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@blagojevism Geometry issues there. But the sausage looks good.

This is probably good (and a good deal) but I don’t understand Central/Eastern European sliced bread culture. Do you nibble the bread separately? Do you sandwichize it?

@jcaetanoleite Isso foi até caricatural: quem nao lembra dos "pobres nos aviões", de não muito tempo atrás. Ou da revolta com os direitos das domésticas?

Uma questão pouco explorada de forma séria (e por séria eu digo gente séria, ao contrário de figuras como Jessé de Souza) é que um dos efeitos da inclusão dos outsiders na democracia é que os insiders tiveram que passar a pagar pelo que extraíam do Estado na cidadania regulada se quisessem manter sua distinção social. Vamos pegar um exemplo trivial: Sob qualquer métrica crível, a educação básica brasileira *não piorou* nas últimas décadas, ela não melhorou muito em qualidade, mas não piorou. Então, por que há um saudosismo da educação pública dos anos 40-70? Porque ela era um bem de clube, o filho da classe média branca, ou de um operário paulistano que estava na classe média nacional, mas na base da economia formal paulista, não tinha que estar na mesma sala que o filho do preto favelado ou do nordestino migrante, simplesmente porque essas pessoas não tinham acesso à educação pública. Mesma coisa para a saúde. Não é por acaso que há um boom de planos de saúde AO MESMO TEMPO em que criamos o SUS. Antes, hospitais públicos eram garantidos por classe profissional, era necessário ter carteira de trabalho e ser filiado a um setor profissional específico. Negros e pobres ficavam restritos à saúde beneficiente, caridade e olhe lá. Com a criação do SUS, todos passaram a ser iguais aos olhos da saúde pública. A distinção social passou a ser algo que essa classe média/ média-baixa não conseguia mais de graça, passou a ter que comprá-la. E ao ter que comprá-la, há menos espaço para outros gastos no orçamento familiar. Mesma coisa com cotas nas universidades públicas.

@forastieri É pior. Tem uma maioria silenciosa bastante satisfeita com isso. O sorriso silencioso e estridente ao mesmo tempo.

Quando a PM senta o sarrafo em estudantes dentro da própria USP e ninguém se escandaliza, é sinal de onde estamos e pra onde vamos.

@pati_marins64 Suas análises são muito boas, Patrícia! Se você tiver outros canais de divulgação, seria legal saber. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.

Today, Donald Trump paused Operation Project Freedom and, just as he did with the war, ended it without achieving any objectives. For those looking for the answer as to why he sent two destroyers through the Strait of Hormuz, the answer is that he needed a victory speech, even if strategically it meant nothing. Trump backed down because his Project Freedom idea was creating a permanent war, and he remained under pressure from the markets. He then managed to get Iran to agree to give him a victory speech in exchange for dropping the talk of reopening the strait by force, at least for now. Obviously, this is temporary and aimed at relieving the market pressure on him. None of this removes the stigma of defeat from Trump and Netanyahu, but it buys them some time. It is exactly at this point that Iran continues to make a mistake, collaborating to relieve this pressure in exchange for benefits, in this case, continuing to export. All behind the scenes. On March 5, I wrote this: “It was supposed to be 4 weeks, which turned into 8, and now they’re talking about 100 days. Observe why Israel and the US underestimated Iran and run the risk of emerging from this defeated, not by Iran, but by the global market.” x.com/pati_marins64/… It’s not about the Iran, but about the markets. I would say there’s still plenty of fuel left to burn in this bonfire.

@askaya Russian writers, the best ever, have been doing this to me since my teens.

Russians don’t care about your feelings If you want the truth, ask a Russian

@Milazurbriggen Lost in translation? There is no such thing as sovereign technofeudalism.

Estamos formando un grupo multidisciplinario —programadores, sociólogos, ingenieros, humanistas— para estudiar, construir y enfrentarnos al tecnofeudalismo desde una perspectiva soberana. Todas las edades y disciplinas son bienvenidas. ¿Te interesa? Dejame un mensaje. 👇

@DavidLWindt So, entropy is winning. Again.

"Garrett and Grasselli have written a paper about inflation. But what they have actually described is the thermodynamic endgame of industrial civilization. Growth is ending not as a political choice but as a physical inevitability. The economic signature of that ending is inflation, first gradual, then vertical."

@polidemitolog The day France and Germany slips into these guys, the effects will be global. The coming energy/food crisis could cause that, i hope it doesn't, but it is harder and harder to see how a moderate Europe will prevail.

