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Nobody wants to spend three hours on a Saturday. And that’s why hypermarkets go down

May 20, 2025 by usatoday24

For decades, hypermarket was the dominant format in the collective imaginary of mass consumption. A huge parking, infinite halls, “all under the same roof” as a promise of efficiency and a comforting feeling of abundance. It was almost aspirational, a happy import. Today that promise does not advance, but goes back. According to the latest Mercasa data cited by The economistsupermarkets already concentrate 91.8% of the commercial food area in Spain. Hypermarkets, on the other hand, have fallen to 8.2%. It is a modest percentage change – 1.3% loss in a decade – but very symbolic: the consolidation of one model and the replication of the other. Not even the investment effort of Alcampo or Carrefour have reversed the trend: in a decade, the hyper have opened 37 new stores and added more than 27,000 square meters. But its relative weight continues to fall. Even in market value there is stagnation. After a postpandemic rebound, the Híper channel has returned to 13% quota, the same level as in 2021. And the format that grows most is ‘great supermarket’, that of more than 1,000 square meters. In 2014 there were 3,501 stores like this, in 2024 were 4,836. Almost half of the food sales surface in Spain is in the hands of this specific supermarket. The reading of some experts such as Kantar points to a combination of factors: Smaller homes. Average age of the population. Urban context that favors small and close purchases. Less culture of the car than in countries like the United States. They are elements that explain a good part of this displacement of consumption. It is not the people bought less in the hyper, but often neither considers going there. From the chains themselves recognize the turn. Alcampo recently announced a plan to reduce the size of 15 of its hypermarkets and close 25 supermarkets. He is also reforming more than 60 stores and strengthening his logistics for the online channel. All with the idea, they say, to “adapt to smaller, convenient and adapted establishments to new needs.” The parent group, Auchan retail, also crosses difficulties in other markets, especially in France, with two consecutive years of fall in sales. Carrefour does not escape either. Although he bought 46 Supercor stores, Its quota has fallen to 9.8% and Its matrix has also announced adjustments. It is early to know if we are facing the definitive sunset of the hypermarket or if it is a lower correction, but although it maintains objective advantages (assortment, price, promotions, suitability for those who need to go by car …), and it is likely that it will keep its relevance in suburban contexts, the tendency direction seems clear: the battle by surface, frequency and closeness is won by the supermarket. Maybe Change is not as commercial as mental: we no longer think about purchase as an event (which requires going to a very specific place, getting the car, dedicating more time, keeping it a weekly time) but as a more spontaneous and functional routine. And in that logic, the supermarket – Ágil, close, practical, integrated in our day to day – has an advantage. It is not that the hypermarket has failed, but that the context has changed. In Xataka | Mercadona has eaten its competition in Spain thanks to a recipe as successful as Leonina: 3.88% Outstanding image | Annie Vo in Unspash

The best PROMPTS to save working hours and do your homework with Chatgpt, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

