Rodrigo de Vidago

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Rodrigo de Vidago

Rodrigo de Vidago

@mosca_md

Physician. Laughter is the best medicine.

เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2022
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Rodrigo de Vidago
Rodrigo de Vidago@mosca_md·
@MemoryMedieval And yet, somehow you committed the same mistake he did by replying with a gif. His comment, though not very constructive, can be taken lightheartedly.
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Memory Medieval
Memory Medieval@MemoryMedieval·
Even though this guy posts some cool stuff once in a while and I probably could learn some stuff, I don't follow him. Most of the posts I've seen are low-energy complaining about how somebody isn't as knowledgeable as he is and how his opinions are super historically accurate and therefore exactly correct and anyone who disagrees is a tasteless/foolish pleb. Yeah, I'm aware that the suit is cobbled together from several different ones. It still looks awesome. The question was what looks awesome. It looks awesome. Totally lame shtick that belongs in the gutters of Reddit.
𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑@Mud_and_Blood

@MemoryMedieval

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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.
ً@prinkasusa

Give me the kind of good news from around the world that nobody ever talks about... but should.

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Bloco de Esquerda@BlocoDeEsquerda·
Eles querem que sejas tu pagar a fatura.
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TechOperator
TechOperator@TechOperator·
You walk up to your computer and see this screen. Your next move?
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CNN Portugal@cnnportugal·
Exclusivo. Dermatologista do Santa Maria obrigado a devolver 818.756,11€ por cirurgias indevidas #Echobox=1776286014" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cnnportugal.iol.pt/dermatologista…
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viriato888 𐤊@viriato888·
@cnnportugal Este soube-se, mas ha centenas de medicos a fazer o mesmo que nunca foram descobertos
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jcd
jcd@jcaetanodias·
Andam muitos baizuos por aí. (Da rede do lado, via @campdemagalhaes )
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Catarina Martins
Catarina Martins@catarina_mart·
O projeto de Orbán, Ventura, Trump ou Milei não responde ao aumento do custo de vida e envolve o país num regime de privilégio, corrupção e opressão. Magyar esteve comprometido com Orbán e promete muito do mesmo. A promessa que conta agora é a democracia. expresso.pt/opiniao/2026-0…
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Nuno Nabais Freire
Nuno Nabais Freire@Nuno_Nabais_·
O gigante português que abriu portos com o próprio corpo Portugal teve o navio de guerra mais poderoso do mundo… e quase ninguém fala dele. Chamava-se Botafogo. O nome oficial era São João Baptista, mas ninguém o tratava assim. quando tens 366 bocas de fogo em bronze, a alcunha fala mais alto. isto no seculo  XVI. Enquanto grande parte da Europa ainda estava a aprender a organizar frotas, Portugal já construía monstros com cerca de 1000 toneladas, capazes de transportar centenas de homens e com um poder de fogo absolutamente brutal para a época. Na Conquista de Tunes (1535), o imperador Carlos V pediu ajuda a Portugal… mas não pediu uma frota qualquer. Pediu especificamente o Botafogo. O porto de La Goleta estava protegido por uma corrente gigantesca, impossível de quebrar. Aquilo era, basicamente, uma muralha no mar. E foi aí que entra o engenho e a audácia, portuguesa. À primeira tentativa falhou. À segunda, com mais distância, mais velocidade e todas as velas ao vento, lançou-se contra a corrente com tal força que a partiu. Portugal não foi só descobrimentos, foi engenharia, foi risco, foi uma capacidade quase irracional de avançar quando ninguém avançava. O Botafogo era isso. Não era apenas um navio. Era uma ideia: se existe um obstáculo, atravessa-se. Levava cerca de 600 mosqueteiros, 400 soldados e 300 artilheiros Tinha um esporão reforçado para impacto direto O responsável pela artilharia ficou conhecido como “Botafogo”… e o nome acabou por chegar ao Brasil, dando origem ao bairro do Rio de Janeiro Acabou desmontado no Brasil, em 1551, para reaproveitamento de materiais. Portugal já foi um país que não esperava por soluções e abria caminho, mesmo que tivesse de o fazer à força. E talvez a pergunta não seja histórica. Talvez seja atual: quando foi que deixámos de ser assim? P.S. 366 canhões em bronze não era normal de todo. A maioria dos navios usava ferro o bronze era mais caro, mais durável e mais eficaz. Isso mostra: ​Riqueza ​Capacidade técnica ​Investimento na supremacia naval
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Hitekani@Hitty93·
@WarMonitor3 Any ideology worth following should be judged by outcomes, not labels.
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WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3·
If you were to convince someone of your political ideology left or right in one sentence what would it be?
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Medieval Diesel@TimothyEveland·
Guys will see this and say "Hell yeah"
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Antonio Cunha
Antonio Cunha@AntonioCunha79·
Sintomático, certo ?
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