The UGT union has denounced the Balearic Islands Health Service (IB-Salut) for dismantling parts of 55 new ambulances to reduce their weight to less than 3,500 kilograms so they can be driven by technicians, many of whom only hold a Class B driver's license. Among the removed components are hydraulic ramps and essential seats necessary for transporting people with reduced mobility. Javier Marín, head of Healthcare Transport for UGT Balearic Islands, explains: "After analyzing the documentation of the modified and weight-reduced vehicles, which we can call 'van taxis,' we discovered a very serious issue. For three months, ambulances weighing over 3,500 kilos have been driven by technicians using both a car and a driver's license. The Health Service claimed that the modified vehicles weighed less than 3,500 kilos and could accommodate up to six passengers. This poses a serious risk to workers, patients, and public safety." "It's like they're taxis taking people from one place to another because, ideally, they only allow people without any physical limitations to get in," adds Vicente Nadal, UGT delegate at GSAIB Ibiza and Formentera. UGT sources point out that most of the vehicles used for scheduled patient transport weighed over 3,500 kilos, requiring a Class C license, which most drivers don't have. To try to fix this problem, IB-Salut modified the ambulances, eliminating vital technical improvements. Thus, "they've become simple vans with four seats in the back and two in the front," the union denounces.

These past few days, the whims of the algorithm have decided to make my feed Instagram phenomenon of theriansThese are people who feel an "inner connection with real animals." In other words, they feel like animals. If they are dogs or cats, they walk on all fours. If they are snakes, they slither with the elegant, scaly undulation of those forked limbs that so many people find unpleasant. Apparently, the phenomenon is viral in Argentina. Perhaps these are people who have realized that trying to be human under the chainsaw regime is impossible. But you don't have to go that far: in some schools in Mallorca, there are already families who empathize with these peculiar identity needs of their children.

In just over half a century, society has undergone profound transformations that have radically altered the main agents of socialization. The family, the street, the world of work, and the media no longer play the same role they did decades ago. This change cannot be interpreted through the lens of nostalgia for an idealized past, often imbued with a conservative and even authoritarian morality, as has also been the case in our own society. Many of the social changes of the last century, both in Europe and in Spain and the Balearic Islands, have been clearly liberating and humanizing.

Among some progressives, talking about demographic replacement is frowned upon. Because Vox says so Regarding immigration from Muslim-majority countries, they find the concept tainted. The same applies to immigration in general; they believe it's also inappropriate to call immigrants "immigrants" because that's what xenophobic neo-fascists call them. So they've decided that "migrated people" or "migrants" is more humane, even though the different words—logically—define different situations for the person: "a person is a 'partner' and an 'immigrant' wherever they arrive." However, whatever they call it, it doesn't change the nature of the fact: demographic replacement is a reality. And it is because the enormous number of immigrants who have arrived during the last half-century has transformed the pre-existing social structure. The expert in population evolution, Pere Salvà, said—in an interview with me published in September—that the islanders who lived in the province in 1975 now represent—taking into account natural increase—25% of the total registered population.

Groucho Marx is credited with saying he would never want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. I often have to reassure my friends, when we talk about politics and I unleash my often openly boorish thoughts, that they should relax, that deep down I would never want to live in a country governed by someone who thinks like me.

If certain football matches, the ultimate expression of the flat EEG, can be called "classics", with the same or greater reason this name can be used for souvenirs in kiosks and stores. souvenirs that have been in circulation for decades. Untouched by the passage of time, unfazed by changing fashions, impervious to oblivion, affected, if at all, and only by the wear and tear caused by the sun, postcards, towels, and T-shirts bearing the name of Mallorca have reigned supreme in their territory forever.

The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has activated a yellow warning for high temperatures this Friday from 12 noon until 6:59 p.m., which could reach 36°C in inland and southern Mallorca. This warning comes after a tropical night across virtually the entire archipelago, with minimum temperatures above 20°C, except for some inland areas.