The North American president, Donald Trump, has been weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran without achieving a nuclear deal, the "Wall Street Journal" reported Sunday, citing U.S. officials. In reality, he has lost the war and gained nothing, but he must build a different narrative in his favor. It's an old trick we know well.

The first heat arrives and you're very excited to buy peaches, watermelon, cherries. But where you live, it's not their season yet. The shops, however, know that you don't know when their season is, and if you vaguely seem to remember, you don't care. Then, they fill the shelves with watermelons, peaches, cherries at a ransom price. You bite the hook and buy them. They are fruits from Africa or America, harvested green so they can spend a month on a ship. They have sugar, look, and little else. And then, when the season for local fruit finally arrives, you're already bored of eating fruit from elsewhere, and on top of that, the local fruit is more expensive.

While I was reading a news article about theoutfit an accurate one from one of Leticia's two daughters – who seem to grow bigger every day, while she seems to shrink – an advertisement appeared to me. The text, in Spanish, read as follows: “Does it make you enjoy when you get their tastes right at the table? Imagine when you also get it right in bed. Enjoy what makes you enjoy”. They were condoms from the reputable brand Control, with hyaluronic acid (which keeps the skin soft and young).

The terrible earthquake in Colombia comes just as Abelardo de la Espriella, an ally of Trump and many far-right governments in the region, was taking office in Colombia. While awaiting to see how the new leader and his team manage the catastrophe, we will, with all solidarity, focus solely on political analysis. And, I believe, it is advisable not to overstate the easy headline about a regional right-wing and Trumpist wave. Political and electoral phenomena in Latin America, as everywhere, reflect change and continuity. In 2026 we will witness five presidential and two local elections, which are added to various presidential and legislative elections during 2025. I will present a triple thesis on the region: 1) there are four crucial features to consider; 2) there is no right-wing wave that can be analyzed homogeneously in the region; 3) the Trump factor exists, but has uncertain final results.Let's consider the four key features. First, the persistence of the protest vote against incumbents, which coexists with the ratification of certain leaderships: in Honduras, where 80% voted for opposition candidates; in Chile, where Kast won by almost 20 points, but also with support for governments in Mexico, El Salvador, and Argentina. Second, the loss of relevance and institutional power of centrist parties (excepting the case of Bolivia, where a center-right candidate won): votes have gone towards the extreme right or left, which has increased fragmentation and polarization. Third, a Trump factor is observed, due to the emergence of Trumpist candidates (Honduras, Chile, or Colombia) or their weight in elections such as the Argentine ones, with the support of the loan from Washington, or their relevance in the final stretch of the campaign in Honduras. The fourth feature is the regional relevance of the increase in the cost of living, low economic growth, and insecurity, causal factors that explain many results.

On Monday, July 20, the creation of the Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights (CCDH) was made official, a demand from Catalan civil society that, after many negotiations with different governments and failed attempts, has finally seen the light. At a time when the West seems to question the rules of global governance (supposedly) inspired by its values and driven by its supremacy, the emergence of such an institution in Catalonia is no small matter.Without a shadow of a doubt, it is the small artifact that can be given to a small country, recalling the song. Its value lies, once again, in proposing an anti-cyclical image, totally opposed to the spirit of times when the jurists of the International Criminal Court receive sanctions from the world's leading power for trying to make international law something more than a vademecum of forgotten laws. If Josep Pla were alive, it would be a truly typical local absurdity, effectively characteristic of the Gallic village into which we are turning, at a state and European level, in recent times, regarding (very) minimally coherent foreign policy.

Since we're talking about the human race, it was only a matter of days before we read that in Ceuta, the courts have already "received half a dozen complaints for sexual assaults linked to the context of irregular arrival”. Four or five girls under 14 years of age "have been attended to urgently by health services due to possible abuse" and the Ministry of Equality and the local government "have activated protocols for monitoring and supporting victims".

