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Morthanc commented on Brazilian Electric "Suicide" Shower Heads [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=FuQ_A... · Posted by u/popcalc
Morthanc · a year ago
I'm brazilian. Me and everyone I've ever known had electric showers in their homes.

Despite the clickable name, they are perfectly fine. If they weren't, the entirety of latin america wouldn't be using them. The worst case scenareo is if the house doesn't have grounding. In that case you can get a lil' zap when closing turning the shower off while wet. I remember when growing up, my mom would rent cheap apartments in the beach for us to stay a few days during the holidays, and she always made us shower while wearing flip flops to avoid getting the lil' zap. I'm not entirely convinced this worked.

Morthanc commented on Japanese words of Portuguese origin   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glo... · Posted by u/lermontov
weinzierl · 2 years ago
Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan.

I bet they brought a couple of Japanese words to Brazilian Portuguese too.

Morthanc · 2 years ago
The two that comes to mind is rock-paper-scissors, which we call "jokenpô", that is similar to the japanese 'jankenpon'. Chopsticks are "hashis" like already mentioned.

Also, we call soy-sauce "shoyu", which is the japanese for soy.

Morthanc commented on Network of channels tried to saturate YouTube with pro-Bolsonaro content   phys.org/news/2023-06-net... · Posted by u/belter
Morthanc · 2 years ago
Not surprising. The rapid increase of the amount of pro-Bolsonaro content was clearly visible, even spilling towards users like me with no history for viewing political content on the site, especially on 'cuts' for YouTube Shorts.
Morthanc commented on Orkut   orkut.com/index.html... · Posted by u/memorable
sintapilgo · 3 years ago
Orkut was nothing like current social networks. It didn't have any kind of feed. You had to manually visit user pages if you were looking for something. Also, user pages had no "blog space" for posts, just main description, "testimonials" (for friends describing you) and scrapbook (like a public email inbox, later turned optionally private). Oh, and a photo gallery.

Another thing that was massive in orkut - but still niche as most users didn't use this feature - was community forums. It was great to be able to read and talk about any topic using the same account, in the same website and the same layout. Worldwide, what filled this gap was obviously Reddit, but it's still English-only for most subjects. Also the format is different, Reddit is not a typical flat internet forum.

Morthanc · 3 years ago
I agree, but I think it depended on the community. Some communities had very active forums and others were barren.

This is not something negative, some communities were just some witty or funny title and others to have genuine discussions.

u/Morthanc

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