@aledeniz Avatar @aledeniz Alessandro Riolo

Alessandro Riolo posts on X about italy, in the, china, tunisia the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social Influence

Social category influence countries 41.71% travel destinations 13.9% finance 9.09% technology brands 3.21% la liga 2.14% automotive brands 1.6% currencies 1.6% celebrities 1.07% stocks 1.07% champions league 0.53%

Social topic influence italy 17.65%, in the 4.81%, china 3.74%, tunisia #505, turkey 3.74%, more than 3.21%, germany 3.21%, venice #142, this is 2.67%, france 2.67%

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"Sicilians of lore until the mid-to-late 20th century followed a naming system often called by English authors the Sicilian Naming Convention (SNC). This was an extremely strong almost ritualistic custom in Sicily and much of the Italian Mezzogiorno. My elders universally believed it was an actual law. It was not but it carried such social weight that breaking it (especially for the first son) could cause serious family conflict disapproval or even definitive ostracism. It classically worked as follows: The overriding principle was to honour older generations in strict birth-order priority"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:35Z [----] followers, 185.5K engagements

"A few personal notes: - My sister had a university friend from Bovesia. Their Calabrian Griko grandmother had married an Ionian Greek from Smyrna. Apparently until the early 20th century the Western Greeks exchanged grooms and brides with the motherland. - I had an Arbresh classmate. Their Sicilian Arbresh grandmother had married an Albanian-speaking Epirote. Apparently until the early 20th century the Arbresh exchanged grooms and brides with the motherland. In fact my classmate specifically said that their grandfather had been sent by his family to marry in Sicily as if it were a traditional"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:30Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements

"Kingdom of Sardinia the [--] March 1861: Fino al [--] marzo [----] tutta l'Italia si chiamava regno di Sardegna e gli italiani erano tutti Sardi. Una delle tante invenzioni ed esperimenti falliti. Il Veneto era sempre Veneto invece. https://t.co/xDcXup6nkY Fino al [--] marzo [----] tutta l'Italia si chiamava regno di Sardegna e gli italiani erano tutti Sardi. Una delle tante invenzioni ed esperimenti falliti. Il Veneto era sempre Veneto invece. https://t.co/xDcXup6nkY"
X Link 2026-02-15T14:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I did this train trip many times as a child from Palermo or Trapani to Venice. Most times with my parents my mom worked in Venice a couple of times with my older cousins. Once we lost my dad in Battipaglia: he stepped out to buy sandwiches and the train left without him. He caught a faster train and a conductor told him where to get off to rejoin us we were with my mom decades before smartphones. 🥹 Another time with my cousins we shared our compartment with a South Korean girl for most of the journey. She taught us about the Korean language and writing system. Ive never seen my cousin an"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"When I was a child my mom was working in Venice and I spent time with her there. Venetians had different food than Sicilians. Venetians had radicchio tiramisu pandoro . stuff you could not have in Sicily. They had the cannoli and other Sicilian pastries but very small. Tiny. Ice-cream was as good as in Sicily but hideously expensive. My mom's was from a seafaring family when in Venice her relatives all complained about the Venetian fishes. The Venetians tend(ed) to eat what the seafaring Sicilians thought to be the lowest range. I know for certain the Venetians greatly enjoy their fishes and"
X Link 2026-02-15T21:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The Ulsan shipyards only make sense in a world with a single dominant power enforcing a unified global supply chain. In a multipolar world that choice becomes a major liability. Even persuading South Korea to join the US on extremely favourable terms (offering them more than two senators) isnt enough given its proximity to the main rival power. Ulsan would need to be (1) staffed (2) operated and (3) defended against a militarily stronger empire just [---] miles away. Its a nightmare even before considering that relying on a single shipyard a single point of failure is unwise in a multipolar"
X Link 2026-01-01T22:07Z [----] followers, 24.5K engagements

"I must admit I cannot imagine a long-term scenario where China will not eventually betray Russia and attempt to seize everything east of the Urals. And I cannot imagine Putin not thinking along those lines too. Perhaps I am too Mediterranean in my thinking and maybe Chinese elites dont follow my mental models who knows but I simply cannot see how I could be wrong about Putins mental model on this. It automatically will destroy the whole Western thesis of Russia being the junior partner of China. It will catapult the Russian position within the DragonBear given its pole position in the Arctic"
X Link 2026-01-07T10:11Z [----] followers, 165.6K engagements

"Technologists read and quote Christopher Alexander many orders of magnitude more often than architects. Make of this what you will. Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom. When figuring out how to design a kitchen for instance there are a bunch of subproblems to solve: where to put Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom. When figuring out how to"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Pyrrhic dance is not dance of Pyrrhus. 😂 It is fire dance. In Ancient Greek "
X Link 2026-02-02T12:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I wholly agree with @Sotiropoulos. I have never declared myself white on a form or census. Nor would I declare myself brown black or any other hue. Ive had this conversation in real life; people found it puzzling. One once looked at my skin and said But you are the whitest of the whites yet thats not a Mediterranean categorisation. None of my elders would ever think of themselves as white or similar. At nursery one of my classmates once drew human figures leaving some white and painting others red. The teacher was puzzled. The little girl explained she had watched a Western movie with white"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Sicilians for a few centuries used to speak in Arabic In fact there used to be a whole specific Arabic language what the linguists call Siculo-Arabic widely spoken in the archipelago. Modern Maltese is the last and only variety of this language currently spoken. In che modo il cantante #Ghali (che non so chi sia ma mi dicono bravo) che vuole parlare in arabo (lingua bellissima e difficilissima) rappresenta la cultura e tradizione musicale italiana da presentare al mondo stasera a #Milano alla #CerimoniaDiApertura delle #Olimpiadi Non In che modo il cantante #Ghali (che non so chi sia ma mi"
X Link 2026-02-06T12:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Yes. Arabists generally disagree on this but Canaan Tunisia and western Sicily shared a Semitic language for centuries before any Arabic speakers set foot in Sicily or Tunisia. The gap between the last recorded Phoenician speakers in Tunisia and the first recorded Arabic speakers in the central Mediterranean is at most a couple of centuries. It is therefore not far-fetched to conjecture that a living Semitic substrate may have existed"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This Pigouvian strategy doesnt work in Italy and will not work in a lot of countries @ErikSolheim: Change the tax burden so that electric cars become cheaper relative to fossil cars. Most Italian families want to buy a new car in the 10k to 20k range. The cheapest hybrid Panda is currently listed at 17k. The electric Panda are listed at 24k to 28k. It is way too expensive. What you are proposing is to tax the hybrid Panda so that it will cost 30k. People will not be able to afford cars anymore they will get angry and vote in monsters. 96% of all new cars sold in Norway in [----] were electric."
X Link 2026-02-06T14:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"So I tested 4.6: it failed [--] consecutive times with sorry no response was returned (by the way: I was charged each time) then I swapped to [---] which one shotted it before I could look at my screen once. It seems everyone is crowding [---] while [---] is all alone 🥹 Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta. https://t.co/L1iQyRgT9x Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"We need to integrate North Africa into the European markets. In fact the vision should be the integration of the whole Mediterranean in the European markets. It may be challenging but it must be done"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@JayDee909771543 There may be good data on it from Italy or France vs Britain "
X Link 2026-02-08T10:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Update: It was a single script but apparently a hard question. Neither Claude Opus [---] nor Opus [---] could fully solve it in multiple shots let alone one shot (4.5 worked in the first test but sadly when I expanded the targets I had to go back to the drawing board). Grok made a decent one-shot attempt ChatGPT [---] was the one that understood and correctly documented the issue more (it must be better at generic text prediction). The best one-shot was actually from Gemini [--] Flash but even there I had to iterate a couple of times (and by then I knew what was missing). Anyway I now have a script"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This was already answered by @tito in the convo with a chart. One reason Italians have to work so much is that Italy has been energy-starved for my entire life more than half a century. Italians work long hours to compensate for their energy drought. When I moved to London in my early 30s Britain was an energy-rich country. I was amazed by how abundant cheap and reliable the energy supply was. For the first few years it felt like I was being paid to be on vacation: I worked just [--] hours a week my managers told me off for working too much yet I was working half the hours I was used to in"
X Link 2026-02-08T11:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Marco379769 Why What there may be of so irrational on my posts on the subject"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ThuleRavenclaw Poland being in the EU while Tunisia Algeria and Libya are not in a major hint that the EU project is skewed to favour Germans more than Sicilians "
X Link 2026-02-08T12:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I had a long conversation with Grok and ChatGPT about this and I now believe Italy should amend its constitution. Italy has a law written in [----] that specifically prevents anyone with a condition like a torn ACL from competing. Since childhood I have had white coat hypertension a phenomenon where blood pressure reads much higher in a doctors office or clinical setting than at home. This forced me to struggle with doctors to get approval for any sports activity especially competitive ones. Once I needed eight medical assessments to gain clearance. This is the same law and process that"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"It's likely no Italian was formally called Giuseppe in Italy until Napoleon . If you read the records until the Napoleonic civil registrations in the early XIX century all forenames were given in Latin so all Giuseppe were recorded as Josephus at birth (baptism). In the thousands of records I have read mainly from Sicily and Calabria I don't recall seeing a single exception. The fact that Stalin in Italy was widely known as "Giuseppe Stalin" up until like the 70s is so funny to me The fact that Stalin in Italy was widely known as "Giuseppe Stalin" up until like the 70s is so funny to me"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:59Z [----] followers, 28.2K engagements

