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I use Zellij and only recently had a colleague tell me that the name comes from Arabic and had not made the link to "Azulejo". It makes sense of course, considering they all refer …

on macOS: Cmd+Space -> Cmd+4 No need to install anything.

This has been mentioned, if using different words, elsewhere in this thread but soccer is much more accessible and casual in Latin America and Western Europe. Children often live i…

Demand can be fleeting. See Austin, TX in the early pandemic years vs now Too much reliance on the permanent number-go-up hypothesis in home prices

the property can always be sold to a new owner that has a different use in mind. Another drawback, you're likely to have less negotiating power with a corporate-owned rental.

Yes, to a significant but not total degree. Some of those losses were later recouped by Portugal (current Northeastern Brazil and Angola). I think that the losses in Asia were more…

This is one resentful individual. Likes to imply how this or that people is inferior to the other (I thought we were discussing differences in forms of settlement, colonization and…

This is true. Tordesillas meant that trans-Pacific trade was not realistic for Portugal.

No, lol, that is not how that works. Your point is factually wrong, your point doesn't "stand".

You may want to look into the genetic composition of modern-day Brazilians to consider whether "Amerindians were exterminated" is a coherent way to represent it. edit: we are just …

do 99.9% of the people born there speak Dutch? When they became independent, were they 80%+ Reformed Dutch protestants? I don't reject the notion that NL vastly influenced Indonesi…

Since when is taxing all subjects a necessity? Britain didn't tax people in the 13 colonies so could we conclude that before the American Revolution they were not part of the Briti…

I think the comparison with the Netherlands is generally appropriate, but we must recognize that what they did in Brazil was exceptional (meaning not comparable to their former pos…

In the country where I grew up, physicians have immense clout and are notorious for writing unintelligibly. I once pointed this out as a kid and was told by the secretary something…

That’s not what we’d have to assume. I don’t know about religions in the general sense, and you’re right to point out that I very much have the “Abrahamic world view”, though my ca…

That is very much not immaterial. If God does exist and is our creator, then we're designed to recognize him (at least to strive to, or have some innate need to); failing to do so …

If such being does exist, then how could it possibly not matter? If there's an architect and we are the architect's creation, then how could our belief alone be the important thing…

What if it's true that this daddy exists?

Will someone please explain 14 on Gregory of Nyssa?

This is fascinating. But how did the Church's claim that it was a real guy on Earth stop anyone from claiming visions of Christ? edit: I'm not sure we're talking about the same thi…

They scream artificial intimacy to you because you have only the most superficial notion of what these things are and never sought to understand them. If you did try to understand …

Many churches were in construction for over a century. Very typical and, although obviously people were elated when one was finished, getting there fast was not a source of anxiety…

yet this will continue until it grounds to a halt. It's amazing and cringy the level of parroting performed by executives. Independent thought is very rare amongst business "leader…

tech bros think not only that that system is good, but that they'd be the winners

isn't the scapegoat he or she who gets sacrificed? I think engineers are that