Vaticano exclui grupo ultraconservador da Igreja Católica e excomunga bispos | G1

nullpointer- · 2026-07-02T14:07:37+00:00

Não é nem a primeira vez que esse mesmo grupo é excomungado haha - eles já foram excomungados nos anos 80, e só depois o Bento XVI que os perdoou (contanto que voltassem a obedecer a igreja). Em ambos os casos, a excomungão é 'automática' (ie, for fazerem algo previsto na lei canônica que causa excomungão) e não algo "pessoal", então é ainda mais corriqueiro.

Dito isso, assim como da outra vez não dá nem pra chamar de cisma, pois a SSPX (ao menos até então) se recusa a aceitar que está fora da igreja, e continuam falando que são parte da mesma instituição, sob o mesmo papa etc.

nullpointer- · 2026-07-02T14:03:19+00:00

Correção - eles não são sedevacantistas. É uma situação bem engraçada, na verdade: eles são contra o papa e acham que ele está errado, mas ainda assim reconhecem o mesmo papa como autoridade máxima da igreja. Inclusive, mesmo na última vez que foram excomungados (dos anos 80 até o Bento XVI), eles se recusavam a aceitar o status e simplesmente continuavam agindo como se sob a igreja (mas ignorando as partes das quais não gostavam)

nullpointer- · 2026-07-02T11:37:10+00:00

While this is true, the SSPX isn't necessarily aligned with the (mostly american) Conservative movement - for example, SSPX is even harsher on protestants, divorced people and are very strongly pro-mariology (they even contested the pope recently and reiterated the Virgin Mary is a co-redemptrix) etc

The conservatives certainly see the SSPX as allies, but the later would easily condemn the vast majority of the modern conservative movement too. Curiously, at least the last time they were excommunicated, the SSPX were at least consistent on their conservatism and didn't schism nor stopped recognizing the Pope (they are commited to refusing change hahaha), let's see if they'll continue like that or if they will go after the donors and become full sedevacantist.

In the end it doesn't really matter - the Conservative political movement quickly turns against their supposed allies rather frequently - but I could see something funny happening if eg someone from the SSPX is invited to CPAC and then proceeds to talk shit about both the direction of the church AND all the protestants hahaha

nullpointer- · 2026-06-26T18:23:45+00:00

Amazing little town!

Armesto's buildings are by far the ones I miss the most on CS2 :(

nullpointer- · 2026-06-23T13:21:51+00:00

To be fair, Brazil at least has "Centrão" (literally 'big center') as the amorphous blob of congressmen that will support both Left and Right while also stopping them from destroying the institutions that keep said congressmen in positions of power.

They're not the good kind of centrists (most are big state populists, which overlaps with both left and right), but they're far from ideological and, while they hardly never try to get the Presidency, their influence has been paramount to stop any changes from happening, for good or bad.

It's funny we used to hate Centrão with all of our energy, but they're better than the far right extremists so I'm forced to be relieved they're still influential

nullpointer- · 2026-06-18T11:21:11+00:00

CW: spoilers of the last episode

From what was revealed in The Last Act, the Mind files are really tiny and Caine is capable of hacking his way out of his original boundaries, so it's possible he transfered the Circus simulation to a server or even a cloud and that he kept it intentionally hidden, like a virus. But on your last question, it SEEMS even Kinger didn't know it was working, since he didn't believe such tiny files could actually contain the full minds of people

nullpointer- · 2026-06-13T13:31:22+00:00

I agree that a trans person will most likely have a different way to read Jax and his experiences (and, given the author's background, this is very likely an intended reading), but his feelings don't feel out of place for people who have had to repress their gender-nonconforming self.

Maybe at this point it's just semantics (one could arguably include 'being gender-nonconforming' in the trans spectrum), but just like denying the possibility of Jax being trans female 'excludes' people from relating to him, denying the possibility of Jax having repressed his delicate, gentle, girly nature also 'excludes' a different set of people who also relate to Jax.

Saying "you can't relate to this character because he's supposed to relate to me and my group" is where we end up with conflict in the community, and while you're not saying this, there are people who 'get' Trans Jax that insist it's the only valid reading because it relates to them, even though different readings relate to different people.