"The cultural and linguistic and to a lesser extent genetic forefathers of the Turkic people emerged into history about [--] centuries ago from a specific valley squarely in the middle of modern Mongolia . In their millenary westward trail Turkic peoples eventually forgot which specific valley their forefathers came from but they retained the awareness of a mythical eastern homeland. The identification of that homeland with the Orkhon in modern Turkish Orhun valley in modern Mongolia was established conclusively on firm scholarship more than a century ago. A Mongolian girl goes viral after"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:45Z [----] followers, 39.8K engagements

"Qui comunque sono in disaccordo. La borsa non serve necessariamente a guadagnare profitti da monopoli ma anche a fornire capitale di rischio. Se nel prospetto scrivono la verit che i soldi servono a provare a creare una tecnologia che non esiste ci sta che ci sia chi disposto ad investire. Le borse sono letteralmente nate proprio per questa funzione"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"This is not a movie. Whats unusual is that it was captured on video and the video was somehow published. If you read Southern Italian or Sicilian newspapers youve seen reports of scenes like this countless times over the decades. There was even a gang once infamous for using stolen excavators to rip entire ATMs out of the ground. Un furgone portavalori stato assaltato sulla statale [---] la superstrada che collega Lecce a Brindisi allaltezza di Tuturano. Secondo le prime informazioni ci sarebbe stato un conflitto a fuoco con i Carabinieri ma non risultano feriti. Le immagini mostrano il momento"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:28Z [----] followers, 43.6K engagements

"Il Savoia in questione ad un certo punto fin il piombo. Prov a mantenere il controllo solo per [--] anni. In quei [--] anni in Sicilia i Savoia trovarono uno dei loro pi fidi e utili servitori il mio concittadino Giuseppe Osorio Alaron e Clavica siamo andati allo stesso liceo a secoli di distanza che in et avanzata dopo essere stato pi volte ambasciatore divenne primo ministro. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020888460626629105 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020888460626629105"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The point is quite clear. The proto-Mongols likely came from what is now eastern Mongolia to southern Manchuria. Surely south-east of the Baykal. For the Turks we have instead a very precise epigraphic homeland the Orkhon valley squarely in the middle of modern Mongolia. Its obvious that when the Ashina ruled from Ordu Baliq no one would have called that Mongolia. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020943331866407266 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020943331866407266"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There is an entire genre of videos of people with Anatolian Caucasian or Iranian roots posting their autosomal DNA results. Leaving aside for a moment all the caveats about how commercial tests work one pattern comes up again and again: they often score more Southern Italian than Greek. On the face of it that looks counter-intuitive. A first conjecture might be that modern Southern Italians Sicilians included in such coarse categories may be genetically closer to the Greeks who moved eastward in antiquity than modern Greeks themselves are. This sounds provocative but it is not irrational."
X Link 2026-02-09T21:34Z [----] followers, 102.2K engagements

"They all seem to use the same service so the most likely explanation is the report is use Southern Italians (Western Greek signal thereof) where they perhaps should use Ancient Greeks. Turkish nationalist woman published her DNA test results which revealed that she has 66% Kurdish & Persian and the rest is Anatolian ancestry. She scored 0% Central Asian related Turkic ancestry. https://t.co/9Ito036t5y Turkish nationalist woman published her DNA test results which revealed that she has 66% Kurdish & Persian and the rest is Anatolian ancestry. She scored 0% Central Asian related Turkic"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I have to agree. Over the decades I have seen incredible things. 🥹 Even when the cultural operations: one time TRT the main public channel spent a whole month broadcasting Bollywood movies 😂 morning and afternoon 🫣 Turkish daytime tv is a gem https://t.co/sGkS5iG2Kh Turkish daytime tv is a gem https://t.co/sGkS5iG2Kh"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Did the Germans of lore know their motherland was in Scandinavia Did Latins and Gauls know their ancestors came from the same tribe somewhere in Central or Eastern Europe How many Scots and Irish today know that the Subalps are the Celtic motherland Is it really so strange that the Turks forgot the location of their homeland https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021003475333652781 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021003475333652781"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@agoren_can That 3% is likely just Ancient Greek Ancient Aegean"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Indgeus @BHRMT123 Yes but the Ashkenazi surely got (Ancient) Western Greek ancestry through their passage from Central Mediterranean (Tunisia Sicily Southern Italy)"
X Link 2026-02-10T08:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"While the origin of the Huns remains controversial recent articles I have read generally make a strong case for the Xiongnu hypothesis. As the Xiongnu ruled over what is now Mongolia which was controlled by Turkic peoples soon afterward some overlap is likely. The key question is whether the Xiongnu were a Turkic people. Most historians say no. The more widely accepted view is that proto-Turkic groups may have been one component of the Xiongnu polity. The Xiongnu elites may have been Yeniseian. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021151054172209162"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@serenadeofagony @miffysmoonlover Castigliano di Valencia proprio identico no per il Catalano nei dintorni di Girona ricorda in effetti molto Lombardo o Piemontese"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@DanielVarg81627 @duren_matto @jadinho97 @GooalMouth I would never move in Milan for a 80k gross salary. Its basically indentured servitude. Trapani or Siracusa on the other hand I would think about it. In there thats elite wagie you would be on par with their top professionals"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There is no family home you can rent in London for $1000. If you have [--] kids so [--] bedrooms the average is around $4500. The more likely range is $3500 to $6500. This is excluding council tax and bills. NYC salaries are much higher than London but at the same time: - rent is 4k not 1k - eating out is $100s not 10s - buying food in a Supermarket is mental ($40 for a steak Vs 5) Add in zero holiday and zilch workers' rights and the disparity starts to look rather smaller NYC salaries are much higher than London but at the same time: - rent is 4k not 1k - eating out is $100s not 10s - buying food"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"This has been my most common fare throughout my entire life. For my maternal grandfather and a few of my elders too. Pani gghiu i sali. Bread (olive) oil and salt. For people like us it is not just eating its communion with our ancestors. just using straight up olive oil as a dip for bread is absolutely blowing me rn 😭😭💀 https://t.co/111mJECnaL just using straight up olive oil as a dip for bread is absolutely blowing me rn 😭😭💀 https://t.co/111mJECnaL"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"If you look at the video we dont use vinegar though. If you have oregano black pepper red peppers salted anchovies tomatoes why not but the three fundamental ingredients are bread olive oil and salt"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@lucabocci I was paying [----] in [----]. I took once my younger sister to the BFI IMAX she commented the screen is way bigger than your flat. In fact you could fit [--] or [--] 🤭"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I speak Turkish well enough that an ice cream seller doesnt immediately realise Im a foreigner yet Ive always found Turkish ice cream very expensive. In my Sicilian hometown it would feel like daylight robbery but in a tourist area in Turkey [--] per cone isnt outrageously expensive Im afraid. Ive always felt sad for Turkish kids because of this as most of them will never be able to enjoy ice cream as often as I did at their age. Five American tourists in Istanbul ordered five ice creams and the shop owner said the price was [----] lira (174 riyals). Upset they argued and he warned Youre in Turkey"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:27Z [----] followers, 49.4K engagements

