Month: March 2026

The ERE of 750 workers confirms the profitability crisis of delivery in Spain

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Glovo has opened the consultation period for an Employment Regulation File that will affect a maximum of 750 delivery workers in more than 60 locations throughout Spain: The official reason is that the distribution model with employees is not profitable in a large part of the territory. However, unions like CCOO had months denouncing that the company was already carrying out a “covert ERE” through a continuous trickle of disciplinary dismissals under questionable justifications. Why is it important. This decision comes just eight months after Glovo will complete its adaptation to the Rider Lawregularizing the delivery drivers who until then worked as self-employed. This adjustment shows the platform’s difficulties in sustaining a profitable logistics model once forced to abandon the self-employed scheme and assume the labor costs of the Workers’ Statute. The background. Glovo was the last major platform to comply with the Rider Law, which was approved in 2021, but its effective application was in fits and starts, between fines and institutional pressure. In July 2025, The company regularized its delivery drivers (more than 13,000 throughout Spain) in the face of the imminent threat of criminal proceedings, which opened the door to prison sentences for its leadership for widespread fraud. What Glovo had to give up then is cutting now. Between the lines. The company does not directly blame the Rider Law. It points out that its direct logistics management model, the so-called Gen2, “has proven to be inefficient” in small and medium-sized municipalities, and that it is necessary to move to the Gen1 model, in which Glovo does not assume the delivery operation. Translated: where the volume of orders is not sufficient to cover the costs of having permanent employees, the platform transitions to a model of marketplace (Gen1). That is, Glovo continues to operate the application and collect commissions, but the logistics of delivery are now assumed by the restaurants themselves or subcontracted companies. In figures: 750 delivery workers affected by the ERE. More than 60 locations where service will be reduced or eliminated. And more than 800 cities where Glovo operations continue normally. The big question. Now the underlying debate is not whether Glovo complies with the law or not (now, without a doubt, it complies with it), but whether the delivery whose model he proposes can be sustainable with a workforce of employees in markets where orders do not have the volume that exists in large cities. In addition, COVID triggered home delivery consumption to levels that have since normalized, and platforms have been searching for years for the balance point that allows them to make money without resorting to questionable working conditions. In many corners of Spain, that point has not yet appeared. Yes, but. Yolanda Díaz has responded to the announcement by rejecting any “blackmail” and promising that the Labor Inspection will ensure compliance with the law. You are right that the law must be followed. But the ERE that Glovo has announced does not breach it: reducing activity where there is no business is a legitimate decision. The underlying problem lies in the structural change of the sector: the delivery was born and based its profitability on a model of self-employed workers, a formula that Glovo defended to the end, arguing for the flexibility of the service. Now, the real challenge is to demonstrate whether the business remains economically viable when platforms must assume the structural costs of a salaried workforce, as required by current legislation. Featured image | Nursultan Abakirov In Xataka | The death of cooking at home: inviting to “dinner” is increasingly becoming inviting to order by Glovo

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The first exclusive draw for Xataka Xtra subscribers is about to end, but you still have time to participate. If you want to renew your living room and take home a television LG QNED evo AI 75 inchyou just have to subscribe to Xataka Xtra. You can do it from just two euros a month and enjoy not only exclusive draws, but a good handful of additional advantages. The giveaway will end today, March 12, at 11:59 p.m. Spanish peninsular timeand the winner will be revealed tomorrow, March 13, at 9:00. The winner will be notified by email and will be published in both the original article and in our exclusive Discord server (another of the advantages included in Xataka Xtra). How to participate in the giveaway This giveaway is exclusive for Xataka Xtra subscribers. If you are already part of the community, participating is as simple as making sure that You have checked the box shown in the image below. You can access it directly by clicking on this link or by displaying the side menu and clicking on “Manage subscription”. You will see the access below or next to the modality to which you have subscribed, depending on whether you are reading Xataka from your computer or from your mobile. Make sure you check that box to automatically participate in the exclusive Xataka Xtra draws | Image: Xataka That’s all. Once you have checked that box you will automatically participate not only in this one, but in all upcoming draws like the one that (spoiler) we will announce next week. The winner will be chosen by selecting one subscriber at random and two alternates. If the winner does not respond within the period stipulated in the legal bases of each draw, the winner will go to the first substitute and, if this does not happen either, to the second. Winning a giveaway does not prevent you from winning in the following ones. You can find the legal bases at this link. In Xataka | Subscribe now to Xataka Xtra

