diego_moita

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by diego_moita 6d ago
The Italian author Umberto Eco had an interesting explanation on why he likes Casablanca[1] : no other movie was able to pack so many cliches together. It is like a whole cathedral of standard myths. [1] https://biblioklept.org&#
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by diego_moita 7d ago
> Apple Watch Series 12 continues to offer up to 24 hours of everyday battery life and now offers up to 10 hours of battery life during an outdoor workout — 25 percent more than the previous model. Are they really bragging about this pat
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by diego_moita 9d ago
Also: it is unclear if this is a switch on operating system, the article only mentions MS Office and OpenOffice. And it is only on 7% off the government's computers. There isn't really anything worth attention here. Pathetic, inde
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by diego_moita 15d ago
> I apologize to my Canadian friends. As a Canadian I say: please don't apologize; we're actually enjoying this. The US could retaliate in a lot of other ways that could be much more hurtful to us: higher tariffs, break collabo
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by diego_moita 15d ago
> Presidents change names of things all the time. Authoritarian presidents (e.g. Erdogan, Putin, Xi Jiping) do it. Democratic presidents follow institutional processes and diligence. Your argumentation is very much like: "If the Maf
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by diego_moita 15d ago
As a Canadian, I have to admit: Trump is very, very talented in manipulating the discourse in the public arena. Gradually, he is steering away the public discussion from what matters: the Iran War, inflation, the abusive police state create
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by diego_moita 16d ago
I love this. Carney called a fight, Trump just throws a tantrum. That guy began putting his name in tall buildings, in big golden letters. Then he wanted to have his name in the Kennedy center. Then he "changed" the name of the Gu
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by diego_moita 17d ago
> It is very, very common online. Because there are a lot of non-Americans in the internet, including me.
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by diego_moita 17d ago
I found it fascinating that, when people discuss the US in English there are 2 words that are never discussed and never understood, even if anyone mentions them. On the other hand, if people discuss the US in Spanish, French, Portuguese, It
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by diego_moita 17d ago
In theory yes, in practice no. In theory everybody supports healthy eating, in practice most people are overweight or obese. In theory everybody thinks exercising, energy conservation, caring for the environment is good, in practice almost
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by diego_moita 20d ago
So the vampire is now the manager of the blood bank?
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by diego_moita 20d ago
> but then we see retaliatory tariffs in response. "Oh yeah I'm going to cut off my leg to show you whose boss!" Agree. Much better to lower the tariffs on other countries that compete with the US. If Trump wants to kill C
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by diego_moita 21d ago
> And your lesson from this is that Native Americans should continue to be ignored and more immigrants let in? No, that is just the conclusion you want to make. Stop putting in my mouth the words I didn't say.
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by diego_moita 21d ago
It is AI slop. It was written using Claude Code. The language is very like Claude Code with Opus 5: no prepositions, unclear references, ambiguous, bad phrase transitions, ... And the css is exactly the same that Claude Code uses for its ar
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by diego_moita 21d ago
The irony: many native Americans believe that all of your own immigrant ancestors should never be allowed to enter the US. If you really believe what you wrote then I'd suggest to "GetThemOut*" your own immigrant heritage out
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by diego_moita 21d ago
His analogy misses a lot of subtleties. Consider cars. He says something like "we fixed the problems with cars". I say "what problems and what we"? Technologies change the social and political order, sometimes preventing
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by diego_moita 22d ago
Thanks, it is better now.
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by diego_moita 22d ago
Rich people love to do this. They love to "teach" how everyone else in the world should help rich people get richer. And their favorite trick is to sell this solution to their own problems as a "win-win", a benefit for e
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by diego_moita 22d ago
You are an economist, aren't you? I suspect that because I didn't understand what you wrote. You used a lot of passive voice and complex jargon. That is economists favorite writing style: they write to confuse, not to explain.
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by diego_moita 22d ago
Credit card fees is one of the main reasons why Brazil's Pix and India's UPI are destroying their market share in those countries. For merchants, it just doesn't make sense to pay high fees to cater to a dwindling minority of
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by diego_moita 23d ago
I am surprised that you even ask this question. Do you expect it to be different? It is the oldest story in any kind of human community, from tribes to empires, from marriages to enterprises: they're ruled through is politics not justi
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by diego_moita 25d ago
> It’s you. Only if I buy "Made in America". Whenever possible, it won't happen.
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by diego_moita 25d ago
Whatever man... If you want people to buy stuff from you Americans then just try to stop pushing forward American imperialism down into everyone's throats. This isn't just about money, it is about my country's sovereignty.
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by diego_moita 25d ago
> You’d have to tariff fruits and vegetables like crazy to make the American varieties more expensive than oceanic shipped produce. Bullshit. I already see in the supermarket (Canadian Superstore) oranges from South Africa, lemons from M
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by diego_moita 25d ago
> is a relative term More "relative" than you think. Look at the wars the US fought after WWII: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. The US suffered a lot less pain than any of those countries and was in a lot stronger posit
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by diego_moita 25d ago
> but tariffs will only make things more expensive for Canadians, too. Yes, there is no war without pain. But I am willing to face the pain. However, in the long run, the pain might bring good. It might help products from other countries
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by diego_moita 25d ago
> Reciprocal tariffs alone don’t make much sense, In the short run, yes. In the long run we can start replacing American imports with other countries' imports. I want to see more fruits and vegetables from Mexico, Africa and South A
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by diego_moita 25d ago
YES! YES! Elbows up, finally! This is will be painful. But it is what we need. It is more than time for Canada to learn the lesson that Navajos, Comanches, Apache and Cherokees learned too late: Americans lie, cheat, betray and steal. We sh
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by diego_moita 27d ago
"Rule of the law" is just a lame excuse to "the job of a lawyer is to sell privileges to rich people". In some countries the excuse is lamer than in others. But, in the end, everywhere in the world money always speaks lo
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by diego_moita 1mo ago
Well, finally! One of the reasons I voted for him were his environmental credentials. But what he did since elected was cozying up with Alberta and their oil barons.

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