@aledeniz Alessandro Riolo
Alessandro Riolo posts on X about italy, countries, turkey, tunisia the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social topic influence italy #357, countries, turkey, tunisia #321, china, in the, eritrea, germany, france, venice #484
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Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@NachoOliveras @joe_shipman @flaneurizer I think it was Tim Park who once attempted to travel all railways of Italy the ticket master of Palermo stopped him to go to Trapani. Italian politicians routinely do it as a stunt. Palermo-Trapani is [--] hours for 90km a few humans may be faster. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Ways-Rails-Milan-Palermo/dp/0099584255/ref=nodl_ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Ways-Rails-Milan-Palermo/dp/0099584255/ref=nodl_"
X Link 2020-10-10T14:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@trishankkarthik I had a good look at it after seeing it in action at a friends place. Its based on the Nvidia Tegra X1 SoC the same of my old but still well performing Nvidia Shield android TV. Subsequent versions (X2 Xavier) are mostly used by the car industry also for self driving"
X Link 2021-01-08T09:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@ThomasSorheim I am London based I have been using Azure extensively for [--] years getting the capacity managers to release GPU enabled sizes in UKS (the London data centre) has always been a pain. They would sometime offer other regions but thats not always acceptable"
X Link 2023-02-05T11:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SaadMaan15 @antoniomedfarm @MilkLions My granddads brothers were buying wine in the Etna Valley transporting it on wineskin on the back of mules over the Nebrodi and sell it on the Tyrrhenian side. Its around 100km it took them [--] to [--] days. The pass was at 1275m a bit more than half way"
X Link 2023-07-04T16:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@amehyun22 @mediterraneanAE James was the son of Costanza Queen of Sicily who was both a Hohenstaufen and a great-grandchild of a Hauteville. The only person who had a greater title to the kingdom of Sicily was his elder brother Alphonso the Liberal. Sicilians saw Costanza's descendants as legitimate kings"
X Link 2023-09-21T23:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AuroraFantin @dino_andreani Io son Siciliano li ho sempre pronunciati Padon e Cateln. Pdoan o Cattlan suonano male. Cattlan suona come cafflatte"
X Link 2024-07-30T20:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AurelianoPisa The overhaul is renaming them Indici sintetici di affidabilit introducing a model with additional fines if you make any mistake compiling it. On the back of the filing they rate you up to [--] and if you dont at least [--] you are screwed. Its sheer madness even worse now"
X Link 2024-10-06T17:58Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements
"@andreamatranga Visio will work in 80% of the use cases. There are a zillion alternatives (Creately Coggle Miro LucidChart Dia Draw even Inkscape Illustrator if needs be .). http://Draw.io http://Draw.io"
X Link 2024-11-12T10:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@blazeydriver In my house you guys will always be heroes I spent hours on the overpasses with my little child the pure joy you people bring to the toddlers"
X Link 2024-12-06T20:15Z [----] followers, 58.3K engagements
"The government should subsidise the newspapers with exactly $0 the movies with exactly $0 the theatres with exactly $0 and so on. Un governo che stanzia solo [--] milioni di euro per il sostegno ai giornali e [--] miliardo e [--] milioni per cinema o spettacoli allaperto si commenta da solo. Nulla allinformazione perch fa riflettere le coscienze uninezia rispetto allo svago secondo il principio demagogico Un governo che stanzia solo [--] milioni di euro per il sostegno ai giornali e [--] miliardo e [--] milioni per cinema o spettacoli allaperto si commenta da solo. Nulla allinformazione perch fa riflettere"
X Link 2024-12-15T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@razibkhan AFAIK in Tunisia there is a sizeable difference between coastal cities and non coastal cities. I wonder if this could be generalised to the rest of North Africa. E.g. is the gap between Tangier and Malaga or between Tangier and Fez"
X Link 2024-12-20T09:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@wotancore Well yes thats realistic. European road reached parity with the Roman roads in the XIX century and the Roman roads were never nowhere as fast as their shipping lanes"
X Link 2025-01-09T09:53Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"Before this Trump administration one would have expected Denmark to commit troops wherever and whenever asked from America . The others it may have depended from their current government. Tendentially the centre-right would say yes the centre-left not but it is not a given (a centre-left Italian government joined in the bombing of Belgrade)"
X Link 2025-02-13T10:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@TTAAIILLSS @CaudilloXIV Who knows 😇 In my early 20s one night we tested this with a pal. We went to a club in Malta and we chatted up Italian girls I introduced him as my cousin from London who didnt knew Italian he scored at the second attempt 🥹 I lost a bet 😭"
X Link 2025-02-15T20:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If this is true should whoever decided not to set the death field to FALSE in that database for people older than [---] face investigation and potentially prosecution And I do mean the political appointees whoever sat in the Office of Commissioner for the past half a century. According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣 https://t.co/ltb06VX98Z According to the Social Security database these are the numbers of people in each age"
X Link 2025-02-17T09:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@GGCanto Id say it is more a governance data governance business process audit compliance control risk management problem management incident management issue more than and before the questionable technology. 🫣"
X Link 2025-02-17T09:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@SaadMaan15 We use also in Sicilian. Na jumenta. It may have come all the way from the Romans"
X Link 2025-02-20T11:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@SaadMaan15 In Sicilian we also have the equine compliment for the fast and thin muscled boy: Nu Giannettu. Apparently the root may be both Semitic and Hellenic I am not sure who got it first"
X Link 2025-02-20T11:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@hugowiz @mmeJen I once met an Iranian who had naturalised. At some point I asked him his opinion of his new homeland he answered me: Switzerland is the paradise"
X Link 2025-02-21T01:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Sulla. Allegedly he composes it as epitaph for his own grave. Trump is no Sulla. Sulla was a brave soldier. As a young officer he once won a major war leading possibly solo a commando operation. Later on he won the highest military award by acclamation from a whole legion he rescued"
X Link 2025-02-21T08:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@trishankkarthik Sciascia wrote a good book about the case. Some Spanish versions covers are bangers: 😇"
X Link 2025-02-23T19:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Caveat: Sciascias book is from [----]. The official statement placing Majorana in Venezuela is from 2011-2015. Sciascia died in [----] so he obviously never saw this later development. When I was a kid the most popular conjecture was that Majorana was the dog man of Mazara a homeless gentlemen who lived in the streets of Mazara. In my family we knew that was not correct because we have relatives in Mazara who knew that gentlemen before he went mad"
X Link 2025-02-23T19:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"1) the idea is that America is the incumbent empire Sparta in the analogy while China is the challenger empire Athens. The analogy obviously doesnt apply to most other aspects. 2) Athens was politically relevant for more than [--] years. Certainly from Draco to Chaeronea/Philip II some may argue up to Lamia/Antipater. The golden age of imperial Athens lasted roughly [--] years from Mycale/Platea to Aegospotami. In fact archaeologists tend to shift the relevance a couple of centuries earlier than Draco. 3) Athens was not totally mogged by Sparta. It came close to prevail many times. Athens seemed"
X Link 2025-02-26T00:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@FroidEtCold @yacineMTB Who knows general intelligence emerging from linear algebra may end up being more rational and easier to achieve than general intelligence emerging from [--] billion years of random organic evolution"
X Link 2025-02-26T00:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Its not everywhere so. My granddad built roads in Africa for a couple of decades mainly linking Eritrea and Ethiopia. The tarmac/asphalt is still there in fact from Google Map I can confirm they may be periodically resurfaced. The Eritrean government even launched a programme to expand them: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1901213236587794843 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1901213236587794843"
X Link 2025-03-16T10:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@m_erite My dad was once in one of those races. The driver was his godfather my dad was less than [--] he had a great memory of that experience"
X Link 2025-03-21T14:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Adria is roughly [--] miles south of Venice. Its way older than Venice it may have been the main harbour of that region for centuries before the Romans. Adria lost the sea during the Roman times and its importance due a flood in [---] the breach at Cucca left it stranded amidst swamps. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1904507030045421632 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1904507030045421632"
X Link 2025-03-25T12:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@nicolas_ruf @levelsio is the symbol for the Italian lira. is the symbol for the British pound"
X Link 2025-06-18T07:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@PedTalksSports Hector Rial won [--] European Cups wearing the No. [--] for Real Madrid. He scored [--] goals in [---] appearances for them. [--] copa de Europa 13/06/1956. Real Madrid [--] Stade Reims [--] goles de Rial (2) Di Stefano y Marquitos. Camiseta de Hector Rial #museomerengue https://t.co/EP061Ci0io [--] copa de Europa 13/06/1956. Real Madrid [--] Stade Reims [--] goles de Rial (2) Di Stefano y Marquitos. Camiseta de Hector Rial #museomerengue https://t.co/EP061Ci0io"
X Link 2025-06-28T09:45Z [----] followers, 136K engagements
"@constans Lookup Venice 😇"
X Link 2025-07-12T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Jac5Connor And Oda Eiichiro . I went out with a straw hat past Sunday 🧑🌾"
X Link 2025-09-11T22:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This Italian gentleman states that According to (some) statistics Trenitalia is the best railway operator in Europe. From these small details you understand that the continent is finished. If those stats were true he would be directionally right. Trenitalia better than SBB would an apocalyptic proxy for the state of Europe. That said I am note sure I can trust the source in that visualisation 😇 Secondo le statistiche Trenitalia miglior operatore ferroviario dEuropa. Da questi piccoli dettagli capite che il continente finito https://t.co/9GVLAsL11s Secondo le statistiche Trenitalia miglior"
X Link 2025-09-18T10:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Leaving aside all other potential objections to that chart - and there will be countless - whats so special about this year so far I would be curious to see one of those charts for the Turkish Lira 😇 Having said that what are the odds that the US Dollar will keep falling https://t.co/CL2jrJjvbA Having said that what are the odds that the US Dollar will keep falling https://t.co/CL2jrJjvbA"
X Link 2025-09-22T10:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@rosejara1 One of my pals a Turk with some Western Iranian ancestry is Vespasian reborn. He is virtually identical to this early statue of Vespasian made when he was still a fit general new to the purple. My pal is not stingy though I cannot freely use pecunia non olet with him 🤭 #OnThisDay #Vespasian was born on [--] November [--] A.D. This statue is in the #MuseiCapitolini http://t.co/8K4IN1xB8r http://t.co/fkG9HEOC5m #OnThisDay #Vespasian was born on [--] November [--] A.D. This statue is in the #MuseiCapitolini http://t.co/8K4IN1xB8r http://t.co/fkG9HEOC5m"
