Not answering directly the post, but something in line with it: I believe not all (maybe most of) knowledge is scientific, but that doesn’t invalidate it. A lot of things can’t be studied by the scientific method, but people intuitively understood and learned about it along the centuries.

This should be common sense, but society has gone crazy about considering only science as knowledge and now ignores valuable learnings that sometimes are more right then science itself.

This should not be confused with negating science (like global warming deniers): when you can study something by the scientific method normally you will get deeper and with less mistakes with it. But when you don’t, you can still have knowledge by other methods

Maybe the win percentage of lucky and unlucky people are the same, but lucky people win when it matters most, while unlucky people when there is nothing important at stake

My father had another son with his 2nd wife when he was 58. At first I thought he was too old and it would be a burden for him and for the kid, but finally it works fine for everyone. He kind of seems younger now and my brother (now 11 years old) deals fine with having an older dad.

Portuguese is very similar to Spanish, but differ on those kind of things. We say “a biblioteca é ali” (though “a biblioteca está ali” is also used).

We also don’t use “me fez feliz” (it made me happy) as much as they say “me puso feliz”, normally you say “fiquei feliz” (i became happy)

You are grammatically right. But in practice the fact that am has also the meaning of equating the subject to the object puts the idea in people’s head (at some degree, unconsciously, at least) that they equate to what they feel.

As a Brazilian, that makes me so sad. We used to have a type that could fit European and American plugs, but they just changed it. Never gonna let it go hahaha

Internet connection for cel phones. When I saw that WAP thing I thought “Why on earth someone will need this?”. Time will tell, but I start to think I might been wrong

Bolsonaro was president during covid and took many actions to avoid social distancing, vaccines development and masks usage. Even after it was clear that it was a global deadly pandemic, he tried to say it was nothing serious and that people shouldn’t worry about it. He lost 3 (iirc) health ministers during the process. Trump denied at first, but changed his line of action and for sure killed much less people than Bolsonaro

I set the minutes of my alarm clocks always on odd numbers

In Brazil in the hot dog stands you can add a lot of toppings to your meal, including but not restricted to potato puree, parmesan cheese, potato crisps, corn, green peas and all kinds of sauces. There was one guy back in the school days that ordered his with all of those but no sausage

Is this still a discussion on 2025? I always thought this was a no brainer, just blocked by demonization and the lack of examples of places that legalized and nothing bad happened. We should be discussing how to deal with other drugs. Marijuana is pretty much solved

Yeah, but it begins on the 2nd day (Monday). They say it’s because the Saturday was the 7th day in the bible (Shabat for the jews). So Sunday would be the 1st one, but it’s not called 1a feira

In Portuguese is kind like that: Domingo 2a feira 3a feira 4a feira 5a feira 6a feira Sábado

I would recommend Bohempia (made of Hemp), Groundies (beautiful), Zaqq (wide variety), Magical Shoes and Wildlings, of course. They are all European

In Portuguese it sounds like “feder”, that means “to stink”