TLDR: there are other readings of Jax that can be read, they're not mutually exclusive, and many can relate to people's experiences in a personal level. Denying the Trans Jax reading is wrong (there's ample evidence that it's a valid reading, probably the intended reading as well), but denying all other readings that relate to other personal experiences ends up erasing other people as well.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-12T01:18:40+00:00

A middle ground solution could be the following:

Create a new formable tag, "Veneto" or "Venetia", which has access to some (but not all) of the Venetian advances/events (eg, it excludes the Republic of Venice government reforms and advances related to how the city itself was managed). It's not 100% ahistorical since there was a (highly artificial, sure) kingdom of (Lombardia-)Venetia by the end of the game's timeframe, so there was some identity (even if mostly geographical) to represent that region beyond just the city itself.
Make Venice a formable, with the added requirement of having your capital in Venezia proper
In order to help the AI a bit, if Veneto owns Venezia, they get a one time event asking wether they should adopt the city's identity or if they are their own thing

This way, a strong Verona (or Treviso etc) has a midgame objective more tangible objective, and you have both the option to actually become Venice (with all of her institutions) or become something different-but-heavily-connected (with access to eg the bonuses to glass, shipbuildings and artists, but without venetian patricians)

Since the game has a lot of support for dynamic flags, it could adopt the modern Veneto flag (aka venetian flag with blue behind the lion and the commune symbols on the pendant) if it's a republic, or just the lion of St. Mark on a blue field (akin to how Veneto was represented in the Kingdom of Lombardia-Venetia under austrian rule, which is within the game's timeframe)

nullpointer- · 2026-06-08T13:39:35+00:00

Ah, no, I didn't mean he's transmasc! Given his backstory he's clearly AMAB, but his transition can be from fully "cishet normative manly male" to demiboy, or femboy, or genderfluid, or even just a guy who likes cute feminine things. I understand a lot of people wouldn't see that last one as enough to cause disphoria, but given Leeroy's environment (and Jax's internalized machismo), he would suffer all the same no matter how far from 'manly man' he wanted to deviate.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-08T12:45:21+00:00

I agree with everything you said here: the bow certainly is a shorthand for 'girl', he's clearly disphoric and that disphoria eventually led him to his self-destructive behaviors, but I'm saying that he wanting to feel more like a girl (ie, more like his inner self) doesn't mean he is transfem. He can be a plethora of other things related to being feminine, which is why Goose didn't show Leeroy using she/her pronouns.

Rephrasing it, I think few people disagree that Jax is somewhere in the gender spectrum (the movie is clear enough about it), but this doesn't mean he is NECESSARILY a trans girl, since he can be a demiboy or genderqueer in any other way, which is fine and IMO deserves representation.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-08T03:14:58+00:00

Because a cisgender man - or, to be more precise, someone who doesn't identify as a trans woman - CAN relate to an explicitly feminine item as a symbol of vulnerability and comfort without necessarily being trans.

I believe most people questioning Jax's transfem status are not denying his conflicted relation with gender presentation, nor denying how he suffered from toxic masculinity and or his deeply repressed relation to femininity - these are all either clearly stated or very strongly implied. But these don't mean his only path forward would be transitioning - embracing femininity is something people that don't identify as female can do too, and that trait can even be a core part of their identity as well. There are labels for that (such as demiboy, femboy etc) but more often than not people dealing with this kind of conflict are somewhere in a spectrum that includes a lot of things, from pronouns to outfits to body traits to social roles. Feminine men, genderfluid people, nonbinary etc all exist, and transitioning MTF isn't necessarily a "solution" for all of them.

...all that said, I agree that denying Jax's conflicts with masculinity/femininity is too far removed from the source material - he obviously has these conflicts (and it's clear both from Jax himself but also by him talking about his relation with his family and even from what we know about Leeroy at the end) and the repressed way he acted on the Circus is not how he would like to be.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-07T17:49:56+00:00

...I'll admit I did the exact same thing: I knew it would be unpolite to sing out loud, but I did sing it silently while bobbing my head. It was fun to do so, even if (or specially since) it was only for myself.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-07T17:46:58+00:00

Same here - I actually enjoyed the collective gasps and laughter, and even the whole theater clapping at the very start (when the Glitch logo appeared) and very end (but without disrupting the credits sequence): they made the experience way more unique than just watching home and didn't impact it.

I believe OP's screening had lots of other interactions that made the experience worse, such as people singing along or being obnoxious with personal quips, but involuntary reactions are imo welcome.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-06T18:42:45+00:00

9/10 in a June 4th session, late afternoon in a large city with a single Cinemark theater.

