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I recently learned that some traditions equate the cross with the Tree of Life from the Eden.

Regarding the painting, while that is a common interpretation, what it was meant to depict, if anything, is unknown; it was found after the painter’s death with no information about it.

Also, the Brazilian Constitution only protects speech if it’s not anonymous.

In colloquial language the terms are basically synonyms.

Temer became president after the soft coup that removed president Dilma, as he was her vice.

He was almost impeached as well, but managed to buy Congress with a couple billion reais meant for education.

IIRC he is the most hated president in Brazilian history, even more than Bolsonaro.

O que achei estranho foi que os indicadores começaram a melhorar no meio do pico da pandemia, sob o (des)governo do boçalnaro.

Average is sensitive to outliers, it is possible more than half is below it (or above).

You want median.

I don’t know how it is in the US nowadays, but here in Brazil monoculture is a terrible issue; if it weren’t for modern fertilizers a significant part of agricultural land would be completely barren.

One thing that absolutely baffles me is that crop rotation is not even modern, there are some 3000-4000 years old laws in the Bible telling to do it, including letting the land “rest” every 7 years.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

In Portuguese it’s called steam-horse (cavalo-vapor)

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.

And even on Dante’s Inferno Satan is just another prisoner, not a ruler.

I don’t know how widespread this theory is, but in school my teacher told that one of the reasons for the war was that Paraguay was building an economy independent from the English market, and England fearing it would be a “bad influence” on the neighbours, pushed them into attacking (or provoking) Paraguay.

(I’m from Brazil)

Are philosophers even capable of living together in harmony?