X Link 2025-10-03T18:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Social media influencers have been around for a generation at this point. It is sincerely incredible that Marjorie Taylor Greene is the first Western politician I've heard proposing to force influencers to reveal they are paid a green dollar sign instead of the blue tick would be just perfect. People will concentrate on the Israel related aspect but that's really a side effect of the general principle she is proposing. Its offensive to the American people that social media influencers can secretly pocket money to push propaganda without ever telling you whos funding them. If TV and radio must"
X Link 2025-10-04T01:10Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements
"When gold doubles in less than two years against a given currency it usually means investors expect that currencys economy to weaken. Over the past two years gold has indeed doubled in value against several major currencies including the US dollar 💵 yen 💴 and rupee and has come close to doing so against the euro 💶 pound and yuan . When gold doubles in under two years against one currency it means trouble for that country. When it does so against almost every major currency it means trouble for the world 🌎🌍🌏"
X Link 2025-10-14T13:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"European friends: The 7th Congressional District of Massachusetts includes three-fourths of the city of Boston and a few of its northern and southern suburbs. It spans parts of three counties: Suffolk Norfolk and Middlesex. The effective property tax rate in these counties ranges from about 0.6% to 1.2%. For the average voter of the lady representing the district this likely means paying around $8000 a year not counting extra charges and local levies: rubbish collection water sewage fire services and so on often bundled with property taxes. Our American friends dont just buy their land once"
X Link 2025-10-14T23:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I am the son of an African war refugee literally. My father reached Europe as a teenager on a boat with nothing on his name but the clothes on his back and the shoes on his feet. My dad owned nothing bar children until his late 40s a true proletarian. Wherever I went in life I never once felt that I didnt belong or that I was out of place or any other such idiocy. We are the apex predators of this planet. The whole world is our playground. And earlier or later hopefully soon the rest of the Solar System shall be ours the earliest we stop crying about not belonging in some nursery ward whose"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:03Z [----] followers, 29.5K engagements
"France in [----] is the demonstration on Earth that countries truly need a leader like Margaret Thatcher when they fail to govern themselves effectively for far too long. Hating a Thatcher is a futile exercise. Instead one should direct ire toward the elites and voters who created the conditions that led to their rise. Thatcher fulfilled the primary duty of a statesman: to make tough choices. She decided who would be the losers and who would be the winners. In doing so she ultimately steered her country in the right direction for nearly a generation. Yes many of her decisions did not stand the"
X Link 2025-10-17T18:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I am Mediterranean (98%-99%) with very minor European (1%) and Subsaharan (0.5%) distant ancestry. She looks of recently mixed Subsaharan and European ancestry. I have never declared myself white black brown or any other colour these are Anglo-Saxon cultural construct wholly alien to my culture and upbringing which are sadly making inroads in the recent decade due the American cultural power"
X Link 2025-10-17T19:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When I lived in Turkey the inflation rate was often over 100% year on year. The most common mobile store of value was this the eyrek Altn literally the Quarter Gold. It's an immensely popular 22k golden coin the content in gold is usually [-----] grams. The current value is $225. This is a bit old style with a handle (kulplu) those days the ones without handle (kulpsuz) are far more common. Mi viene in mente un signore (un imprenditore la cui azienda non se la passava bene) che nel [----] dietro mio consiglio ne compr circa 95kg. Con un singolo investimento ha letteralmente svoltato nella vita Mi"
X Link 2025-10-17T21:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If we exclude our fellow Greeks we Mediterraneans are not particularly mixed with the Europeans especially northern Europeans at least not in recent times. Certainly not the Sicilians and even less the Sardinians. Genetically we are closer than they are to Europes basal population the pre-Yamnaya pre-Corded Ware stock especially the Sardinians. The Yamnaya never crossed the Strait of Messina. Some of their epigones perhaps did but they made little inroad beyond the Peloritans which spiritually and geologically speaking makes perfect sense 😇 Most Americans with Sub-Saharan ancestry carry far"
X Link 2025-10-17T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Id add a couple of countries and say a major military defeat that pushed them and their elites to look inside: Marignano [----] Rampjaar [----] Second Schleswig War [----] Poltava [----] Sadly Italy got a similar chance at redemption Caporetto [----] but while most of the people learnt the lesson the elites did not"
X Link 2025-10-18T09:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@tessiermaurice The governments under Pompidou with Chaban-Delmas Messmer and Giscard dEstaing in leading or primary roles achieved much especially on the demographic and nuclear front so much in fact that allowed subsequent politicians too much slack delaying the redde rationem"
X Link 2025-10-18T14:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@skors3 @EricLDaugh She was in Spain when she did that speach"
X Link 2025-10-19T17:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Public Service Announcement: This is not how to eat rice according to Italian galateo. Risotto or any rice 🍚 not in soup like the one in the video is equated to dried pasta pasta asciutta 🍝 so it is eaten exclusively with a fork. Young children 👶 are sometimes excused to use a spoon and later 👦👧 both spoon and fork but a teen should already know how to eat pasta asciutta including rice-based versions exclusively with a fork. If you put a knife in your hand in that video's scenario most Italians will think you are a barbarian. You may as well eat it with your bare hands. No ragazzi posso"
X Link 2025-10-19T18:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The governments should be allowed to borrow only in war. In years without wars they should repay the war bonds eventually balance the books and invest the surplus. A 30% public debt/GDP ratio is folly insanity lunacy. There are no words in human dictionaries for 60% 90% 120% . No it isn't "wasted" it is required. Nations that fail to make debt payments collapse. For decades The Smartest People in the Room throughout the West borrowed to unimaginable amounts to buy votes letting people in the "out years" deal with it when it was no longer No it isn't "wasted" it is required. Nations that fail"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@etbadabimbim Voters would hate wars as they had to repay the war bonds"
X Link 2025-10-19T20:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yes. The North Africans the Levantines and the Anatolians are Mediterranean like us. We share the same sea it would benefit all of us if we shared the same geopolitical and economic development destiny. We should bring them into the European project. The wealthier freer and more developed they become the wealthier freer and more developed Sicily will be. But David Cameron was right about one thing: freedom of movement cannot be unconditional. At the moment countries like Morocco Albania or Tunisia are sending to Europe not only many honest and hardworking people but also a significant part of"
X Link 2025-10-20T12:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Italian banks 🏦 worked decently until the 1980s: prudent small local relationship-based institutions that knew their territories and clients. Then Banca d'Italia and the central government decided they needed national champions instead; large banks able to compete on the European and global stage. To achieve that they intervened: orchestrating mergers encouraging acquisitions nudging targeted banks into becoming prey with their inspections and turning a tapestry of once-independent regional lenders into bureaucratic conglomerates. The result was the destruction of Italy's local banking"
X Link 2025-10-20T18:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who knows but the effect of that price difference is that the European industry will disappear while countries with no socially priced CO2 will continue to emit like there is no tomorrow. The high price of CO2 in Europe is literally incentivising the build of fossil fuels power plants in China "
X Link 2025-10-21T12:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Governments spend more on metropolitan areas because thats where they nurture their national champions. If you go back to [----] there was almost no difference for a business seeking credit in Milan or Trapani the interest rate was roughly the same. But after all the major bank headquarters were moved to Milan the farther you are from Milan the more expensive your debt becomes. In fact most independent accountants from Trapani now maintain an office in Milan because their number one piece of advice to clients who reach a certain level of revenue or bank exposure is to move their company"
X Link 2025-10-21T13:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Why can a Chinese startup founded in [----] produce electric cars at a profit hire 10k people increase revenue to $2b in [--] years while a [---] years old European behemoth roughly $200b revenue $250b assets 250k employees producing [--] times more cars than the Chinese startup cannot Il gruppo #Stellantis sarebbe pronto a compiere un passo inedito per lindustria automobilistica europea: commercializzare in Europa unauto di origine cinese con un marchio tedesco ovvero #Opel.In sostanza si tratterebbe di apporre il logo di un marchio tedesco su unauto di https://t.co/FQq50m2niT Il gruppo #Stellantis"
X Link 2025-10-21T16:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hamiltons dream - a literary post There is a man somewhere in the county of Rutland who I expect may be enjoying Musks run more than anyone else alive. His name is Peter F. Hamilton. Hamilton wrote the manual for Musks ventures before the latter built the prototypes. SpaceX Neuralink the Boring Company if you have read Hamilton they feel like the Commonwealth Sagas prequels. SpaceX is the first sketch of the Great Expansion: Musk wants Mars like Hamiltons Nigel Sheldon. Sheldon eventually turned the Orion Arm into a suburban commute but he and his partner Ozzie Isaacs began by beating NASA to"
X Link 2025-10-21T20:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I asked @grok to evaluate this. It really liked it especially the comparison with Hamiltons Sentient Intelligences but it tried multiple times to prevent me to use the word harem. To be fair Sheldons harem is one of his more salient characteristics its hard to write about his character without noting the harem 🫣"
X Link 2025-10-21T20:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In which shape or form were the Sicilians not colonised from [----] to [----] Why did [--] whole generations of Sicilians left the archipelago after [----] on the back of a failed [--] years long rebellion To be frank one could argue Sardinias colonisation was much longer: from Sanluri to [----] there are [---] years and one could argue their post [----] autonomy is not on par with that granted to the Sicilians. My Venetian friends would argue too they have been colonised and exploited for longer than Sicily and one could agree that having not been granted even autonomy the ongoing wealth extraction imposed"
X Link 2025-10-22T09:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cuomo is unmistakably a Neapolitan surname; its Sicilian form is Como. The surname may once have belonged to a Jewish convert but its current bearers are often seafaring folk. A few landbound branches exist yet most Como and Cuomo families still dwell along the Tyrrhenian coast. For centuries Tyrrhenian sailors saw Muslim corsairs as Native Americans would later see European settlers an encroaching enemy from across the sea. The Tyrrhenian sailors ultimately won their very long struggle. Cuomo is indeed the descendant of a thirteen-century-long maritime struggle: Tyrrhenian against Muslim."
