Notices by Machado (machado@refactorcamp.org)

It's disturbing how often Portuguese young adults only find out they have health issues after becoming financially independent because the standard attitude to sick kids was "stop being a pussy"

It's a tragic comedy, how the portuguese media try to feed extremism to get views.

First, they tried to astroturf a "yellow jacket" kerfuffle. Lots of pre-event coverage of the "protest that will stop the nation", with lots of social media presence using vague language to try to get any willing protester to show up.

End result: people for and against petrol taxes, people for the legalization of firearms/weed/street racing, people for/against more animal rights.

@vgr @bkam Don't know if you ever heard of EVE Online. It was/is a particularly lawless pvp game, and I once read an interesting theory by a player.

He said coalitions don't break from big defeats, because a big defeat can be spun into a galvanizing narrative. But if you make their lives boring, unpleasant, and confusing, in a thousand small ways, you can drive a wedge between the membership and the leadership, and people eventually just give up and leave.

@Elmkast Historical reenactment of the toot in question:

Have some more portuguese music: Moonspell - Os Senhores da Guerra
https://youtu.be/mqyyeI0b29Q

José Cid - O Caos
https://youtu.be/13s4NdT3lhs

Valete - À Noite
https://youtu.be/D52Vbu3g15E