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From south Brazil.

For something not urgent I can usually get a private GP within a week or a specialist within a month.

For something a bit more urgent, usually 1-2 hours in a private hospital, or 2-6 hours in a public one.

When going private the health insurance has always covered everything, so no cost.
Never had an emergency so I can’t say how it is.

North America, maybe. Here in Brazil most houses are brick.

I’ve read that all modern cryptography is based on an area (number theory?) that was once only considered “useful” for party tricks.

Fun curiosity: the original Goya painting was found in his house after he died and its intended meaning, if any, is unknown.

It’s not as clear as real vision, but if I close my eyes I can really “see” a visual image of the thing I’m thinking of.
Really like a “visual hallucination” as you said, but it clearly exists in, how can I say? “Another space”?

It doesn’t automatically translate to the muscle movements required to draw it.

My state is a large poultry exporter, and neighbors the one with the outbreak, weird that this isn’t on the news here.

Certainly!

Companies talk about lesser earnings as losses all the time.

It’s 30 days, but weekends count. Recently the law was amended to disallow scheduling vacations to start on a Friday because of that. It can be taken in full, or 15+15, or 10+20, or 10+10+10.

Brazil.
30 days + a lot of holidays.
At least 2 years for sickness if I’m not mistaken.

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.

Feijoada

There’s no year 0

Cauliflower and broccoli have the same recipe: small pieces; steam for around 10 minutes; it’s done when it starts getting soft.

Season as you like. I like with either just a bit of salt, or covered with butter fried breadcrumbs.

@phudgins
Well, the Christian faith is that He is alive right now, and also as God has omniscience.

One technique I’ve heard being used by Bible translators to learn new languages: show some curious/interesting object, you’ll learn the phrase “what is this?”, then start pointing at everything and repeating it.

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