X Link 2025-10-22T15:01Z [----] followers, 23.1K engagements
"Until my childhood there was a fountain ⛲ often a very spartan one🚰 on every corner of every old city center I visited in Sicily but not in Venice. By the time I turned ten all those fountains were gone. I was a few times a character in small scenes where an elder would ask why I was so thirsty couldnt I drink from the fountain And I would answer that the fountain was gone. The disappearance of the fountains was the by-product of a long bureaucratic campaign of modernization. The government had decided they were unhygienic quaint relics of a poorer time. Health inspectors kept writing"
X Link 2025-10-22T15:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@duren_matto @PaulSkallas In American terms Reggio Calabria or Agrigento have been in a Great Depression since [----] and [----] respectively. Licata or Partanna worse"
X Link 2025-10-22T16:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@duren_matto @PaulSkallas I have to apologise to my agnatic ancestors How could I forget Tortorici a city well soon under [----] inhabitants in economic depression since [----] The poor sods bought their freedom and city status with a loan they finally repaid in [---] years 😭 @NachoOliveras My paternal grandfather came from one of those unfortunate cities Tortorici. I am not joking: to get their freedom in [----] they had to pay a ransom they ended to pay in [----]. Thats [---] years of wealth destruction. @NachoOliveras My paternal grandfather came from one of those unfortunate cities Tortorici. I am"
X Link 2025-10-22T16:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@AfricanHub_ Meloni a few years back: Is this why Italy PM Meloni was so disgusted by Macron at G7 this past week Here she does the unthinkable calling out the colonial CFA franc scam run by #France to suck wealth from [--] African nations to which it applies seigniorage and by virtue of which it exploits the https://t.co/rXGDu5IajV Is this why Italy PM Meloni was so disgusted by Macron at G7 this past week Here she does the unthinkable calling out the colonial CFA franc scam run by #France to suck wealth from [--] African nations to which it applies seigniorage and by virtue of which it exploits"
X Link 2025-10-22T17:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Do you have many seafaring Tyrrhenian relatives What do they think of the Muslims I grew up among these people. When I was a little child if I misbehaved for example refused to eat my fish broth or to take my afternoon nap they would invoke the Pirata Barbarossa the pirate who kidnapped naughty children. Pirata Barbarossa better known as Barbaros Hayrettin Paa was an Ottoman corsair and admiral of the Ottoman fleet. He had of course died more than four centuries earlier"
X Link 2025-10-22T18:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ektrit My understanding is that the Koreans - Posco - are trying something similar. I havent really looked into this but my expectation knowing about the Koreans is that it is likely the Japanese may be trying this too. I will have a look"
X Link 2025-10-23T14:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@christophauto @joelbasson @VERYKOOLLUKEY A lot of vongole veraci sold in Italy come in fact from Thailand Cambodia and Vietnam. The good ones are the smaller ones which come from open seas around the peninsula the Spanish government has been trying to get harvesting those banned as they prefer farming types"
X Link 2025-10-24T07:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Classic beggar-thy-neighbour policy. That said while India does this with his youth Western countries do it all the time with other items. E.g. the historical large and continuous trade surpluses of Germany Japan Italy South Korea . and the gargantuan one of China always had a strong beggar-thy-neighbour aspect. This is why India is so keen to insert immigration riders into all trade agreements. They need to create [----] million non-farm jobs every year until [----] merely to keep employment stable so labor migration serves as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment. https://t.co/247DAjs3KQ"
X Link 2025-10-24T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@HallvardHolte 1) Kurds and Belarus are both Indo-European people genetically and linguistically linked. 2) I dont know about the Iraqi Kurds but plenty of Turks are married with Ukrainians Russias Belarusians "
X Link 2025-10-24T07:45Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Russia in 1941-1943. The 8th army renamed Armir for the occasion: Armata italiana in Russia spent 1942-1943 on the Don river. [------] men. The 8th was completely lost in that venture. [-----] dead [-----] captured Mussolini fell from power because even his closest circle found him responsible for the catastrophe. The Soviets freed the last war prisoners in 1954"
X Link 2025-10-24T11:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Meloni keeps repeating that she will not send Italian soldiers in Ukraine this is from yesterday she and members of her government are on record denying they will allow it multiple times over the past couple of years. Why they deny it if no one is asking https://www.ilmessaggero.it/AMP/politica/meloni_la_linea_su_kiev_niente_soldati_italiani_spinta_alle_sanzioni_putin-9143293.html https://www.ilmessaggero.it/AMP/politica/meloni_la_linea_su_kiev_niente_soldati_italiani_spinta_alle_sanzioni_putin-9143293.html"
X Link 2025-10-24T13:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Meepsia @mamboitaliano__ I lived in Venice as a child I fell down twice. The smell was astounding afterwards. Yes I heard of people who had lifelong complications afterwards but luckily I didnt 🫣"
X Link 2025-10-24T18:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Pilgrimage is absolutely a pillar of Christianity. Leaving aside the Holy Land why do people go to Rome for the jubilees Western Sicily has the Beautiful Mother of Trapani. In August you can meet people walking toward it at night throughout the region. I once almost hit a group of barefoot pilgrims at [--] a.m. near Mazara [--] miles from the sanctuary. I heard of a lady who walked [--] miles from Marsala to the sanctuary on her knees. I saw a gentleman reach the sanctuary barefoot from who knows where going on all fours and licking a straight line through the chapel up to the Beautiful Mother's"
X Link 2025-10-24T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"when I looked out of the left window and saw a French Mirage III from a pilot of a SR-71 is a great compliment. Yes they were cruising at low speed not on a war mission mode but still quite impressive nonetheless. Gotta be one of the funniest SR-71 stories out there 😆 https://t.co/cuQw8PxeY3 Gotta be one of the funniest SR-71 stories out there 😆 https://t.co/cuQw8PxeY3"
X Link 2025-10-28T07:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ObviousRises Brazil enters the scene: @Mehdi_IR_DC Iranians and Anatolians (Greeks Romans Turks) famously fought a [--] centuries long war. We can safely guess that 90% of the soldiers in that war would have sampled in that ellipse. Brazil diversity makes it look like a brotherly squabble. https://t.co/0wEtPyHAzR @Mehdi_IR_DC Iranians and Anatolians (Greeks Romans Turks) famously fought a [--] centuries long war. We can safely guess that 90% of the soldiers in that war would have sampled in that ellipse. Brazil diversity makes it look like a brotherly squabble. https://t.co/0wEtPyHAzR"
X Link 2025-10-28T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"No man no amount of documentation will make me you or anyone else a Storage Bob; it's a calling. When my team managed on-premises storage arrays I'd pray to all gods before any restart or firmware update. There are two real solutions: treat or transfer e.g. either hire/retain a team of Storage Bobs or move those workloads to a managed or public cloud hoping they have a team of Storage Bobs. Documentation will take you nowhere. Storage risk is often a risk you cannot tolerate nor terminate. This is commonly referred to as tribal knowledge or key man risk. Thats why making sure your team is"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ali_beydoun16 @gothburz That has never been my understanding of open source. If you spot a bug because it is an issue for you the expectation is you fix it and provide the patch. What I expect of the maintainer is that they would eventually evaluate and merge or not your patch"
X Link 2025-11-02T18:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Devilshero90 @JRuebl47185 Hermes is Greek. The Roman one was Mercurius"
X Link 2025-11-02T21:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"This was commonplace in Sicily too. When I was a child during the 1st - 2nd November there were men walking in the cemeteries screaming scala lumia e batteria they were renting ladders to reach the higher rows and selling candles in a red container (lumia) and batteries as already back then there were battery fed electric versions. In recent years people seem to prefer flowers there is no much candles to be seen anymore. Probably some authority related intervention"
X Link 2025-11-03T09:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The nadir of the Western civilisation. We produce Ph.D. who dont know the Frog and the Scorpion. It is not about you @goddeketal this is a civilisational failure. Apart from listening it from my dad my mum and all my elders some of whose were illiterate I read that in primary school. @MeaneyedM @valuechasing No. Tell me. @MeaneyedM @valuechasing No. Tell me"
X Link 2025-11-04T11:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Why Google is a monopoly and not also Apple Microsoft . The EU wants to break up Google. This is due to Google's illegal monopoly on online advertising. The EU expects that this issue can not be solved unless Google sells a part of their company. Time for Europe to take over Google's advertisement sector https://t.co/U1Dl5K6f72 The EU wants to break up Google. This is due to Google's illegal monopoly on online advertising. The EU expects that this issue can not be solved unless Google sells a part of their company. Time for Europe to take over Google's advertisement sector"
