blaue_Fledermaus

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The book of Proverbs in the Bible does praise wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence as gifts from God and berates those who reject those things.

Vargas is an odd figure.
Used the fascists to get into power, but quickly turned against them.
Persecuted communists, but granted many worker's rights and was called "father of the poor".
Was a cruel and genocidal dictator.
After being forced to resign, got reelected and committed suicide in a way that saved Brazilian democracy from a military coup.

on Pasta Time™ · c/adhd · 7 pts · 302d

I cut it with a fork against the side of the pot to check if it's done.

on What · c/lemmyshitpost · 2 pts · 305d

Not a good joke. It's an annoying stereotype, although unfortunately some around here make it sort of deserved 😮‍💨

Yes, there are many Germanic colonies around here, last year we did celebrate 200 years of immigration. Fun fact: the wife of the first Brazilian emperor was an Austrian Habsburg.

on What · c/lemmyshitpost · 16 pts · 305d

My city was founded in 1850, before Germany was even a single country.

While I don't know when exactly my family came here I know it was way before WW2.

on What · c/lemmyshitpost · 4 pts · 305d

I come from a Germanic colony in Brazil, and while the language has been mostly genocided out, people still sometimes drop random German words in the middle of Portuguese, or mix Portuguese words with some German grammar.
My mother when younger visited Germany and got confused looks from the family hosting her by asking where was the "lixolatte" ("lata de lixo" is the Portuguese for garbage can)

on TIL: Metric Horsepower · c/til · 4 pts · 306d

I think I only heard/read it once or twice, but yes, I think most shorten it to just cavalos

Satan means "Accuser", in the book of Job he is trying to convince God that humans are too wicked and corrupt to deserve all the gifts God gives us, and and that people only pretend to love God because we expect something in return.

In the book of Apocalypse/Revelation that's 2 places, there's the Land of the Dead, and the Lake of Fire; it tells the former will be thrown into the latter at the very end of things, after the Land of the Dead has been emptied.