May 17, 2025 by usatoday24

Let’s tell you a series of prompts for Save work hours using artificial intelligence To perform your homework. In the examples we are going to use chatgpt, but they are prompts that should also serve you with other AI, such as Gemini, Copilot, Deepseek or any other. In each of these examples we will give you both the explanation of what you are going to get as the prompt to do so. These prompts are generic, it is not copy and paste, since in many cases you will have to modify them to specify what you want me to do to you. They are like templates, go. Learn concepts in the simplest way This is one of the most classic and veteran tricks of artificial intelligence, that of Ask him to explain something as if you were 5 years old. You can also modify it to explain it to another level, as to a person of another age like 12 years in the event that you need something slightly more advanced. Sometimes you can find terms and concepts difficult to understand, and When someone tries to explain it you may stay the samein the same way that when you read explanations you cannot finish understanding it either. This is where this prompt comes into play, with which you will save a lot of time trying to understand it by reducing the explanation to the lowest level: “Explain to me the theory of relativity as if I was five years old” And if this is not enough, you can also ask for extra context: “Explain to me as if I had the theory of relativity five years and why it was so important for history.” Check texts before sending or publishing them In the event that you work by writing texts, or that you have to review a job you have written, you can also Ask the AI to check your writing To find spelling failures. It can also help you with grammatical errors or typographic failures of those that can be escaped to all. The way of proceeding is first to give the instruction, and when the OK you hit the full text. “I’m going to send you a text and I want you to review it, and tell me the spelling and typographic errors that I have” In addition to this, you can ask you to do a more thorough analysis, taking into account other aspects: “I’m going to send you a text and I want you to review it, and tell me the spelling and typographic errors that I have. I also want you to tell me the words that I have repeated too much, and that you tell me how to improve it.” Change the tone of your writing Imagine that the problem is no longer so much in the text and spelling as in the way you have expressed yourself. Maybe you have been more colloquial when it should be a serious or professional text, and here there is little to do beyond rewriting everything. However, another thing you can do is present the text to ChatgPT and Ask him to rewrite him by changing the tone in which it is written. Again, it is best first to give the order and when I tell you that ok then hit the text. The prompt would be something like this: “I’m going to send you a text, and I need you to analyze it and rewrite it in a much more formal tone” As you can understand, you can modify it to specify a different tone. You can also add any detail or thing that you think you should take into account when rewriting it. Use AI as a translator Another of the important functions of artificial intelligence is that can act as a translator. In addition, in many cases IA can surely translate better than tools such as Google Translator, and you can write very long texts to translate them. “I’m going to send you a text in English, and I want you to translate it into Spanish from Spain” Another of the advantages when using AI as a translator is that you can customize the way you want translations to be made. You can take advantage to change the tone, so that it makes you corrections, or even simply ask that the translation is natural for a Spanish reader. Create exams to test your knowledge Imagine that you are getting the driving license or you are opposing, and you need test your knowledge. For this you can search for pages with tests on the Internet, but you can also ask Chatgpt to do a test on a specific topic. Here, just remember that artificial intelligence bots can make mistakes, and it is possible that not all questions or the tests of the test are true. However, despite it is or remains a very interesting tool that should be taken into account. So you can ask you to take the exam “I am an opponent and to practice for my exam I need to improve my knowledge about a law. Could you ask 30 test questions about Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the common administrative procedure of public administrations?” After asking for the exam, you can also ask to tell you what questions are correct and reason why. “Now you can explain what is the right option in each of the questions, and why?” Create study sheets Another useful thing for students is Create study sheets or flashcardswhich are small basic data cards that help you memorize concepts, formulas or dates. They can be very useful for studying for an exam and need to memorize key data. “I want you to do a study tab or flashcards to learn about relativity.” It also helps teachers Beyond the exams to test, if you are a teacher you can also use AI to Create exams for your classes. It is true that perhaps it is not … Read more

A programmer did not like how his coffee maker extracted coffee. So he dedicated 100 hours to hack her