"@NemGee @Oblivious9021 @Ryan_liberricky +1 The test environment is not the production environment. You cannot assume networking is not the cause"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Spain Portugal a chunk of France and most of Britain are in the western hemisphere. Humans speak in context. I can understand that Latin in certain contexts may have a meaning akin to what you are proposing but it definitely has other meanings in other contexts. You cannot say that Latin speaking people are not Latin in all contexts"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@timmmccloskey @lauracalogero @StarobinskiA Lionel Messi is Latino because he is from Argentina when you use Latino as synonym of Southamerican but he is also Latino because he speak a Latin language and had Latin (central Italian in his case) ancestry on other contexts"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Era pure peggio 20-25 anni fa. Negli anni ci ho riflettuto parte del problema che i Turchi non consumano pro capite tanti gelati quanto i Siciliani immagino non ci sia la stessa competizione n le stesse economie di scala. Il gelato alla turca - il dondurma - usa poi come addensante poi un ingrediente - il salep ricavato dal tubero di alcune orchidee selvatiche che a volte molto caro ad un certo punto il governo ne proib lesportazione per cercare di calmierare il prezzo. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salep https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salep"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@timmmccloskey @lauracalogero @StarobinskiA Maradona was the same case of Messi. He could be defined Latino under multiple definitions one of which is the one exclusively preferred by Anglo-Saxon Northamericans but it is not the only possible one"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@timmmccloskey @lauracalogero @StarobinskiA Do you accept that other cultures may exist and may use terms in a different way than you The people of South America are Latin like us https://books.google.co.uk/booksid=9ziVsP4CKVEC&q=%22latini+come+noi%22&dq=%22latini+come+noi%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisr6fnvs-SAxXuUkEAHcEvFcYQ6AF6BAgKEAM#%22latini%20come%20noi%22"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Not very well but good enough that a shopkeeper doesnt immediately spot Im a foreigner. Sometimes I have to explain that I dont know it very well. People generally ask if Im Iranian or Acem. I would struggle to understand Cumhuriyet articles. Hrriyet or Posta are easier. My maternal grandfather spoke Sicilian Maltese Tunsi Derja and Sabir and could defend himself also in Italian and Zeneise. Sadly I never need to learn any Semitic language. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021321379816079713 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021321379816079713"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@tunguz Look up this ranking in the late 80s before the civil war. Croatia - back then inside Yugoslavia. A couple of uncles spent their summers there with their family for [--] years in a row"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"He is wrong. I lived in Avclar a populous district of Istanbul and many Turkish kids definitely couldnt afford an ice cream a day even from the cheapest seller let alone places like Mado. Even the cheap stuff was more expensive than what I could buy in Sicily. Part of the issue is also cultural: while Sicilian children are taught that an ice cream a day is their God-given right for at least four months a year Turkish parents seem to genuinely believe that ice cream causes sore throat. So even if they are filthy rich they dont buy their children as much ice cream as your average Sicilian might"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@michaelaubry @diego_gallovich @stripe Is this an American thing Private companies fining people Do you mean contractual penalties In my mind only courts and public agencies could fine people. 🫣"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Yes but I have to say this is proper cultural colonisation. People in English use colonisation in a weird way. It often means extractive maritime imperialism. When I heard young Italians talking about being white or that the Italians are not Latin I think they are culturally colonised but a lot of Americans or British dont seem often capable of seeing that. It is due the semantic shift. Originally colonisation was literally Caesar sending his retired veterans to till fields in Djerba"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"None of my elders - all Sicilians - would have even understood this comment. They thought of themselves as Christians. In fact perhaps counterintuitively they also thought of Muslims and Jews as Christians. They used Christians to mean humans and universally extended membership of humankind to Muslims and Jews. This was common usage until recently. Around a quarter of century ago a friend of mine commenting on the human tide pouring out of Yeni Cami a major mosque in Istanbul after Friday prayer said: Ive never seen so many Christians in my life. Our Turkish friends were puzzled but no"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:34Z [----] followers, 37.4K engagements

"@rekotc La svalutazione fa la stessa cosa. Mio padre una volta diede una caparra per una BMW [---] turbo diesel da [--] milioni di lire. Dopo la svalutazione del [----] costava [--] milioni di lire ed il concessario gli restitu il doppio della caparra perch non pot onorare lordine"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:13Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Max_Mitroi @Timzblazee3 In Milan-Real Madrid 5-0 Van Bastens Milan spent a lot of time trying not to further humiliate Real Madrid "
X Link 2026-02-11T13:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I side with @scientificecon. A strong currency is better than a weak currency. It forces you to invest improve technologically and pay less for your inputs. There are times a country is forced to accept a weak currency there may be no other option but it is downstream of major strategic errors. Worked for Germany until the policy ended and created the postwar prosperity. Worked for Japan until the policy ended and created the postwar prosperity. I'm astonished there are so many volunteers to identify themselves with the group I referred to as "naive textbook Worked for Germany until the"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I was once invited to play rounders at a school event. Its an ancestor of baseball. At the end of the day I was asked multiple times if I had played it professionally before. For a week people stopped me on the street to compliment me on some of my runs. I had never held a bat before or since. In my youth across all formats (11- 7- and 5-a-side) I played more than [----] football matches plus several hundred basketball and volleyball matches and dozens of the most viciously violent handball games. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021875632590762161"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Yes I lived in Turkey 20-25 years ago before Erdohan's first term economic boom any Western European country could have had the pick of the future - current - Turkish top middle class. I can imagine similar conditions for Argentina Brazil Venezuela Mexico Thailandia Indonesia. Honestly 25-30 years ago even China. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022097457467851108 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022097457467851108"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Ashkiiaxix @vtchakarova I am in London same. Almost every single Olympic video on my timeline on X is blocked. I pay both BBC and Discovery the two right holders in Britain they really should find a way to avoid those blocks at least to their subscribers"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I Pisani divennero ricchi saccheggiando gli altri. Ad esempio nel [----] saccheggiarono Palermo. Riempirono [--] galee fino allorlo di ogni prezioso ben di Dio. Tornati a casa ne usarono un decimo per finanziare la costruzione di un nuovo duomo quello che oggi vediamo in piazza dei Miracoli. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022224885724926384 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022224885724926384"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@fubots77u7 @mamboitaliano__ Incidentally Albion (Great Britain) Alba (Scotland) Elba (the Tuscan island) and Alps (the mountain range) have all the same etymological root derived from the PIE *albho- ("white")"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In truth both Albanian and Hellenic nationalism are pretty modern inventions. The Arbresh of lore likely felt themselves to be Romans no less than their Greek-speaking Western Greek or Eastern Ionian/Anatolian/Levantine brethren. Skanderbeg himself raised an Imperial Roman flag. In fact as I like to use flags on X I am often sorely tempted to use the Albanian one for the Romans . https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022264222076256389 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022264222076256389"
X Link 2026-02-13T10:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@nonregemesse Hellenised Christian Romans vs Turkicized Muslim Romans . 🫣🤭😇"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The construction of that cathedral was financed by a tithe 10% on the profits of a massive raid on Palermo (then called Balarm) one of Europe's three largest cities at the time. Earlier that fateful summer in [----] Roger de Hauteville had just weakened the Sicilian Muslims at the Battle of Cerami. The Pisans saw an opportunity and promptly launched a major naval expedition against the weakly defended city. The booty was immense: the Pisans left Palermo with six large transport ships filled with treasure. Palermo was ultimately reconquered for Christendom by Robert Guiscard and Roger de"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:47Z [----] followers, 33.3K engagements