X Link 2025-11-04T12:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I can confirm I wore Speedos from [--] to [--] 😇 You should have seen the faces that time I went to a Sainsburys in London with a Sicilian pal just out of a swimming session both in speedos 🤭 Young boys in Europe do in fact wear speedos and no one tells them to cover up because its simply swimwear and it is appropriate at the beach/pool Young boys in Europe do in fact wear speedos and no one tells them to cover up because its simply swimwear and it is appropriate at the beach/pool"
X Link 2025-11-04T15:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"She is right re the normalisation being a good thing. In my youth I was routinely interacting with girls in topless or bikini on the beaches without even noticing it unless someone else noticed it for me 🤭 Older Sicilians would often remark how lucky we were compared to them 🥹 Expectations of modesty make all men spiritually Indian they see an ankle and immediately start raping. The fact that nudity is normalized in Europe within certain contexts is an extremely good thing Expectations of modesty make all men spiritually Indian they see an ankle and immediately start raping. The fact that"
X Link 2025-11-04T17:33Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"@grok @Mano_del_Blau Well according to this the French may be still buying Spanish wine in bulk. I wonder why 🫣"
X Link 2025-11-05T07:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@phl43 Do you have ancestors who lived in Tunisia or Algeria Intermarriages among French Spaniards and Sicilians were pretty frequent there"
X Link 2025-11-06T08:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If the idea is to replace aircrafts with trains this fall very short of what is needed. Were launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest more sustainable way to travel across Europe by [----]. 🚆 Its a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks unlock investment and harmonise rail systems https://t.co/QH5x1eEhOS Were launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest more sustainable way to travel across Europe by [----]. 🚆 Its a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks unlock investment and harmonise rail systems https://t.co/QH5x1eEhOS"
X Link 2025-11-06T08:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@spandrell4 From her look the peninsula most of her ancestors came from wasnt Arabia but Anatolia. I lived in Turkey I may have known [---] girls/ladies looking like that I may have seen thousands. She also makes her up/cut her hairs in the style of old money urban Turkish girls"
X Link 2025-11-06T13:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@ultrakurwa So as a Pole you have the right to ask European policies favouring Poland while as a Sicilian I dont enjoy such right How do you think an European (con)federation/empire is going to work"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ultrakurwa I am not calling for Poland to be cut in half. Finger in the air [--] city states and 50-60 cantons will do. Possibly even more than that I see Sicily needing at least [--] possibly [--] city states and at least a dozen cantons"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@MarkManger Absolutely. Give me a wooden burnt robusta coffee brewed by an old barman in Napoli or Palermo over the most expensive arabica filtered in Amsterdam or mixed in Istanbul or Athens any day that God send for our Earth"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Simone Inzaghi was a great striker even Roma supporters knew that 😂 A young Giorgia Meloni apparently had a whole web site dedicated to him 🥹 Il sito della Meloni dove thirstava su Simone Inzaghi non ce la posso fare dimostrazione n [---------] che viviamo in una simulazione. Le donne sono creature incredibili https://t.co/JFFC67CMGR Il sito della Meloni dove thirstava su Simone Inzaghi non ce la posso fare dimostrazione n [---------] che viviamo in una simulazione. Le donne sono creature incredibili https://t.co/JFFC67CMGR"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@vtando26p Its a relic of when the Ottoman Empire was at his zenith. Before Karlofa"
X Link 2025-11-06T15:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"To a Western/Central Mediterranean ear India evokes wealth gold spice. while Bharat sadly evokes cheap goods literally barter. Its politically an idiotic idea. The label India gets connected worldwide to an ancient culture notably one of the few still continuing. Turkey doesnt have that never did. Their shift to Trkiye while annoying (& used in speech as much as is for Twitter) . Its politically an idiotic idea. The label India gets connected worldwide to an ancient culture notably one of the few still continuing. Turkey doesnt have that never did. Their shift to Trkiye while annoying (& used"
X Link 2025-11-07T11:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Does Russia end to the Bering Straits Moscow is the far east of the historical range of the Russian immediate ancestors. Rurik lorded on Yaroslav but not beyond. Moscovy reached the Urals in the XV century they consistently crossed them only after [----]. All Russian Federation east and south of Moscow is European colonisation of the first order"
X Link 2025-11-07T12:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@vgg5465 @maragatogato The Danes are doing that switching to fully funded. At least [--] generations of taxpayers will pay more than they will get. Please note in Italy they are doing the same current taxpayers are paying more than what they will ever get but to continue feeding a Ponzi scheme"
X Link 2025-11-07T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@vgg5465 @maragatogato One of my Italian pals moved to Dubai a quarter of a century ago because he refused to partecipate in that process"
X Link 2025-11-07T15:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"During the great strikes of [----] the unions forced FIAT to grant a general pay rise and significant changes in workplace conditions. Shortly afterward Gianni Agnelli remarked The pay rise weve had to concede costs me as much as the entire yearly profits of Alfa Romeo. At that time Mirafiori was the largest factory in the world. Its scale was made possible by the pre-1968 social contract. Once that contract collapsed the competitive advantages that had supported the Italian industrial model vanished and in the long run Mirafiori became unsustainable"
X Link 2025-11-07T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@flashman198 Do you have idea of how much public deficit Italy did from [----] to [----] 😭"
X Link 2025-11-07T21:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@DiJohnNonCiCale Care to show me a thread on @x showing us your take on this subject Also in Italian"
X Link 2025-11-08T09:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DiJohnNonCiCale @X Care to show us your books and your articles on the subject"
X Link 2025-11-08T09:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DiJohnNonCiCale @X The Italian social contract"
X Link 2025-11-08T10:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Maybe because I'm not really even trying to do any of that Why would I do that on @X of all places The most anyone can do on @X is to summarily summarise a distillation of what you seem to be expecting. By the way mine aren't even controversial or original takes. Why do you seem to think they are"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DiJohnNonCiCale @X What is my methodology Where did I describe it"
X Link 2025-11-08T12:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@romanhelmetguy @MiaBuff51366 Greece did that until recently"
X Link 2025-11-08T21:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@hugaemon @code_mom_ @LegoRacers2 I couldn't remember the name of Indiana but got the other right. Also West Virginia seems in 😇"
X Link 2025-11-09T10:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Its a major episode of the modern Italian history that greatly helped the industrialisation of the North and greatly damaged the economy of the South. It eventually led to the Sicilian rebellion in the winter of 1893-1894 and the subsequent military repression which sparkled the great Sicilian migration to America "
X Link 2025-11-10T14:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I disagree with all [--] of those maps. E.g. in [----] there were [----] universitates in the kingdom of Sicily. Of those in Sicily proper [--] were demanial cities with a seat in the Parliament and a dozen had a Senate. It is very likely [--] of those cities (Palermo Messina Catania Siracusa and Trapani) may have never been enfeoffed and may have kept without interruptions their institutions and privileges from the Roman times"
X Link 2025-11-10T14:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Carlo314159 @giudelavega1 Yes the kingdom of Sicily was abolished in [----] and the Sicilians basically revolted non stop from [----] to [----]. In [----] they gave up and voted with their feet two whole generations migrated to America "