May 17, 2025 by usatoday24

Few things give more anger than to play with an extremely simple device that does not respond exactly as you want. An example is the appliances that should be at our service, but sometimes they go from us, they are unnecessarily complex Or they have many functions, but not as simple as “don’t automatically turn off.” That is what a software developer was found to Buy a coffee makerand made the most logical decision. Return it? No: Hold it. And be careful, because that of ‘hacking’ the coffee makers is not so weird. Functions vs User. Gabriel Ciubotaru He is a software developer, but also an expert in cybersecurity and reverse engineering, among other skills. In a recent conference at the Defcamp 2024 (a relevant cybersecurity and hacking conference at European level), Gabriel told how he had acquired a coffee maker that he liked a lot, but that had a very annoying function: at 30 minutes of being on, he automatically went out. It is a function to save energy, and that is fine, but the problem is the enormous contradiction that arises when, every time it turns on, it performs a refined cycle that expels a moderate amount of water. In addition to water, it was a loss of time and Gabriel search between the options until finding a higher time limit: three hours. As he made a coffee every four hours, it was not adequate for his rhythm of life and decided to open the machine. Hold the coffee maker. The task seemed simple: extract the motherboard, locate the microcontroller and identify the system programmed to automatically turn off the machine and perform that refined process, change the firmware with the desired time value and reassemble the machine. The reality is that it found that component relatively easy, but the complicated thing was to find, throughout the code tangle, the lines that it should modify so that the coffee maker went out when he wanted. He did it, looking at a code that controls the warning icons that shows the coffee maker screen so that the user identifies his status following the instructions of the manual, so he modified those values, the modified code rose to the microcontroller and … ready, the coffee maker now works as he wants. I have explained it in a very simple way, but in Gabriel he gives all the details in his conference. He also comments that he has saved 30 seconds a day by investing 100 hours of work to hack the coffee maker, but that it is something that has been totally worth it because now it is the device that works as the user wants. More homemade projects. It is clear that not everyone has the resources, desire, time or interest in getting what Gabriel has achieved. Those 30 seconds, to many, would not be bother us, but what is also true is that there is an interest on the part of some users to hack their coffee makers in one way or another. One of the most popular coffee makers is Delonghi dedicates. It is what I have and has a series of default values that respond to the amount of coffee extraction time. For a pressurized portfilters like the one that carries the machine, they are adequate, but when you buy a portfiltros in the air, these values fall short and we have a way of programming a slower extraction based on combining its three buttons. It is something indicated in the manual, but what is not indicated is how to achieve a better milk foam. The sparkler included is functional, but not perfect. A trick to have more control over the process is to remove the metal part of the sparkler and keep the rubber, with a much thinner nozzle. Thus we can better control the process, but there is a problem: due to the pressure, the nozzle jumps. The solution? Set that mouthpiece to the coffee maker through a flangeand problem solved. Removing functions to the machine. That is a very simple modification, but there is another that is perhaps more interesting because it directly affects how coffee knows. In filter coffee makers, the most common is that the base has a resistance that keeps hot coffee for a longer time. This implies that coffee ‘cooks’ by extraction, but then continues to warm up with a high temperature base that modifies its flavor. It is not ideal, but even expensive machines (and that, supposedly, its manufacturers should know that it affects the flavor) implements it. Therefore, a common modification in this type of coffee makers is to open them and remove the cables that give energy to that resistance. It does not affect anything to the operation of the coffee maker when preparing coffee, but you eliminate that base that continues to cook the coffee once extracted. It is a modification that gives more “fear” than placing a flange, but it is worth it because, as I say, it has a direct influence on coffee. And as that modification there are many others, such as placing a more quality milk foamer in the aforementioned dedicate or changing the water pump pressure, Change the diffuser of water in a moccamaster … More serious implications. Ok, these cases are curious and allow to improve the functioning of the coffee maker, but really hacking a coffee maker is a serious thing. It is something that Martin Hron, Avast Security Researcher, demonstrated to the HAHKE AN INTELLIGENT COFFEE. Focusing on the first generation smartger, Hron got access to the system and realized that it worked as a unprotected Wi-Fi access point, with unbalanced connections and that allowed firmware updates without authentication. What did you demonstrate? Two things. On the one hand, which could rotate the mill without control, waste boiling water or emit beeps. He could also show a rescue message with a URL in which to make the payment so that the coffee maker ceases to behave … Read more

A free xiaomi pad 7 buying the Xiaomi 15. This is the new offer of the official store that will last only a few hours

May 13, 2025 by usatoday24

Xiaomi tends to launch very good offers in their mobiles once they have just launched – sometimes, even the same day (or before) of its launch. We have seen it several times in this last yearsuch as with Xiaomi 14twith the Little f7 And, of course, also with the Xiaomi 15. This time, the base model of Xiaomi 15 In its 512 GB configuration in liquid silver color, it has not only dropped in price, but also includes a gift: the tablet Xiaomi Pad 7. All this for 949.99 euros. Of course, it is worth mentioning that The offer will end today, at approximately 8:00 p.m.. Xiaomi 15 (512 GB) + Xiaomi Pad 7 (128 GB) * Some price may have changed from the last review A Xiaomi combo with a very interesting price The Xiaomi 15 is one of the most interesting mobiles that have been launched, for the moment, in 2025. Among its specifications we find that it comes with an excellent 6.36 -inch AMOLED screen. In addition, it offers a 1.5K resolution, a 120 Hz soda rate and a maximum shine of 3,200 nits. The brain of the Xiaomi 15 is the Snapdragon 8 Elitethe best Android mobile processor. To this we must add that in this case it comes with 12 GB of RAM and with 512 GB of internal storage. On the other hand, its 5,240 mAh battery supports so much 90W fast charge As a 50W wireless load, it offers IP68 certification And it comes with ultrasonic fingerprint reader under the screen. As for the photographic section, the Xiaomi 15 comes with a 32 MP front camera and with a rear cameras module that is composed of a 50 MP main sensor, a large angle of 50 MP and a 50 MP telephoto. As we usually see in some mobiles of the main brand, The Xiaomi 15 has the collaboration of Leica. You may also be interested in these accessories Xiaomi Watch S4, Bluetooth version, Advanced Profession * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi Buds 5-Wireless headphones, active noise cancellation, Harman Audio EFX, HI-RES, Ergonomic Design, up to 30 hours of battery, black (ES version) * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Iván LinaresXiaomi In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis In Xataka | The best Xiaomi mobile price: purchase and comparative guide