"Greek was the prestige liturgical language of the Romean rite in Southern Italy and Sicily. In fact when the liturgical use of Greek faded in the XVI century cannot remember the exact year circa [----] the Orthodox Catholics were banned my home city was the last place with a Greek speaking community in western Sicily the Arbresh parishes were the only ones where it was substantially allowed. The Arbresh elites were educated at the Seminary in Palermo where Romean Greek was paramount. Their major churches routinely gave mass in Greek probably until the Fascist regime. In fact I have seen a Greek"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Turkosso @Albanianismvs The "Seminario Italo-Albanese di Palermo" was generally called "the Greek seminary". Guess why By the way Giuseppe Schir Zef Skiroi himself taught Greek before becoming the first professor of Albanian in Italy"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ramsesilgrand What's Piana t Grechvet 😇 Apart the joke the difference used to be less stark"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"True that. I once designed a RISC ISA in VHDL and implemented it. Eons later I was wondering why I kept getting calls from agents who were offering interviews at ARM Holdings. I did work for a company briefly renamed so after their main product (Active Risk Manager) so I assumed that was leading them to me until one of them referenced VHDL 😂 BTW all I remember of VHDL is that it back then it had reminded me of Pascal. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022388367875256556 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022388367875256556"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A and a are mentioned in the Tanais tablets. This is the primary evidence for the Iranian-Caucasian theory of Croatian ethnogenesis. At some point Iranic-speaking peoples ruled the area now inhabited by Eastern Slavs. These peoples (Scythians Sarmatians Alans etc.) were eventually absorbed by the Slavs. It is not far-fetched to suggest that Croatian ethnogenesis may have involved Iranic elements. How and to what extent is harder to determine. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022970489807790264 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022970489807790264"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I agree with @Linahuaa. China feels like America under Teddy Roosevelt or Taft: their government is genuinely going after monopolies and oligopolies. Contemporary America is letting oligopolies fester as is contemporary Europe with its national champions or European champions. For the markets to work their magic we need a magic ingredient: COMPETITION China doesn't have a company valued 1T USD because there is COMPETITION. They don't have one Apple they have Oppo Xiaomi Huawei They don't have one Tesla they have BYD Nio XPeng Li Auto They don't have one Amazon they have Taobao Douyin shops"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"This is a bad idea because it is built upon Germanys requirements. Take Poland : as a Sicilian Poland is a very nice to have but it is not as critical as Tunisia Algeria or Libya . Thats really just Germany telling us what their critical partners are. A Federation of the willing; how the two-speed Europe (E6) proposed by Germany can lead the middle powers. And other EU states could join when they're ready. The new world order by @EU_Made_Simple https://t.co/i5CLCA678N A Federation of the willing; how the two-speed Europe (E6) proposed by Germany can lead the middle powers. And other EU states"
X Link 2026-02-08T10:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Tunisia Algeria and Libya are as critical to Sicily as Switzerland Austria and Germany are critical to Lombardy 🏴 or Veneto 🦁. The hard borders forced by the EU and Schengen by [----] have starved Sicily of trade with its natural trading partners damaging Sicilian economy and development. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020479195499942174 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020479195499942174"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Italy has had undocumented migrant detention centres for more than [--] years. I am not sure how effective they are to curb the phenomenon. This was built on a site previously managed by the Italian space agency for many interesting programmes. If one European country engages in mass remigration and reestablishes dominance of the native population - there will be a domino effect across Europe as other countries see how much better things get. Could spread beyond Europe too. If one European country engages in mass remigration and reestablishes dominance of the native population - there will be a"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"E.g. the IAP-3 a Sicilian prototype for an air train was tested in that site in 1970"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This happened to me 🫣 I had even written two low-level collection libraries (13 and [--] years before that interview) but really that stuff is implementation detail. Even after the event I never tried to memorise it it would be wasted neurons. Software engineer is also the only career where you can run production systems for a decade but still get rejected for not memorizing a tree traversal. Software engineer is also the only career where you can run production systems for a decade but still get rejected for not memorizing a tree traversal"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I spoke a few times with Antonino Zichichi when I was a teenager. The last time was in my early twenties. Nothing intellectual. I was out with friends; if we spotted him in the fog one of them would ask him a question. Talia cu c dhr Zichichi amun a scassarici a minchia. Usually inane questions (along the lines of Why doesnt the moon fall on the Earth). I never started it. It was always in the fog always after sunset. I vaguely remember a dog I think he was walking one but Im not sure. It was so long ago I might be mistaken about the dog. Perhaps he was just walking. I was never really keen;"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@PaulKohlerSW19 I'm not yet sure what's going on here hopefully it's just my ignorance of the new process. If someone has to compulsorily verify their identity why does the landing page say you need to have verified your identity to use this service Also the idea of asking people to use their face to verify a service is very bad. I personally dont have a problem with it but I have been on the receiving end of people enraged by it. Where did this idea came from"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I am still trying to figure out how to do this. I know you are in opposition so this is not a rant. More like a feedback. Something that used to be a [--] minutes task transformed on a sort of hurdle race with a ticking deadline"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I thought something similar that smart immigration plus genuinely pro-family policies could improve major problems downstream of bad demographic dynamics for most of my sentient life. The problem is nothing Ive seen in my life so far suggests that our elites or our elite selection process could actually implement smart immigration or pro-family policies. Sadly humans must learn their lessons the hard way. This chart explains why Italy Poland Spain South Korea and Japan can no longer reverse their demographic crisis with pro-family policies. Its simply too late. Like it or not smart"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"At some point in my youth I knew TCP pretty intimately but I was definitely a junior. 🍼 A few decades later I may remember a couple of things about TCP - sliding windows and the [----] bytes chunks - but I am definitely far more senior 🥷 it your 'senior engineer' can't explain how TCP works without Googling they're not senior. they're just experienced it your 'senior engineer' can't explain how TCP works without Googling they're not senior. they're just experienced"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@JanBanan888 The Venice of my childhood had great coffee. As a child I wouldn't drink it but I have a lot of coffee related memories there and I know all grown ups really enjoyed it"
X Link 2026-02-15T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The core evidence came from the decipherment by Thomsen in [----] of the Orkhon Valley inscriptions. While the classic corpus was published by Radloff more than a century ago a modern English treatment of the entire subject can be found in Golden's "An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples" (1992) which also carefully discusses earlier hypothetical prehistory incubation in the broader Altai region (now more supported e.g. the Chinese sources reporting an Altai origin for the Ashina royal family have been backed by recent archaeogenetics). Note that the Orkhon Valley runic"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Mine was very different. I organised things so my wife could sleep uninterrupted for [--] solid hours from [--] pm to [--] am. That meant I swapped my own sleep from that shift but most of the childcare was bottle-feeding and getting the baby back to sleep which generally involved a lot of passive screen time for me. I still joke with my son about series or movies that were popular back then: You already saw that meaning while he lay on my shoulder as I patted him to burp or rocked him to sleep 😂 As a new parent I spend a lot of time changing diapers and feeding the baby. [--] months ago I wasn't doing"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@GGCanto i did it multiple times as a child from Palermo or Trapani to Venice. Most times with my parents - my mom worked in Venice - a couple of times with my older cousins"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This truly always works pretty quickly with low-technology goods and services. We just need to let the market work its magic. It doesnt work as well for real estate and high-technology because the incumbents have more weapons to delay or stop the market from working its magic. At our technological level true shortages are human made. Ricordate 11- [--] mesi fa grande allarme per le quotazioni del cacao alle stelle Crisi climatica ecc Oggi siamo a un terzo del prezzo di luglio [----]. Intorno a $3.600/t. Ricordate 11- [--] mesi fa grande allarme per le quotazioni del cacao alle stelle Crisi climatica"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This is so true. It's a nightmare. You don't need to test it in South Sudan you'll face this everywhere. Free internet at a Turkish airport No text forget about it. Login to the government portal for Italians living abroad No text (not even to register for their identity app) forget about it. SMS is such a ridiculously fragile technology. The idea that we leveraged it as an authentication factor is borderline insane. Text as a second factor (or worse the only recovery/auth method) is genuinely one of the worst legacy decisions haunting modern authentication in [----]. It's unreliable across"
X Link 2026-02-16T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Germans taking the piss. I am all to save the turtles the seals and the rest but the bag should be capable to reach home [--] minutes away"
X Link 2026-02-16T10:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Much higher than the average Sicilian. All the Maltese who are related to the Said family will have Muhammad as ancestors. E.g. all the Vella none excluded as the first Vella in Malta married a lady with Said ancestry. Looking at your specific genetic ancestry you may have actual matches with Arab aDNA"
X Link 2025-09-22T21:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"What really happened in Argentina and I dont understand why mainstream media struggles to explain it is that on September [--] Kirchnerist Peronists won Buenos Aires provincial elections (with 47% of the votes vs. only 33% for Mileis coalition) meaning Milei may lose October [--] midterm legislative elections. If so Argentina's parliament could gridlock wasting Mileis remaining mandate. Voters might then elect a Kirchnerist or other Peronist president. The threat of Kirchnerist money printing has put the fear of God on the understandably terrified sane investors who may have bet on Mileis vision"
X Link 2025-09-22T22:03Z [----] followers, 18.9K engagements