X Link 2025-11-10T14:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@AIndelli @onirhakin Why in bad faith The point is that it is not true that Sicily has always been poorer than Northern Italy. Incidentally I used to live in Venice as a child. It didnt feel like a rich city at all"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Yes but I dont understand the bad faith statement. There is a conjecture: Sicily has always been poorer than Northern Italy. The conjecture can be killed in seconds observing that Sicily was indeed richer than Veneto in 1870s-1930s. If you dont like that we can use most periods between [---] BC to [----] AD well always find parts of Northern Italy poorer than Sicily often the whole of it in that timespan"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"yes because that clearly demonstrate that Sicily is not always necessarily poor than Northern Italy or a significant portion thereof which is my point. There is no bad faith. By the way the reason Veneto had a bad 1790s-1930s are essentially exogenous ditto for Sicily 1817-ongoing"
X Link 2025-11-10T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Sicily in [----] was in far better shape than in [----] albeit still in the fatal 1817-1894 long rebellion period. That said the great divergence with Switzerland is that they won their liberal revolution in [----] and got a federal constitution in [----] while Sicily sadly lost theirs in 1848-1849. Switzerland had always been historically poorer than Sicily for hopefully obvious evident reasons. Switzerland being far wealthier than Sicily is a relatively modern development"
X Link 2025-11-11T07:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Even in the nineteenth century after [----] the gap in GDP per capita between Sicily and Switzerland was not as large as it is today. During the eighteenth century average living standards in Sicily and in Switzerland were broadly comparable. Switzerland moved slightly ahead over the course of the century Sicily caught back towards the end of the century but the differences if any remained modest. The major divergence began only in the mid-nineteenth century when Switzerland industrialized successfully while Sicily fell below the Italian average. The gap widened sharply after [----] reaching a"
X Link 2025-11-11T08:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Eighteenth century means 1700s nineteenth century means 1800s your chart confirm my statement. Repetita juvant: . During the eighteenth century average living standards in Sicily and in Switzerland were broadly comparable. Switzerland moved slightly ahead over the course of the century Sicily caught back towards the end of the century but the differences if any remained modest. The major divergence began only in the mid-nineteenth century"
X Link 2025-11-11T09:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@GjonAsti @PaulSkallas Again that map in [----] shows Sicily richer than all Western European countries bar Northern Italy. Compare now Sicily with London Paris Barcelona Bilbao or Switzerland"
X Link 2025-11-11T09:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It's basically - but not exclusively - long term government policy driving the Indian Rupee's slide against the US Dollar. You see the same and worse in Turkey where the central bank focus on pumping out jobs and growth instead of defending currency strength. They hold interest rates way too low to really fight inflation. This spurs borrowing and keeps things rolling but it worsens ongoing trade gaps sucking in imports like oil and tech gear sparking cash outflows and dragging the INR down. TRY is even worse. India hasn't shifted - not enough - to produce high-value stuff yet leaning on"
X Link 2025-11-11T17:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For the period 1817-1946 we can safely blame foreign elites (Neapolitans for 1818-1860 and Italians () for 1861-1946). From [----] onwards it is fifty-fifty. Interestingly Italians often use that objection. In a federation if a federated elite misbehaves its the duty of the federal elites to intervene. This may have happened only rarely and briefly (e.g. the Operation Sicilian Vespers in 1992-1998 did structurally improve security). () while Sicilian born the Crispi Scelba Di Rudin Aldisio Mattarella I Mattarella III . can safely classed in the Italian elites. E.g. Aldisio famously defended"
X Link 2025-11-12T10:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@boycottnpr @FrankieInVegas @vbenard @MichaelAArouet What was Frederick II HRE Emperor and King of Sicily doing in Northern Italy on its campaigns Supporting the Pope 🥹"
X Link 2025-11-12T11:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@JacobAShell When I was a child I played football in St. Marks square in Venice. Multiple times. Or across the bridges. At the end of the match we would buy an ice cream at the Caffe Florian with a little coin. 🥹"
X Link 2025-11-12T11:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"10- 15- 20- 30- 50- and 100-year mortgages are all the devils spawn. In many locations that house wouldnt be worth $500000 if there were a true free and open housing market. In most developed countries our elites have built an immense wall of regulation to prevent a free and open housing market from working its magic. Also about the location: In the 1980s Italian elites decided that Italian banks had to merge because Italy needed national champions. Most of the financial and banking sector up to that point widely distributed concentrated in Milan over the next generation. You can imagine the"
X Link 2025-11-12T12:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The prefrontal cortex the brain region primarily responsible for executive functions like impulse control decision-making and crucially risk assessment continues developing into the mid-to-late 20s for most people. I have had interesting conversations re that with my [--] years old boy"
X Link 2025-11-12T13:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The prefrontal cortex the brain region primarily responsible for executive functions like impulse control decision-making and risk assessment continues developing into the mid-to-late 20s for most people. This person may have had a late prefrontal cortex development. Interesting they were able to go to the university nonetheless. what the heck https://t.co/62RPVuqel7 what the heck https://t.co/62RPVuqel7"
X Link 2025-11-12T13:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The specs for the T* coated started with this admission: The Carl Zeiss Tele-Superachromat T* 5.6/350 CFE lens is a high performance telephoto lens for the real demanding photographer. This exceptional lens incorporates considerable amounts of optical glass and metal parts of utmost precision. It is extremely difficult to manufacture"
X Link 2025-11-13T10:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Diaz had at least [--] million men ready to invade South Germany faced by elders policemen and kids. Diaz being Diaz he was likely going to delay the invasion until spring [----] but even if they may have suspected it the Germans couldnt conjure a new army out of nowhere anyway in that timeframe so their only option was an armistice which they got in [--] days. Had the Germans chosen to continue Diaz would have eventually walked to Berlin. 'The Armistice was a mistake we should have gone on and made the Germans unconditionally surrender.' @Nigel_Farage explains why he believes Britain should have"
X Link 2025-11-13T12:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If I would look for brilliant young Italians I wouldn't look for them in math or coding competitions. I would look for them in Latin translation competitions. Or in electromechanical competitions. Or in accounting competitions. If Austrians and Italians were the best talent on Earth 🌍 why they never win math and coding competitions If Austrians and Italians were the best talent on Earth 🌍 why they never win math and coding competitions"
X Link 2025-11-13T14:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@marro_bert Diaz wouldn't have invaded in [----]. He would have invaded in spring [----] with more than [--] divisions. Anyway the Germans' own assessment was they couldn't stop Diaz' armies neither in November [----] not in spring [----] so they sought for an armistice"
X Link 2025-11-14T08:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Northern Italy has been very polluted all my life and beyond. Once while visiting my uncle in Turin he took me to a nearby hill where we could see a carpet of smog for tens of miles (I reckon looking north-east). It is due to its geography. When I was a child a man proposed - on a popular TV program - to flatten the Turchino Pass to allow airflow between the Po Valley and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The idea was bizarre and wouldn't have worked but people discussed it for weeks. Interestingly pollution notwithstanding Northern Italians live quite long lives but among themselves they live longer in"
X Link 2025-11-14T09:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I expect the Constitutional court will eventually repeal some bits. E.g. for people born before the new law. I have friends who delayed registering their children who are now seething. It was quite the betrayal from a government led by a party called "Brothers of Italy". The bits were they deny people like me the right to pass the Italian citizenship to new children will need lawmakers changing their mind. It's going to be harder"
X Link 2025-11-14T10:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Porkchop_EXP The burocrats have been lobbying for this change for a long time. This is from 2018:"
X Link 2025-11-14T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The "arugula" American moniker is so funny because it is exactly how a Sicilian street seller would scream to sell it. 🤭 "a rugula talia chi beddha rugula a rugula accattativilla". HOW I FOUND DILL AND FELL INTO AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS One of the things I miss the most about America is Trader Joes. And the thing I miss the most about Trader Joes is their arugula. Back in my California days I ate a loooooot of arugula. But here in Taiwan its sold only at https://t.co/ue06e93LxN HOW I FOUND DILL AND FELL INTO AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS One of the things I miss the most about America is Trader Joes."
