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Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 months ago:
It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊
- Comment on C O L O N I Z E 2 months ago:
Interesting TIL, thanks!
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 5 months ago:
I do understand the point you’re making actually, but you’re wading into emotionally charged waters here. I would argue “white” is an inherently racial term, but the more importantly, the correlation is not really relevant to the discussion and needlessly muddies your broader point (that climate may inspire or disincentive industrialisation) by injecting it with racial discussion.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 5 months ago:
I get what this guy is trying to say but the phrasing and unnecessary racialising explains the downvotes. A better and less offensive way to put this could simply have referred to climate: that you suspect the harsher climate in Europe rewarded industrial and penalised agrarian lifestyles in a way that wasn’t true for civilisations near the equator. Being white or not has nothing to do with it - correlation versus causation.