Heraclio Mantegazzi @hmantegazzi@chilemasto.casa

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Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

Normal people: "Wooah you're a scientist, you must work with loads of high tech stuff"
Manuscript websites:

Big fan of the 1940s "mysterious illness" method of coming out

(source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99229261/man-becomes-girl-in-strange/)

so instead of leafblowers they are now using some handheld motorized brushes to clean the grass areas around this house, and of course they have internal combustion engines and of course they emit terrible smell and noise.

why must *everything* be so fucked up always?! 😫

Hacienda analiza ajustar tax de tramos más altos de ingresos

Chile lanza plataforma que permite visualizar datos de sensores climáticos de la Antártica

Mientras en el rechazo…

Mientras el autocrata juvenil sigue con sus jueguitos https://www.proceso.com.mx/economia/2022/5/10/el-salvador-adquirio-mas-de-mil-300-unidades-de-bitcoin-desde-septiembre-285710.html

NVIDIA "open-sourced" their linux graphics card driver by moving all the relevant functionality into the closed source firmware. It's marketing, nothing else.

Vargas Llosa dice que prefiere a Bolsonaro antes que a Lula y no sorprende: "Elige a un fascista y no a un demócrata" https://www.publico.es/tremending/2022/05/12/vargas-llosa-prefiere-a-bolsonaro-antes-que-a-lula-y-los-usuarios-no-se-sorprenden-elige-a-un-fascista-y-no-a-un-democrata/

España: Críticas al doble rasero de la banca por abrir cuentas a refugiados ucranianos y negárselas al resto

https://www.publico.es/sociedad/cuentas-pago-basicas-no-son-gesto-buena-voluntad-bancos-derecho-garantizado-ley-criticas-doble-rasero-banca-abrir-cuentas-refugiados-ucranianos-negarselas-resto.html

Un juez ordena a Chile indemnizar con 520 millones de euros a los accionistas españoles de un diario confiscado por Pinochet

https://www.eldiario.es/economia/juez-ordena-chile-indemnizar-520-millones-euros-accionistas-espanoles-diario-confiscado-pinochet_1_8985532.html

El Partido Conservador de Reino Unido recibió una donación de 600.000 euros de una cuenta rusa encubierta por su tesorero

https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/partido-conservador-reino-unido-recibio-donacion-600-000-euros-cuenta-rusa-encubierta-tesorero_1_8986768.html

The one and only time I’ve visited the UK I made sure to visit the British Museum, because I grew up in Egypt, and every museum there has several exhibits that are just a sign reading “we’d love to show you this, but the British stole it to put in the British Museum”

just had a... Thing through the letterbox and hoo boy this is a level beyond the creepy Falun Gong flyer we had a few months ago [cw: conspiracy nonsense, covid, antisemitism, you name it]