X Link 2025-11-14T13:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Notice how the tap-trading UI gamifies wins (options in the money) with flashy green pop-ups yet unsubtly omits any prominent alerts or visuals for losses keeping the vibe perpetually upbeat. 🫣 Options are too hard for normies Euphoria makes them easier with tap trading MegaETH https://t.co/rjjCJlYANU Options are too hard for normies Euphoria makes them easier with tap trading MegaETH https://t.co/rjjCJlYANU"
X Link 2025-11-14T13:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@CFDevelop @phillip Do you mean Azure DevOps Services Are you trying to login while the browser is logged with profile not in that tenant"
X Link 2025-11-14T20:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Yesterday evening I ate Papa John's pizza. American pizza often causes me to have vivid dreams. My son knows and sneakily asks for it when we have guests I am not a big fan myself. Come morning "did you have a dream" is the first thing he asks. He says I should write books about my dreams 🥹 Anyway I asked Grok to make an image of one of the episodes of my last night's dream and it is obviously quite possible to rebuild the dream. This would need a bit more work there was only the blonde spotter in this scene and the drones were more distant and distributed differently but it is already"
X Link 2025-11-15T09:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@nrken19 @HeraldOfRome In the Southern Levant yes its likely impacted by the Aliyah. In the rest of Canaan the connection is older"
X Link 2025-11-15T12:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@mikerageo London. They often use Canadian wheat for the pizza"
X Link 2025-11-15T12:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"If you look at the people in the queue this is not "Indian scammers" as many commenters are implying but old people who would likely require assistance to navigate major airport terminals especially with connections. We should wonder if the airline(s) could offer them a more tiered service instead of "wheelchair for all paid by the other passengers". Air India says 30% of passengers on India-US flights ask for wheelchairs. Most are able bodied travelers scamming the priority boarding system. Real disabled passengers get left short. https://t.co/OtdMXITcHg Air India says 30% of passengers on"
X Link 2025-11-16T10:14Z [----] followers, 37.6K engagements
"Much of the idea that Italy is a corrupt country comes from the fact that Italians have developed an unusually low tolerance for anything that even resembles corruption. Practices that are normal in much of Europe are often considered unacceptable in Italy. A macroscopic example: internal promotions or discretionary hiring in the public sector are viewed as almost taboo instead recruitment must go through formalised open competitions. It is not unusual to see thousands of candidates gathered in sports halls or stadiums competing for just a handful of positions. These procedures can be"
X Link 2025-11-17T02:40Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"The Punics burnt their dead. We have the DNA of the people who weren't doing that. That said yes there were people with Hellenic ancestry in Punic settlements. One of the first recorded heroes of my home city was a captain called Hannibal the Rhodian which strongly suggests Hellenic ancestry. @thewolvenhour Ironic. The DNA has come in on the Carthaginians. Theyre island Greeks. Which means they were Greeks who became Philistines then remigrated back into the Mediterranean. And the Greek J2a Y-Chromosome is Caucasian Hunter-Gatherer. Related to the Iranians @thewolvenhour Ironic. The DNA has"
X Link 2025-11-17T03:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Nope. You are probably remembering the dead from the battle of Hymera (Punics vs Western Greeks with Sicilians in both sides). There were plenty of mercenaries from across most of Europe (Ukraine Latvia Russia Bulgaria . Iberian Peninsula .) and North Africa. It would be great if someone discovered the mass grave for the battle of Crimissus. Diodorus Siculus suggests that the whole [----] strong Sacred Band of Carthage may have died in the battle together with [-----] foreign mercenaries. We should get a 20% of Punics"
X Link 2025-11-17T03:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The why is a programme of Soviet operations come into fruition too late to help the Soviet empire to survive. for the past two decades somehow the mainstream media (and the school system) have been trying to convince people that whats normal is evil and perverted and whats perverted and evil is normal I understand the how I understand the who. I still cannot understand the why. for the past two decades somehow the mainstream media (and the school system) have been trying to convince people that whats normal is evil and perverted and whats perverted and evil is normal I understand the how I"
X Link 2025-11-17T11:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@etinHelvetiaEgo So yes: maybe gold is a bit overvalued in [----] or undervalued in [----]. Re your question we dont know. The current gold price maybe overvalued or reflect inflation expectations/risks which may materialise in the short term"
X Link 2025-11-17T14:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How to tell the world you have never been in Rumeli Hisar 🫣 Orbans Basilica was a [---] mm monster launching [---] kg cannonballs [--] times a day towards Constantinople and its walls. The prototype - half in size - was used in Rumeli Hisar to enforce absolute dominance on the Bosporus. The only captain - the Venetian Antonio Rizzo who tried to sail through saw his ship destroyed and sunk and he himself was eventually impaled. Rome fell without a shot being fired Rome fell without a shot being fired"
X Link 2025-11-18T18:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I fell down twice as a child. It was also not unusual for other children. The first time my mother got very angry with me. 🫣 The second time I didn't tell her. I dried myself by lying in the sun. She noticed I smelled bad and asked if I'd fallen into the canals. I denied it. 🥹"
X Link 2025-11-20T02:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Liberty Lines has a fleet of [--] ships (I reckon [--] are proper hydrofoils). I have seen up to [--] anchored in the harbour of Trapani in the summer. It may probably possible to convert some of those to navy service if needed. They build those in house they have and run their own shipyard. https://www.libertylines.it/en/company/our-fleet/ https://www.libertylines.it/en/company/our-fleet/"
X Link 2025-11-20T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@gbponz @Jordan_W_Taylor In recent years they have built HSC hybrid fast ferries too e.g. https://www.bairdmaritime.com/amp/story/passenger/ferry/awards-2024-best-medium-ferry-vittorio-morace-liberty-lines https://www.bairdmaritime.com/amp/story/passenger/ferry/awards-2024-best-medium-ferry-vittorio-morace-liberty-lines"
X Link 2025-11-20T02:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@Nostradamus_VI @LeonGoudikian @mamboitaliano__ I lived there as a child well before high school. Anyway there are [--] universities in Venice: - Ca Foscari - Iuav - Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello - Accademia di Belle Arti Students used to rent rooms and live in the city I am not sure how common is nowadays"
X Link 2025-11-20T03:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I always hated that. My home city in Sicily had a beautiful theatre built by public subscription. It was reduced to ruins in April [----] by WWII bombings. After [--] April [----] national politicians begged wealthy men to advance money to restore Milan's theatre but not Trapani's. Once the new government restarted collecting taxes they repaid the loan for Milan. This was made secretly with wads of cash hidden tucked on paper sacks carried by ministers they likely didn't want the rest of the country know how they were spending their taxes. Trapani's theatre was flattened and the national government"
X Link 2025-11-20T03:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I have read it in Italian many times. I asked ChatGpt to find the sources and the names it couldn't so I had to find it myself with Google 🥹 it took me [--] minutes 😭 I am scolding ChatGPT 😂 The first is from the preview of "La Scala racconta" of Barigazzi [----]. The second from That said I did read it many times well before [----] or even [----]. Also with the name of the politician - sadly my memory doesn't recall the name - who materially took the cash back. If you are interested to that try to look in the archive of the mainstream Italian newspapers Repubblica Corriere Sole [--] Ore probably"
X Link 2025-11-20T09:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I have been following @NachoOliveras for years but if I do not proactively look up for him @x algorithm never propose me his posts. I started to notice this well before @elonmusk entered in the picture @NachoOliveras account may have been shadow-banned into oblivion by the previous regime. Nacho Industries HQ moved to Hong Kong (for a very short stay). 1/n https://t.co/NpBJv5amA4 Nacho Industries HQ moved to Hong Kong (for a very short stay). 1/n https://t.co/NpBJv5amA4"
X Link 2025-11-20T13:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@CMentat @RomeInTheEast Isnt that from Venice"
X Link 2025-11-20T13:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Tea in Rize is not ancient its almost shockingly recent. It was introduced barely three generations ago and the first proper harvest didnt happen until [----]. Before that Turkey was overwhelmingly a coffee-drinking culture and most of that coffee was imported. The early Republican governments wanted to change this dependency and actively pushed for a domestically grown alternative. So they campaigned quite insistently for Turks to switch from imported coffee to locally grown tea. Shortly after the Republic was founded the government established a commission to map agricultural potential across"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:04Z [----] followers, 335.7K engagements
"They are nowhere to be found because they offer [----] to [----] per month. You cannot survive in Milan on that wage. To be fair the employee pays roughly double for the privilege of employing them and more than double if offering higher salaries. A fair wage allows you to buy a family home with [--] years' salary. In Milan that requires a [----] net salary per month likely costing the employer [-----] per month. The distance between demand and offer is immense. Shock campaign on Milan buses Were looking for electricians plumbers and builders But in Milan only creatives and models A glaring problem in"
X Link 2025-11-20T16:59Z [----] followers, 63.2K engagements
"Commuting from where A few years back a few districts of Milan seceded and formed a new [--] million strong province (Monza). It's a very urbanised area. Incidentally let's say that Milaneses do not have a great opinion of the local Moroccoans but there is a very good chance most "Moroccoan" criminals in Milan are actually Egyptians:"
X Link 2025-11-20T23:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@NachoOliveras @X @elonmusk You are the @x algorithm needs some improvement"
X Link 2025-11-21T07:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@GiusDelCarretto @worden_van Is [----] very different from [----] How many salaried electricians get [----] net in Milan per calendar month @aledeniz @CrazyItalianPol Un momento per nessun elettricista specializzato prende [----]. Siamo tranquillamente oltre i 1600/1700 al mese piu 13esima. (E comunque son pochi per Milano) @aledeniz @CrazyItalianPol Un momento per nessun elettricista specializzato prende [----]. Siamo tranquillamente oltre i 1600/1700 al mese piu 13esima. (E comunque son pochi per Milano)"
X Link 2025-11-21T09:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@dokkaebi1304 @arscrypta @Helen_SA2 Tea natural range is in China. Maybe reaching the borders of China with India. Tea was imported in India/Sri Lanka by the British"
X Link 2025-11-21T12:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@duren_matto @SaadMaan15 I had a cousin who worked in Milan in the 80s he commuted by car from Mortara. Thats more than [--] miles away. He eventually gave up and come back to Sicily"
