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Carl Munson's Portugal Club
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10d •
Don't trust AI
I had Artificial Intelligence draw a map of the municipalities of the Lisbon metropolitan area and the map in the left is what it generated. I then asked AI to draw a geographically accurate map of the Lisbon metropolitan area and the map on the right is what it generated. 🤦
1 like • 5d
Do you want to see how bad AI is? Take a look at some of these videos on YouT.... Not a single ai passes the PEN TEST in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thKjvF1dZQY How many R's in strawberry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-YbhArR-qQ Or asking for a number with an 'a' in it under 1000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Gy6D-hC1g or many more from the same video maker.
May 15 •
Feelgood Friday fiddly bits
Bom dia to you! Got any plans for the weekend? On the show this morning, and from GuMPer @Francis Gersbach: "Your Portugal Path Portugal's citizenship law changed in May 2026. If you've already started this journey, we know the timing is hard. This 2-minute check tells you which rules apply to your situation". Try it here --- That oil win
1 like • May 16
With that two-minute check above I'm told to 1. Get your plastic card sorted — this is your first priority 2. Register at your local Junta de Freguesia (neighbourhood office) 3. Get your NIF (tax number) and start filing returns from day one What are 1 & 2? No-one has ever said anything either and I've been here since January. (3 was arranged because I needed it for the visa, then switched the address when I arrived here.)
3 likes • May 9
As one door closes it's good to see another door open ... unless of course you're buying a used car.
May 8 •
Iberia's shrinking population
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/2026/04/21/die-haelfte-der-europaeischen-gemeinden-hat-weniger-einwohner-als-vor-60-jahren/
2 likes • May 9
I've seen this "coalescing" of the population many times. People move from rural communities to larger towns and cities that have better services (e.g. health care, schools, more shops). Modern transport methods make it easy to live in one location and yet have a farm in another. In these cases, driving from home to "work" often takes less time than commutes in cities. You end up with small communities becoming smaller and larger ones becoming larger, hence my term "coalescing".
May 4 •
Dictionary surprises
I recently bought a Portuguese-English Dictionary. It has 647 pages of English words (with Portuguese meanings) and 450 pages of Portuguese words (with English meanings). Take a guess at which letter the words start with on the middle page of the Portuguese -> English section, i.e. 225 pages from the start of that section. If the words were evenly split the answer would be M or N. If the words before M outnumbered the words after M, the middle page words might start with K. Have a guess at what it was. I'll post the answer in a day or two.
2 likes • May 6
The answer is ... drum roll, please .. 'f' (or to be precise 'fi..' words to 'fl...' words). I thought that was extraordinary. Not even seven characters into the alphabet and that's half the words. My dictionary is the orange "Porto Editora" version, 1143 pages in total, so is it like this in other dictionaries? BTW, it lists just four words starting with y -'y', 'yen', 'yoga' and 'yuppie' - only eight for 'w' and twenty for 'k', and in these three cases they simply copy the foreign words.
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@john-mclean-5569
Australian (but don't hold that against me). Retired. but never act my age:-).
Active 5d ago
Joined Apr 1, 2026
Aveiro, Portugal.