The reason why electricity took more than 15 hours to restore 100% in Spain: the feared “Black Start”

April 30, 2025 by usatoday24

The Iberian Peninsula went out at 12:33 of April 28. In just five seconds, two southwest disconnections of the peninsula They removed more than half of the instant demand from the network. The frequency collapsed and interconnection with France jumped by instability. Spain stayed at 0 MW and 0 Hz, never seen. Resting the service was the real challenge. 15 hours of surgical work. At 03:30 on Tuesday, Red Eléctrica, the Spanish electrical system operator, announced that 99.95% of the demand was covered again (100% was not reached until the afternoon in the afternoon). Spain starred in greater practical exercise of replacement of a European network From the great continental blackout of 2006, The first on this scale from a country that obtains its energy mainly from renewable sources. The dreaded Black Start. Turn on the light out of nowhere, start the zero power grid. With 50 million users, Spain has faced One of the most challenging cases of “Black Start” They are remembered. He needed 15 hours because he had to go step by step, first starting the most flexible plants: hydroelectric plants, enabled for Black Start with diesel structure to feed pumps, valves and control systems). Mainless Spain redeemed. With 10% of the Spanish mix and 25% of the Portuguese, the pumping hydraulics was the first ammunition: The hydroelectric plants of the Muela and Aldeadávila They synchronized in three minutes, moving from zero to 3 GW. Each central created its 50 Hz “island” (the frequency at which the turbines have to turn) before introducing load. Red Electric was connecting the turbines one by one and introducing load in a dosing way so as not to stop them. Gas for climbing. With the nuclear off (except for the imported of France, which provided 1.4 GW of power in the replacement), the gas plants became the backbone of the network before reincorporating renewables. Monday’s wind was almost calm and the photovoltaic disappeared at nightfall, so the weight fell on water and gas. Morocco injected several hundred MW who were critical to start plants in Andalusia. As for nuclear. The automatic cut of five of the seven reactors generated a radio traffic jam: the xenon-135 accumulated after a sudden stop absorbs neutrons and blocks the reaction for 24-48 h. 32 hours after the blackout, No nuclear had yet been synchronized. That 3-4 GW hole synchronous forced to squeeze hydraulics and gas and delayed total recovery. The fuses jumped. When the blackout occurred, more than 70% of the generation was renewable (37% solar, 32% wind). 3.4 GW of nuclear energy, 1.6 GW of cycles and 1.4 GW of cogeneration provided the synchronous inertia of the network, but were not enough to compensate for the disconnection of two stations. Neither The interconnected network was enough to sustain the frequency (only 3 GW with France and 700 MW with Morocco). The substations acted as giant fuses against imbalance and isolated the network to avoid catastrophic damage. That is why it is said that Spain and Portugal are energy islands, despite being in the same network as the rest of European countries. Some lessons. With high renewable quotas, which They do not have the inertia of other energy sources To stabilize the network, it takes a greater resilience than the European electricity grid. In other words, invest in investors at network level, batteries and renewable synchronous (biomass or more pumping hydraulics). As well as in better interconnections. All this is planned, but it was not on time to avoid the blackout and the Black Start. Image | Electric Red In Xataka | We have just lived the first great blackout of the renewable era. The debate is now how to get the last one

What is the “energy zero” and why the supply can go suddenly but it takes hours to recover