For some time now, professional public management (DPP) has been part of the reform agenda. There is a lot of literature that defines it and calls for a stable legal framework that will precipitate its irreversible implementation in our country. As we know, it is about subverting a flawed operation which consists of high-ranking public officials being replaced every time the political color of the Government changes. We need a regulation of the managerial function that will rehabilitate the damaged integrity of public institutions, and that will ensure that public management can only be entrusted to the most suitable, talented, and independent people. Well, as if the world were ending, in the last Government meeting, before putting on slippers and with Parliament on vacation, the bill for the DPP of the Administration of the Generalitat de Catalunya and its public sector was approved. And the norm invites more than one objection, although for reasons of space I will focus on what, in my opinion, might make everything end up as a failed exercise.The absurdity lies in the scope of positions affected by the regulation. Neglecting the condition of national government and acting as a mere manager of another autonomous community, the Government has approved a regulation applicable only to the Generalitat, its management centers, and public sector entities. That is to say, it refrains from extending the implementation of the DPP to all Catalan administrations, to management positions, executive directorates, and similar roles in local government and public universities, where for some time a legal framework has been needed to provide coverage and legal certainty for its deployment. This omission allows for the proliferation of haphazard experiments, such as the one recently carried out by the Barcelona City Council, and perpetuates a regulatory vacuum that can be corrected by the State, whenever it wishes, by issuing supplementary regulations. Apart from this, the regulation does include a segment that should not be covered, because it also affects more than 400 deputy directorates general, intermediate managers in the administrative hierarchy who are limited to executing predetermined functions. That is to say, they are positions that do not present the attributes of the DPP. And this distorts the form of this organizational figure. In fact, this project is not innovative, but rather emulates another of identical scope that the government of Artur Mas approved in 2015, in an initiative that was left without effect because it was launched a few days before calling elections, a trick to make people believe that it was thus fulfilling the commitments made. In both cases, the absence of ambition and courage is palpable. Without the omissions of this law, the legislative map relating to the DPP would have been simplified and not only a limited reform, but also a global transformation of our public affairs would have been favored. Instead, regulatory inflation is fueled by a law that, as it has been done, is perfectly avoidable, because due to its limited scope it could have been part of the legislative initiative that the Government is also finalizing on the organization of its administration and public sector. It is a text deliberately stingy when it comes to setting the regulation reserved for the law, only nine articles, which will allow any government to modify substantial aspects of the DPP at will, making its institutionalization impossible.It is good to promote laws that seek to achieve the objective they pursue. Toxic political practices that serve to assign strategic responsibilities to unlearned, clumsy, mediocre profiles with blind obedience to the governing party that appoints them must be eradicated, and the recruitment of the most suitable, expert, and independent individuals must be guaranteed, so that they exercise a leadership role that should be extended beyond the cycle of political mandates, when good practice so warrants. And in this regard, it is revealing to know that today there are measures to facilitate the recruitment of these profiles. I am referring to the possibility of making public, open to everyone, and competitive calls to attract talented profiles and facilitate the identification of the most capable candidates to occupy leadership positions. If the Government had used them, it would have sent an unequivocal message about its firm conviction and will to banish the pathologies described above. Instead, at the time this article is published, and just when we are at the midpoint of its mandate, the Government that wants to promote DPP has appointed 151 senior officials in the administration by hand, at its discretion and arbitrarily, 84%; it maintains 28 from the previous legislature, and it is difficult to know the degree of rotation of the 205 directors in the linked public sector. Quite a declaration of intent. In England, governments change, but senior officials always remain.

