blaue_Fledermaus @ blaue_Fledermaus @mstdn.io

Software Developer from a germanic region in south Brazil.

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A curiosity: despite the common interpretation, the intended meaning of the original painting if there was any, is unknown. It was found on a wall of his house after his death.

Why? The 12 days of Christmas go until January 5-6 😉

90% is an exaggeration, sure, but it still is true for a large majority of the planet.

I'm from Brazil. It's impressive how fast BYD cars have been multiplying in my city.

I certainly am...

40% of centrally treated sewage. The rest goes into domestic septic tanks.
It's not ideal, but we don't have sewage running on open air if that's what you imagined, and if you visited you wouldn't notice.

The state is Santa Catarina. As I said, it's one the most developed in the country, the living quality is similar to some European countries.

I mean relatively.

Search for images of "favela". Tens of millions of Brazilians live in those. The better ones are built with brick, many are just scrap wood and cardboard.

And Brazil is one of the "developing" countries.

I may be a cringy idiot, but I'm an ally.
I genuinely hope you stay safe and if we ever crossed paths I would shelter you from the government without hesitation.

I'm just pointing out that most likely you will still be better in the US than in most of the planet.

I do have toilet paper and live in one of the most developed regions of my country. Even then my city only has 40% of sewage coverage.

"Developed Nations" is a small minority of the world.

Maternal mortality, yes, you are right, but that's just one metric.

I don't mean to minimize the problems of the US, and I'm sure there are plenty examples of squalor, and they should be treated seriously.

But proportionally and relatively speaking, most ghetto people in the US live like kings compared to most of the planet.

I agree that that's terrible and USians should be furious with it.

But living a little bit in the US, even if getting deported/killed later is still a better situation than most of the planet.

Yes. I also don't want to say that because there's worse in other places that the US problems aren't legitimate.

Yes, it's terrible.

But living even a little bit in the USA and dying is still a better situation than most of the planet.

I may live in a worse country, but at least we don't have that silliness of people drinking raw milk.

And isn't the 3rd world most of the planet? The western developed countries are a small minority.

I have the perspective of not being USian and living in the 3rd world.

Talking out of my ass.

But it's certainly more than the vast majority.

Please...

No matter how much US Republicans and trump mess things up, the USA will still be a better place to live than 90% of the planet, even for the persecuted minorities.

Even on normal conditions, with the tremendous roar and wind they make, the power of these waters is clear even from afar.

(Source: been there)

Even better: politics should not be a career, serve one term and that's it.

I'm almost certain I once saw one such study, but couldn't find it anymore, so yes, feel free to file my claim as bullshit.

What I did find was some articles about a problem called halation in which people with astigmatism or propensity for it can have the eyes dilate too much with dark mode making white-on-dark text illegible.