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in love with this meme

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i'm never deleting facebook

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As far as I can tell, it's a false cognate.

Geld as in money comes from the PIE for "to pay" while Gold supposedly comes from a different root with the same roots as gelb (yellow in German).

It's kinda funny that both french and castillan use the the word for silver (plata, argent) to mean "money". In german they say "geld" (gold) which is somewhat similar

Bret Devereaux has a great article on this. Coinage in Ancient and Middle Ages Europe was actually done by the most part on silver, and that mostly continued on early modernity.

Gold was used mostly for very, very big trades, often involving things between states, it was very unlikely that a regular person could find use for a gold coin. And regardless, ancient and medieval societies were mostly non-monetary outside of big cities, so few people actually had coins of any kind. Getting gold coins must also be a hassle because you would have to find people to appraise them and give you the proper change, and since every coin had different alloys and values pre-standarization....

(It's fiction of course, but Spice and Wolf has a great take on this, where Lawrence gets some gold coins and has to spend time getting a guy to, basically, give him change, as well as entering into speculation with the coins themselves, in this era, the coins themselves were as much as a good as they were currency)

Don't know why the Germans say Geld though, maybe they were richer.

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seeing gringos realize that imported products are more expensive is kinda baffling to me like what do you mean this is not the reality everyone was already living on?

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what the fuck are these donations man

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(on a post about the switch 2 being $450)

im going to be honest i think people vastly underestimate how much it takes to emulate things for good quality and how intensive piracy & emulation are. by all means im for it but you realize building a pc that can run emulators well and safely skirt viruses with torrenting is like a pretty hefty investment both timewise and moneywise. i Get that most of this website is inclined toward doing that investment because this is a website and audience bias means more technology based people will be making opinions on this. that being said: $450 is like nowhere near enough for a good quality self built pc. what the fuck are you talking about. unless youre just incredible at refurb and finding parts for a deal.

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it pisses me off that so much of my political energy ends up going towards stupid basic shit like 'racism is bad' and 'queers should have rights', when i would much prefer to be arguing for the fringe opinions like 'destroy all copyright' and 'borders shouldn't exist' and 'abolish marriage' that i actually care about.

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"This is a game about drama, not grinding battles"

- Has "social attributes" for D&D style skill checks

- Has no other guidance for social situations

- Has about 400 ish pages (out of 500 ish) devoted to combat and combat adjacent things

Are we sure about that? Is the drama this game facilitates in the room with us right now?

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I don't want to be the unsufferable guy that hates Windows and I recognize that a lot of people genuinely couldn't do a lot of things they want to do without Windows.

But Jesus Christ, it seems Gates hates me specifically - I'm having such a trash performance with this Windows install.

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bit of a cunty cunty slay que no dejen entrar a padres deudores a los partidos de fútbol. that was a slay ngl

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"Não é algo só estadunidense, essa é uma atrocidade que vários países do núcleo imperial fazem" não é a lacrada que você acha que é.

Everybody is shocked that US journalist was invited to a top secret chat discussing military strikes and then just left (honestly that's the funniest thing) while refusing to reveal sensitive information but that's about what I expected. You can read on his article, he doesn't care about the fact that the US military is striking one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact, he probably even supports it.

What he is outraged about is how dare Trump be so incompetent, how dare him compromise the effectiveness of the US military, which is doing its job to 'protect this country'. You will see this in media from other countries, there's little to no mention about WHERE the airstrikes were directed to, WHY and WHO they killed. It's all "oh Trump let a random journalist on his chat, how embarrassing!" If it had been Obama or Biden or whoever, the journalist probably wouldn't even had published anything, because after all I imagine (ha!) that they talk about bombing third world countries with propriety and decorum, not unlike these guys who are so, so cringe.

this is why I tell you that the US has a level of military worship seldom seen and completely naturalized

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To further the "experiment", let's talk a bit more about how the money is distributed:

According to the last census, about 60% of the population doesn't even make minimum wage per household per capita.

So if you pick a Brazilian at random, the number of worked hours will probably balloon because of household expenses.

A STEM graduate (engineers, architects, programmers, etc.) fresh out of university is expected to make around 40 to 60% of US minimum wage in their first real job.

This is seen as a lot of money: enough for a person to comfortably live alone in a rented apartment; enough for a person to make a down payment on a house and pay all the installments of the mortage after two or so years of saving up.

That is to say, Brazilian Middle Class makes less than US minimum wage worker if we're talking in raw dollar amounts.

According to the last census, over 95% of the population make less money than US minimum wage (per household per capita).

Petrobras is the biggest Brazilian company - it injects billions of reais in the Brazilian economy via taxes and government payouts alone.

Petrobras workers also tend to make a shitton of money. The most a normal Petrobras worker (i.e.: not a CEO or a Director or other high level admin) can make is a little over 16 USD / hour.

There are minimum wage workers in Bumfuck, Connecticut making more money than literal Brazilian 1%ers

This is an imperfect "experiment" over a complex subject, but it's a thing I like to do to visualize the sheer gap between the dollar and the brazilian real, which is checking "how many federal minimum wage hours would take to buy a thing". It goes like this:

Under the US federal minimum wage of USD 7.25 per hour, a copy of Sid Meier's Civilization VI on Steam (priced at USD 59.99) would come around at 8.2 hours.

That same game is sold on Brazil at BRL 129.00. At the current federal minimum wage of BRL 6.90 per hour, that comes around at 18.6 hours.

That is, however, after the publisher has already applied Steam's dynamic pricing to lower the cost of the game for our region. At its full dollar price, the game would cost around BRL 350, being generous with the conversion rate. How many federal minimum wage hours do you think that is?

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Although I kinda wish I was. Anyways, if the blog is bare or a bit empty, it's because I reorganize / delete stuff every so often. Some info about me after the read more.

brazilian, pardo

mid 20s

you can use whatever pronouns

I block rather liberally, it's nothing personal