We have serious problems in Catalonia and Spain. And we have arrived where we are because we have not mobilized identified solutions. Planning problems does not solve them, but it creates hope for a solution; it changes the perception of them. Let's list the present problems:Housing: price and accessibility. Education: deterioration of quality and conflict with teachers. Commuter rail: poor service and unresolved management problems, excessive unionism and lack of investment. Environment and agriculture: climate change, fires, outdated food supply chain, excessive bureaucracy. Distribution of public funding between autonomous communities and the central government: insufficient resources for autonomous communities with the largest part of current expenditure. Judiciary: in conflict with the executive and legislative branches. For these problems there are solutions.Housing. Municipalities should be able to transfer land to autonomous communities for 30 years, with the possibility of purchase at the end of the transfer. A public-private company (50%) builds and rents. Public capital provides a 30-year loan at 3%. Private capital, an investment with a 5% indexed remuneration. An 80 m² or 100 m² dwelling built on land transferred by a municipality costs approximately €150,000. The annual costs of a property under these conditions would amount to €7,500: €1,250 for loan interest; €2,500 for capital repayment, and €3,750 for the private investor's dividend.The annual income of a low-to-middle income family, after deducting income tax, is €25,000. Housing costs should be less than 30% of income: €7,500/year. It fits. This is the solution adopted in Austria – 100 years ago – and in the Netherlands – 40 years ago.Education. Resolving the conflict requires management and direction, not bureaucratic practices. The problem is not money – there has been an increase in teacher remuneration – nor the reduction in teacher-student ratios, which have decreased. The problem is the management of schools and the improvement of teacher training: the scientific component must be increased to promote an increase in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) vocations. Today, these studies represent 18% of university students, when they should represent at least 21%, to maintain harmonious development with R&D policies and the modernization of the economy. And students decide what to study while they are in secondary school.In the 2024-2025 academic year, there were approximately 39,000 primary and early childhood teachers in Catalonia, and around 43,000 in secondary and post-compulsory education. After the agreed-upon reforms, this represents an annual expenditure of 5.9 billion euros, to which 2.2 billion must be added for subsidized education. The problem is not economic: there has never been so much money. The negotiation has been union-based and not professional. The authority of school principals is reduced while the selection and promotion of teachers becomes more rigid; the opposite of what is needed. Having teachers as civil servants, and discontented, is a mistake. We are harming ourselves on an issue that is our future. The strength of Catalonia, Spain, and Europe lies in its people, and not excelling in education has a high cost. We are seeing it.Rodalies. The service is bad. In Catalonia there are two networks, with two different gauges that facilitate disintegration: the UIC gauge – which, in communicating Catalonia with Spain and France, must be the responsibility of the central government – and the Iberian gauge. Only commuter and regional trains (and freight that will cease to run in the future) run on this second network. There is an investment deficit of 15,000 millions of euros in this network over 40 years. If we add the new coast line – the current one is precarious – and the garages and workshops, the necessary investment is 20 billion euros. An expense of 2 billion euros over ten years is affordable.Renfe and Adif must be eliminated from Commuter and regional services. They are public companies of the central government, controlled by a corporate union, and in which the maintenance of union power will always be superior to the improvement of the service. This has been seen in recent months. This union, which defends its interests to the detriment of citizens', has fewer than 1,000 members in Catalonia. Overcoming this resistance to establish a new company to manage regional and commuter trains is feasible, despite union opposition. It is better to hire new staff than to "convert" the current ones. Those who do not wish to can stay at Renfe and Adif.An easy and urgent initiative is a train traffic information service that reaches users' mobile phones and allows them to know, in real time, the actual train schedules for that day. It would save thousands of hours for citizens and reduce the annoyance of not knowing when trains will arrive at stations. With current technology, the cost is practically nil.Environment and farming. We need a change in food production to improve efficiency and reduce the impact on the environment. We must increase plant production over animal production, which consumes more water and pollutes more. Eating habits cannot be changed suddenly, but they can be changed progressively with a 20-year policy.Financing. The new financing plan for the Autonomous Communities, pending approval, involves a transfer of €21,000 million per year from the central government to the communities. It is not enough, but it is a step in the right direction. If we don't do it, it will be for reasons of "narrow path" policy.Judiciary. There are more than 5,000 judges in Spain. How is it possible that there are almost no sanctions for inappropriate conduct? Although the majority are competent and carry out their activities professionally, it is not possible for everyone to always do everything well in a group of this size. A reform of the system is necessary, which, today, is politically impossible.I will leave for another article the issue of healthcare – a high-quality but overloaded and unsustainable service, a future problem that needs to be addressed now – and tourism – excessive concentration in peak months, need to reorient the offer towards less quantity and higher quality–. For the rest, it is clear that in many areas – not all – what needs to be done can be done. Politics must serve to solve problems, not to argue. Voters must be clear about this.