Germany wants to do what Japan did with rare earths in 2010: join forces against China

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BMW, Rheinmetall and the main German industries are working on the creation of a joint agency to purchase critical mineralsa move that would reduce dependence on China, according to they count from Financial Times. The idea is to pursue the model that Japan proposed a few years ago, and the story behind it explains why it makes sense. The starting point. In 2010, China imposed an embargo on rare earth exports to Japan in the midst of a territorial dispute. Tokyo depended on these materials to manufacture everything from cars to electronics. To alleviate the mess they had gotten themselves into, they decided to build an alternative architecture. They created JOGMEC (Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security), a state agency that collaborates with the country’s main conglomerates to ensure the supply of minerals, oil and gas. With this, Japan significantly reduced its dependence on China for rare earths. What Germany is building now. According to counted In the middle, BMW works together with the VDA automobile lobby and representatives of the German defense industry in order to develop a structure similar to what Japan did at the time. Rheinmetall is also in the talks. The specific idea is to create a kind of large private company that bulk buys critical raw materials (lithium, gallium, germanium, rare earths) on behalf of German industry. Just like share In the middle, the federal government could participate with a minority stake. The figures are not yet finalized, but the total cost of the project could amount to several hundred million euros. Why now. Last year, China imposed export controls on essential materials for batteries, permanent magnets and weapons systems. In November it temporarily suspended some of these restrictions until November 2026, but the scare was already in place. Europe was exposedwithout real alternatives, without negotiating power, nothing to do. And German industry (car manufacturers, defense companies, industrial machinery) realized how fragile its supply chain was. The Japanese model. JOGMEC works because it combines public capital with the agility that its large private companies allow, as they are structures with centuries of history in Japan specialized in industrial supply. Germany already has a raw materials agency, DERA, but sources close to the media recognize that needs a profound reform to fulfill that role. The agency being proposed now would have more muscle, with active financing, investment capacity in mining and recycling projects, and direct presence in the market. The state development bank KfW has already prepared a fund of 1 billion euros to finance mining, processing and recycling projects of critical materials, which would serve as a complement. Diplomacy. Just like account The media, Chancellor Friedrich Merz contacted Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week, and critical minerals were on the table. And Japan has shown interest in exporting its model abroad. In parallel, this same week the media informed also that the Australian Lynas Rare Earths, the largest producer of rare earths outside China, has closed a supply agreement with Japan with a guaranteed minimum price of $110 per kilogram for neodymium-praseodymium for 12 years. The same price that Washington guaranteed to the American producer MP Materials. The tension with Brussels. The European Commission also works in a centralized body to coordinate strategic purchases and reserves of critical minerals. But from Germany there is skepticism. According to share FT, Germany’s position is that “the industry must make its own decisions” and that governments should limit themselves to managing strategic reserves. In other words, Berlin prefers a model of private initiative with specific state support rather than leaving the strategy in the hands of Brussels. What is at stake. Steel, lithium and rare earths are the backbone of the energy transition and European rearmament. Without neodymium there are no magnets for electric motors or guided missiles. Without gallium and germanium there are no advanced semiconductors. China controls between 60% and 90% of the production chain for most of these materials. Hence many countries are restless. Cover image | Prometheus and Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | The United States knows it has a problem with rare earths from China. And he believes he has an alternative: Mexico

The great battle of the Ebro is not between Murcia and Aragón, it is between the headwaters of the rivers, the large cities and the delta