April 28, 2025 by usatoday24

The general blackout in Spain is causing many problems at the level of transport or trade, and in the meantime hospitals are going to their emergency generators. The situation has been caused after the so -called “energy zero”. Energy zero. This is called the situation in which the flow of electricity in an electrical system is interrupted or significantly reduced, reaching zero. The question, of course, is why this problem occurs. Diverse causes. This event can occur for various reasons such as infrastructure failures, climatic events or great imbalances between supply and demand. Consequences. We are living them: lack of supply in essential homes, businesses and services such as transport, communications or health, in addition to damage to teams and the consequent economic impact. It has already happened in the Canary Islands. In June 2020 there was an energy zero in the south of Tenerife, and in fact in the Canary Islands there have been several similar episodes In recent years. The Governing Council approved in September 2022 a sanction of eight million euros to Red Eléctrica de España for the problems derived from that fall. And in the world. There have been large electric blackouts in various parts of the world for decades. In Italy, in 2003, 57 million people They were affected by a high voltage line affected by a series of fallen trees during a storm. In India, in July 2012, 700 million people They were affected by an electricity overdex. Chile suffered a recent blackout last February A very serious infraction of the Law of the Electric Sector. The law of the electrical sector that regulates these situations establish that these types of problems represent a very serious infraction. In article 64.31 The following is specified: “The interruption or suspension of the supply without the legal or regulation requirements established or outside the assumptions provided legally or regulation.” The supply goes fast, but slowly returns. In this type of event, the electricity supply goes completely in an instant, but its recovery is much more gradual and can take hours. From Red Electrica Español they indicated half an hour after the blackout how the supply begins to recover in the north and southern peninsular, but it will take some time that the recovery is complete. It is not known how exactly, but in some parts of Spain the electricity supply is already being recovered, they indicate media such as being. Xataka | There are so many Australians with solar panels in their roofs that the electricity grid has been one step away from the abyss

Tiktok was hours again in the US. Donald Trump has just extended the prohibition period again

April 5, 2025 by usatoday24

Millions of Tiktok users in the United States woke up this Friday without knowing if the next day they could continue using the application. Bytedonce, the social network’s parent company, had a deadline on Saturday, April 5 to sell its operations in the country. If not, a law approved in 2024 would technically prevent him from continuing to operate in US territory. Donald Trump, who had already stopped the veto on his first day of mandate, has intervened again. This time he has done it through an executive order that extends in 75 days the deadline before the measure enters into force. It is a temporary respite not only for those who use it by entertainment, but also for many content and merchants who use it regularly. The sale of Tiktok wins time. “My administration has worked hard to reach an agreement to save Tiktok and we have made considerable progress. The agreement requires more work to ensure that all the necessary approvals are signed,” said the White House tenant in a publication in Truth Social. “We hope to work with Tiktok and China to close the agreement,” he added. Several interested buyers. The possible sale of Tiktok in the United States has aroused the interest of several technological giants. In recent days they have sounded Names like Walmart, Amazon, Oracle and Applovin. Investment signatures such as Blackstone have also appeared. Although there is no official confirmation, Trump has already advanced that “There are many potential buyers.” Tariffs as a weapon. Tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are news again for its international impact. In the case of China, which already faced a 2 %rate, new taxes of 34 %have been recently added, which raises the total of 54 %. In this context, Trump has suggested that he is willing to soften them if the Chinese government collaborates to facilitate the Tiktok sales agreement. China must authorize the agreement. Tiktok initially refused to sell its operations in the United States, but it seems that the position has begun to move. Today, a possible agreement no longer seems so far or unlikely. Of course: any decision must inevitably happen by the Chinese government, which does not go through its best moment in relations with Washington due to the current tariff war. How have we get here? The current situation has its origin in a lEy approved in 2024, during the mandate of Joe Bidenthat forces Bytedance to sell Tiktok operations in the United States or face its ban. The central argument of American legislators is the risk to national security: they fear that the Chinese government can force the parent company to deliver user data. In January, Tiktok was inaccessible for about 14 hours After the first deadline without agreement expired. Application stores removed the app, but access was restored after Donald Trump’s promise to postpone the measure. The day he assumed the position, he signed an executive order that extended the prohibition period for 75 days, which won on Saturday and has been extended. Images | Solen Feyissa | Brandon Day | The White House In Xataka | How will the end of Tiktok in the US: without updates, outside stores and a progressive degradation until its total shutdown