"America will not re-industrialize with tariffs or loan guarantees. America became the leading country in the world 🌎 thanks to some reforms of the Progressive era specifically the measures to increase competition open the markets and open the institutions suppressing trusts monopolies and excessive concentration of wealth. The political and cultural wars to achieve these reforms has not yet even started. And even if started many powerful people stand to lose from this kind of necessary reforms and will resist them to the bitter end. On the other hand China has no issue re-educating or worse"
X Link 2025-09-23T01:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Verginius_post @johnbryanesq There is a long way from Siberian ice to a dinner table in St. Petersburg or Moscow"
X Link 2025-09-23T07:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Absolutely. My point is that mainstream Western media aren't really giving the context of Argentina's current financial woes. The message currently communicated to the average reader/listener is that Milei's attempt to reform Argentina is failing which will become a self-fulfilling prophecy if the money printers are elected back into power"
X Link 2025-09-23T07:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@BenjaminNorton This is the context of what is happening in Argentina: What really happened in Argentina and I dont understand why mainstream media struggles to explain it is that on September [--] Kirchnerist Peronists won Buenos Aires provincial elections (with 47% of the votes vs. only 33% for Mileis coalition) meaning Milei may lose What really happened in Argentina and I dont understand why mainstream media struggles to explain it is that on September [--] Kirchnerist Peronists won Buenos Aires provincial elections (with 47% of the votes vs. only 33% for Mileis coalition) meaning Milei may"
X Link 2025-09-23T08:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@owengroyp There is literally 0% chances of this happening in my own lifetime. By the way the pre-eminent right wing and traditionalist Sicilian intellectual is a Muslim: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/who-is-pietrangelo-buttafuoco-venice-biennale-2388603 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/who-is-pietrangelo-buttafuoco-venice-biennale-2388603"
X Link 2025-09-23T09:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Do you include the women in that statement I grew up in Sicily and then I lived in Turkey I would characterise the main difference between the two cultures is that in Sicily the women are more religious in Turkey the men are more religious. Not all the women and not all the men but the divergence was quite noticeable"
X Link 2025-09-23T10:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@HMBohemond Whats the difference between that and Fincantieri with Marinette Marine The Constellation programme is in part technological transfer from Italy and France to America "
X Link 2025-09-23T14:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ADoricko The mental model of those VCs is stuck back in the fleeting time after [----] where there was a single true imperial power in the whole world. We are back in a age of multiple empires. The sooner Americans and Europeans realise it the better. In our age there are four emperors and a handful of pretenders. One of the four is Modi ; the others are Trump Xi and Putin . I think of them often in geographical terms: Trump as the emperor of the West Putin of the North Xi of the East and Modi of the South. In our age there are four emperors and a handful of pretenders. One of the four is"
X Link 2025-09-23T14:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Among a few odd or needy fellow travelers one can see the true remaining size of the American empire. The economic and technological war let alone a true war with China cannot be won by that rump empire. The good news for America is that Finland Germany Italy Switzerland Austria Denmark Japan and South Korea are indeed the [--] provinces you would probably like to be left with to restart your imperial project. The bad news for Israel is that I dont believe America can truly afford to lose too many of those [--] over Palestina . Fra i pochissimi paesi a non aver riconosciuto la Palestina troviamo"
X Link 2025-09-23T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"When I spend time in Sicily I notice how kids look somehow different from when I was a kid. It's more visible earlier in girls but boys catch up later. Phenotypes from my youth are gone and new ones appear. My two-cent conjecture is that this may be due to a combination of different food feeding strategies and patterns water and liquid consumption and possibly novel chemicals in the environment. I mean is your 6'5" Zoomer who doesn't really have to shave yet at age [--] a result of chemical exposure or is that just what humans are like if the aren't feed on gruel and sent into a coal mine with"
X Link 2025-09-24T07:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"When I was a little child I once told my mum that Claudia Cardinale was more beautiful than her 🥹 My mum wasnt very happy about that. Claudia Cardinale while born in Tunisia was a very typical - extremely good - looking girl from my home city while my mum was both a bit younger and a much rarer phenotype there so she was accustomed to girls looking like Cardinale to be seen as more ordinary than her she wasnt expecting her own little son to buck that trend 😇 @mikemovies When I was a child [--] to [--] I really liked Claudia Cardinale. Whenever I saw her in our B&W TV I was standing still. My"
X Link 2025-09-24T14:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@VoceaCubei @Efisio_Scalas @136Division It's likely politically controversial but some Romanian ancestors may have come from modern Hungary (Pannonia) Bulgaria Serbia and Croatia Romanized Illyrians Thracians and Imperial settlers fleeing Slavic and Avar invasions"
X Link 2025-09-24T16:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Objections and observations: - after WW2 there was in Western Europe a fixed exchange rate regime - the Bretton Woods system - that persisted until [----]. This mirrors the structural rigidity introduced by the Euro in [----]. - Whereas France's postwar economic expansion spanned approximately [--] years from [----] to [----] Italy's "economic miracle" extended at most to about [--] years (1946 to 1970). - In Italy during the 1950s direct taxes accounted for merely 5% of GDP in stark contrast to our contemporary figure. There has been a significant escalation in fiscal burdens. - Corporate taxation in"
X Link 2025-09-25T08:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Hardly any Calabrian ended up in Tunisia. In fact emigration to Tunisia or Malta or North Africa was mainly a western and southern Sicilian phenomenon which had started as soon as piracy was defeated in [----] and picked up speed after the trade war from Italy and France. Its likely that Cardinales Greco ancestors had French customers and moved to Tunisia to continue to serve them"
X Link 2025-09-25T09:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@talmonsmith @morganwarstler @tonyannett Yes but in the whole period where the gdp growth was higher the exchange rate was fix. The Euro is not the cause of Europe woes. More details: Objections and observations: - after WW2 there was in Western Europe a fixed exchange rate regime - the Bretton Woods system - that persisted until [----]. This mirrors the structural rigidity introduced by the Euro in [----]. - Whereas France's postwar economic expansion spanned Objections and observations: - after WW2 there was in Western Europe a fixed exchange rate regime - the Bretton Woods system - that"
X Link 2025-09-25T10:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"This gentleman is such a giant in my field that future generations will speak of him like physicists of Newton or chemists of Mendeleev. No disrespect to Linus Torvalds but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡 Created UNIX in [----] when he was [--] years old. Created Go in [----] when he was [--] years old. He also developed the B programming language (which led to C) created UTF-8 encoding (making international https://t.co/JP2G4OqXYl No disrespect to Linus Torvalds but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡 Created UNIX in [----] when he was [--] years old. Created Go in [----] when he was [--] years"
X Link 2025-09-26T10:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"He has created or co-created whole academic fields. In this kind of posts most people mentions only a few highlights but the range and depth is beyond belief. @kai_fall You are missing: co-creator of hierarchical file system co-creator of the concept of computer processes co-creator of the concept of device files co-creator of the command-line interpreter co-creator of the context of pipe co-creator of regular expressions one of @kai_fall You are missing: co-creator of hierarchical file system co-creator of the concept of computer processes co-creator of the concept of device files co-creator"
X Link 2025-09-26T10:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"In Italy there is no death penalty because lawyers are 99.9% against it. As they form the bulk of lawmakers they preempt any chance to reintroduce capital execution leaving aside the paneuropean fatwa against it. I had mates who were vocally pro-death penalty I know I was on the other side in those debates in high school then went to law school and switched [---]. The whole jurisprudential world in Italy is culturally dead set against it and may have been so since Beccarias time. Meanwhile the good citizens of my home city have kept this well oiled in perfect working condition since the last"
X Link 2025-09-26T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Note to my Turkish friends: the conquest of the Straits Istanbul included has always been the greatest dream of the Russian elites. 'The Czar's will on [----] Europe' American map (1944) showing Soviet ambitions in Europe. https://t.co/JDvJdBCtAJ 'The Czar's will on [----] Europe' American map (1944) showing Soviet ambitions in Europe. https://t.co/JDvJdBCtAJ"
X Link 2025-09-26T17:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Julius Caesar did not genocide the Celts. In fact there were emperors of Celtic ancestry among them the great Antoninus Pius whose family came from Nmes. Also if you did read Julius Caesar you may have noticed he never writes of the Gauls like Netanyahu speak of the Palestinians let alone how Hitler spoke of the Jews"
X Link 2025-09-27T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Robkearney1981 I know people who have self published 200+ books. Mainly on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing but there are other routes e.g. Apple Books gives much more royalties. The keyword to research it is Self-Publishing"
X Link 2025-09-28T08:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Its an interesting surname. The Greek spelling may be . That Seitain- at the beginning is almost certainly the Turkish eytan itself from a Semitic root meaning satan the devil. While it does sort of sound like the spawn from the Devil I reckon it may be more likely that Sheytan may have been the founder nickname so it is likely the descendants of a guy nicknamed the Devil"
X Link 2025-09-28T09:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Magz_exe Answer: As people continue to object to this: while not Gaulish/Celtic himself Caesar was literally de facto the top leader of the Roman aligned Celts of his age. Caesar raised legions XI XII XIII XIV and XV from the Cisalpine Gauls and V Alaudae from the Narbonensians and As people continue to object to this: while not Gaulish/Celtic himself Caesar was literally de facto the top leader of the Roman aligned Celts of his age. Caesar raised legions XI XII XIII XIV and XV from the Cisalpine Gauls and V Alaudae from the Narbonensians and"
X Link 2025-09-28T10:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Reading about China in the XXI century makes you feel like a Chinese reading about the West in the XIX century. Did you hear about Chinas plan to convert some of its modern steam plants from using coal fired furnaces to using nuclear fission heat The conversion is likely to use the same kind of high temperature pebble-bed modular reactors that have been operating at Shidao Bay Nuclear Did you hear about Chinas plan to convert some of its modern steam plants from using coal fired furnaces to using nuclear fission heat The conversion is likely to use the same kind of high temperature pebble-bed"