Learning has a side effect that is rarely discussed: when we understand something, we quickly forget what it was like not to understand it. Knowledge opens a door and then erases part of the path that led to it.This phenomenon is called the curse of knowledge. When we know something, it's hard for us to adopt the perspective of someone who doesn't know it yet. What is evident and clear to us begins to seem to us that it should also be evident to everyone.A doctor explains a diagnosis using everyday words. A professor rushes ahead because the reasoning seems simple to them. A lawyer drafts a clause convinced that its meaning is clear. A manager assigns a task with two instructions and is surprised when the result does not match what they had imagined.This also happens in the personal and family sphere, at home. Someone tells a story omitting half of the background because they have it present. One expects their partner to understand the reason for their anger without needing to explain it. A father helps his son with his homework and ends up saying one of the least useful phrases in the history of teaching: "But why don't you see it?"It is not a matter of impatience. There is a very simple explanation. The expert has organized the information into blocks, connections, and categories. He no longer considers isolated pieces. He sees the whole. The beginner, on the other hand, is still trying to figure out which piece comes first.The curse of knowledge costs money. Many companies describe their products from the inside out. They talk about technology, processes, and features, while the customer tries to decipher instructions that seem like a sudoku. Specialists create incomprehensible presentations. Departments use acronyms that exclude everyone else. The more an organization knows about its activity, the more it may cost to explain it simply.It also affects innovation. Someone who has been working on an idea for months assumes data that the public does not know. Then they interpret the lack of interest as resistance or lack of skill.That's why the best communicators remember the doubts they had and turn them into the very order of their entire explanation. Now that's mastery!But doing so requires a conscious effort. It is necessary to recall the initial questions, eliminate unnecessary vocabulary, and observe at what point the other is lost. Explaining well implies reconstructing a path that we already travel without looking.Knowing a lot helps solve problems. Remembering how we thought before knowing helps explain them.I hope I have explained myself well!

There were human wardrobes. Wide open. On the table their ice cream that didn't melt: a speaker. At full blast, at full throttle, at full speed. And the people who watched them also licked, without stopping, bad temper. They looked at no one. They only had eyes for the nervous acoustic box that moved as if it were a ouija board. A woman, defying the evil spirits, approaches and makes a move: turn down the music. They do. Without saying anything. Without looking. With that concentrated bad mood they have transported, exported here. But, hey, hey, ow, they are just a few more.

A group from Sagunt has created a poster, as a lure for the municipal festivities, with the drawing of a laughing woman being penetrated by a bull and a slogan that illustrates it: "A hole is a hole; for an afternoon it's fine". The Vox spokesperson for the City Council took a photo with a t-shirt printed with the poster and his party spread it online, because it is "an honor" —I translate— "to see how the neighbors keep alive the identity, effort, and unity that characterize our municipality". The Feminist Coordinator of Camp de Morvedre has denounced the poster for being "clearly denigrating" and an attack "against women's rights".

The figure of the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, was not familiar to me, but I must say that his reaction to the dramatic situation he found himself in has impressed me very favorably because it has been characterized by the two traits that are what should inform European immigration policy: realism and empathy.

Today marks two years since Salvador Illa was invested as President of the Generalitat. His investiture speech – his government program – was overshadowed by the fleeting appearance of President Puigdemont in the public sphere, but it is worth reviewing.This is a well-constructed speech, characterized by the promise of rigor and goodwill. It does not avoid referencing the country's problems – poverty, educational outcomes, declining wages, rising housing costs, weak infrastructure to face the climate challenge, etc. – but it does not include a diagnosis; Illa stated that educational outcomes were poor, that wages were low, and that housing was inaccessible for too many people, but at no point did he explain why.It is not surprising, therefore, that it is impossible to find the proposed therapy in that discourse, even though it can be guessed that it was about putting more money into public services, boosting economic growth (“brave decisions for Catalonia to gain weight”) and administering with consensus (“governing for everyone”, “dialogue with everyone”, “agreement with municipalities and civil society”, “ambition but pragmatism”, “agree whenever possible”, etc.)The practical materialization of those ideas turned out to be the "Catalonia leads" plan, presented half a year later. The central idea was the boosting of economic growth, and, in fact, the reference to "leading" seemed to refer to the objective that Catalonia's GDP would once again surpass that of Madrid, as the sorpasso was being poorly digested by local elites. Two years after the investiture speech, it is difficult not to reach the conclusion that the applied therapy is proving to be wrong: Catalonia continues to grow very rapidly economically, but not only are public housing, healthcare, and education worse than two years ago, but everything indicates that in two years' time they will have worsened, as the population continues to grow at a much higher rate than the capacity of these services to respond: does anyone doubt that the PISA results for 2025 would have been worse than those for 2022 if schools had excluded only 5% of students? Regarding the Rodalies service – the fourth pillar of the welfare state that has been failing – although work is being done on it, a large part of the investments are not being concentrated on strengthening the service but on burying urban tracks, and what will remain to be done when the current 2020-2030 plan ends will be much more than what will have been done.

