brunoff

lula is a little less crazy (compared to bolsonaro), likely not anti-science, preserves the amazon, seems to care about keeping the same constituition and so on, but he heaves his hand when it comes to (mostly populist) spending, like there's no tomorrow.

he thinks he is helping the poor, but it is just for short term. so much public debt, in a few years everyone, rich or poor, will have pay the price, with interest. people that likes him usually say they don't like milei, but his incredible debt build up is actually a future-milei magnet.

also, after so much terms and "custo brazil" ("Brazilian (Business) Cost Burden"?) still prohibitive, the country never goes up from its terrible positions in making business rankings. one can just not hope he does anything better now after so much terms. his spending is too demand biased.

Another name "rareness" related story. Somewhere around 2010's I was backpacking east Europe and border police hold a train from Croatia to Slovenia for something like 15-20 minutes asking me to prove that I really was myself. Then they released me and let the train enter the country, but even so the police randomly appeared to ask my specific documents (in places that there were other people they came and asked only my docs). Then it started happening in other countries, most (but not all) countries started to hold me on the border control for one hour or two to do some clearance. Then in Argentina the border police said that someone with my whole name AND birth date was in some kind of interpol search list. Then two or three years later it stopped happening. I am sure someone stole my id and commited some crimes and then he was caught, because it is impossible to someone with my same three name and birth date happen to be in a interpol list just by coincidence. Interpol lists have how many people? 25k? Divide by days in a year. 69 have born in same day as you. From those, one have the same name as you.

  $ cowsay "hey dude"
   __________
  < hey dude >
   ----------
          \   ^__^
           \  (oo)\_______
              (__)\       )\/\
                  ||----w |
                  ||     ||

This last good part sometimes come unexpected and can be better than the destination of the trip itself.

ddg doesn't have date filtering search syntax like google has, for example "before:2018-12-31", they offer only a few date filtering options shown on a combo.