X Link 2025-11-21T13:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@cszabla this video has nothing to do with Mitterand. That video is Gaullism in nature. First generation Gaullists"
X Link 2025-11-21T15:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@YanLiuSZ Yes the name comes from China like the plant. In the case of Turkey likely via Russia"
X Link 2025-11-21T15:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@davidpetros3 @m_erite My dad was born and grew up in Eritrea. The driver may have been his Godfather below a picture of both. @NachoOliveras Here a pic of my dad when Eritrea was Ethiopian a few years later. The gentleman is his Neapolitans godfather Gaetano di Lello. Neapolitan as from Campania he was likely from somewhere near Avellino. Likely taken in #Mendefera / #AdiUgri for dads 1st holy communion. https://t.co/YqCCA4gy7K @NachoOliveras Here a pic of my dad when Eritrea was Ethiopian a few years later. The gentleman is his Neapolitans godfather Gaetano di Lello. Neapolitan as from"
X Link 2025-11-22T09:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"One reads many takes on modern social media but "Italy isn't West" must surely be quite original 😂 @ExplorerGenetic italy isn't west. iit's gondwanan territory might as well call morocco west as well @ExplorerGenetic italy isn't west. iit's gondwanan territory might as well call morocco west as well"
X Link 2025-11-22T22:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"That's a great video. It clearly demonstrate how the one drop rule is an Anglo-Saxon cultural phenomenon. If we take in account the Nuremberg Laws it's substantially a pan-Germanic cultural phenomenon. Black❤Americans on vacation in Africa .2025 https://t.co/B1kpRhoExK Black❤Americans on vacation in Africa .2025 https://t.co/B1kpRhoExK"
X Link 2025-11-23T10:56Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements
"Even under the Muslim rules Sicily kept minting gold coins. In fact those were worth 1/4 of the Fatimid golden dinar we know they were in widespread use in trade a fact confirmed later on by the later usage by Christian kings who emitted tar in kufic or even pseudo-kufic characters"
X Link 2025-11-24T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The local elites put this to the right of the main entrance of the city hall - the former Senatorial palace - to openly declare they were exchanging (sacrificing) the ancient constitutions and the civil autonomy to realise the utopia of the unity of Italy as a stepping stone to other utopias the message is very freemasonry they likely meant a global government 🥹"
X Link 2025-11-25T00:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Caveat: In that chart the term Greek refers not only to what we today call Greeks but also to Turks Southern Italians Sicilians and a sizeable portion of the elites and not only of Syria Lebanon Israel Jordan Egypt Libya Albania Macedonia Bulgaria Serbia and Kosovo . It also includes smaller but relevant populations such as Marseille Crimea and much of the Black Sea coast . Also historically this entire region was far more interconnected urbanised and demographically significant than modern borders or modern population patterns may suggest. I don't know if the precise figures are accurate"
X Link 2025-11-25T07:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Its easily falsifiable if you go back as early as the 1920s. In fact on the basis of Sicily economic and social performances from [---] BC to [----] AD one would be excused to believe Sicilians had been genetically improved from Roman era mass migration from the Levant. What you see in that map is the long term effect of centralism in a democracy when population distribution is unbalanced. Boomer conservatives love talking about the North Korea vs South Korea split and how it proves that communism doesn't work. But they won't talk about Italys north/south split which is the result of Roman era"
X Link 2025-11-25T13:46Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements
"North of Italy back then was the most developed country in the West among the most developed in the world if not the topmost. The rest of Europe was lagging behind Southern Italy let alone Sicily. Would you assume Sicilians are genetically superior to all Western/Northern Europeans given the Sicilian economic and social performance from say [---] AD to [----] AD It is an obviously nonsensical take"
X Link 2025-11-25T14:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thats a great map. The centre-right candidate to govern Veneto won all municipalities bar the two main university cities Padua and Venice who voted for the centre-left candidate. I lived there in the 70s with my mom and this is exactly how I remember them even back then 🥹 In Veneto Alberto Stefani ha vinto le elezioni superando di [--] punti il candidato di centrosinistra e Movimento [--] Stelle. Il centrodestra ha vinto tutti i comuni tranne Venezia e Padova dove Giovanni Manildo ha vinto per pochissimo. https://t.co/UKY11xvZ6Q In Veneto Alberto Stefani ha vinto le elezioni superando di [--] punti"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Britain close to have more NEETs than Italy comes quite unexpectedly 🫣"
X Link 2025-11-25T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Sicily was on par with Emilia-Romagna until [----] and with Veneto until the 1930s. Campania was wealthier than Piemonte until the 1870s. Lombardy caught Lazio only in the 1930s. In fact excluding Liguria Lazio was traditionally the wealthiest area in Italy. Centralisation by a thousand cuts has led to the current dynamics. @DoveFirebrand @Valen10Francois Veneto GDP per capita surpassed Sicily in the 1930s between [----] and 1938: https://t.co/piGxMCTVyJ @DoveFirebrand @Valen10Francois Veneto GDP per capita surpassed Sicily in the 1930s between [----] and 1938: https://t.co/piGxMCTVyJ"
X Link 2025-11-25T20:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Most European IEs passed through the Hercynian Forest. When the IE first entered into it it extended from Belgium to the Carpathians. Both the forefathers of the Latins and the Germanics at some point lived there. Germanics may have differentiated from Italics and Celts once in the forest ditto for Italics and Celts later on"
X Link 2025-11-25T23:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Before the trade war with France in the province of Trapani there were [--] mechanised flour mills among them the gargantuan Domenico Aula e C. processing [---] q per day on its own. Trapani was nicknamed the Lille of the Mediterranean due the number of smokestakes and factories surrounding it more than [---]. Palermo (the shipyards) Messina and above all Catania (The Milan of the South) were even more industrialised. The direct effect of the trade war with France was the emigration of [--] whole generations from Sicily and most of the South. Later on Florio - the shipyards owners bankrupted after a"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Gate of Calais' Hogarths painting is obviously from the English point of view openly mocking the forced-vegetarian French. From the French side this is Brillat-Savarin: "Enfin on aperoit et l des trangers et surtout des Anglais; ces derniers se bourrent de viandes portions doubles demandent tout ce quil y a de plus cher boivent les vins les plus fumeux et ne se retirent pas toujours sans aides. On peut vrifier chaque jour lexactitude de ce tableau et sil est fait pour piquer la curiosit peut-tre pourrait-il affliger la morale." Take also in account Brillat-Savarin lived in Paris he was a"
X Link 2025-11-26T23:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@EstrellaVerde19 Thats one of the main reasons why Mussolini ruled for a whole generation. The Italian prime minister at some point left Versailles specifically because the Allies went back on their promises"
X Link 2025-11-27T22:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"(1) The Kingdom of Naples never existed. From the War of the Vespers to [----] there were two Kingdoms of Sicily hence the 1817-1860 moniker Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for the merged polity. (2) The Crown of Aragon didnt own Sicily. With the death of the last male Hohenstaufen Conradin the archipelagic Sicilians recognised Constance II as their legitimate queen. Her sons by Peter III of Aragona were the legitimate heirs of both the Hauteville and the Hohenstaufen. Archipelagic Sicily kept its Parliament and its laws. (3) Most Aragonese/Spanish kings deeply respected the independence and"
X Link 2025-11-29T12:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@istoria681133 @jeanluccpicard It has been the symbol of Istanbul for more than [----] years. The city was dedicated to Hecate the Goddess of the Moon. The star and crescent in contemporary Turkish ay ve yldz literally moon and star was the emblem of Byzantion () already [--] centuries ago. The whole city was dedicated to Hecate a southwestern western Anatolian Carian Goddess of the moon later identified by the https://t.co/SVCVGLLH2z The star and crescent in contemporary Turkish ay ve yldz literally moon and star was the emblem of Byzantion () already [--] centuries ago. The whole city was"
X Link 2025-11-29T23:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I wasn't certainly alive in [----] and anyway back then I certainly had more Greek speaking Orthodox ancestors than ancestors in that Crusade. The Crusaders were invited by the Romans (read: Anatolians) to defend against the invading Turks and to get help to attempt to reconquer the Levant. AlexiosKomnenos's family albeit originally from Plovdiv got its power from owning Kastamonu at the time they became emperors everyone considered them Anatolians. It was Alexios who called the Westerners to help to defend against the Seljuks. His ambassadors made the request at the Council of Piacenza in"
X Link 2025-11-30T08:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@piesse21cm_ Sulla got a lot of bad press but he was truly impressive too as imperator"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Russia has tens of millions of smart people and nearly infinite natural resources. In a naive model of the world it would be the most powerful and wealthiest empire; bordering countries would line up to voluntarily join the Russian Federation. This doesnt happen for both endogenous and exogenous reasons. I wish that at some point in my lifetime they will start to make some progress at least on the endogenous front but I somehow doubt my hope will be fulfilled any time soon. The Wall Street Journal alleges that the real motivation behind Trumps eagerness to force Ukraine into an ugly surrender"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"If I would read such a table and knew nothing about those countries Id assume that Italy and Greece had very bad elites at some point before [----]. Not necessarily after [----] that table is not enough to assume so but surely before [----]. Cosa sta portando lUnione Europea allItalia A volte bastano i dati di una tabella per capire. https://t.co/NdXnjiEHsK Cosa sta portando lUnione Europea allItalia A volte bastano i dati di una tabella per capire. https://t.co/NdXnjiEHsK"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Throughout my life young Mediterraneans have sought and preferred tanned skin. As teenagers we bought and concocted substances to darken our skin. The most sought-after combination was dark skin and blond hair so many teens used suet for the skin and beer for the hair. I never tried the beer but bought cow fat a few times. We skipped lunch to lie on the beach under the sun from noon to [--] p.m. I achieved Sub-Saharan levels a couple of summers; it requires a lot of time and dedication. Some pals male and female did so for over a decade. It was very hard for me because I first turn red like a"
X Link 2025-12-01T10:00Z [----] followers, 83.1K engagements
"@DellAnnaLuca AFAIK no local administrator was sent to jail for this in the whole of Europe. There were also exotic loans to small cities that would bear 0% interest until the next election and step up to 7% at that point or even 15% p.a should the Euro to Swiss Franc rate trade through predefined threshold. All sorts of financial weapons on mass destruction that eventually were cancelled in court. Trading Lore The Big Short as seen from the trenches For weeks after Lehman went bust the credit markets were in nearly full cardiac arrest. The bank's credit desk routinely bled $100M+ a day."
