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  • Virkkunen@kbin.socialtoLemmy@lemmy.mlPolitics blocklist
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for the list, pretty much everything there is absolutely irrelevant to me and where I live, mas generally it’s just about Trump.

    On a side note, I also get very irritated that the news and world news communities are mainly news about American right wing politicians




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    PIX entered beta testing in late 2020, and soon enough was widely available in the country, to absolute approval. It’s so easy to open bank accounts and have a PIX key that even homeless people with access to internet (which is also easy to get) have PIX and ask for money through it. Physical money is fading fast and people are loving it in Brazil.