President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva went on to veto several parts of the bill, but the conservative-dominated congress overrode his veto by a wide margin earlier in December.

Luckily I’m already out of the country but I don’t think will go well if that happens.

Every now and then I have to remind myself that America was founded by religious nutjobs and colonized by industrialists.

Aaaaand this is why I didn’t move my podcasts to Google Podcasts.

Where consumers and employees have rights.

The water also won’t flow when the pipes have been bombed into scrap.

A dark elf (drow) actually, but I totally agree it’s the most ridiculous example of episode deletion.

Just curious, but is your job or industry that much in demand that you know you can get a job the next day if your company were to burn to the ground?

You’re absolutely correct, but a bicycle tideuor bus trip or train journey is also a feeling of freedom, too. Reframing ‘freedom’ so people don’t feel they have to get a $70,000 crew cab pickup to drive to the bar or store is the thing.

Upvoted for saying the phrase “as cool as the other side of the pillow”. Heard that once when someone was talking about a sports commentator and haven’t forgotten it in probably 35 years at least.