X Link 2025-09-28T18:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"As a kid I once watched my dad negotiate the purchase of a house. He somehow wriggled his way with me in tow into the sellers living room. My dad calmly offered them a quarter of the listed price upfront and another quarter in two years. The sellers were thoroughly insulted and I was deeply skeptical. Yet after an hour of haggling he walked away with the house for half the listed price half paid immediately half in two years. As this left me befuddled Id have wanted to ask him a clarification at the end of negotiation but he silenced me with a fulminating look. I asked him about it only"
X Link 2025-09-28T18:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@UK_Daniel_Card While originally issued on physical support the CIE is also a digital identity through apps like CieID CieSign Idea . and can be used for digital identification digital signature digital verification . http://Ve.Do http://Ve.Do"
X Link 2025-09-29T08:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"The Italian authorities recently launched an app (IO) that collects a number of services. The authentication is through CIE or SPID one can collect there driving license health system card tax id . and can be used to pay taxes and other government fees read notifications from the government and its agencies digitally sign documents . whenever I have been in Italy this year I have seen people using this all the times. https://ioapp.it https://ioapp.it"
X Link 2025-09-29T08:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In my lifetime the greatest implementer of free market reforms in Italy has been a former communist a lifelong leftist the old gentleman in this picture. This doesn't look good for the reputation of Italian politicians who fill their mouths with free market slogans but forget to act on their own words once in positions of power. In most of the world not in China people talk a lot of pro market reforms but then act pro business by default. Chi nato dopo il [----] non lo sa ma nel secolo scorso c'era un unico gestore dell'elettricit un monopolio di fatto che cess poco prima che nasceste voi. Nel"
X Link 2025-09-29T08:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@LughSpear @jk_rowling I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous 😇"
X Link 2025-09-29T11:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Well the daily rumour from Italy is that Milan's city council may agree to demolish San Siro for a 1.2bn investment programme including a new vanilla-looking stadium. I took my son to a match there a couple of years ago and when I told him the usual suspects want to destroy it he asked if these people are mad. Decline and decadence are a choice. San Siro. One of footballs most iconic venues. Agreement in place to sell it to the clubs. Lets hope it means renovation not demolishment. Meanwhile lets enjoy it. https://t.co/xREsIAziED San Siro. One of footballs most iconic venues. Agreement in"
X Link 2025-09-29T15:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The developers probably connected to the two American private equity funds owning AC Milan and Inter are after the [------] squared meters of that area. The trade they are offering to the municipality is they invest well I hope I understood this right 😇 [---] billions and the municipality gives them that area and the permission to build hotels shopping centres offices "
X Link 2025-09-29T15:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"San Siro doesnt feel like an old stadium. I was there a couple of years ago it looks newer than Wembley or Emirates. In fact it feels newer than West Ham Olympic stadium. I understood the rationale to replace the Delle Alpi in Turin but I cannot see how that would apply to San Siro"
X Link 2025-09-29T15:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I bought my son a [--] Girona kit in a [---] ft box they call official store outside their stadium meanwhile I had to buy him a [--] Inter kit made of some unhealthy chemical by a lorry outside San Siro. If you ever go to San Siro the scene is surreal: there is an half square mile parking lot with [--] elevations the stadium and the lonely lorry selling fake kits"
X Link 2025-09-29T16:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"In fact it is even worse: by mistake London time watch and being ignorant of distances in Girona I went to Girona [--] hours before the match they organised a fan zone just outside the stadium the club sells all sort of food and drink merchandise the sponsors are organising games for the kids meanwhile [-----] people at San Siro are lost is a immense car park where the only outlet they can spend any money is that lonely lorry. Its beyond ridiculous but its not the stadiums fault"
X Link 2025-09-29T16:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@rosejara1 @lefineder I was born in a small city Erice who hosted a temple which was Old World famous in the antiquity due that practice: @Extrachelle A league of [--] Sicilian cities were providing [---] soldiers to guard the women who were performing the role of priestess of Ishtar/Ashtart/Aphrodite/Venus in Eryx and the gold to provide for all the needs of the temple. Map courtesy of Claudio DAngelo: https://t.co/HsCT8rfrBj https://t.co/36gLnLhSyu @Extrachelle A league of [--] Sicilian cities were providing [---] soldiers to guard the women who were performing the role of priestess of"
X Link 2025-09-30T06:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"This can be expanded to the whole of Italy . The centre-left wins in the cities the centre-right in the towns and countryside. Since far more Italians live in the latter the constitutional amendment naively championed by the centre-left which reduced the number of seats in the Italian Parliament may favour the centre-right so Melonis coalition may become the first incumbent to win a legislative election since [----]. Regionali #Marche Mappa di Repubblica dei risultati @ultimora_pol https://t.co/ddUcFYLOHK Regionali #Marche Mappa di Repubblica dei risultati @ultimora_pol https://t.co/ddUcFYLOHK"
X Link 2025-09-30T12:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Mussolini. AFAIR three came very close to ruling for a full term: De Gasperi (1948-1953) Moro (1963-1968) and Berlusconi (2001-2006) but with multiple governments. Moro started a bit late. None of the three survived into a second legislature. Mussolini did reshuffles but his was a single government for [--] years [--] months and [--] days. If Meloni can complete a whole legislature with a single government shell set a record and if she continue into the 2nd legislature shell set another record"
X Link 2025-09-30T13:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Good people of the @X do you think China is a communist or a fascist polity I guess Umberto Eco would have said neither but I bet Giovanni Gentile would have recognized China as a fascist polity. I asked @grok who disagreed with me on Eco it says based on Ecos published thoughts he would have described current China as fascist-leaning but it fully agreed with my bet on Gentiles views. Whether someone (human or entity) can be defined as fascist depends strongly on our definition of fascism. Many people even whole countries define it as the enemy and the fascists as the enemies making their"
X Link 2025-09-30T16:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I dont know the law about Somalian citizenship but I do know about the Eritrean one . Caveat: Somalia is an ethnostate so it is likely Somalian the citizenship may have been used in place of Somali the ethnicity. Eritrea is not an ethnostate. In this it is much more representative of the typical Subsaharan country. The largest Eritrean ethnicity is the Tigrinya representing around 50% of the population. The Eritrean Nationality Proclamation (No. 21/1992) states at Article [---] that A person who has "Eritrean origin" is any person who was resident in Eritrea in [----]. This included [----] Italians"
X Link 2025-09-30T22:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@JonStrice @KonstantinKisin @AlexGrace191872 The tiramisu doesnt really have a connection with Florence though. I would probably never think of ordering a tiramisu in Florence 😇 Its from the area surrounding Venice"
X Link 2025-09-30T22:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Western European taxpayers didnt loot anyone ever. They must be the most looted class of people ever in the history of mankind. Western European taxpayers would have paid for the development of Russia like they paid for the development of Spain Ireland Poland Romania and so on"
X Link 2025-10-03T12:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"This doesn't bode well for Israel because the Romans eventually lost patience with the Judeans. With an emperor changing every max [--] years the risk of American voters eventually electing a Titus or a Hadrian is non-zero. Long-term the Israelian strategy seems quite fragile. It's amazing how similar The US attitude toward Israel mirrors Ancient Rome and its attitude toward Judea. Rome allowed Judea to have special privileges no other territory had (the right to be exempt from the imperial cult diaspora could send tax money abroad to Judea to keep It's amazing how similar The US attitude toward"
X Link 2025-10-03T17:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@MilkLions Dolce & Gabbana sell coffa bags in the Gulf for [--] figures 🥹 / ( ) ( ) 😑 Kendra coffa bag in straw Dolce & Gabbana https://t.co/cvWEDVbUV6 / ( ) ( ) 😑 Kendra coffa bag in straw Dolce & Gabbana https://t.co/cvWEDVbUV6"
X Link 2025-10-03T18:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"My son like many boys was really into dinosaurs so he loved this show for its first four seasons. He was [--] to [--] years old. I watched all episodes with him and enjoyed it too. The moment season [--] started he didn't enjoy it anymore. I had no issues watching it but he deeply disliked it. I'm not even sure we reached that scene. It was a struggle to get him to watch half an episode. I reckon they changed their target in season [--]. This is not uncommon in children's series but as the five seasons were squashed into two years not over five it may not have been a brilliant idea targeting the first"
X Link 2025-10-03T22:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@providenceluvr I am happily married but if you find a Sicilian like me I am apparently basically - the orange dot an Ancient Greek 😇 The blue dots from the rightmost then anticlockwise are Maltese Western Sicilian East Sicilian Central Greek (the big one) and South Italian"
X Link 2025-10-03T23:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"They landed just in front of a famous Sicilian fast food parlour 🤣 Italian Army A-129 Mangusta landing somewhere in Palermo for the Villaggio dellEsercito event. https://t.co/JdKN0pfilK Italian Army A-129 Mangusta landing somewhere in Palermo for the Villaggio dellEsercito event. https://t.co/JdKN0pfilK"
X Link 2025-10-04T11:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If you ever listen to a Corsican talking in Corsican their language sounds eerily like the languages spoken immediately south and west of Rome. Modern Romans who sound more Tuscan feel those as a bit redneck but it is very likely that Napoleon's mother tongue would have sounded quite similar to the Latin of characters such as Marius Pompey Cicero or Vespasian. @FuentesUpdates Had the Roman Empire; Germans conquered it then built the Holy Roman Empire. People want to be like Ceasar they say; but Charlemagne united Christian Europe and was far more influential. Napoleon the most influential"
X Link 2025-10-04T20:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Czechias politics are often seen as dysfunctional because its arguably still young institutions are poorly adapted to the countrys needs. The country would likely be better served by an institutional framework more similar to that of Switzerland with stronger local autonomy and more stable mechanisms of decision-making but alas it took the Swiss centuries of hard toil to achieve that. The recent history of Czechia also shows that an excessively low tolerance for corruption one that topples governments over even minor or unproven scandals can make institutions fragile and undermine long-term"
