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To that all I can say is "good luck". She's also an immortal goddess.

Bold of you to assume incompetence and not malice

She is royalty and that sounded like an order

They did

And make no mistake Lula is also a crook, he just so happens to be a crook I'm aligned politically with (reformist leftist rather than neofascist)

But that just further proves the Teflon claim:

He did get locked up.

And now he's president again.

Idk how it is in the first world

But over here it's pretty much a known fact that every politician is a Mafioso first and a politician second. When they do get in trouble it's usually because they messed up enough in the political sphere that the other crooks decide to use the apparatus of law to fuck them over. Because if it were about their crimes they'd ALL be behind bars.

I would say "and THAT is how you do it, America"

But I have no faith in this sticking. Mr. Pockets is made of Teflon.

Roko's Basilisk cultists when a minor brownout kills god:

I know there isn't

It's just that delivery cars aren't really a thing in my country. It's all motorbikes all the way.

WELL for a big grocery delivery -- Yeah. That makes sense. A lot of sense.

I was imagining like. A couple take-out boxes on the shotgun seat and someone driving a whole-ass car for those lil' boxes.

And it sounded like whatever the driver would get from this haul wouldn't even cover gas. To say nothing of the environmental angle.

Do Americans really get their shit delivered by car?over here it's motorcycles 99% of the time (and bicycles the other 1%)

Seems rather.... Sluggish and inefficient for delivery drivers to go by car.

Anywhere so long as they don't try to kill adblockers

Everything else the forks can work around. What's important is they don't give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.

The ROI was eternal life

Do people just forget religion exists and believers take it fully seriously?

Right?

With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) -- A lot of the books they pushed on us (I'm in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?

But y'know

When you're 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) -- AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you've got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) -- AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?

Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I'd been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking "I hate books", I just thought "wow all these books suck".

They didn't suck. But they just... Were very much not for me?

Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you're a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other's guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.