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Honestly, I read this thread and can’t comprehend how a civilization as advanced as the United States of America thinks that defending a binary choice of democracy is a good thing to do… It’s impossible to represent a country with a few million people like that, imagine ~300M. Anyway, keep going at each other’s throats for your party color… smh.

All this also means that most Portuguese managers are pretty shit at the more advanced levels of management, i.e. Strategy.

Yes, this is definitely the case here.

Thank you for taking the time to share your point of view. What I get from most of it is that the Portuguese aren’t traveling enough and aren’t trying to learn different perspectives and ways of doing things, and I tend to agree. I also know from my own social circle that money is almost always the culprit. It’s just a snowball effect.

edit: And I blame the “cunha” culture on excess of bureaucracy that happens here.

with people still having the same mindset as back in the 80s, even young people.

Let’s set the context to fellows aged between 18 and 35, since that’s the law in Portugal for defining young people.

WTF is going on? There’s so much access to information! I’m not talking about reading books, really. Why are we so behind on everything? I mean, our education isn’t that bad, aside from the overcrowded classrooms in the metropolitan areas. Our universities aren’t too shabby, and the curriculums are good… So what’s left for us to regain some momentum? I don’t know man, I just want to fly to Australia and stay there, to be honest.

Portugal is always behind 10 to 30 years. Give it some time and we might see some fires /s

This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.

lol

What’s next? U.S. Vinho Verde?

yes

These kind of organizations make sense for apartment buildings, where you need to organize the upkeep of the overall building

Yeah this makes sense, but, in my country, this only applies to common areas of the building, and there’s civil law around what can/can not be agreed in assembly.

Are those HOS an assembly with equal voting rights? Or is there weight on shareholders votes based on amount of squares owned? Or something else completely? I’m genuinely interested if you can enlighten me. Or I can research it when I get more time.

Is this true? You can’t grow vegetables in your backyard? Why tho? If true it sounds dumb to me.

My thoughts exactly! After that it was like a domino effect… I realized that probably everything this guy ever said and done was pure BS. Fake it until you make it.

I personally think that marriage is a scam in the first place. I’ve witness 20 years sweethearts split after 2-3 years of marriage. Dunno what could’ve have changed after.

So I’m staying away of that shit although I’m well aware that is something important for my sweetheart. We’ll have to find a middle term someday. Maybe throw a party with the fam and call it a marriage, I dunno, something like that.

Apologies for assuming. Sugar is the number one culprit for a “beer belly”, so you find more than enough in beer.

by experience, no. You need to stop drinking beer so often, and you need to eat less. Exercise is still a plus, but you need to sync your activity with your meals. I still eat whatever I want but in less quantities in general.

Interestingly, I became a morning person after a couple of years of being gently woken up by my cats around 7am, not with loud meowing. Now, I just enjoy waking up at that time every day, even on weekends.

Some people just don’t care. To me it really feels like they are trying to create the problems to later sell the solution, and it’s a never ending cycle. I’ve quit my recent job because 90% of the team just sucks, security risks everywhere, the API just doesn’t respect contracts, there’s no contract actually, we just ask on private chats how to integrate with it really. New features on top of buggy code while support is on fire with the 100th bug ticket reported in just a week. Not to mention that you have a design team, a project manager and a “VP of engineering” but the epics they want you to do are almost just the title of the idea they had at lunch 😅.

This guys are very lucky because the operation teams is able to cash in millions of revenue a year by combining excel, monday and WhatsApp to do their jobs, while a few are still forced to interact with a piece of shit of software that the engineer department provides to them…

Anyway, some people just don’t care.

And some Slavic words have Latin origins. This guys explain it better:

[English subtitles btw]

https://youtu.be/N3Xp_CwkXnY

I don’t believe the children should pay for they fathers mistakes. I was replying to the OP comment that suggests that we should take into account slavery has something to do with poor conditions some of said descendant of slaves are atm.

I came from a long line of poor people in the sense of money, and only one of my uncles was able to get a degree (from his pocket money and hard work, you have to pay even if it’s a public university), recently a cousin was also able to get a degree as well. And me and my brother pursuit more technical courses.

I can have a decent income by working on projects from abroad but the Portuguese state takes ~70% of that in direct and indirect taxation.

Meanwhile I don’t have a family doctor for 14 years now, and if I need something to be taken care of I need to get help in the private sector. Justice is slow, the streets and public buildings are decaying to a point of rupture, public administration is a complete disgrace in general…

I’m basically a slave to this corrupt politicians. They take my hard work in the form of taxation and provide nothing/almost nothing in return.

I meant directly descendant. And I don’t disagree on your reasoning, it’s true.

Dude, I’m not descendant of slaves and I’m pretty much a slave of the Portuguese state at the moment. If this corrupt cast of politicians wants to pay reparations, I do not oppose to it, but they need to pay it from their own pockets.

Doesn’t Kotlin has interoperability with Java? I didn’t used it much yet but I’m about to in a few months. Is it that difficult to just refactor things to Kotlin when you need to change something in the project? I’m asking because I just can’t work with verbose languages and would prefer Kotlin to Java everyday.