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The image is straight out of a movie: a team of divers diving into the cold waters of the Arija reservoir to dredge more than three meters of silt accumulated in front of its floodgates. It’s not a whim, It’s the only way to remove them.: that is, the consequence of having hundreds of infrastructures that have not been thoroughly maintained for decades. But, above all, the most striking symptom of a very deep problem: the sediments are killing, at the same time, the reservoirs and the rivers. Reservoirs due to loss of capacity (Mequinenza has lost since its opening more capacity than the sum of the last three reservoirs put into operation), rivers because deltas need sediment to stay alive. The Ebro, without going any further, needs 1.2 million tons per year. And the authorities know it. In fact, since 2003, the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has been carrying out controlled floods in the lower section of the river to mobilize sediments towards Tortosa. The problem is that each controlled flood moves about 10,000 tons; that is, two orders of magnitude below what is necessary. It’s like emptying a swimming pool with a coffee spoon. So in the last few months, something has changed. Since November 2024, the CHE began a series of measures to try to fix it. Things like extending the discharge by two days, starting it from much higher up (El Grado in Huesca and Camarasa in Lleida) and draining Ribarroja more than usual to mobilize all the possible sediments. Will it solve the problem? It’s not clear, but it doesn’t seem like it. We have to take into account that, only in the Ebro basin, there are many reservoirs and that is an inevitable brake. Calculations say that of the five million tons that were brought to the Mediterranean before the reservoirs, only between 100,000 and 200,000 now arrive. It would take around 100 floods to reach the appropriate figures. And no, we don’t have enough water for that. So? That is the big problem, seeing what we do. We must not forget that the Ebro delta supports 20,000 hectares of rice fieldstens of thousands of inhabitants and is a biosphere reserve. The loss of wetlands and their salinization have a direct impact on agriculture, fishing and tourism. Come on: the interests are crossed and they confront people hundreds of kilometers away. We are entering a new era of hydrological wars in which we are all against each other. Image | Sinto MQZ In Xataka | The Ebro is filling with brown prawns, an invasive species that we are going to find more and more on our plates.

create subfolders, reorganize, change name or format

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Let’s tell you how to sort the files in your folders with AIusing Claude Cowork. This is one of the options Claudewhich is like a AI agent capable of controlling elements of your computer and doing things for you autonomously, although asking for permissions at each step. In this case, what we are going to ask of this function of the artificial intelligence is that you create two subfolders and put photos and screenshots in them, distinguishing what each one is and changing the format. It is an example of what you can do, because you can also ask it to move and manage files of any format. Something you should know is that, for safety, Claude will not delete the original files unless you ask for it. In other words, we are left with two folders with copies of the originals. It will do all this without you having to touch anything, just by asking. Additionally, for security we can make it only touch elements in a specific folder. Another thing you should remember is that Claude Cowork It is a payment option. You will need to have a subscription to one of the Pro versions of Claude to use it. To use it, you will also have to have the Claude desktop application downloaded, because it is the one that manages everything. Manage files and folders with Cowork The first thing you have to do is open the Claude application on your computer. In it, click on the tab cowork that you have at the top. Once in it, first click on Work in a folder to choose a desktop folder where you want to work. With this, you can choose the precise place on your computer where you want Claude to do things, and you prevent the AI ​​from touching files in other folders that you don’t want it to manage. You can choose folders or subfolders, be it the downloads folder, the desktop folder, or any other folder on your hard drive. When you choose one, Claude will ask you for permission to modify the files what’s in it. Here, you can allow it occasionally, only for this task, or do it always if you are going to do many tasks in the same folder. But the safest way to avoid accidents with files is to give it permission only when you are going to do a new action. Once the folder has been chosen, it is time to write the prompt. With it, you will have to ask Claude to make any changes you want. Here, remember that you have to explain everything in detail so that the AI ​​can understand it better. For example, I have written the following: “I want you to sort the images in this folder into two subfolders. One should be called “Photos” and you should save regular photos in it. The other is called “Shots,” and I want you to save screenshots in them. You have to convert all screenshots to jpeg format. You must rename all the images in the two subfolders, using as the name the date and time the images were taken.” Obviously, you can create your own customized prompt to the files you want to manage and what you want to do with them. My prompt is just an example to perform several different tasks so you know it can be done. When you launch the prompt, possibly your operating system will ask you for permission again to allow Claude to make changes to your folder, even if the AI ​​had already asked you to do so before. Now, Claude will take a few minutes to analyze what you have asked of him and do it. In fact, you can start doing other things on the computer and leave it working for you in the background, although if you go to the Claude application you will be able to see all the steps it takes in the process. That’s it. When you finish, you will have everything managed as you asked. In my case, the photos are renamed, formatted, and arranged in the two subfolders I asked Claude to create. He has kept the originals so that I can delete them by hand, a security measure to avoid unintentional deletions of elements on your computer. In Xataka Basics | Claude: 23 functions and some tricks to get the most out of this artificial intelligence

