The project had a massive ecological and social impact on the region. People who lost their homes and farms to the lake, were still not re-settled or compensated almost 20 years after it was formed, it displaced native peoples from their ancestral lands, drowned old growth forests which caused them to rot and release CO2 and methane, disrupted the reproductive cycle of several species of fish, towns that were far from the river and then were close to the expanded lake were inundated by mosquitos, I could go on.

But hey, progress right ?

Fucking dictatorship.

Itaipu was completelly unneccessary, A chain of smaller dams would have provided the same capacity, but with lower and more distributed impact, but the fucking dictators had to show how Brazil was capable of tackling huge engineering projects.

Reasons why Ubisoft is in the shitter, facing hostility from both gamers and shareholders alike. It seems the Guillemot familly is hellbent into destroying every last shred of good will left.

That’s the true cost of decades of protectionist demagoguery disguised as “national security”.

Than crowd of protestors is basically half of Greenland’s population…

/jk

If he scraps the CHIPs act, Intel will be bankrupt before the end of his term. Even worse, it could be bought by a private (in)equity fund.

Brazil.

I got a Chinese EV. Excellent quality, superb design and great performance for an urban car. I couldn’t be happier.

Basically, Fall of the Soviet Union 2.0. The west was able to outspend the ruskies until they croaked.

EU, please, keep up the pressure, break those murderous bastards in the Kremlin, don’t let them win.

Calibre is the ultimate e-book manager/reader/editor. apt install calibre and you’re set.

No one will accept a deal with the US for the next 20 years. Zelensky would get a better outcome if he made a pact with the actual Devil than with those bozzos in DC.

Unlikelly. Bolsonaro has nothing to offer that the Orange Menace wants, not to mention that by being indicted, Bolsonaros’ passport was confiscated a year ago, and he’s under surveilance by the Federal Police.

What amazes me is, my country is infamous for it’s corruption and impunity, especially for politicians, but we’re nearly convicting an ex-president, while such “beacon of democracy” (/s), the US, is quickly decaying into a banana republic.

Depends of which currency you’re talking about. Brazilian Reais ? Sure. Minimum wage here is R$ 18k/yr, so that would be about 4x that. US Dollars ? Pretty hard, unless you’re on executive levels.

But… Cost of living here is much lower than in US. Take food for example. A Discord friend from Colorado showed me a picture of a carton of eggs… US$ 7.50 for a dozen. Here in Brazil for that price you could buy around 50 or 60 eggs. Buying or renting a home is way cheaper too, fuel costs are lower, because our cars can run on Ethanol, which is 40% cheaper that Gasoline, we don’t have to spend money on heating or heavy winter clothes (except for the 3 southern states, but it still cheaper than northern US. The coldest those states get around 25F).

Sure, electronics and cars are a bit more expensive, same for some luxury goods. But even with those things costing more, with wages close to the equivalent of US$ 30k, you can have a standard of living that in the US would require closer to US$ 100k.

I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.

You haven’t been following the downfall of Twitter, have you ?

Or those dumpster fires that are the SSybertruck an Teska Semi, right?

Or how he got his ass fired from PayPall because he wanted to use Windows Server instead of Linux to run the service?

Elons incompetence has been showing for a while.

Yup. Thanks to those controls and a federal program called “My home, My life” that I managed to buy a condo on a nice neighborhood for around $50k. By coincidence, it’s across the street from the labour union founded by our current president, Lula. Sometimes he visits the place to make speeches, so I get to see him :-)

Here in Brazil you can, but we have ways to curb real estate speculation, the government can force owners to rent or sell properties that are idle, this helps keep the prices under control. On top of that, mortgages for ones first home is strictly regulated, especially in terms of how much interest can be charged.

Jesus Fucking Christ !!!

What does Elmo think the government use ? MongoDB, because its Web Scale [0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Becoming ? Ask anyone in Central and South Americas about it. We’ve been subjected to American terroristic interventionism for almost century. It’s always been a risk.

Stalin joined the allies after Hitler attacked the USSR, becoming a temporary “good guy” out of spite for the Nazis.

Josef Stalin 2.0…