Ananás & Abacaxi refer to different types of pineapple. In Portugal we use both. In Brasil, Abacaxi is used because it’s the type they have and with time it came to mean all kinds of Ananás.

Which is described in Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco. It’s part of the fascist rethoric.

I’ve always liked tea and coffee, since I’ve first tried it as a kid. It was not an acquired taste for me at all. Without sugar or milk or anything else. I don’t understand the opposite, why do people fill stuff with sugar.

Alcohol, however, has been more of an acquired taste and in my 40s I still don’t enjoy it that much.

But “sticks” and “swords” are inverted, at least in this table.

I’m truly amazed that this was ever a thing. The US is a case study of destroying value while raising GDP.

Expected as the only real value of reddit are its users and the content they generate.

No, it is not. Socialism does not mean statism. Please feel free to read up on libertarian socialism, Anarcho syndicalism or even eco socialism. The Greens/EFA in europe lean towards libertarian socialism.

Me on soul calibur

Proud of Guterres’ courage. We share a country and an alma mater and that also makes me proud.

Vox is Chega, PP is like Passos Coelho era PSD

Judaism is not Zionism and vice versa

With the Netanyahu government, that’s the more plausible explanation.

Sounds fantastic!

Rest assured, I’m from Lisbon and all family is as well. I never thought of any place in Portugal as “inbred” (other stereotypes apply to different regions though). Love the Azores, btw.