abandoned dog poop

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In Spain there are more pets what children Quite a few more. That is why it is not strange that more and more city councils pay attention to one of the problems derived from this ‘boom’ of domestic animals: the poop abandoned in parks, sidewalks, streets… at the mercy of clueless pedestrians who end up carrying it on the soles of their shoes. Recently Pablo Muñoz Gabilondothe creator of ‘Pipper on Tour’did the math and verified that in Spain there are already 87 municipalities who have opted for the DNA censuses to fine uncivil pet owners. and the number keeps growing. What has happened? That in Spain there are town councils that have declared war to abandoned dog poop is not nothing new. Nor that many of these consistories have found an unexpected ally in science. What is striking is the extent to which this measure has spread throughout the Spanish geography in a matter of a decade, reaching dozens of cities. Since 2018 Malaga started to create a bank of dog DNA samples to identify which animals the abandoned feces belonged to and (most importantly) fine their ownersmore and more cities have opted for a similar measure. One of the latest has been Tarragona, which in February launched an information campaign six months to raise awareness among dog owners. One figure: 87. Recently Pablo Muñoz, creator of ‘Pipper on Tour’did a search and came to the conclusion that in Spain there are already 87 towns that have opted for DNA censuses to put an end to abandoned dog poop. Not all of them are at the same point. 68 of those 87 municipalities have implemented genetic control systems to improve the cleanliness of their streets. The remaining 19 are working on it and have it more or less advanced. There are very different cases on the list. Malaga is included, for example, which already applied fines in 2018and others like Tarragona, which last October still I was looking companies capable of carrying out genetic analysis of canine excrement and is still in an initial phase. The overall ‘photo’ is interesting because it shows that the measure continues to spread throughout the country. In fact, in recent months, localities such as Alcala either Three Songs. An uneven map. The study de Muñoz leaves another conclusion: not all regions of Spain have been equally interested in canine DNA censuses. The 87 cities and towns identified by the expert are basically concentrated in 15 provinces. To be more precise, the majority are gathered in Barcelona (19) and Valencia (43), followed by Marid (5) and Málaga (3). There are regions where no locality has joined the measure, although that could change soon. For example, on the map drawn by Muñoz there is no council of the Basque Country, but the proposal already sounds in Donostia. What exactly does it consist of? The system is basically divided into two phases. Both equally important. The first consists of creating a database: pet owners take them to the veterinarian to have saliva samples taken that will then be included in a census that includes the animal, its data, a contact and the human responsible for caring for it. Normally, participating in the census is mandatory (just like the chipped), so failure to provide a sample of the pet entails fines. In any case, it is not unusual for councils to subsidize all or part of the analysis. Question of censuses… and something else. The genetic registry is an important piece, but it only works if it is accompanied by periodic controls in the parks, streets, gardens… of the cities. The agents are in charge of collecting samples of abandoned poop, detailing where and when they were removed and sending them to specialized laboratories where these depositions are analyzed. The goal: identify your DNA and search for matches with the profiles archived in the first stage. Muñoz explains that between 5 and 20% of the samples end up being discarded because they are contaminated, but in the rest of the cases reliable conclusions are obtained that allow the authorities to identify the pets to whom the excrement belongs and (most importantly) who their owners are. Once “hunted” they face fines that can vary from one location to another but usually range from between 60 and 600 euros. If the analysis of the feces does not yield any match with the registry (that is, the poop belongs to a dog that is not ‘registered’) the laboratory also prepares a report in which it details the data of the animal: color, size, shape, sex… a kind of ‘robot portrait’ that helps the authorities identify it. Lights and shadows. Muñoz’s study confirms that the canine DNA census convinces more and more municipalities, however the system also faces its own challenges. To begin with, and as the journalist acknowledges, whether it works or not depends largely on whether the census is representative and whether excrement collection campaigns are carried out frequently. On occasions the implementation of the system has also been frustrated by changes in local governments. There are also those who question whether it is an effective (or at least profitable) solution to put an end to abandoned poop. In an article on the topicelDiario.es specifically cites Gonzalo Moreno, current president of the General Council of Colleges of the Veterinary Profession. In 2018, before taking office, he prepared a critical report in which he threw out several ideas. The first, the profitability of the measure. Do the results justify the cost of conducting the census and collecting and studying samples? The second is that some of the analyzes may be frustrated by the degradation and contamination of the samples or simply because the animals are not registered. After all, in a town not only ‘signed’ dogs walk. There are also animals that arrive from outside, such as stray dogs or that belong to people passing through. Images | Jay Wennington (Unsplash), Kyleburning (Flickr) and Anna Dudkova (Unsplash) Via | … Read more

