It certainly helps that the biggest enemy of Cuba is like 200km away and is more than willing to pay for every Cuban doctor that arrives there.

I want one

A word that starts with X in those languages will have the “sh” sound, so “Xit” will sound exactly like you’d expect to hear “shit”, without having to worry about whether the letters are representing the sound decently. I mean, pinyin fucking sucks, who the fuck thought that a good stand in for “j” or “dj” sound would be “zh”? Or that C alone is a good representation of “tz” sound??

Works better if you think in Spanish or Portuguese

My favorite conspiracy theory is that the stock market serves a real economic purpose that isn’t just “cryptocoin bullshit, but before they were invented”

What’s the reason why that form isn’t digital?

There’s also GhostScript, which feels like advanced tooling for dealing with PDFs. I used it to scale down the images in some game PDFs I have and save as a copy, so that my old phones could actually open them. The Warcrow free PDF from Corvus Belli went from a whopping 623MB to around 111MB. Still way too fucking large for my phones. The PDF for Mantic Firefight went from 65MB to ~20MB.

I suspect they might get proud of that, “we made english american!”

I know, no wonder the perception that 'muricans don’t know geography is just as old

local superstition suggests that those who climb the Tower of Asinelli to the top will never finish their studies—bad luck for students, but good news for those who never tire of learning!

That does sound a lot like wizards

'murica did send a president who made a toast to “the people of Bolivia”. During a dinner with the Brazilian president. In Brasilia. So, yeah, there’s precedent for their ignorance.

Nim. Python-esque way to write, C speed

Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish

Because we speak fucking portuguese

He is a Business Idiot. Out of touch with users and products.

You just described every big tech CEO

Technically true, but as many students find out, having classes’ times all over the place each semester means you’ll have a hard time finding any jobs in the meantime, which will more or less force them to live off savings or family help, especially if the course has mandatory books that you cannot find a pirate copy somewhere. Also, the student residences get full super quick. Not to mention that every public medicine course in the public unis only has like 2-3 students that actually came from the lower classes.

Fonte: meu pai e minha irmã estudaram na UnB

formal education feels like it was fully co-opted by “the market”

If you want to join “the market” (have a job and get paid for it), you need formal education
To get formal education, you need money
To get money, you need to join “the market” or have someone who’s “in” to pay for you

As for “getting smarter”, that’s different from formal education

No no no, it’s Venezuelan narcoterrorists, see! Eeeevil people who support an eeeevil narcodictator!!!

The funny thing is that they tried to impeach trump twice the first time he was president. Both times failed because there weren’t enough votes in the senate to actually impeach him.

So, even if 'muricans tried again, it’s likely the impeachment would fail again because of their senate

I think sewing machines would count? They certainly got a hell lot more “portable”, but the basic design hasn’t changed much since the 1880s. Those things are little mechanical marvels

It was patented? Fucking hell, today I learned