potatoguy

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/18962989

On Tuesday, chaos broke out in Brazil's lower house ahead of a successful vote on a sentence-reduction bill for Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro. Leftist MP Glauber Braga was forcibly removed by police after denouncing a 'coup offensive' and occupying the Speaker's chair.

Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a bill early on Wednesday, December 10, that could drastically reduce the sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving 27 years in jail for staging a coup. If ratified by the Senate, the 70-year-old far-right leader, who has been behind bars since late November, could see his sentence cut to just over two years.

 

On Tuesday, chaos broke out in Brazil's lower house ahead of a successful vote on a sentence-reduction bill for Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro. Leftist MP Glauber Braga was forcibly removed by police after denouncing a 'coup offensive' and occupying the Speaker's chair.

Brazil's lower house of Congress approved a bill early on Wednesday, December 10, that could drastically reduce the sentence of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving 27 years in jail for staging a coup. If ratified by the Senate, the 70-year-old far-right leader, who has been behind bars since late November, could see his sentence cut to just over two years.

 

A group of soldiers on Sunday appeared on Benin's state television claiming to have removed President Patrice Talon from office and dissolved all state institutions. Talon's office, meanwhile, said that loyalist forces had managed to get the situation "under control".

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My unrequested opinion on this:

This was written by someone who knows anyone reading this doesn't have the full picture (english speaking foreigners), so I'm just going to try to be the least biased in any favor and just put some additional information.

The correios (the state owned postal and parcel service) is in crisis, they aren't profitable, mainly because of the standardization of tariffs on imported items from China, some items that didn't pay, now pay, some items that were "lotteries" were regulated, so everything above 50 dollars (if i remember correctly) now pays the standard tax, plus state to state taxes that already existed. This affected them, because there's less imported items from aliexpress, etc, and almost all of the items were shipped through them.

They are now trying to negotiate some loans, like the denied loan from the state bank (Caixa Econômica Federal), the government gave the option to take some other loans that they would need to reestructure to take (like giving plans for people to retire voluntarely, which is always bad, because these plans are always scams). This strike seems to only happen in São Paulo (and the person writing this seems to be paulista, for their way of writing).

Now my opinion:

This is bad, really seems to try to go ahead and enshittify another service, now a service that is literally the backbone of the logistics of the country. The logistics of a country shouldn't need to be profitable, it should do the logistics, as they are a public service reaching like 99% of the country in unprofitable regions, and the workers should not be outsourced. The workers should try to fight for their rights and make their voices heard. All the power to them!

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago

That is a lot of new features features! I'm going to test it later.

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 week ago

The multi-communities from lemmy specifically, that (I presume) will be compatible with the piefed feeds: voyager.lemmy.ml/multi_communities

@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com posted about it. So just wanted to know for sure.

 

Will the multi-communities be able to handle communities from multiple instances?

Like communities from lemmy.eco.br and lemmy.pt that are country agnostic, like !dev@lemmy.eco.br and !devpt@lemmy.pt, that are development communties, but pulverized across instances, so creating multi-communities across both instances would make good onboarding on both sides.

Just asking to see what would be capable, to atract more people easily, showing more "content", etc.