They are declared null and void and he returns to work with 25,000 euros

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There are work stories that seem taken from from the script of a series of Netflix lawyers, but they really happen. The story of a saleswoman at an Asturian paint store is one of them: in less than a year she went through two dismissals, two trials and ended up in the same position, but with the company sentenced to pay her more than 25,000 euros. as compensation. The most curious thing is that the whole mess started with something as simple as a change of schedule which she refused. Almost two years later, it has become clear to the company that it was not a good idea. The first dismissal: an excuse without evidence. As detailed in the sentence of the casethe employee had been working in the company since September 2023 with a permanent contract, combining administrative tasks with those of a salesperson in a paint store. In April 2024, the company fired her, alleging a “voluntary and continued decrease in normal work performance” as an argument for taking a disciplinary dismissal. However, the Social Court No. 6 of Oviedo did not believe it. The ruling stated that “the content of the dismissal letter is a standard format that is given to everyone the company wants to fire; and in fact it is stated that the plaintiff was working well but that she needs someone with more time availability.” That is, the court recognized that the company had fired her because she did not want to change her schedule, and they did so just eight days after she rejected it. As a result, the judge declared the void dismissalordered that she be reinstated under the same conditions and in the same position, and ordered the company to pay her 5,000 euros for violation of her rights, plus all the salaries she had stopped receiving since her dismissal. Back to work, and back in the spotlight. The employee returned to her position on September 25, 2024. Just ten days later, the company temporarily sent her to cover a replacement in one of its stores in another nearby town. At the end of October, when checking her email, she found a message from her sales manager in which she was accused of having made several drums and cans of paint disappear during the days she had been assigned to that store. The company gave him five days to explain the disappearance of the products. That same day, the employee succumbed to the pressure and a doctor estimated that he should undergo a medical leave due to generalized anxiety. Days later, the employee reported the pressure to the Labor Inspection, and in November the company reopened a disciplinary file against her. On December 19, 2024, the second disciplinary dismissal came, this time with three accusations: having stolen merchandise from the company, seriously insulting the manager and making an insulting phone call to the sales manager. The second trial: there was no evidence either. None of these accusations could be proven during the judicial process. The company did not present inventories or any objective evidence about the whereabouts of the missing drums. Regarding the alleged insults, the judge showed that the witness who corroborated them was not reliable, among other reasons because he had had a direct role at the first dismissal. Therefore, the court again declared the dismissal void, and once again ordered the company to reinstate the worker and pay her the wages not collected since the dismissal. Furthermore, for having relapsed in its conduct, the court sentenced the company to pay compensation Additional 11,249.50 euros for violating the employee’s rights. Protecting rights cannot have retaliation. The company appealed the ruling, but the Superior Court of Justice of Asturias confirmed it on January 27, 2026. The underlying reason for all this judicial farce is a basic principle: when a worker claims his rights before the court or denounces his company, the company should not take retaliation against the worker. If it does so, as the judges have correctly detected, the courts can declare the dismissal null and void and add extra compensation for the damage caused to the employee’s labor rights. In this case, the court assessed that everything occurred in a very specific context: the employee had already won a lawsuit for the first dismissal, she had only been back at the company for a few weeks and had just reported it to the Labor Inspection. With that history, and without the company could prove none of the accusations against him, the judges concluded that the second dismissal was retaliation. The final result accumulates a sum greater than 25,000 euros between compensation and unpaid salaries, and the unpaid salaries from the second dismissal are still pending. And all for one schedule change. In Xataka | If you resign, you need to give advance notice of voluntary resignation: how and when to give it Image | Illustrious Bar Association of OviedoUnsplash (Center for Aging Better)

disarm South Korea against the North’s new nuclear “toy”

