And suddenly red dots everywhere with neat little bombs on them.
Judging by those two green Kalashnikovs (they say rebels stopped advancing, infiltrating SAA troops) about those two depressions in the front the govt. forces started a new offensive.

Knock knock.

>>34253
Who's there?

>sataa kuin Esterin perseestä
"It rains as if from Esteri's asshole"
It rains very heavily. Esteri is a woman's name and probably implies and older woman, but it's hard to say with such an old idiom.
I think Finnish has a lot of these pretty weak idioms where you just add dirty ideas to everyday occurrences, instead of saying something clever or timely. I'm pretty bored with them so I haven't developed a good memory for such things.

But then we also have words like "a reindeer's pissening" which is just the measure of land for how far reindeer will walk between two piss-breaks.

>>32964
>a reindeer's pissening
>how far reindeer will walk between two piss-breaks.
Would fit right in the imperial system.

I want to ask to the hues, how is Xiiiiiiii pronounced?

>>34271
That x at the beginning of the syllable is the same phoneme as ch (chamada, chapéu). The rest of the expression is just a matter of emphasis and intonation. Context and the ellipsis it's invariably paired with mean you'll fade out as you progress among the is.

In June Moro's position was shaken by leaked conversations with prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol when he was a judge. They show him taking a more active role than what is typically expected of a judge, which may or may not be grounds for deeming him biased and rolling back Lula's condemnation. Only a proper trial could assess this, but there likely won't be one as his opponents immediately used it to attack Lava Jato and justify their push. Nonetheless he still has strong popular support and the backing of a handful of center-right parties. The only practical effect is that he will no longer be nominated to the Supreme Court and nor Dallagnol to Prosecutor General.
Congress and the Supreme Court have transferred the Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf) from the Justice Ministry to the Central Bank, passed the "Authority abuse law" which can be used to target judges and prosecutors if they're deemed too harsh, seriously watered down the "anti-crime packaged" Moro had forwarded to Congress and set Lula free as part of a wider relaxation of arrest conditions.


The Supreme Court, on its part, is drunk with power. They issued a gag order to some journalists and decided criminalized homophobia by defining it as part of the Constitution's ban on racism. The major criticism on legal grounds is that in doing so it was effectively creating legislation and thus invading an exclusive prerogative of Congress. The counterargument was that it was a creation of legislation but the Supreme Court is allowed to do it for laws that are already meant to exist anyways.

Bolsonaro is weakened and has to deal with corruption scandals among his sons and bitter infighting in his party, which he intends to leave and form a new one. His foreign policy has brought little fruit and Trump hasn't done much in his favor. Anyone who speaks of the "threat of authoritarianism" in Brazil is clueless.
He does, however, still have a dedicated and zealous core of followers who defend him no matter what he does. This was also the backbone of PT rule for years and he managed to replicate it.
The economy was stagnant but doing fairly well with low inflation and interest rates and positive prospects for this year. The BRL is dropping but that is good for exports.

Is liberalism still a progressive ideology?

>>34028
>>34029
Forgot to read these. Will do.

>>34276
Technically no since it's already in place for 200 years? Using a strict definition of "progressive" of course.

>>34278
Yeah. In daily politics the definitions can become quite elastic.

A related question: can be the terms conservative and progressive used in other epochs without being anachronistic? Liek in antiquity, e.g. when they turned Rome into a republic from monarchy, and then when the turned the republic into monarchy.

Here's our "many core" processors. Ironic that "many core" is a year before the Ryzen comes out.

And this is when things get unrealistic.

>>34268
>Trigger Article 50
Hmmmm

When this is all in one picture, you know things are going wrong.

>>34274
More likely than you think.

>>34058
Iremember seeing the miniseries as a kid and scared the utter fucking crap out of me. Although, The BFG, an actual kids film, gave me nightmares for years with the thought of giants taking children through windows and eating them.

>>34059
Miniseries? The old two part movies?

>>34060
Yeah that's it, from 1990. I was just a little kid but it was pretty scary.

>>34069
Hmm. I saw some of that not sure when and was scared I kinda remember, but I was too young as well for that. I read the books later, when I was about 20, it was intense, a very good read. I consumed much Stephen King and I think that is his most scary book, maybe the one actually scary. Few years after I watched that "miniseries". I fell asleep during part I, and laughed on part II. It felt boring and lame.
In general the "tragedy" of King, that his works are rarely adapted adequately on screen - I think The Green Mile turned out well - not movies, not shows couldn't capture anything what's in the books. They are all boring with bad acting and cheap effects.

