Brazil is a Bad Idea®.

• There’s a reasonable chance that a Trump-like clown wins in 2026. Probably a Bolsonaro ally, or even a relative (there have been talks about his wife running for presidency).
• Repeat with me the Latin American mantra: Nothing Fucking Works®.
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• Ask Haitians and Venezuelans how they’re treated.

I spend most of my day reading, as a translator. But it’s almost always stuff that I wouldn’t read, if not being paid to.

If counting only books that I read for fun, I guess it’s ~2 books/month? Typically fantasy light novels. I also read a fair bit of manga (~5 chapters/day).

Beyond those LNs I think that the last book I’ve read was in September; Um Copo de Cólera (lit. “a glass of rage”), from Raduan Nassar. Short but good first person story.

I’m almost 40. I’m… tired. I don’t read stuff to feel myself cultured; I read stuff when I need to (because of my job) or when I feel in the mood to do so.

Federation woes?

Your comment has a different take though, and adding value to the discussion, it isn’t just the same as I said. Both are complementary.

Mid-December I’m travelling to Foz, to eat my quota of chipa and pira caldo see the Iguazú Falls again. With my family this time. It has been, like, 15 years since I’ve been there, and unlike last time I’m not going with a drunk womanchild rushing to Argentina because she was missing her grandparents. I’m not smuggling whisky again either.

I think that it depends on why, how, and how much. If she’s feeling neglected and/or isolated I wouldn’t say that it’s a red flag, but if she wants your exclusive attention, to the expense of your son, it might be.

Even more accurately: it’s bullshit.

“Lie” implies that the person knows the truth and is deliberately saying something that conflicts with it. However the sort of people who spread misinfo doesn’t really care about what’s true or false, they only care about what further reinforces their claims or not.

Reddit might have originated as a link aggregator but for all intents and purposes it’s a clusterfuck of forums anyway.

That said the difference between Reddit and old style forums in this case is that the permaban is never enforced; that place is so corrupt that you’re expected to circumvent the rules and the punishment. A hypothetical 5y ban would be the same.

When it comes to how people feel about AI translation, there is a definite distinction between utility and craft. Few object to using AI in the same way as a dictionary, to discern meaning. But translators, of course, do much more than that. As Dawson puts it: “These writers are artists in their own right.”

That’s basically my experience.

LLMs are useful for translation in three situations:

• declension/conjugation table - faster than checking a dictionary
• listing potential translations for a word or expression
• a second row of spell/grammar-proofing, just to catch issues that you didn’t

Past that, LLM-based translations are a sea of slop: they screw up with the tone and style, add stuff not present in the original, repeat sentences, remove critical bits, pick unsuitable synonyms, so goes on. All the bloody time.

And if you’re handling dialogue, they will fuck it up even in shorter excerpts, by making all characters sound the same.

…fuck, now I get what you meant! Sorry I kind of ruined your joke.

(I’m one of those primitives still taking raw air all the time. Just seasoned with a bit pollution, mmnh, tasty NOx)

I got an air fryer this year, and I definitively recommend it. It was cheap, I paid 350 reals (roughly 70 euros). In some cases the food is really similar to deep-fried food, but the biggest appeal of the device is as a small but powerful oven - specially for stuff like

• chicken wings - they turn out wet but well cooked, with a crispy outside
• reheating stale bread - pat it with a bit of water, then plop it in the air fryer.
• frozen potato fries - as he mentions in the video they get damn great
• milanesa - it doesn’t get identical to deep-fried milanesa but it’s really good, and way better than doing it in the oven.

If looking for a model make sure to get one with a detachable false bottom, otherwise you’ll get the problem andrewta mentioned and won’t be able to clean it right.

Yup. And that’s still damn useful.

That’s the whole point of the video.

Stray Fawn Studio is the same studio that developed Niche; Niche is a good teaching tool, but it’s about as entertaining as a game as mopping the floor.

Based on that I’d advise caution against buying this game while it’s still in early access, unless you’re satisfied with its current gameplay.

Predictable outcome for anyone not wallowing in wishful belief.

shrug them off

That seems like a good compromise. I’d be probably doing the same if anyone from my family complained about it.

I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I’m showing them something. Simply… don’t, okay?

At least when in family I drink straight from the bowl. With the spoon (sometimes chopsticks) being only for the solid bits.

A 5y ban is a permaban under another name. By then the user already disengaged the community, or circumvented the ban.

I used to moderate a forum some years ago, with incremental bans. It was warning, warning, 1d, 3d, 7d, 15d, 1m, permaban.

It does not work well. For good users the system is irrelevant, they drop the behaviour after a single warning; shitty users keep the same behaviour even after the short bans are over, and then evade the larger bans, so you’re basically taking multiple mod actions for what could be handled with a single one.

Eventually the forum shifted into a “three warnings and you’re permabanned” system, but by then I wasn’t a mod there any more so I don’t know how well it worked.

No. But I think that it’s often poorly used.

Most users are reasonable and should be treated as such by default; a simple warning goes a long way. Sometimes an overall good user is being really shitty so you ban them for, like, a week? Just to let them chill their head.

Permaban is for the exceptions. It’s for users who cannot be reasoned with, will likely behave in a shitty way in the future, and have a negative impact on the community.