X Link 2025-10-05T10:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Which is one of the reasons there are a few others that Morocco and Turkey arent yet in the EU . I don't think there's any region on earth more obsessed with arbitrary geographic subdivisions than Europe. I don't think there's any region on earth more obsessed with arbitrary geographic subdivisions than Europe"
X Link 2025-10-05T13:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"I have no doubt that Bettino Craxi the Italian statesman who was the 45th prime minister of Italy (19831987) genuinely believed that Italy is not a province of the Empire. He acted on that conviction more than once. He was sadly both right and wrong. While European states are generally not imperial provinces they are something worse: client states. To be fair far more so now than in Craxis times. In an age of empires like ours being a client state is a poor position. It is often better to be an imperial province say Mississippi or Yunnan than a client state such as Italy or Belarus let alone"
X Link 2025-10-05T16:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"You joke about it but Ive spent a few occasions in Sicily flneuring about with friends who looked rather like you and I always enjoyed seeing their lower lips practically drop to the floor when I translated the remarks of passing Sicilian girls 🤣. On one occasion two young women were being quite indelicate in openly exchanging their thoughts about my Norrene friend while we all found ourselves in a rather confined space together. When I conveyed their words to him in English 🏴 his face outshone the reddest pepper on earth"
X Link 2025-10-05T17:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Qualitatively it looks something like this: Small startups the self-funding kind most common around the world generally cant afford public cloud. A mix of on-premises gear or low-cost providers like Hetzner or Aruba is usually more cost-effective. Theres a cost/scale threshold where public cloud does become attractive. That point often coincides with increasing regulatory requirements and risk-management needs. I never had the luxury of a dedicated storage specialist on my team; for decades I would pray to all the Gods before upgrading a storage-array firmware or even rebooting one. A fateful"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@JoanFrancescOl1 Georges Maniakes was taller than Harald Hardrada . and anyone else really"
X Link 2025-10-07T15:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Possibly but there are quite a few princedoms in Sicily. A few years back a pal invited me to his wedding in Capo dOrlando he hosted us at Villa Piccolo. These Piccolo barons of Calanovella rent their villa for weddings and events they are related to Tomasi di Lampedusa Lucio Piccolo was his cousin and his best pal. There is a famous picture depicting the two cousin with Montale"
X Link 2025-10-07T22:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"After WW2 of the former short lived Italian Empire the people who were more harshly punished were the Eritreans . The Allies mistreatment of Eritrea has likely costed the Eritreans at least half a century of development possibly up to a century. Punishment for being in the Axis: - Germany: Ripped in half permanent occupation huge territorial losses and ethnic cleansing - Hungary and Romania: [--] years as Soviet colonies - Italy: Forced to give Little St Bernard Pass to France Punishment for being in the Axis: - Germany: Ripped in half permanent occupation huge territorial losses and ethnic"
X Link 2025-10-07T23:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The term means someone who has left their fatherland it doesn't matter if they may intend to return or not. As I was born in Italy and I live in Britain from an Italian point of view I am an expat. As you were born if I recall correctly in Italy from my Italian point of view you are an expat. If I would put on exclusively my British hat you are not an expat you cannot be because you are not British . As a British I would define you an Italian immigrant in America if the context of the sentence is in America or an Italian emigrant in America if the context of the sentence is in Italy a migrant"
X Link 2025-10-08T00:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"- I met Elena in Rome she was an Italian emigrant holidaying back in the old country. - I met Elena in New York she is an Italian immigrant who became an American citizen decades ago. I met Elena in Berlin when she was a child she was a migrant. I met Elena at the Italian consulate she is an Italian expat like me"
X Link 2025-10-08T00:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"A mix over [----] years means that every single Palestinian alive has plenty of ancestry from the Canaanites of lore. It does not mean that some Palestinian has Canaanite ancestry and some has not. They all have a vaste majority of ancestors who lived in Palestine at any time in recorded history and unrecorded too"
X Link 2025-10-08T06:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SKmacro @feanor_curufinw @HGfinest @ektrit @holland_tom In the last [--] centuries for how long Southern Levant and Egypt have been part of the same empire Even Jesus own family moved to and from Egypt why do you find surprising what was clearly a pretty common practice"
X Link 2025-10-08T07:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Settler colonialism can be perfectly fine if the settlers integrate with the indigenous population especially when bringing new technologies new capital and new trade routes. E.g. Phoenicians in Western Sicily Greeks in Eastern Sicily. It becomes an issue when the settlers do not integrate and persecute the indigenous population. E.g. Lombards and Southern French Catholics in Norman age Sicily"
X Link 2025-10-08T08:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Turkey by now should already have an average income higher than Italy or Germany . The main reason they have not yet is that so many Turks sadly believe in those idiocies. To become wealthy you have to be future oriented. History has to teach you wisdom not money wasting revanchism. Nope. You're confusing violations with sovereign rights. This is Trkiyes air and sea jurisdiction fully legitimate under international law. The Blue Homeland. https://t.co/oGuMis06iH Nope. You're confusing violations with sovereign rights. This is Trkiyes air and sea jurisdiction fully legitimate under"
X Link 2025-10-08T08:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@SKmacro @feanor_curufinw @HGfinest @ektrit @holland_tom What was happening in [----] all around there Wasnt Palestine a war theatre Wasnt Palestine ultimately invaded and conquered Why do you find atrocities in the midst of a war particularly informative"
X Link 2025-10-08T08:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Machiexn @somedeadchicken Very famously Italy spent on colonies much more than they extracted. If you doubt it have a stroll in Asmara or look pics of Mogadishu before the civil war"
X Link 2025-10-08T11:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"These have started bankrupting in Italy long ago. The government has generally saved them merging those with the general pension scheme the one paid by the private workers. People hardly complained because the government did that also with the completely unfunded public sector pension scheme whose liabilities dwarf anything else"
X Link 2025-10-08T13:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"To be fair it would be absolutely great if Syria Lebanon and Palestine/Israele could all adopt confederal systems like Switzerland. Obviously the cantons should be much smaller by what is proposed by @GunterFehlinger. Before you ask I would sign in blood to get that in Sicily"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"It starts earlier. The Britons took away all industrial machinery from Eritrea . They extirpated whole infrastructures the ropeway from Massawa to Asmara. My granddad reported they had all nails that could be extracted collected my granddad said he didnt believe it could have been possible to remove all that was removed. I do understand the winners taking prizes from the defeated but given that Eritrea was not going to be left to Italy they basically de-industrialised Eritrea . Also the missed development after the independence is a major fault of the international community which hasnt"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Yes but thats not the reason of the [--] years long economic decline of Italy . That may have made it more evident yes but didnt cause it. The launch of and 's entry to WTO hammered 's industry. Then came the financial crisis it never recovered. Energy and new shocks are decimating industry now ( tariffs too). & have the largest industry sectors in (42% of total). Our crown jewels. https://t.co/lVxyPIbOGD The launch of and 's entry to WTO hammered 's industry. Then came the financial crisis it never recovered. Energy and new shocks are decimating industry now ( tariffs too). & have the largest"
X Link 2025-10-08T14:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Northern Italy has not been able to feed itself since the mid-16th century. Central Italy followed suit shortly. In fact peninsular Italy may have been food self-sufficient only a couple of short whiles after the Roman-Gothic wars and after the Black Death in the last couple of millennia. There is not enough cultivable land; its a very Malthusian environment. Its a very bad position to become a prisoner of war in countries that depend on trading routes being open to feed themselves"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Some people are answering to this stating there is a thing for pork schnitzel as a budget variant among Central Europeans. Knowing the Hungarian love for pork meat I am still surprised but not exactly shocked. That said Sicily has a deep tradition for the same meal we call it cotoletta and I have never seen that made with pork. Yes it is not evidence of absence some Sicilian in history may have tried it but it is not a thing. Sicilians do veal chicken aubergines 🍆 . but literally even tuna sperm cotoletta is more common than pork 🤭 Nice try by propagandists. The "Viennese schnitzel" is made"
X Link 2025-10-08T16:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@LBelenesR It doesnt make sense for the Lombards to join in the same state with the Sicilians. Or the Catalans with the Andalusians. E.g. at EU level Malta is [---] times more powerful than Sardinia"
X Link 2025-10-08T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Problem is: where is the Italian gold 🧐 Banca dItalia say so: Italys [----] t of gold are currently split as follows: - Italy (Rome Via Nazionale): [----] t (44.86 %) - United States (Federal Reserve New York): [------] t (43.29 %) - United Kingdom (Bank of England): [-----] t (5.76 %) - Switzerland (Swiss National Bank): [-----] t (6.09 %) Plus Rome also holds [---] t of the reserves conferred to the ECB . Gold reserves to GDP. https://t.co/aeWawE27m2 Gold reserves to GDP. https://t.co/aeWawE27m2"
X Link 2025-10-08T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@bombermansultan Its the same neighbourhood of Italy . In fact all these wars damaged Italy much more than they damaged Turkey . Look up what was the export of Italy to Iran Iraq Libya Algeria before their troubles started"
X Link 2025-10-08T19:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@bombermansultan You are very young and have no idea of what you are talking about. Turkey GDP as late as [----] was 23% of the GDP of Lombardy alone. As stated Italy has been in economic decline for [--] years no imagine how much they lost in export with all those wars you mentioned in your map"
X Link 2025-10-08T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Netanyahu reminds me a great deal of Mithridates VI Eupator the king of Pontus. In early [--] BC Mithridates infamously ordered and coordinated the massacre of tens of thousands of Italian residents including their wives children and freedmen of Italian birth living across western Anatolia. The traditional figure is [-----] though Plutarch reports [------]. Mithridates was consumed by an unquenchable hatred for the Romans and their Italian allies. That hatred ultimately became his undoing. Lucullus managed to defeat him largely because in a fit of paranoid rage Mithridates massacred the Galatian"
X Link 2025-10-09T11:01Z [----] followers, 20.7K engagements

