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Posted by mgh2 3 hours ago

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies(clashreport.com)
183 points | 23 comments
milanito1985 15 minutes ago|
Spain is really going in the right direction, I wonder why no one countries inspire from what they are doing
cryo32 9 minutes ago||
Looks like we’re doing this in the UK soon too.
sucrosesucrose 13 minutes ago||
Except for the unsustainable immigration agenda that is turning the country into another USA.
archagon 2 minutes ago|||
Which aspect is unsustainable?
vrganj 4 minutes ago||||
I think the immigration is what keeps Spain from turning into another Japan or Germany - a stagnant, overly old place stuck in time.
ks2048 4 minutes ago|||
It seems in current discourse, turning a European country into another USA is a compliment.
_ink_ 1 hour ago||
I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
Al-Khwarizmi 35 minutes ago||
Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25, and I don't think we hit 30 in June except for that single day and maybe one other day.

The problem is that the right is poised to win the next election and will probably undo all the policies you like. They're pretty much against everything that has been done in the last 7 years. I still have some hopes that Sanchez might clinch another term because he's a political survivor, but prospects are not great.

Xenoamorphous 59 minutes ago|||
The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.
ncruces 8 minutes ago||
It could be worse can only take a government so far. Eventually, just preaching to the choir catches up with you.
littlecranky67 50 minutes ago|||
Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.
hecrogon 6 minutes ago|||
It isn't that simple, Canary Islands already counts with 2.2 million + tourists people and the fresh water is a highly risk resource even when desalinization plants are widespread, the groundwater aquifers are severely compromised. The mild weather heavily depends on the trade winds. But models predict that due to fact of being so close to Africa heat waves are prone to be more and more frequent compromising the water resources.
b40d-48b2-979e 45 minutes ago||||

    and probably unaffected from climate change
No place is unaffected.
Daishiman 43 minutes ago|||
Islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).
littlecranky67 21 minutes ago||
No rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water basin of a new hydroelectric plant [0]. Desalination pretty much solves water issues, IF you have the energy (ideally renewable).

[0]: https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw...

CalRobert 14 minutes ago|||
Galicia is supposed to be nice
breppp 25 minutes ago||
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pier25 17 minutes ago||
In the CPI Spain is not that far off from countries like France, Italy or the US and better than the global average.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

I'm currently living in Mexico and here corruption is a much more serious issue.

breppp 15 minutes ago||
I am talking about the current government corruption cases, I assume Mexico is worse, but Spain isn't great for Europe either
fcatalan 8 minutes ago||
The made up cases are so many that they deflect each other and the few real ones. The real scandal is the state of our judicial power.
emsign 49 minutes ago||
Great news for Spain. I hope more European countries wake up to what's going on.
CurbStomper 31 minutes ago||
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pirataespanyol 28 minutes ago||
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juliusceasar 51 minutes ago||
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fischermann 45 minutes ago|
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psoeratas 2 hours ago||
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Hugsbox 2 hours ago|
What on earth are you even talking about
moron4hire 29 minutes ago||
There is a certain brand of conservative Republicans who have learned to weaponize antisemitism against Democrats. The general operating theory is that, since the Holocaust, anyone with even Jewish heritage can do no wrong (though I question the sincerity of the view).

Palantir's CEO, Alex Karp, is the son of a Jewish man. I specifically say "son of," because I understand Jewish heritage to be matrilineal and I don't see Alex Karp engaging in any specifically Jewish traditions. But he does also seem to be one of the "Weaponize the Holocaust" Republicans. Thus, you get defenders such as this.

ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago|
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748392