

South Brazil. My city does have a reasonably OK bus system.
Software Developer from a germanic region in south Brazil.
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South Brazil. My city does have a reasonably OK bus system.
Talking with a taxi driver recently I asked how was competition from uber and he said that there was no competition, “those kids” using uber would be going by bus otherwise.
They are “media transformers” and might be useful if limited to it.
Knowledge retrieval certainly not, as “they” know nothing besides how likely one data fragment is to appear near other data fragments.
Not false, I also don’t like it, but I’m not wrong.
Pedro II put Brazil well on it’s way to become a global superpower.
The only one that came somewhat close was later Getúlio Vargas, but he was an asshole cruel dictator.
Maybe Lula in his first and second terms might deserve a distant third place.
I don’t disagree, but still better than all the other leaders the country had.
The following dictatorship put up a lot of antimonarchist propaganda, but still today abolishing slavery is celebrated by all as an achievement of his government.
(Note: I’m not a monarchist)
In Brazil the monarchists get some sympathy because emperor Pedro II was the only competent and halfway decent leader the country ever had.
I got dengue last year.
Intense weakness and pain for a week.
Don’t recommend.
Why this controversy now? Tools like StyleGAN could do this for years already.
My state is a large poultry exporter, and neighbors the one with the outbreak, weird that this isn’t on the news here.