It always surprises me that a Barcelona-Milan flight can cost 16 euros in low season. Then comes the rest of the information: the flight is at six in the morning, you can only bring a small bag, and if you want to choose a seat, you have to pay extra. When you have added the cabin suitcase, you have answered no, that you do not want insurance, that you also do not need a rental car, nor any hotel night, and that you are sure, absolutely sure, that you also do not want to choose a seat… the base price has risen to 30 euros because at that moment there is a lot of demand. And you have to go back to the initial search engine because the other company, which was at 25 euros, might be more worthwhile.Finally, the European Parliament has managed to bring some order to this. In just over a year, the price that appears by default in the search engine will have to include the cabin suitcase. In addition, the bag that is placed under the seat must remain free; the argument is common sense: few people take a plane to go and return on the same day.It has been a long road with many cases judged in the courts where, fundamentally, the right of airlines to freely set their services has competed against consumer rights. What must be included, yes or yes, in these 16 euros? Well, apart from the suitcase, some other things: you can no longer charge for printing the boarding pass, nor for correcting a typographical error in the name. And the clause that, if you don't take the outbound flight, they can cancel the return, ends. A broader social view is also added: families are not allowed to be separated in seat assignments when there are minors under fourteen years of age, people with disabilities or reduced mobility, or pregnant women. And compensation for delays is also regulated.In 2014, the Court of Justice of the EU had already ruled, in a case against Vueling, that carry-on luggage is an essential element of transport and, therefore, should not be paid for as a supplement. Ten years later, in November 2024, the Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs fined five low-cost companies 179 million euros for these practices: 107 to Ryanair, 39 to Vueling. Ryanair took it to court, a court suspended the fines, and the European Commission ended up opening a file against Spain because it interpreted that it went against the freedom of prices. This case is yet to be resolved, but the new regulation will help in future disputes.The feeling of insecurity with the final price of low cost companies will be reduced. What doesn't change are the dynamic pricing algorithms. Prices will continue to vary according to demand, the number of tickets purchased simultaneously, the day of the week, the flight time, and also according to the number of times you have searched for that flight or the location from which you connect. We will be able to compare better, but the mystery will continue of knowing exactly why the same seat is worth 16 euros or 30 euros. Of course, both will have the suitcase included.

In the newspaper ARA, a report about young people struggling to survive in Ceuta, who came from Morocco by swimming, gives a voice to a young man who “doesn’t want to return to Morocco, where he assures it’s impossible to earn a living. That the salary in his country is low”.

Nowadays being old is politically incorrect. To avoid using the word, a series of euphemisms have been invented. For example, some newspapers have a section called Longevity. Training programs are announced for senior adults or seniors 65+. The word old or grandparent for an unknown person is considered derogatory. There is also the word ageism to define discriminatory treatment towards older people.Before, Catalans affectionately called Francesc Macià The Grandfather. Although he was old (he was seventy-two when he took over the presidency of the Generalitat in April 1931), the people loved him as if he were family, hence this nickname. At that time, and in a more traditional society, cultural practices placed the elderly person at the center. In Macià's case, there was something more: his figure was revered for the trust people placed in his way of taking care of the country. He was old and, above all, he was trustworthy because he had experience.What has happened to the veneration and respect for grandparents? We could isolate at least two factors from today's world: on the one hand, the non-acceptance of the inexorable passage of time. Everything must be reversible and fast. Technology, a continuous present, does not foresee time with consequences. A second factor is the contempt for experience. Experience includes not only the set of experiences a person has accumulated over time but, above all, what they have learned over the years, the result of having lived. The contemporary world rejects the elaboration time that experience requires to be transmitted and understood.Currently, there is the idea that growing old is an injustice and a problem that, in the future and with the help of technoscience, we will be able to solve. Meanwhile, it bothers everyone a lot. Old people do not want to grow old and do everything possible to delay the moment. Young people complain that they have to look after old people, especially now during the holidays, when cities empty and families have to take turns. They find it hard to accept that old people are old, because they do not want to see that they will be too.The French philosopher and psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller once said that being old is being inhabited by the same desire as always without having the physical resources to make it apparent. In this sense, being old ultimately means ending up confronting the limit of the precariousness of the body and sometimes also of the mind. Contemporary society rejects any limit that obstructs omnipotence: Trump is the paradigm of the old man who pretends not to be one.Being old means legitimizing the memory of what we have learned in life. The duty of society as a whole is to empower this life, the experience it entails in teaching the younger ones what the old have learned from all that they have lived through. Thus, future generations will know who they are, where they come from. They will acquire a sense of belonging and legitimacy.Then we will remember Macià, and the other grandparents and the lessons of his life.

