To clarify, for a Christian the issue wouldn't be that doing A is forbid or that the belief of it being wrong would be challenging for mental health. The issue would be simple that doing A is wrong.

More probably the conclusions from the project manager are positive exaggerations because it would directly benefit from the continuation of the project but let's consider the possibility that RV works! This would be a fantastic evidence of psychic/paranormal phenomena that would make anyone reconsider other paranormal/spiritual claims that we're previously dismissed. Which creates a dilemma because if I'm non-receptive to paranormal phenomena it will not work and there's no point in trying and if I'm receptive then it's unwise because divination is sinful according to the majority of religions.

I imagine there's a "reality" be it real or fictitious where RV and other forms of divination works but ain't widespread enough to be scientifically acknowledged because those really capable of it knows it leads to eternal damnation so they don't practice it or share it publicly. In this same "reality" it's possible that the CIA as other intelligence agencies successfully used divination to acquire intel but discontinued it as they did with Blackbird because nowadays the have much better ways like software backdoors, spy satellites and even OSINT. And to note at best RV produces subjective intel which is non-optimal.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0011002...

Obviously people lie but a compelling report.

For comparison:

Chernobyl disaster: 2 killed by debris (including 1 missing) and 28 killed by acute radiation sickness. 15 terminal cases of thyroid cancer, with varying estimates of increased cancer mortality over subsequent decades.

Derna dam collapse: 5,923 (confirmed). 14,000–24,000 (estimated).

The main reasons why Brazil invested in hydros instead of nuclear are:

- US embargoed Brazil's nuclear program.

- It's more attractive for those making the decisions to build dams. Brazilian civil engineering companies like Odebrecht already have the know-how to build dams and the extraoficial pocket filling channels that make politicians & authorities happy.

Enviromentalism typically is a retarded ideology that does more harm than good.

This will never happen. JBS is a big financer and friends with the ruling mafia (government).

Just to give you an idea. The owner of JBS bought a bankrupt energy distributor for a bargain and soon after, the government announced a recovery plan for this distributor through a fee that is being paid on the electricity bill by consumers across the country. Also JBS became big as it is today due to generous over-the-counter loans with negative rates by a state bank (BNDES) during the Worker's Party (PT) previous governments.

I argue that in many cases owners and managers, those who are posed to benefit from this ideology, are the ones which poison the mindset by punishing proactivity and being arrogant. There's also D employees, those that are unable to create value by the conditions set forth, they recognize the pointleness of their job and actively do the minimum and create excuses just to not get fired.

Government will not solve anything and is unfit to deal with those events as it's for everything else. This was demonstrated by it's poor performance this year dealing with the floodings in April/May and presently the country-wide fires. As always it's up to the affected and the civil society with their tax constrained resourced to deal with the gross.

Droughts and fires can be mitigated by technology and planning but it's not like magic. As you said it's expensive and Brazilians are not only cash constrained but everything that is tech related costs multiples than what someone would expect to pay in other countries and is harder to find. And Brazil is risk and everyday is a different surprise be it from petty criminals or the pros (government employees).

Certainly if Bolsonaro was still the country's president the mainstream narrative would blame him for all that is happening and call him a genocide worst than Hitler because he is the scape goat. But as it is the sacred sheep who is in power nobody dares to criticize the government. It's no coincidence the timing of X ban. Not only this deviates the public discourse from this tragedy but also silenced any mainstream opposition.

Also a share of those fires are not natural but deliberately caused by people. Maybe someone is profiting from this like narcos in São Paulo or it's a mass hysteria thing. Well, there's plenty of evidence of both cases. Also this is nothing new just the scale that is abnormal.

I wouldn't. It would be a really bad deal.

It's not like the article is wrong. There is a link between deforestation and droughts. Droughts and heat waves are becoming more severe and common in Brazil. The point is that the well was poisoned. Mainstream environmentalism was contaminated with politics so it's pointless to engage with it as it will accomplished nothing by design. It doesn't make sense to waste time and sacrifice your mental sanity for nothing.

With further reflecting buying online for almost everything is certainly cheaper and more convenient making it harder to justify going in a store but I miss the experience of buying things in a store. Online shopping is dehumanizing.

Every time I read such news I have a feeling I'm being fed a lazy political narrative rather than the complex truth. WaPo certainly benefits from the views from the "climate doom" crowd at the expense of their mental health and there will be no improvement because the crowd is ignorant and powerless.

What do you mean by that?

The constitution on article 5 and 220 is clear on freedom of expression being a guaranteed right. e.g "manifestations of thought, creation, expression, and information may not be subject to any restrictions"

> responding specifically to the notion that Brazil was a thriving democracy before Lula took office, which is clearly absurd

Brazil has a long history of authoritarian and populist governments yet it's a democracy since 1988 despite the erosion. And certainly more thriving than Cuba or Venezuela. This notion isn't absurd at all. If you think that a party that is part of an ideological block of authoritarians like Castro, Chavez, Maduro, Xi, Putin et cetera and that has stayed in power for 16 of the last 22 years has done nothing to consolidate and perpetuate power you are beyond naivety.

The scans from the secret court ordes published by X on @AlexandrFiles. Note, if these are fabrications why haven't the STF denied their content? It's not just talk, evidence was presented.

> Only justice will officially decide on that and here justice decided, whether somebody (you, me, twitter) likes it or not.

You're assuming the rule of law as a premise which isn't the case. This is a heavily politicized case from a judge that is know to be political. Would you have a different opinion if this was a Russian judge instead of Brazilian judge?

> There's always the appeal path, and if all exhausted and I still don't like it, well, there.

There's no way to appeal to an independent court/judge. The appeal is judged by the supreme court and the other judges have strong incentives to not go against their colleague.

What do you mean by "blue-eyed logic"? Do you really need to put race in eveything?

> "I don't like a legal decision so I will not respect it and expect impunity"

What's your instace on Lula being arrested for corruption? What's your instance on leftists invading and setting fire to public buildings in Brazilian in 2006?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlC3xO1KOBE (news from state TV)

Damn, let's be honest! It's beyond censorship! It's an authoritarian judge censoring congressman and random people on X (one account had 50 followers) because he is personally angered by some posts. If he's addicted to social media and that was taking a toll on his mental health he could've used LeechBlock NG or NextDNS. No need to block it for everyone just because you can or to harass an unrelated company because one of the owners pissed you off.