We are right to be afraid for Europe because that's where the energy to protect it from the populists comes from. But the only Western country at the moment with an antisystemic, populist party in power is the US, and the damage it is causing is immense.

@DaveKeating Notice Turkey is also an enemy now. She is so adorable....

She will literally mention every country other than the United States. She can never bring herself to criticise America.

@TheBuriedPrince @CaribbeanRythms That's it. That is much more important than education in itself.

@CaribbeanRythms European education systems seem to be set up specifically to kill any spark in kids that could pose a genuine threat to the gerontocracy.

I went to a French school for most of my life and it’s very similar to the Italian system, albeit worse. From the ages of 12 you would get to school at 7:45 in the morning and finish at 5 in the afternoon, a full adult work day. Every teacher would bombard you with homework that would take at least two hours to finish and if you didn’t finish it you were given detention on the days you finished at 1 or 3 in the afternoon, ruining any free time you might have had on the days your finished early. This goes on until you graduate. I had undiagnosed ADHD at the time and was a slow learner and the French are not opposed to holding you back a year or even two or three if they feel like your grades aren’t up to scratch. I was typically considered one of those “lazy kids with unfulfilled potential types” but all I really wanted to do was do things I liked not have to open a book after going through a 40 hour work week. They also had no qualms putting the most heinous descriptions of your academic performance on reports cards so your parents could whoop your ass to submission lmao. On one hand you really do become a well rounded and educated individual but it comes at the cost of having all ambition sucked dry out of you. I absolutely hated it and for a long time it threw me off ever wanting to study again for a while.

@CaribbeanRythms The whole thing, not only in Europe, is less about education and more about preparing people to be economical/work drones. Go to Asia and it is even crazier. And you ruin childhood, ib the altar expected (and often frustrated) economics.

@Kinza1278 Great!

@nfergus Normal service can't be resumed anytime soon, but let's say, with the end of hostilities, there's chance for better days. Aí...haha, circular financing is an old trick, not that. And there is the abyss. And that's how market behaves there. 1 or 3.

"I can offer three possible explanations: 1. Mr. Market is seeing through all the noise and realizing that the war will be over by the end of May, and normal service will be restored. 2. Mr. Market loves AI more than he hates the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. 3. Mr. Market is as clueless as he was in July 1914, September 1929, December 1972, August 2000, October 2007, and February 2020—all months when stocks reached highs shortly before reality struck devastating blows."

@millerman How the bills have been paid in Prague, Michael? And have you been to greater Prague, i mean, the the dorm cities? Do they look medieval wonders to you?

I didn't see any drug zombies in prague whereas in Toronto there is one on every corner

@brockpierson In my first job, Excel and the rest were a piece of cake...very soon and i was into VBA. But when I had money to buy my own new PC, i guess it was W98.

@brockpierson I dreamed about having one of these. I was the only kid with a 286 computer and loved to see the graphic Windows (but had no money for one) . I learned a lot on the 286, though: Lotus 123, Wordstar, i guess DBase was the DB program..

Did you ever personally use or own a PC running on Windows 3.1?

@danilo_thomaz03 Acho que a última aposta do Milei é reduzir drasticamente o custo do trabalho, pra tentar atrair investimentos. Mas ele faz isso pq não acredita em coisas como pacto social, estabilidade social. Society? There is no such thing. Ele é desses, e vai acabar mal.

@danilo_thomaz03 Muito bom o fio. Nós vemos pacote atrás de outro do FMI (e agora do Trump, em clara interferência eleitoral). Mas esses dólares nao viram reserva, nao reduzem a dívida, não melhoram a produtividade. Apenas fluem pras poupanças dos poucos que podem. É triste a situação.

@wickdchiq I just wish it were only in Mexico/Canada. Even without many tourists (jet fuel is running out), it would be great. Final match in a soccer temple, the Azteca Stadium, where there would be no chance for a freaking Coldplay concert in the interval. So, it feels depressing.

The World Cup is about 6 weeks away? How’re we feeling about it cause its success is looking questionable

@kamilkazani BS as it is, it is The Economist, and those people, the sons of the harsh british class system, are genuinely surprised when they see intelligence abroad, or smart joy that they can't sexualize, or make it weird exotic. BS, but sincere.

Whenever you hear a catchphrase, buzzword or a commonplace, it is time to pause, and question it Is the Iranian regime humourless? I've no idea. I don't speak Persian, do not consume Iranian content, and do not know anyone from their leadership. Therefore, I cannot know