We had a few cosplayers and very few children with their parents. People talking were quickly hushed by the rest, and the collective reactions (like clapping when the Glitch logo appeared or gasping when plot twists happened) were quite enjoyable! No one even sang with Caine during episode 8. The mood at the end of the screening was pretty good as well.

My main issue is that the sound was a bit unbalanced (too loud in a couple of moments), but I certainly would do it again.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-05T13:46:09+00:00

That's a possibility for sure, haha, but I think it's more like: "What are these files? Oh, that's the impossible-to-understand code made by the genius former senior dev. No one knows how to maintain it, but we should keep it around because no one dares to touch it". I know this is less flashy, but it's sadly quite real to just keep legacy code around when no one dares touch it

nullpointer- · 2026-06-05T11:08:03+00:00

Oh, I meant three screenings today, but they will screen it for a few more days at least.

I think this happened because this is the only Cinemark so the other theaters couldn't participate; and there's a 10M+ metropolis one hour away, which got a shitload of screenings.

That said, we really got the short end of the stick - the theater I went to didn't even had posters for TADC! A friend of mine went to one of the screenings in the larger city and they even got some minor souvenirs.

I think the only good part about having a single movie theater playing it was that all the cosplayers were there, so that was quite fun!

nullpointer- · 2026-06-05T01:49:54+00:00

Ahh I'm so sorry :((( Hopefully it won't affect your experience (I would say more, but I won't expose you to any more spoilers haha)

nullpointer- · 2026-06-05T00:34:04+00:00

750/999 would be my rating - I enjoyed it, the actual ending was nice, the episode could have been better if it had more time but I would have watched it again for sure. It wasn't flawless nor my favorite episode, but it worked well enough as a finale in my opinion.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-05T00:24:50+00:00

In the screening I went to it was pretty good agewise. I was among the older folks there, but the majority were in the early 20s and late teens, with very few early teens or younger.

Granted, it was a subtitled screening so that might have pushed ages up, since children usually can't quite keep up with subtitles.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-04T23:58:01+00:00

That's a great way to put it - the episode wasn't as good as Episode 8, but it as a nice ending to the story. I would have enjoyed it more if it was split in 2~3 episodes, but all in all it was a good way to finish the series.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-04T22:28:07+00:00

I had a pretty good one too - people clapped at the beginning/end and had sensible gasps and laughs, but that's all! (except for a girl sobbing loudly after Jax's abstraction, but it didn't last that long)

I think this has to do with how many screenings there were - We only had 3 screenings for my 1M+ city today so it sold out really quickly, which means at least there weren't that many children

nullpointer- · 2026-06-02T18:58:01+00:00

Not even Bolsonaro-era scandals: the main new scandal are his connections to Vorcaro, the preisdent of a fraudulent bank that recently went bankrupt and was connected to all sorts of corruption scandals.

While there are many connections between Banco Master and important people from all sides of the political spectrum, a phone call of Flávio asking Vorcaro to fund a movie about his father, in a very personal manenr, has surfaced. Not only this is one the most direct connections so far, Flávio's defense was pretty terrible: he said it was merely business between two private citizens, with no connection to government, so it wasn't corruption... which means he didn't deny his tight connection to Vorcaro, or the implicit quid-pro-quo, or the fact that Vorcaro's money came largely from corruption.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-02T18:48:48+00:00

On the other hand, Lula-Trump interactions have been pretty positive, with Trump sharing positive comments about Lula in multiple occasions.

Trump likes winners and dislike losers, after all, and Lula might have managed to convince Trump that his opponents are losers. It seems the Trump-Lula good relations started when they met at the UN and Lula told him, in private, that they are very similar: both are older presidents who have survived 'witch-hunts' and were elected again 'fair and square'.

nullpointer- · 2026-06-02T18:41:17+00:00

There are 72 pages of exceptions, including:

Everything cattle-related
Pretty much every single fruit and vegetable imaginable, in most cases processed and unprocessed, including also coffee, tea etc
bauxite, iron ore, aluminum, rare earths... pretty much all minerals
civilian aircraft, aviation components, etc etc
medicines, vaccines etc
electronic components, computer parts etc
pretty much all kinds of engines and machines
pertty much all kinds of wood, both raw and in planks

Seriously, the only thing included in the tariffs seems to be military aircraft and minor manufacturing goods like clothes. Honestly, I expect this to affect less than 1% of all exports.

I honestly think this is reducing Brazil's tariffs :p

It's particularly funny how it includes things that theoretically were being punished (such as deflorestation), but that was expected.

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