More than 25 hours in a row of speech

April 3, 2025 by usatoday24

Until today Cory Booker He was a politician with a certain predicament in the US, but away from the great headlines of the international press. Democratic Senator for New Jersey and Exalcalde de Newark, in 2019 launched A campaign to become a White House candidate that ended up withdrawing shortly after. Now Booker is known for more that has earned him the attention of the foreign press: he has pronounced The longest speech in the history of the US Senate. Standing before his lectern, with a couple of glasses of water and without any chair where to sit (he requested to be removed to avoid temptations), the Democratic Senator spoke and spoke for more than 25 hours about the dangers of the Government of Donald Trump. It may seem a simple anecdote, but its gesture says more about how the Trumpism the Democratic Party that of the Booker itself. Until the legs endure. His initiative is shared or not, Cory Anthony Booker has to recognize something: he has gone head -on from the beginning. On Monday at seven in the afternoon he took the floor in the upper house, the voice was clarified and warning To the rest of the legislators what their plans were: “I raise myself with the intention of altering the normal functioning of the US Senate as long as I can physically.” In other words, until the legs endured. And how much did you talk? Except for the Brief pauses What he did while his Democratic colleagues asked him questions, Booker kept talking until after eight in the afternoon of the next day. The Guardian Precise that his intervention lasted 25 hours and four minutes, more than a full day of oratory during which the senator read dozens of cardshe threw notes, stirred a copy of the Constitution, gestured, cried out and jumped from the emotional tone to the exhibition, with some joke included to the colleagues of the Senate. Everything while his voice was getting more and more hoarse. A speech (and a good limp). In Your chronicle, The Telegraph He explains that, although Bookers was able to take advantage of his companions’s questions to rest his throat, it was not at any time to the bathroom. Apart from the annotations and letters he carried, the only thing he had at hand to endure the guy was a couple of water vessels. Later he himself explained that had prepared for days, fasting and refraining from drinking liquids from the previous night to avoid urgencies. Neither that preparation nor the movements he made to maintain the circulation in his legs, prevented him from ending up limbing of the lectern. And all that … why? Although Bookers stretched his turn everything he could and monopolized the attention of the upper house for more than 25 hours his intention was not to obstruct the activity of the Senate, which is precisely what has been sought On other occasions With marathon speeches and tricks “Filibusteras”. On the contrary. When Booker took the floor, he had not provided law votes and if something delayed it was an initiative of his own party to repeal Trump’s tariffs. The goal of the Democrat was another: launching a long, sound (and above all media) attack on Trump’s government. During the 25 hours after the lectern, Booker denounced the republican’s plans to cut Medicaid and Medicare, charged against the “damage inflicted” by Trump to American democracy, spoke of inflation, economic chaos, the role of Musk … and read letters of people with “heartbreaking” stories related to the Trumpism. “It is not about left or right. It is the right or the incorrect,” The senator dispatched Just before putting an end to her long speech: “Mrs. President, give the word.” Beyond Booker. Booker’s gesture, which ended around 40 feet democrats and an outbreak of applause and chemist from party partners and a public chopped by the curiosity of seeing how much the senator could endure, is important for his career as a legislator; but also for the Democratic Party itself. After all, it arrives at a complicated moment for the formation, which after the defeat of Kamala Harris at the polls and Trump’s return to the White House have suffered Leadership problems and to connect with your bases. “The party is still catatonic and the election of the National Democratic Committee showed a line of continuity where the main criticism has been the way to communicate,” I commented recently to The observer Victoria Murillo, professor at Columbia University. A month ago the CNN made A poll which shows that the popularity of the Democratic Party has fallen to historical minimums and a good part of its members believe that its leaders must face Trump. With his record discourse Booker has also managed to monopolize holders and strain his criticism against Trump in the United States and abroad. Another managed to the Democrats in a Care Economy dominated by him Trumpism. Breaking Thurmond’s record. Booker’s gesture has a symbolic value for another reason: he has managed over 60 years by a South Carolina senator. On that occasion the objective was very different: its author, Strom Thurmond, recognized segregationist, intended to obstruct the civil rights law of 1957. “He tried to stop the rights I defend”, recalled yesterday Booker, which is also The first black senator of the state of New Jersey, remembering the trick Filibustera of Thurmond. “But I’m not here for his speech. I am here despite his speech. I am here because, no matter how powerful it was, the people were even more.” Images | Gage Skidmore (Flickr) 1 and 2 In Xataka | In his eagerness to attack the public sector, Elon Musk has crossed a line: distorting the story of Hitler and Stalin

The EU has asked all Europeans to collection for 72 hours. Finland has been doing it for years and this has gone

