VinesNFluff

Depends on how you feel about communists

As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

So like, if you can't stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you're fine with that, don't.

Long Mosquito

As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room

Just some minor nonsense. But all of it yields a fun memory.

I won a hat from a Wario Ware (Wii) tournament at my country's biggest nerd-convention circa 2009. Got like a 15 minigame lead on the second place too.

I won a(n imported, we're brazilian, these were never published here) copy of a My Little Pony Comic Omnibus from a giveaway at an MLP forum I participated in some 10 years ago. I never read the physical comic, it just sits untouched at my shelf. I just read the pirated .cbr

A few months later my SO won a Hot Topic Vinyl Figure of Princess Luna (also imported) from another giveaway at the same forum, and gifted it to me.

Void

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And not to make this even longer, but the people with the means to move to another state much less another country are the wealthy. The poor, who are the ones who might benefit most from moving, are unable to, trapped in the cycle here.

I will say you are mostly right, but also note that all the refugees that have been going everywhere (including into Brazil! We get lots of Haitian and Colombian refugees mostly) since before I was born were exceptionally poor people.

I have a coprolith.

It's part of my bathroom's decoration.

If all you want is a place to get memes, hello, you're in the least bad place on the internet, the indie web/fediverse.

But to keep in touch with family members and friends, who are likely not techy people?

.... I guess you could get them on Signal?

I mostly talk to my folks through Telegram, but that's as far as I could take them (still consider it a win over using WhatsApp, because Telegram might be full of fascists but at least has an open API and a competent Linux client)

A few options:

1. Get out. If you're one of the people fascists want dead, then surviving is in and of itself an act of resistance. Leave their domain. Go somewhere else. And live -- Just live. Build a life they can't touch.

2. Organise and survive under their noses. It will not be easy, even if fascism has a short shelf life... It still does a lot of damage while it is active, and you and yours could end up as their target. Still, your best chance of surviving is by grouping up. Meet your neighbours, meet your local activists, get to know them, and start helping each other.

3. Violence. But. It's not enough to just go spree killer. The violent response demands organisation. You could join an armed resistance group. Or, if you leave the country, if it comes to war, you could enlist to fight against your old nation. Lots of people did both in the forties.

That's fair, but isn't Estonia like

An exceptionally nice place to live?

I would wager that for an american coming from like. NY, or Detroit, Brazil would be outright comfy by comparison.

Yeah no

I know 1(one) other person who was Special Ed in Brazil and they don't mention anything of the sort.

The most "dangerous" cities are Rio, São Paulo, and Salvador. But the thing about the lethality of those cities? Most of the people who are dying aren't foreign expats like you, it's the inhabitants of the samesuch poor areas, surrounded by mobsters and having to just deal with that on a day to day basis.

For everyone else? The big urban centers are dangerous to your property. Be careless and you will be mugged. Not pickpocketed. Mugged.

But at the same time Brazil is a pretty large place with lots of different cities. I've lived in a medium-to-large city (and NOT one of the famous ones Gringos would know) my entire life and been mugged... Twice. In thirty years. Both were harmless other than the loss of my cell phone.