Posts by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B0meZ0gowj9BWCRPpQ by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-11-30T21:33:36Z
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@futurebird 😄
(DIR) Post #B0ozYc1v7Jc2OJsjU8 by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T00:38:15Z
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@futurebird I guess "the truth is out there"
(DIR) Post #B0sIXlSh2sENxParxI by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-03T14:55:08Z
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@futurebird In Latin America, there are plenty of neighborhoods where drug dealers run sort of a parallel state. E.g, you have to buy pirate cable TV from them, instead of paying for the legitimate one, or else. In some places, it's not safe for the police to just patrol, they come only in stealth or in force. Some factions span large areas of a country, and I know of at least one which has international reach.Even then, we don't have the expression "narcoterrorism", at least not in Brazil.
(DIR) Post #B10Eow7xnZv5PIVf2O by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-07T10:50:59Z
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@futurebird Famously, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, after visiting the country for six years, would have said "either Brazil wipes out the leafcutters, or the leafcutters will wipe out Brazil". In Portuguese the phrase says "saúva", which Wikipedia says it's a catchall word for the "cutters" in Brazil, all of which are in the genus Atta.
(DIR) Post #B1916CiVirLaqUaE08 by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T16:29:45Z
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@futurebird I never thought I'd side with a Microsoft font on a controversy
(DIR) Post #B193rzinXfDOLjdLg8 by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T17:00:48Z
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@futurebird In Portuguese we can have two "haves" in a row like that, but fortunately we don't use it nearly as much to create perfect tenses
(DIR) Post #B19AALT022yyjENT8K by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-11T18:11:19Z
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@futurebird It is at least twice as convoluted as the hardest problem of the kind I ever had to solve, back in the day
(DIR) Post #B1CpZBw1Htl004nVke by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-13T12:39:17Z
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@futurebird Remember the urban legend about inserting advertising frames in movies? I guess we'd know by now if it worked. But: if 800 ads was the 2000s, by now ads (including those by influencers) must be so numerous they approach ambient noise for chronically-online people without ad blockers. I guess the advertisers' dream has finally come true.
(DIR) Post #B1PZ8c7QktK5B6v1hQ by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T16:06:28Z
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@futurebird Tall, very little back pain. Probably being over 40 it's hard not have any pain
(DIR) Post #B1ROlIMZhJHMUNv3Oy by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-20T13:19:43Z
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@futurebird these canes are rare were I live, and I have no idea of they taste like what you've got. I heard people in German (or was it Europe in general?) liked chewy sweets more than the US, and I wonder if candy canes are from some forgotten past when the US liked chewy sweets
(DIR) Post #B1Y6VYcb2jmpDCTk9Y by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-23T18:58:02Z
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@futurebird IIRC they had to go to Bethlehem to be counted I'm a census because they were originally from there. Also, I've read somewhere this part of the story resonates another story about an earlier prophet, just like the part with a precursor of Pontius Pilate ordering the murder of all first-borns is to align the story of Jesus with the one of Moses.
(DIR) Post #B1aRCVcoRkfjlnG3lY by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2025-12-24T21:59:15Z
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@futurebird Other people here said Satan in the Bible is not the fallen angel, and that's what I came to say. They say Satan is more like "the enemy", and they probably know better than me, but I've heard Satan was more like the personification of temptation, of something we have in ourselves.
(DIR) Post #B1we4AXAYHeGvF5eNc by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-04T15:07:10Z
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@futurebird Perhaps something with two more widely known words, like "basket hairs" (more an example than a suggestion)
(DIR) Post #B25fPsrjRxQ9vRa94q by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-08T23:34:46Z
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@futurebird can I vote both larger and smaller? 😅
(DIR) Post #B275hSCm6VcYPyQIUa by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T16:03:59Z
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@futurebird 1. They are probably trying to surf the new mayor's wave??2. This Portuguese-language video from BBC News says most of the pistachio actually comes from the US. Production is increasing steadily, so they are pushing for increasing adoption so that they can keep selling for a high price.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3881oE8dA
(DIR) Post #B28uSQXLJWXJijaz6e by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T13:07:25Z
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@futurebird Realistically, it's more a matter of degree than of all-or-nothing to me
(DIR) Post #B2JToHtHa2mtFhcGxM by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-15T15:30:39Z
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@futurebird Federal university, so via a civil service examination. It didn't even have an interview phase, to avoid any favoritism.
(DIR) Post #B2NQH5cCg1UgOUwhRw by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T13:09:55Z
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@futurebird Great question, with no non-fictional answer because time travel is not possible
(DIR) Post #B2NTMCoddGuQ2KtRNw by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T13:44:27Z
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@futurebird 😞
(DIR) Post #B2iKqg1SE8qr5nb69o by lffontenelle@mastodon.social
2026-01-27T15:18:02Z
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@futurebird the issue of one-liners reminded me of something I read somewhere else. The best way of having a one-liner is writing a nice function, following all the good practices, and then having a one-liner which just calls the function (ofc with arguments and attributing its output to some variable)