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Iguaçu Falls, on the border between Brazil and Argentina. Nearby you could also visit Itaipu Dam, formerly largest in the world.
Going a bit into the same Brazilian state of Paraná, there’s also the amazing Vila Velha park, with incredible sandstone formations.

A bit of alcohol vinegar can replace or help fabric softener.

Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

Tab means “move to the next tabstop”, not “advance a fixed amount”.

(I don’t do it, I’m not THAT insane)

If going by the book, the very center should be mint.

Happiness is connected to contentment, feeling you have enough.
There are people living in their cars who are happy, and elon musk, with all the money in the world, very much doesn’t look like a happy person.

I read a story that once the US air force tried designing a pilot seat based on the average of the measurements of all their pilots and ended with something that was uncomfortable to all of them.

The driving school I went to would fail people that used the “handbrake start” on a hill.

And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

Abortion is sometimes the less monstrous alternative in a horrible situation, and it should never be seen as less than that.
Women should have enough social safety nets that abortion would never even cross their minds.
It is mostly Capitalism with its focus on productivity and selling youth and beauty that pressures women into it, women are “freeing” themselves into Capitalistic slavery.

From: “leftist” privileged cis het white guy, feel free to ignore or bash me

There are multiple books in the Bible praising intelligence, wisdom, and knowledge as gifts from God.

LLMs are just statistical models, all they know is how likely a text fragment is to appear near another text fragment.

If the wings are limbs, shouldn’t insects be considered to have 8-10?

Personally I prefer it starting on Sunday, but also here with Portuguese being the main language it only makes sense to start on Sunday, Monday to Friday are called second-fair, third-fair, fourth-fair, fifth-fair, and sixth-fair. Fair as in either market or festival.

I will never not complain about bugs that obviously someone put in the effort to do the wrong thing when the correct would have been easier.

I usually only use the terminal when I don’t find an alternative, but powershell usually feels a bit saner than bash.

I’ve also tried nushell, also nice, but in a few situations powershell despite usually being verbose was more “elegant”.

I’m glad powershell is cross-platform nowadays. It’s a bit saner.

Better would be to leave the 1970s and never interact with a terminal again…

For the “present” of the rest of the universe it is just empty space, the Solar System is in a bubble of spacetime completely disconnected from the rest and continuously shifted 15 minutes.

It is a plot point in the sci-fi series Perry Rhodan, where they push the whole solar system 15 minutes into the future (iirc) to hide it from the rest of the universe.

As a theology nerd:
All the parts that show that The Path of Christ is sacrificing oneself for the freedom of the “lesser”.
Which I’d say is most of the Bible, much of the early Fathers’ writings, a lot from Martin Luther (I know he also has some really evil stuff, leave those out), most of Bonhoeffer’s, a lot of C. S. Lewis, and certainly a lot more im forgetting.

Brazil certainly should be broken down by state, I imagine the USA as well.

My state in south Brazil has VERY strict controls on animals entering the state so we can use less antibiotics and other stuff.

A curiosity: despite the common interpretation, the intended meaning of the original painting if there was any, is unknown. It was found on a wall of his house after his death.