Let's think about what is needed for an economy to produce goods and services. At the center are the people who work, individually or organized in large or small companies. We all use tools, machinery, and infrastructure. We depend heavily on others, our suppliers: we are not Robinson Crusoe doing everything alone. Finally, there are the different levels of government, which set the rules of the game, enforce them, and directly manage a significant part of the economy's resources (almost half of what we produce).

If the reader has young people around them of university age, they have probably heard the same story more than once: people who pass high school and the PAU with good grades and who, despite everything, do not manage to enter the studies they would like. Then they have to settle for studies that were not their preferred ones or, for those who can afford it, opt for a private university.

I find the affair of the penthouse that Mrs. Ayuso had bought by a public company to be serious, and I would like to read the suitability and opportunity reports that considered that public money should be invested precisely in this property. It is true that Planifica Madrid can buy and sell properties, but this does not exempt it from explaining what the public interest of the operation is. Did they consider buying other cheaper spaces? Did they publicly announce that a process of acquiring spaces to study the market was opening? Why, precisely, a penthouse? Why an apartment in a residential building, where the rest of the neighbors will surely be affected by complex security measures? Should an acquisition of such a high amount be approved by a board of directors? Did no one question this absurdity? Moreover, since the purchase has come to light in the media without anyone having been held accountable, he says that the profits from the sale will be allocated to those affected by the fires. That is, if there are profits, of course. Because it could perfectly happen that no buyer matches the price. Spain is a country that minimizes these episodes with all sorts of parodies and jokes, but how many schools are waiting for a similar investment to get out of the provisionality of the barracks and, instead, no one buys them apartments in residential neighborhoods to teach classes in decent conditions?Apparently, someone had a whim for a penthouse with a view, and this gives me an opportunity to talk about a very sensitive aspect of architecture, which is the possibility of framing the landscape. The general plan limits heights in Barcelona, which is why a flat on the sixteenth floor objectively offers the best panorama of the city. On the other hand, in Manhattan, a flat on the thirtieth floor can have mediocre views compared to those from the fiftieth. In Brooklyn, however, the few flats that rise above the twelfth floor are better than those in Manhattan, because they allow the gaze to extend over the blocks of houses between party walls, interspersed with leafy trees of the same height. And in the background, right in the back plane, you can see the skyline of Manhattan, without mountains or any other backdrop. At night, all these urban landscapes twinkle, and the penthouse residents become aware of the thousands of homes at their feet.In summer, cities empty of residents who seek, precisely, a change of scenery. And second homes, hotels, or campsites are chosen to see, exactly, the opposite. The most desired are sea views or high windows over hills, which allow one to see various depths of landscape and all the registers of colors: mown fields of yellow, light green riverine trees, and blackish wild forests. The rural world is full of built structures well integrated into geographical accidents. The location of villages on top of hills, or the placement of the church at the highest point, with a bell tower that stands out above any roof, seems logical. These environments are pleasing because they are understood at first glance: their geometry is perfectly explained by the rules of geographical implantation.

Perhaps waiting for the rain is old-fashioned, I think, while I wait for the rain (the “sudden, unthinkable rain”, as the Valencian said). Outside, continuous thunder can be heard, which sounds like the buzzing of planes, because it doesn’t stop, and it’s not sunny. It hasn’t rained for three months, and I no longer remember if back then, when I was little, when the old people said it hadn’t rained for so long, that much time had passed like now. Children, back then, wanted rain to wear the kangaroo (like a fanny pack) and wellington boots. Like the children now, we didn’t want umbrellas. The umbrella, like waiting for the rain, was for old people.