March 27, 2025 by usatoday24

“New realities demand a new level of preparation in Europe.” The phraseIt is from the president of CE, Úrsula von der Leyen, and defines well The turn who has just given Brussels with the presentation of his ‘Union strategy’a plan with which Brussels aspires that EU homes are prepared for “emerging threats and crises.” Among its 30 guidelines there is a especially curious And that has generated expectation: Brussels wants European homes to supply enough supplies to survive without external help at least 72 hours during emergencies. You will not have to look far to know how to do it: in Finland he has a teacher who has been doing pedagogy for some time about the importance of prepare for crisis and that households are self -sufficient for 72 hours. Prepare for emergencies? That’s how it is. The CE has just launched a plan with which the 27 member countries (and their homes) are more prepared to “emerging threats.” Which is it? In The statement in which the EU initiative presents some, such as Climate changethe natural disastersthe Cybersecurity… And “the growing tensions and geopolitical conflicts”, the latter especially interesting with the EU in full Rearme process and distancing Between Brussels and Washington. To make it clear that the plan approach is wide von der Leyen He stressed The importance of households living in flood areas know how to act whether their houses are flooded or expedite the response times against forest fires. Of course they are not the only emergencies in mind. Yesterday The country The draft advanced From the document and among the threats for which Brussels wants us to be prepared “the possibility of armed aggression”. Click on the image to go to Tweet. And how do we prepare? The strategy drawn by Brussels touches many sticks. In fact it includes 30 “key actions” and an action plan in which we talk about issues such as preparing hospitals and schools, improving the storage of critical materials, reinforcing civil-military cooperation, improving disaster prevention and threats and working with partners such as NATO. Among all these proposals there is one however one that has generated expectation: the European Commission wants households to have “essential supplies during a minimum of 72 h in emergency situations. “ In The practice That happens that families have water reserves, medications, batteries and sufficient foods to subsist three days without help. “In case of external disturbances, the initial period is the most critical,” warns the CE In his draft. For the message to be even clearer, today, coinciding with the presentation of the Community Strategy, the Crisis Management Commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, has hung A video in which it reveals what should be included in an emergency kit. Is it a surprise? No. And not only by the international climate, marked by three years of war in Ukraine and the awareness that Europe will not be able to count forever (and unconditionally) with “The security umbrella” of the US. Months ago the former president of Finland, Sauli Niinisto, elaborated A broad report on behalf of Von der Leyen in which the “urgency” of strengthening Europe was already advancing to changes in “the geopolitical and security panorama.” “The key task today is to ensure that we are able to provide security to Europeans and are prepared for all risks,” Niinisto insisted at the time. One from The observations collected in their report pointed out that all homes must be equipped to be self -sufficient for at least 72 hours. And those orientations They have played a key role in the plan now drawn up by Brussels. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Is there any reference? Yes. Finland herself, an EU member who shares More than 1,300 km of border with Russia and Lidia with other handicaps, such as its climate or war history. Are those or not the causes the truth is that the Nordic nation It takes time preparing their population to deal with crises and their citizens are more than accustomed to messages that recommend having sufficient provisions to subsist without external help for at least 72 hours. Moreover, Finland, like other countries around his surroundings, such as Sweden either Norwaydistributed months ago An exhaustive guide in which it explained to its population how to prepare against incidents and crisis. In the document, Available onlineis addressed how to respond to electricity and water cuts, prolonged interruptions of banking services and the Internet, extreme natural phenomena or “long -term crisis, such as a pandemic or military conflict.” “With what emergency fights?” That is one of the first questions that the Finns who resort to the guide must answer. The list It is wide and includes from cybersecurity problems to forest fires, storms, floods, terrorist attacks, current and water cuts, epidemics or “military conflicts.” “Preparation is a civic skill in the current world situation”, pointed a few months ago to Bloomberg Kimmo Kohvakka, General Director of Rescue Services. “Knowing what to do in case of incident is a solid base.” How are you doing with 72 h? What there is no doubt is that Finland has managed to expand the message that households must provide resources and prepare to endure independently for at least three days in case they deal with, for example, supply cuts. He recognizes it in The Guardian Suvi Aksela, of Nasta: “The 72 hours have become a brand here in Finland.” To achieve this, their authorities have had to make an interesting pedagogy effort that goes back several years. For some time Finland celebrates every beginning of February the National preparation dayduring which the authorities Remember Its inhabitants who must have what they need to fix them without public services for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies such as natural disasters or military attacks, including kits. That zeal connects with decades of works of preparation in the country and has made it A reference In the matter. Would you survive 72 hours? Perhaps one of the … Read more

Lidl took a limited version of Dubai chocolate. Hours later I was exhausted gold price in Vinned