>>30408
Oh. I use Palemoon by default. I stopped with experimenting IceCat.

>>34238
Also using it ever since I abandoned Firefox. Never bothered to move to an alternative.

>>34239
Yeah. Sometimes I have to dust off FF again, since Palemoon little lags behind and not supports everything and doesn't display some pages properly.

>>34237
On principles, it's fucking botnet. On usability, it makes simple things way more cumbersome that they need to, and sometimes there's no reason for them to be on the house.
Amazon echo is a prime :^) example of this.

>>34270
House automation systems don't have/need to be connected to the internet, and don't need the involvement of amazon or google or whatever. It's more about programmable and/or centrally controllable lights, temperature (house, fridge, boiler), appliances, or even doors, shutters and pretty much anything that need electricity. Reaching it from the internet is more a feature and not a necessity (and again it doesn't need the involvement of multis, tho probably if one wants to use access through smartphones the odds are some of these multis will have some level access..., at least for data).

>>34115
>6 hours walk
>with running here and there
>some elevation
Ehh, I can't judge your speed, but let's say 5 km/h. That's a long walk.

I like the panorama of the 3rd pic, and the sharp edges of those hills.

Tomorrow gonna have a hike, walk, outing. With company but I hope for something to take photos of and can post them too.

>>34247
Nice panorama despite because the mist shrouds everything.
Is all of the ice from frost alone?

>>34251
Yes. We have misty weather with minuses for weeks now. Only a couple of days were with sunshine, which did some melting around, but by the the afternoon all the freed up moisture evaporated and turned into fog. Which again started froze onto the vegetation.
I saw a long flexible frost-thread hanging from a branch in the garden. Next day it was sunny weather and I saw that it was a hair of me moms caught by the branch, that gathered the frost there.

Oh. One notable things happened, we heard a bird making noises, at first I mistook it with dog barking, but as I listened it became clear it isn't ofc, I could say it had vague resemblance to crow croaking. Two such bird was around. One lifted off from the trees and flew around. It was big but cannot make out any important detail, I couldn't even see colors, in front of the white sky it look just like a dark figure.

Thank you Brazil for Astrud Gilberto (and Germany too)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oE8rYqP1Ejg [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4uuSaOZg8hI [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9srw5FRm5eA [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0gzsR-40Bw [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4z7JmJRS0gU [Embed]

Halestorm. Cover of AC/DC's Mistress for Christmas. Now that we talk women so much.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KkKKV11RcRc [Embed]
Their own songs I listened into are lackluster.

Pretty interesting psychedelic/progressive with some Uriah Heep feel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SwOTmCllkLY [Embed]

Some part of band is from Orcus Chylde that was posted here before few times.

>>34223
>vulva
Did they confused it with völva?
With the organ it sounds old school. Good music. The vocals a bit high pitched for me, but parts (usually the chorus) are enjoyable.
Night by night is breddy gud.

>>17579
It is highly stylised and he does exaggerate but much of what he says is based on truth.

>>17627
He follows eastern teaching not western and there is quite a wealth of knowledge about that. There isn't so much regarding European archery because it was phased out sooner and it was not a martial art of the nobility(they used bows but only for leisure), this is why archery in Europe is so simple, it's a strong man firing a strong bow, it has nowhere near the finesse or depth that it did in the east.

>>34177
Poor cow.

>>33827
In Zen, archery is a meditation technique. The Bushido is the code of a warrior on a horse with a bow.
I wonder what our ancestors on steppe thought about it. They could ride before they could walk but they started tensing bows very early and they didn't put down the bow til the grave (not even after). Not to mention the making of recurve/reflex bows needed skilled craftsmen and was not a quick process. They sure had numerous and deep thoughts about it.

Next in the menu: Chocolate Mousse for the lactose intolerant (ie: my mum)

>>34116
>lactose intolerant
Now that's suffering.

>>34119
It just gives you diarrhea, nothing too worrysome

>>34121
You are up early. Or stay wake late.
Saved that worrybear.

Now that we are talking about plans on making sweets and such, I wanna make caramel milk. Just brown some sugar, boil milk and pour the hot milk onto the browning sugar, then mix until mixed. I would do it with cold milk, but that makes the caramel harden and not sure how long would it take until melts.