"Human males are more attractive, look at peacocks"

"Yes, Vance thinks" is the news here

I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master's abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish

As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever

Star trek series are no longer available on netflix

Because some rich person had a deal with another rich person, neither of whom had anything to do with producing said series made before streaming was a thing.

Claro que si

A clear sea indeed

That intellectual property, both copyright or patents, doesn't serve its theoretical purpose and just acts as a legal shield for the monopolies of big corporations, at least in our capitalistic system, and it limits the spread of information

In theory, a musician should be protected against abuse of their music. In practice, all musicians need to be on Spotify through one of the few main publishers to make any decent money, and their music will be used for unintended purposes (intended for their contract at least) like AI training

In theory, patents should allow a small company with an idea to sell its progressive product to many big corporations. In practice, one big corporation will either buy the small company or copy the product and have the money to legally support its case against all evidence, lobbying to change laws too. Not to mention that big corporations are the ones that can do enough research to have relevant patents, it's much harder for universities and SMEs, not to mention big corporations can lobby to reduce public funding to R&D programs in universities and for SMEs.

And, last but not least important, access to content, think of politically relevant movies or book, depends on your income. If you are from a poorer country, chances are you cannot enjoy as much information and content as one born in a richer country.

Giovanni Espresso

This is based on one controversial source, an article written by a priest, to which the commission board decided to formally respond with concern, including for conflict of interest

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5567452/

There is a whole discussion.

The point of having sources is not to demonstrate a number is true, but to allow readers to see how scientific are the findings. You can read the discussion for yourself.

This poster cherrypicks a controversial article that shows the numbers the poster authors wanted, despite it being an outlier in that research space

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I think this small experiment simply demonstrates that ditching cars is not a matter of personal preferences, but a community effort

movie literally talks of time distortions

kids would be confused about a kiss

Sure

The needs of the me outweigh the needs of the you

People on busses: "OK this trip lasts 2 hours, we started moving at 8:15 so by 10:15 we should get there"

Same people while driving: "If I don't very slowly overtake this car that for the past 10 seconds has been driving slightly slower than I'd like to, I'll never get there"

Hi, Italian here

Italy, like many European countries, had strong social-democratic foundations. Many state jobs, strong state education, one of the best state healthcares out there, strong labour laws with contracts made by unions with specific job sectors.

That's now mostly on paper, and things change significantly from region to region. For example Emilia Romagna is still pretty strong on those, but go to the south and you'll see state school buildings being closed because they might collapse, or not offering any heating or A/C for the kids. Public healthcare is now very understaffed in most regions.

As for labour laws, companies aren't exactly too happy giving the expected raises or following work hours, and unskilled jobs are a disaster of underpay and unpaid overtime.

In general, social cohesion is hit or miss. Sure,most people are welcoming and friendly, but many of them are not paying all of their taxes. You're friends with the person in front of you, not with your whole nation.

Now that I broke some of the possible expectations: yes it's a good idea to come here. With time you will find some job, especially in the north and centre regions, just prepare for high rents in big cities and you'll be fine. Oh and possibly find somebody to help with taxes. If you decide for Rome, Napoli or Palermo, don't drive right away, take your time to learn how people drive here, what to expect etc

Now we know what Sheldon would do with a time machine

Many that fight for civic rights, also fight the class war, protesting for both

Civil rights are actually a good platform to spread social awareness

Actually last time I checked apple did their keynotes mentioning the environment and stuff, greenwashing their choices... I'm curious what they'll do now.

Just like Tesla, they might have saturated their liberal userbase, I wouldn't be too surprised if they took a more "neutral" stance

Therapy can be pretty good at understanding you are not a walking problem, which is where many people are at

But it can't help with competition- and capitalism- induced suffering :(

My favourite is language, not even writing, but language itself. We could collectively invent ways to understand each others with codes shared by tens of millions of individuals, living kilometres apart.

And then I also love early astronomy, like being able to approximate Earth's circumference (or later the time needed to reach Asia by navigating west), based on the shadow lenght at two fairly distant (but still pretty close) places, thanks to that quirky thing some friends of yours invented to divide land called geometry. To say nothing of those demonstrating Earth rotates around the Sun just by looking at star positions during the year.

As for recent things, something pretty cool we take for granted is radio signals. Information getting places without anything moving, just invisible vibrations through space.

I refuse to believe lawmakers around the world are genuinely convinced you can prevent children from accessing porn

Sure not all children will be that tech savvy to circumvent the limits, but then they could access it like I was shown porn for the first time before breadband: a random kid during a school trip had a porn video saved on his phone. Only a few phones had video capabilities at the time, now it's commonplace.

So yeah I will never believe the good will of such bills