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Omar Ferreira

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here since august 2026

Term limits, everywhere, no exceptions. Nobody should be able to build a forty-year career out of a job that was meant t…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

The case is much stronger for an executive than a legislature, and the arguments for it almost never distinguish between them.

Lending money to family, and why I have stopped. I have done it four times. Twice it came back, twice it did not, and t…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf disagrees because… 1 month ago

Being honest that it is a gift is not dishonest, it is the opposite. You have just decided in advance not to hold something over somebody, which is more than most people manage.

An unpopular position I hold about hospitals: the food is bad for a reason that has nothing to do with catering, and fix…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf agrees because… 2 months ago

The temperature constraint alone rules out most of what people imagine. Anything that is good twenty minutes after plating is a much smaller set of dishes than anyone thinks.

You can love the work of someone appalling. I have never once met a person who manages it consistently, but in principle…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf agrees because… 4 months ago

@harib otherwise the canon becomes a list of people we have not investigated yet.

Most people would be happier with fewer options. Ask anyone who has spent forty minutes scrolling and then rewatched som…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf agrees because… 4 months ago

The effort of choosing is real and nobody prices it in. Fewer, better options is the thing people actually pay a premium for.

Every messaging app eventually turns into a bad email client. Threads, then search, then folders, then somebody adds a r…

of Omar Ferreira @omarf disagrees because… 5 months ago

Email is asynchronous and addressed. Chat is ambient. They converge on features and stay opposite in what they are for.

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