"@stratify_data @burkov I have done that a few times over the years with c# PowerShell Java command prompt psexec . The very first time I brought down the task time from [--] days to a couple of days it was so fun"
X Link 2025-10-11T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@OannesInNineveh @Sachinettiyil There is zero proof of that wild conjecture. Colombo was Genoese. 🏴"
X Link 2025-10-13T07:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Leif Eriksson and all other Old Worldling who landed in the Americas before Columbus didnt open the Americas to Western civilization. Columbus did it. With tomorrow coming its a great time to remind everyone that Leif Eriksson arrived in North America [---] years before Columbus landed in the present day Bahamas. And unlike Columbus Eriksson didnt murder and enslave the indigenous people he came across. https://t.co/Spql3ftK45 With tomorrow coming its a great time to remind everyone that Leif Eriksson arrived in North America [---] years before Columbus landed in the present day Bahamas. And"
X Link 2025-10-13T17:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@125Sapphire @TheRealBuzz Columbus opened the Americas to the Western civilisation expansion kickstarting what become the Western supremacy over the whole world which eventually led to the US global hegemony"
X Link 2025-10-14T06:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Valen10Francois Look up the Battle of Changping: a [--] years long gigantic battle. The total number of casualties was over [------]. Fought in 262-260 BC mass graves are found to this day"
X Link 2025-10-14T20:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Nasheology @GergelyOrosz How is Azure UX worse than GCP or 😂 AWS"
X Link 2025-10-15T07:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Look up the history of IRI in Italy. By the way the Italian government never stopped doing it depending on how one counts them the Italian Republic controls between [----] to [-----] companies up to [--] million people may work for those. The government nominate the executives of Eni Enel Leonardo Poste Terna Ipzs Enav Consip Consap Equitalia Amco Gme Gse Rai and often indirectly thousands more"
X Link 2025-10-15T07:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If a country trains only [--] kids to play football because there are only [--] spots on the national team it will never defeat a country that trains two million kids. Not once in a billion years. Same with doctors. If we need [---] doctors and we only train [---] we cant expect all [---] to be excellent. Its impossible. In most Western countries we dont produce enough doctors and that shortage isnt accidental. Its artificial maintained by an unholy alliance of medical guilds and politicians. Why Because ability is often a heavy-tailed power-law sort of thing. Lets assume it is Paretian for the"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@LughSpear The Chinese objective is to maximise the number of Olympic medals so they incentivise the distribution of talent among many sports. In small you can see that in Italy too the better Italy becomes in multiple sports the worse their football national team becomes"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I reckon its human nature. If you are truly called to be a doctor are you going to spend your career leading a medical association I have known geriatricians who were for all intents and purposes living saints they would have worked for free to treat patients with remaining lifespan often measured in months. It would have been incomprehensible for them to leave their calling to go deal with politicians. On the other end you have doctors who happily drop their medical career to become full blown politicians. I have heard rumours 😇🫣 of one mail merging [------] letters to former patients of his"
X Link 2025-10-15T17:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Nasheology @GergelyOrosz Yes but Azure worse than GCP or 🤣 AWS is pretty unexpected"
X Link 2025-10-15T17:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Many contest this but Brazil qualified after losing [--] matches. Bolivia is in playoff position after losing [--] what Italy achieved losing just [--]. Europe's qualifying system is likely unfit for purpose and FIFA probably allocated too few berths to UEFA. Qualification in Europe has become complicated you slip up in one game and you have to go through playoffs. - Donnarumma is right https://t.co/z8bNUp8Wlx Qualification in Europe has become complicated you slip up in one game and you have to go through playoffs. - Donnarumma is right https://t.co/z8bNUp8Wlx"
X Link 2025-10-16T17:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"When I was young someone told me that the history of Arabia could be read as a series of population booms in Yemen followed by waves of migration and conquest across the deserts to the north. Each time Yemen overflowed its people spread out. Later on I noted surnames like Yamani are truly widespread"
X Link 2025-10-16T23:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@levantophile I know a few in Britain. One of their issues is that Malaysia do not allow dual citizenship"
X Link 2025-10-17T00:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@jeuasommenulle I asked ChatGPT to print a high-level breakdown by country of the underlying basket this is the answer caveat: I have not verified it but seems verisimile enough:"
X Link 2025-10-17T07:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Yes I have known a few Yamani in Italy obviously not ancestrally Italian (my Yamani pals were born in Morocco ) but Ive met/read variations of that surname in/from a variety of countries. E.g. there is this Turkish actor of Albanian ancestry Can Yaman hugely popular with the Italian ladies. Now yes Yaman in Turkish may have alternative etymologies but those kind of surnames are frequent enough that is impossible not to note them"
X Link 2025-10-17T08:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Alessandro Manzoni did something conceptually similar. He took his whole family wife mother six children and five servants to Florence. They arrived at sunset on August [--] [----] and set up base at the Hotel delle Quattro Nazioni. They left a little over a month later on October [--] [----]. In that time Manzoni basically immersed himself in the high register of the Florentine dialect of Tuscan Italian which led him to revise his [----] book 📕 The Betrothed (I promessi sposi 💍👰🤵♂). It was republished in this refined register between [----] and [----] eventually becoming the high register of the"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Yes. Its a very urban family peaking in Messina Palermo and Catania. There is a major branch in Milan too I dont know if it is independent. Silvana Mangano was born in Rome from a Sicilian dad from Petralia Soprana and an English mum - from Croydon. Her mums name was Ivy Webb. Her dad Amedeo was a railway worker they fell in love at the Palais de Dance in Wimbledon. https://photoarchive.merton.gov.uk/collections/streets/streets-m-o/33036-merton-high-street-wimbledon-palais-de-danse"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"In general if they evaluated the current rules and figured out they can get better outcomes for the country tweaking them it would a good news. Thats how it should work. It would be for the market to decide if their changes are good or not. I dont know the details so I cannot really comment on the specifics. I read an article some times ago where they were discussing introducing a requirement of a capital investment in Italy . @DellAnnaLuca fyi"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@QuetzalPhoenix As a Sicilian well avoid strategic overextension and dont fire/exile/murder your best generals come to mind first. That said the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must comes a close second"
X Link 2025-10-17T18:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@bowelsinspector Ethiopia gobbling Eritrea . I mean I personally owe my life to the Ethiopian quest for a seaport 🥹"
X Link 2025-10-17T18:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@PaulKohlerSW19 @GabrielUtters13 I always wondered why the numbers were so tiny I suppose the governments never really fully leveraged the Dublin Regulation I have seen migrants processed after crossing the Sea of Sicily they painstakingly identify and record each and everyone of them"
X Link 2025-10-17T22:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@tomkington I have seen breathtaking pictures of #Trapani over the years but this is definitively not #Trapani: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-are-suffering-for-not-paying-ryanair-fees-claims-trapani-in-sicily-6xmh6ljlc https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-are-suffering-for-not-paying-ryanair-fees-claims-trapani-in-sicily-6xmh6ljlc"
X Link 2017-10-27T10:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@tomkington I have contacted the Times Feedback and asked them either to correct the caption to #CastellammareDelGolfo or to change picture"
X Link 2017-10-27T14:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

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