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It we count a few days ago. There are military infrastructures so scarce and sophisticated that there are barely a handful of them on the entire planet. Some are designed to detect missiles at gigantic distances and cost a fortune, others are installed in allied countries thousands of kilometers from where they are manufactured. When several of those pieces disappear from the board At the same time, the security of entire regions may begin to depend on movements occurring on the other side of the world. A war that eats up the shields of the planet. The offensive against Iran has triggered a strategic domino effect that goes far beyond the Middle East. After the Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructureWashington met an unexpected problem: Several of its most sophisticated warning and tracking systems (those unique radars capable of detecting and coordinating defense against ballistic missiles) were left damaged or destroyeddrastically reducing surveillance capacity. Of the eight most advanced radars of this type that the United States possesses, four were offside. That means another similar strike could leave Washington virtually blind to new waves of missiles or drones. Faced with this risk, the priority became protecting the US bases deployed in the Gulf and the Levant. The result has been a decision that reveals the extent to which the war against Iran is straining the global defense architecture: the United States has begun to withdraw Asian anti-missile systems to reinforce its shield in the Middle East. Plan B. The solution adopted by the Pentagon has been to move pieces from one of the most sensitive boards on the planet: the korean peninsula. For years, the THAAD system deployed in South Korea was presented as the key piece to intercept North Korean missiles before they reached Seoul or US bases. That decision sparked protests localities and tensions with China and Russia due to the powerful radar associated with the system. Now, almost a decade later, parts of that shield are being disassembled and loaded on transport planes heading to the Middle East. And not only that, because the transfer is not limited to THAAD. It is also studied move Patriot batteries and other defensive assets towards US bases in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates to protect them from possible Iranian retaliation with drones and missiles. For Seoul, the scene is extremely disturbing: Defenses designed to stop attacks from the North are being sent thousands of miles away to sustain a war on another continent. THAAD The strategic cost of a war. They remembered in the Guardian that the withdrawal of these systems has generated a wave of concern in South Korea and Japan, two of the pillars of architecture American military in Asia. South Korea hosts about 28,500 U.S. troops and relies heavily on Washington’s defensive umbrella to balance North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Although the South Korean government insists that its deterrence capacity remains intact, many analysts they fear that Pyongyang interprets the move as an opportunity to test the limits of the alliance. Japan, for its part, observes with the same concern how American destroyers based in Yokosuka move towards the Arabian Sea, while in Tokyo the debate grows on whether US bases in the country could end up involved in conflicts outside the Asian theater. The question that floats in both capitals is uncomfortable: to what extent the war against Iran is draining military resources that were intended to contain North Korea or China. Hyunmoo-3 cruise missile on display during South Korea’s 65th military anniversary parade Pyongyang and a lesson. They remembered this week on CNN that, in North Korea, events have reinforced a conviction that has been guiding its strategy for decades: the nuclear weapon It is the only real life insurance in front of Washington. The destiny of leaders who abandoned or never developed nuclear weapons (from Gaddafi to the recent bombings against Iran that ended with his supreme leader) is constantly repeated in North Korean propaganda as a warning. For Kim Jong Un, the conclusion seems simple, because giving up the bomb means opening the door to operations regime change. Therefore, while the United States focuses its attention on the Middle East, Pyongyang accelerates its nuclear program and continues to develop missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to the mainland United States. North Korea already possesses, in fact, dozens of warheads and enough material to produce many more, which completely changes the risk calculus for any power contemplating direct military intervention. The new nuclear “toy”. In parallel, the North has presented one of the most ambitious projects of its military modernization: the destroyer Choe Hyona 5,000-ton ship that represents the most important leap in its navy in decades. During its first sea trials, the ship launched strategic cruise missiles under the direct supervision of Kim Jong Un and displayed a battery of up to 104 missiles of different types thanks to an expanded vertical launch system. The regime intends to build at least ten ships of this class in the coming years and convert its navy into a force capable of projecting power beyond the peninsula. The program also includes the progressive integration of nuclear weapons into naval forces, a change that would expand the platforms from which Pyongyang could launch nuclear attacks. Kim and the Iranian example. The war in Iran has also reopened a broader strategic debate in Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un and his inner circle are analyzing each phase of the American operation: from the ability to locate enemy leaders to the speed with which Washington can pass from diplomacy to action military. In that sense, possibly the memory of the failure of Hanoi summit In 2019 it continues to weigh in that calculation. At the time, Kim believed a deal with Trump was close and returned home with nothing. Since then, North Korea has strengthened its association with Russiasending ammunition and troops for the war in Ukraine in exchange for fuel, food and possibly military technology. However, the lack … Read more

How to link Apple Music or Spotify to TikTok to save the music you discover in the social network’s videos there