March 25, 2025 by usatoday24

The idea was good. At least on paper. A few days ago Lidl decided to delight cocoa lovers by selling, in a very limited way, its own version of the “Dubai chocolate”a delicatessen based on cocoa, pistachio and Kadayif Turk who despite his short life has managed to reach the Holy Grail of Modern Marketing: The virality In networks. For more Inri, Lidl sold its tablets for 4.49 euros, well below of what the brand that has popularized them cost, Fix dessert chocolatier. The problem is that Lidl’s offer lasted Only a few days. And that unleashed a Chocolate furywith tails in the super, early risers, Cabreos And also Some speculation. Chocolate obsession. That chocolate raises passions is not a novelty. If what we are talking about is “Dubai chocolate” However, passion directly becomes virality and obsession. Although the phenomenon around him is relatively recent and starts after In 2021 Fix dessert chocolatier The flavors of the Middle East will combine in a tablet with the classic chocolate, in just a few years the sweet Dubaiti origin has earned a legion of fans. Videos circulate (many, many) on networks How to prepare it at home, recordings of Influencers that They give their opinion about Its flavor, Explanations Why is it so popular, comments of pastry experts … And that Fix Dessert Chocolatier tablets are not exactly cheap. Much of his secret is in Your recipethat combines chocolate with milk, pistachio paste, tahini and kunafa mass or kataifi noodles. All in tablets of considerable thickness and with an outer touch. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Where there is an obsession … There is a good business. And that has not long to understand Fix Desert, but also other companies that have sought ways to take advantage of the enormous interest in these ounces of chocolate stuffed with pistachio. One of them was the Lidl supermarket chain, which a few days ago announced in networks The launch of a “Dubai” tablet prepared by JD Gross, its brand of “Premium chocolates”. His announcement generated considerable expectation (with more than 32,600 likes in the original Instagram publication and news about the launch in various media) and ended up combining three factors difficult to harmonize. Which is it? The expectation for the launch, the obsession around the Dubai chocolate and the haste. The Tablets of the German chain were put for sale by 4.49 eurosquite less than those of the Dubaiti brand, and (most importantly) for a very limited time. In Your adLidl already warned that they would be available in their stores only a few days: from Friday 21 to Sunday 23. And what happened? Scenes similar to those seen in stores during large pitches or remind of the golden years of the sales. Chocolate fever resulted in early risers and tails of customers who wanted to be the first to reach the sweet shelves. Maybe it seems exaggerated, but in Tiktok they can be seen some Videosof people who, despite being in a Lidl early in the morning they had run out of their Dubai tablet. “They have brought this. You explain to me where you go with this!” He complained a Tiktoker While teaching a small completely empty cardboard box in the chocolate section. “Everyone here at nine in the morning, logically with that small palace we have run out of Dubai chocolate. But well … we will continue trying.” It is not the only one. Others They opted directly for going to more supermarkets. From the shelves to Vinted. Not all those tablets sold in record time by Lidl ended up starring videos in networks, devoured or stored in the pantries of Dubai chocolate fans. A few ended in a very different place: second -hand sale platforms. In Vinned For example, ads could be found from individuals determined to take advantage of the very high demand of the sweet Emiratí. Of course, at prices quite superior to those who charged Lidl in his supermarkets. On Saturday a user He complained In X that the tablets that were on sale in stores for less than 5 euros were offered in Vinned for 20, 35, 50 or even 60 euros. “People who are selling Lidl’s Dubai chocolate in Vinned, you give a lot He complained On Friday another tweet. Looking at Spain … and beyond. Dubai chocolate fever is not exclusive to Spain. In the United Kingdom Lidl met A similar phenomenon When a limited edition of its Dubai -style chocolate is released: a surprising impact on networks and a delirious sales rhythm of 72 tablets per minute through its Tiktok channel, according to The data that manages The Grocer. In less than an hour and a half They had exhausted all stocks. The phenomenon is not exclusive to the German chain. Other brands have also tried to take advantage of the interest that the chocolate with a pistachio and Kadayifboth supermarket chains and chocolate companies or even small businesses. All often have a peculiarity: their chocolate is not exactly economic. The boards do not require an exorbitant disbursement, but the price per kilo is analyzed 37 or even 80 euros. Images | Tiktok and Lidl In Xataka | The secret for a healthier chocolate is in prebiotics and probiotics. And now we know the “recipe”

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