Phen

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[–] Phen 23 points 3 months ago (16 children)

That kinda makes sense. At the same time, Brazil is just as young as USA but we have a ton of "old-ish" culture here. The beliefs and stories of the native population merged in with the ones from several incoming cultures and it's now hard to really separate them, as some are much older than the country itself but are clearly inspired by stories from the old world as well. Some mythical creatures that are good examples of this: Saci, Curupira and the Headless Mule.

[–] Phen 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Well we always accused Meta of listening. If it was their partners, they technically weren't lying when they said they weren't. "we don't need to listen to you" was technically correct too, it just missed one word: "we don't need to listen to you ourselves"

[–] Phen 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Phen 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Phen 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With all the information that Google knows about us and everything, they could in theory be doing a great job suggesting things that would be great for us - for example showing me a product or service I don't know exists which would help me with some problem I may be having.

Google pretends that it's what they do - showing the best possible ads for us. But what they do is the complete opposite, they find the best possible users to show their ads to. They have a responsibility to the ad, not to the user.

[–] Phen 2 points 3 months ago

And it has multiple meanings. "you are sick" can mean that you're currently sick but can also mean that you're a sick person. Other languages usually differentiate the verb in those two cases

[–] Phen 1 points 3 months ago

Pretty much everything. I mostly just eat chicken, rice, fries, bread and industrialized shit. I also eat some other stuff if I prepare it myself in different ways than others would (for example, I can eat meat but only if its very well done, with absolute no pink in it - and also no fat)

[–] Phen 7 points 3 months ago

Maybe also for a free "weaker" wish for personal achievements, like completing one's dream hobby project.

[–] Phen 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One free wish for any and every person who achieves something truly outstanding for mankind as whole (only positive achievements).

[–] Phen 112 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Everytime this shows up I wonder if this is really a male nipple or if the creator used a female one just for extra laughs. If it was a serious thing that people actually did it would be hilarious if they were replacing one female nipple for another.

Somehow also reminds me of a story about a singer's album cover released during the latest military dictatorship in Brazil (it was a heavily censored period). Folks went out of their way photographing a woman's asshole with a marble ball on it until they managed to get one that looked like an eye - then used that picture as the album cover.

[–] Phen 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The fact that a simple OS update can make the CPU up to 13% more effective makes me wonder how much performance difference there is between Windows and Linux.

Since I have dual boot, I'll check later if I can find any benchmark tool that works on both so I can compare.

[–] Phen 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like to use the letter template?

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