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Let’s tell you how to link Apple Music or Spotify to TikTokand thus be able to save the music you find in the videos in your music library. When you do this, the service you choose will become the one TikTok uses by default. The operation is simple. Once you have linked them, when you are watching TikTok and a video with a song appears, an indicator will appear that tells you what the topic is. Then, by clicking on the name you can open it directly in your music streaming application. Link Apple Music or Spotify to TikTok The first thing you have to do is enter TikTok and click on the options button to open the side tab. When you do it, click on the option Settings and privacy to enter the social network settings. Once you are in the TikTok settings, go to the section Content and screen. in here, click on the section Music that will appear to you. Within the Music section, click on the option Link within the option of Add to music app. You will go to a screen where you will be able choose the default music app to add songs from TikTok. Here, you can click on one of them, the one you use. When you choose one of the options, you will go to the application or website of this music service, and you will be able to accept that you connect to TikTok and both services are linked. TikTok will be able to see data from your account and perform actions for you, such as adding songs. Add TikTok music to Spotify Once you have linked a streaming service, simply browse as normal. When there is a song in a TikTok video, you will see that there is an indicator of the topic it containsand you can click on it. You can also click on the round icon at the bottom right. When you click on the song nameyou will go to a screen where you can have your information, the publications that use it, and options to use it yourself or save it to favorites. Here, you will also have a button to add it to Spotify or Apple Musicdepending on which one you have chosen. This will add the song to your playlist of songs you like on Apple Music or Spotify, the one created when you “Like” any of the songs. In Xataka Basics | Alternatives to TikTok: the main social video networks to go to if you are thinking of changing

the dangerous TikTok trend of chewing food with plastic that camouflages an eating disorder

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Eating something that we love very much, but without adding a single calorie to the diet, seems like something that resembles a true miracle, but the reality is that in China social networks are being flooded with a method that promises this. And we are not dealing with something revolutionary to trick the brain, but rather eating food wrapped in plastic. Something that has been baptized like ‘plastic eating’ as El País has reported. How it started. This trend has been with us for a short time, and the origin is in Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. Here the videos showed young people placing a piece of plastic wrap over your mouth or wrapping food in plastic and then chewing and spitting it out. The goal here is to taste high-calorie foods without swallowing them so as not to gain weight. Extended. The algorithm worked its usual magic, and the trend has quickly spread to other countries, even reaching TikTok, where this new challenge has been replicated. And when you start with this trigger in a new population, logically you have to take into account the risks of replicating it and turning it into something viral. Especially focused on adolescents, who may be more vulnerable in these situations. Its consequence. Beyond how bizarre it is to put plastic in your mouth to enjoy the flavor, but not have the effect of the calories, the more immediate physical damage must be considered. One of the most striking, related to repeatedly chewing a packaging that has not been designed for human consumption, carries a very high risk of suffocation and also dental damage. But we must not forget that we are chewing plastic here, so there is a risk of ingesting toxins. Different medical and scientific sources warn that these practices can expose us to the consumption of microplastics, which we have already been able to talk a lot about, as they are present in some important organs such as the placenta or testicles. Something that little by little is being related to hormonal disruption. Psychological risks. Without a doubt, it is another of the most important risks that we must take into account here, since what the networks sell as a trick to reduce the cravings we have throughout the day, is actually a classic symptom of eating disorders or eating disorders. In the clinical setting, it is known as ‘chewing and spitting’, which is a very common compensatory behavior in the diagnosis of anorexia and bulimia. It is not a new idea, since the iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld popularized and defended publicly this technique years ago after losing between 30 and 40 kilos. However, science denies that it has real benefits, since different studies suggest that when we chew food, the body prepares for digestion and increases the levels of ghrelin, which is the hunger hormone. But in reality, by not receiving food, hunger and anxiety are triggered, causing a severe loss of control, metabolic alterations and malnutrition. Social networks. The proliferation of these types of trends puts the role of social networks in the mental health of young people back on the table. Scientific data provided by recent studies indicate, for example, that exposure to content that promotes anorexia on TikTok significantly decreases body satisfaction in a matter of minutes, increasing the internalization of “thin ideals.” It has also been proven that 73% of young users with moderate or high risk of suffering from an ED show symptoms directly related to their interaction on TikTok. Images | Clown World In Xataka | We believed that extreme thinness was a fashion that had happily been overcome. What is happening on networks contradicts us

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