplacé le mérite par l'idéologie, et bâti un monde entier sur le mensonge. Leurs experts sont des fraudes. Leurs économistes sont des fraudes. Leurs journalistes sont des fraudes. Leurs politiques sont des fraudes.
Le mensonge originel, c'est celui de la pensée communiste : l'homme serait une pâte à modeler. Il suffirait de la bonne théorie pour effacer les différences de talent, d'effort, de compétence. Cette idée ne comprend rien à la nature humaine. Elle veut la remodeler. Et partout où elle passe, elle détruit la seule hiérarchie qui ait jamais compté : celle du réel.
Résultat : ceux qui savent ne sont plus écoutés. Et ceux qui parlent le plus fort ne savent rien.
En 2014, Larry Page a expliqué sur la scène de TED qu'il préférait laisser sa fortune à Elon Musk plutôt qu'à une association.
À ce moment-là, SpaceX n'avait encore jamais posé une seule fusée.
Premier atterrissage : décembre 2015.
En 2025, SpaceX a envoyé environ 2 330 tonnes en orbite. Le reste du monde réuni : 547.
Hier, @brivael m'a dit qu'une personne qui a construit énormément vaut plus qu'un random.
Ça choque. Larry Page l'avait compris il y a 12 ans.
Skarven retweeted
pronto la generación del six seven entenderá que tendrá que levantarse a las six de la mañana, para trabajar hasta las seven de la tarde,,, y así durante six de seven días a la semana, por six o seven euros la hora, hasta que cumpla six seven años,,,
Skarven retweeted
South Africa in 1994 was basically set up to immediately become a first world, westernized country. It should be on par with Canada and Australia. Instead, it is a developing backwards into just another African third world nation.
South Africa is an example of how people cannot maintain what they did not build themselves and why "representation" and "DEI" are bad ideas to implement in our institutions.
