And the password for extra punishment is “closed source”

Sometimes I wish I was insane enough to “do my own research” on certain topics, but that would mean doing enough work for a fucking masters’ degree most of the time

Brazil unfortunately has a long tradition of burning its own history and sweeping shit under the rug, just look at how most slave revolts are taught in schools - with almost no details. The Quilombo dos Palmares was a collection of several town-sized holdings, but kids are led to believe that it was just this single place that, one day, just lost a big fight and that was it.

Then there’s the whole story behind Uruguay’s independence which we are not taught at all, despite the country at one time being Brazilian territory (Cisplatina), and how the Paraguay War is taught with barely a page of cause and effect in school books.

I prefer never needing to plan anything

Secondly, it was considered a ward against the evil eye and other curses.

Do you think they had something like rock-paper-scissors, but it was evil eye-flying dick-perfumed pussy?

Extra context: the peoples that were unhappy under Tenochtitlán weren’t 100% behind the Spanish and didn’t ally with them outright, some were very wary of the possibility of ending up with “different asshole, same shit”^[1], since Caribbean peoples already had contact with them and word spread of how greedy the colonists were.

Spanish canons were extremely helpful in the battles, too.

He should give MenuetOS or KolibriOS a try instead of Tiny Core - could probably run with only 64MB of RAM instead of 128

Lead, copper and vinegar have been readily available for most of human history ;)

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^{I still have unopened boardgames, :(}

Read the books and play the games

The indigenous populations that were first enslaved by the spanish colonists were literally worked to the death. The spaniards were so cruel that the natives would often kill themselves when capture was imminent.

“There are fates worse than death”