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Re:Brazilian Suicide Electric Shower Heads [video] on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:40AM (#41694888)
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.

Re:Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin on Thursday July 20, 2023 @04:17AM (#36798029)
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.

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.
Re:Orkut on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:28AM (#31810115)
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.