Superfluous Man

Never complain, never explain, never argue...and you will get more fun out of life. - Albert Jay Nock

@shagbark_hick The third option is literary criticism.

@GilgameshGoldG @MyLatinLife Depends on skills.

@MyLatinLife Starting an online business is easier than finding a remote job right now lol.

If you want to work remotely Don't try to start a business. Just get a remote job

@Npompilius1 @CSandbatch You mean Portugal, which was united before.

@CSandbatch Spain would like a word.

In the real world and in real history, the construct of "nation state" is Protestant. Catholic conceptions of it are a direct response to the Reformation and a tacit admittance that certain aspects of the Reformers claims were legitimate. The nation state comes from the idea that the King is the sovereign body & further revolutions of Reformation pushed that sovereignty down into the body politic. Nationalism is Protestantism.

@strobel_gustavo Brasileiros que querem migrar para os EUA estão 40 anos atrasados.

Somente empresários, influencers, mestres e doutores entram nos USA hj com passaporte brasileiro.

@shagbark_hick Mostly American Catholics because they are cultural protestants and care more about American nationalism.

It's genuinely wild to me to watch some Catholics crash out over the Pope opposing another pointless, barbaric slaughter in the Middle East. Does anyone seriously expect that the Supreme Pontiff needs to toe the line handed to him by Trump and his foreign handlers? Honestly, if the Pope was licking his lips over Zionist bloodshed in the Middle East and extolling the virtues of "ending Iranian civilization," I'd be 1000x more concerned. But to demand that world leaders embrace PEACE over the bloodlust of those who've dreamt of war with Iran for decades? Yeah, that seems about normal and morally right. The idea that the Church and her leadership should be applauding carpet-bombing civilian targets in Iran is frankly disgusting.

@LaRaza1538 It's only good in that type of climate.

I don’t care what anyone says I would devour the shit out of that. British food is better than most people wanna give them credit for

@aClassicLiberal In practice, it's not really polarized considering its population size and multiracial society. Nothing like the US or places in Europe. The government doesn't change much during elections, contrary to what most Brazilians even think. The bureaucracy or "deep state" is powerful.

@superfluous_man I was referring to this below. You can also explain to me why Brazil is one of the most polarized countries in the world alongside Sweden and the US.

Yet Brazil is the most polarized country in the world. A multicultural mess.

@shagbark_hick California is America 2.0

California is one case where being from Upstate NY really shines. If I moved there today, the taxes and laws would feel "normal" to me, except I'd be chilling in the sun instead of getting 10+ feet of snow. People are way friendlier, food is great. It's just a matter of getting up enough cash together to buy a place, but honestly, it's not that bad depending on where you go. If I sold both my houses here in NY I could probably afford Twentynine Palms, Barstow, Imperial Valley, Bakersfield. Could maybe afford a condo in San Bernadino or even closer to LA. It'd be a nice life compared to what's on offer in Upstate NY, and there'd be no real "adjustment" to the suite of nutty laws in taxes that come with life in California. As a NYer, I'm already dealing with worse in many ways.

@GIOS_Apollo11 @drewcrawford_ Economics is upstream from politics.

@drewcrawford_ You are missing an analysis of the legal system, political climate, and fiscal dynamics.

"Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be." That line has been repeated for 80 years. It was funny for 79 of them. Here is what the country of the future looks like in 2026: 8th largest economy on earth. 7th by purchasing power. Largest net food exporter in the world. Feeds over a billion people. 108.2 million tonnes of soybeans exported in 2025. New record. $43.5 billion in revenue. 12% of the world's freshwater. Hydroelectric power at $30-50/MWh. Half the US cost. One-third of Europe. 87% renewable grid. The fuel is water and it's already paid for. 94% of global niobium. Second-largest reserves of rare earths. Second-largest reserves of graphite. America's largest alumina supplier. 50%+ of the territory still geologically unmapped. Pix processes 6-7 billion transactions per month. 170 million users. 93% of the adult population. More transactions than any instant payment system in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil is two full technology cycles ahead of the US in public financial infrastructure. Nubank: 110 million customers, $85 billion valuation, $895 million quarterly profit. Founded 13 years ago. Now the most valuable financial institution in Latin America. Brazilian cooperatives generated R$656 billion in 2022. Agricultural cooperatives alone: R$437 billion. The top ten hit R$157 billion in 2024. Coamo is the largest company in Paraná by net revenue. No Bloomberg screen. No analyst coverage. Invisible to international capital. Ibovespa started 2026 at 9.25x forward earnings. S&P 500 at 21x. Since then, 16 all-time records and +22% YTD. The gap is closing. Most American investors missed the move. Farmland in MATOPIBA: $5,200/hectare. Iowa: $49,400. Both grow soybeans. Brazil harvests twice per year. Private industrials in the South trading at 4-8x EBITDA. The identical company in Wisconsin trades at 10-15x. Same margins. Same machines. Same export customers. 1.8 million Brazilians in the United States built an invisible economy with zero institutional support. 18% self-employment rate in Massachusetts (3x the state average). Their children are graduating bilingual from American universities. They are the human infrastructure of the corridor. R$140 billion in railway concessions just launched. 9,000+ km of new track. The logistics gap (the only structural disadvantage left) is being closed. $565 million in US critical minerals investment committed before a bilateral deal exists. 54 countries attended Washington's minerals ministerial. China controls 90% of rare earth refining. Brazil holds the reserves that break that monopoly. 28 million hectares of degraded pastureland available for conversion. Soy yields growing 2.8% annually for 20 years (global average: 1.45%). 50+ GW of untapped hydroelectric capacity. The country of the future was always waiting for the infrastructure to connect its assets with the capital that would develop them. The infrastructure is being built right now. The prophecy wasn't wrong. It was early.

@di_borbon @BowTiedMara Gringos don't understand Brazil.

@BowTiedMara We are not multicultural, but multiracial. As a nation, we’ve had very few race-related problems. And even the few we’ve had, we’ve never tried to export them to the rest of the world, like the United States or Western Europe, for example.

In Brazil 🇧🇷, a black man was called a monkey 🙉 by the Chinese 🇨🇳 owners of a store in the mall; the store was destroyed and the Chinese were lynched.

@BowTiedMara Brazil is not multicultural, never really was. It's multi ethnic or multiracial. Brazilians, for the most part, have assimilated into a homogeneous culture.

“Brazil is such a great example of a multicultural melting pot” 🤡

@vibeocracy youtu.be/yuZ6CAwZmys

Pre-tech bro Bay Area was so cool without effort. Black White Asian Mexican, they always had a fresh style that influenced what was perceived as cool in So Cal and from there the world. Big Ups to The Bay.

@Liberty_Vegan @creepydotorg Sun exposure living in England lol

@creepydotorg 90% balding. 10% poor skin likely from sun exposure. But return his hair exactly the same and he'd only look very slightly older.

How is this possible? 😳

@JakeNomada @tommyswriting Same author of The Sovereign Individual, many things have come true.

@tommyswriting 14 years old… He was either wrong or premature

Holy shit, this is some truly expert level analysis Made me mega bullish on Brazil 🇧🇷 “Brazil is the only large democracy in the world that is simultaneously a food superpower, a water superpower, an energy superpower, a mineral superpower, and a carbon superpower, with export routes that do not depend on any contested strait or chokepoint”

@vibeocracy @Starkian7789 Yes explain to me.

@superfluous_man @Starkian7789 Black people can’t swim

South Africa and SoCal in the 80s were both a Germanic beach culture in a Mediterranean climate with some element of retrofuturism.

@vibeocracy @Starkian7789 Yes Central Americans, also Peruvians of course. But it’s a global sport nowadays. When I was a kid it was still fringe and associated with “white boys” at least in California.

@superfluous_man @Starkian7789 I’ve seen Nicas and Colombians around Santa Marta pick it up. Panamanians too.

@vibeocracy @and_chillin They love it.

@superfluous_man @and_chillin This is how most Spaniard dudes dress nowadays I’ve noticed

All my sport coats are slim cut.

@vibeocracy @Starkian7789 Ironically my favorite surfer is half Mexican-Bobby Martinez. I feel like they could dominate if got into it.

@superfluous_man @Starkian7789 Yea I can’t think of any German last name in surf class in Redondo. Not even Irish. We had Japanese and Blaisians tho. A Mexican or two.

@vibeocracy @and_chillin I never left that style, I remember in the early 2010s looking out of place. I dabbled in in slim jeans for couple months.

@and_chillin It’s just an outdated cut It’s all about full cut, draped 90s Jordan tip