X Link 2025-12-02T20:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"When Bokassa was put on trial cannibalism charges were dropped despite evidence from his own chef and by his own cousin his predecessor and successor as head of state because consuming human remains was a misdemeanour in the Central African Republic at the time and an amnesty for misdemeanours had been meanwhile granted by another of his successors. He was sentenced to death for twenty murders but the sentence was commuted and he later received amnesty serving only [--] years in jail. He died a free man in his own bed. [--] years ago his memory was rehabilitated and he is now seen as a founding"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:50Z [----] followers, 47.6K engagements
"One of the confounders is that Sicily - Southern Italy too - had a massive Jewish population that merged with the general population after their forced conversion in [----]. In some cities e.g. my maternal grandfathers home city Trapani - we are looking at at least 25% of current populations ancestry. It may be even higher in places like Castellammare del Golfo. So the Ashkenazi may look closer to Sicilians than they were when they left Sicily in the early middle age because meanwhile the Sicilians shifted towards them. the exact % depends on the model you use. i've seen 10% middle eastern."
X Link 2025-12-05T16:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Saladino is a beautiful Sicilian surname. It's eminently western Sicilian peaking in Marsala but after basically disappearing in Eastern Sicily it peaks again in Lamezia Terme. That said it apparently used to be more widespread the oldest written record from [----] is from Luni I cleaned [--] years of toxins from my blood I analyzed what came out and what I found blew my mind (results at the end of this post) https://t.co/YRiCLKLbWI I cleaned [--] years of toxins from my blood I analyzed what came out and what I found blew my mind (results at the end of this post) https://t.co/YRiCLKLbWI"
X Link 2025-12-06T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This is not really true. The idea that there is nothing Turkish about Turkey collapses under the weight of simple observation: there are countless cultural elements that are unmistakably Turkish shaped by Islam shaped by the Turkic migrations shaped by Ottoman history and shaped by the lived experience of the Republican century. One does not need to dig very deep to find what is genuinely Turkish. That premised beneath those more recent layers lie older cultural strata that did not simply disappear when the Oghuz Turks arrived. For more than a thousand years after the fall of the Western"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:58Z [----] followers, 204.1K engagements
"@Grecanicus I dont; Hellenic heritage is simply deeper than the Roman one. The post was already half a mile long as it is 🫣"
X Link 2025-12-08T08:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In English 🏴 is Turkey . Incidentally Trkiye is an exonym. Its an Italian word (the Italian spelling is Turchia) with a very ancient Latin root (probably originally used for a steppe Iranic people). Late on the drafting of the Republican constitution a drafter suggested to change Trkiya into Trkiye for euphonic reasons"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"My paternal grandfather built roads in East Africa for Italy Britain and Ethiopia . Most of the manpower was local. He never complained that the locals werent smart enough to understand or execute orders. What he did complain about was how hard it was to delegate: he had to be physically present to ensure orders were followed. He often recalled that the locals (Eritreans Ethiopians Somalis ) performed at their best when he worked alongside them. Anecdotal but a preference for hands-on leaders who lead from the front is hardly surprising in most human cultures. Perhaps is it just more intense"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:44Z [----] followers, 42.9K engagements
"Their current Minister of Defence is good he has followed a very long cursus honorum to reach that position. He was recently chairman of OSN (System Integrator Whole Warship). The problem is that among recent ones we have had a high school teacher an insurance salesman a philosophy graduate who worked in video services etc. How can we force our elites to appoint only very competent people to run our governments"
X Link 2025-12-10T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@DellAnnaLuca I have worked with LLMs every day for more than [--] years and I will likely die still impressed by them 😂"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I did show this to my [--] years old son to test his Italian . He is still laughing 😂 Che governo di morti di fame. Gi ci succhiano [---] miliardi di tasse ogni anno e non gli basta. Adesso vogliono pure [--] per ogni pacco postale. Letteralmente predoni del deserto Che governo di morti di fame. Gi ci succhiano [---] miliardi di tasse ogni anno e non gli basta. Adesso vogliono pure [--] per ogni pacco postale. Letteralmente predoni del deserto"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This is basically The Evolution of Education meme somewhere between third and fourth stage of decay. P P.S.: I looked for the memes author Grok says it is anonymous"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Throughout my student life in Italy I was never offered this type of test. Not once. In fact teachers often remarked on the decline of education in countries that used this testing method usually prompted by mischievous students saying things like "I've seen in American movies that they always use multiple-choice tests why don't we do that too" sono oggettivamente domande facili non da livello universitario; il fatto che il 90% non sia riuscito a passarlo dovrebbe far riflettere sul livello di istruzione con cui gli studenti italiani escono dalle superiori #fisica #semestrefiltro #Medicina"
X Link 2025-12-12T08:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jakebrowatzke Have you ever read my thread about slavery After the 18th tweet I added an appendix you may find interesting The Muslim slavers were only broken in the early XIX century by a coalition including the USA . Commodore Decatour was famously helped by Arabic speaking Sicilian volunteers to capture and burn the captured USS Philadelphia. 17/18 https://t.co/JarQafRB4c The Muslim slavers were only broken in the early XIX century by a coalition including the USA . Commodore Decatour was famously helped by Arabic speaking Sicilian volunteers to capture and burn the captured USS"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"@jakebrowatzke I recently wrote a companion article on the same subject: People often speak as if Mediterranean slavery were a one-way story: North-African corsairs preying on innocent Christian shores. It is an evocative picture but it leaves out half the sea. For centuries the Middle Sea moved in both directions: raiding ransom and captivity were https://t.co/DDLvvHmjVa People often speak as if Mediterranean slavery were a one-way story: North-African corsairs preying on innocent Christian shores. It is an evocative picture but it leaves out half the sea. For centuries the Middle Sea moved"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"I disagree with both posts. The father of French nuclear power is Messmer. Messmers plan aimed to build [---] nuclear plants. Messmer started implementing his plan by decree. De Gaulle passed away before Messmer became prime minister. Mitterrand was far more aligned with those who managed to stop Messmers plan at [--]. If you are unfamiliar with all of this these are the keywords: - Messmers plan - En France on na pas de ptrole mais on a des ides - tout-lectrique tout-nuclaire Mitterrand also important especially for not buckling post Chernobyl. France seems to have a fair few successes simply"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"You may not believe it but a good marble mason can repair those in such a way that we will never believe they had ever been broken. I dont mean a good master; I mean a good mason just out of his apprenticeship or even toward the end of it. I know this as a fact. Venezia arrestata una ventenne di origini tunisine gi nota alle forze dell'ordine che questa mattina ha rubato una barca piena di pacchi ormeggiata sul Canal Grande e si poi schiantata contro la balaustra in marmo ai piedi del Ponte di Rialto distruggendo con la poppa tre https://t.co/NM62jz2KbR Venezia arrestata una ventenne di"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Back when this feature was made there must have been in Venice tens of masters and hundreds of journeymen or senior apprentices capable of repairing it by the end of the day. Most European cities used to maintain relations with tens of such people. Had this happened [--] years ago the mayor would have ordered the alderman to get it fixed before sunset. The alderman would have walked to the shop of the nearest master who would have handed over a couple of his senior apprentices to fix it in a few hours. The master would have walked by at sunset just before the mayor. The mayor would have been"
X Link 2025-12-12T16:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@Tog123298395 It's from "Admixture's impact on Brazilian population evolution and health" K Nunes +11 [----] published on Science"
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"Italians are realising they were the only country where the oral exam was almost universal before AI 😂 Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use https://t.co/Ut5Frg99iO Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use https://t.co/Ut5Frg99iO"
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"I don't know about other countries but in Italy it was definitely almost universal until [--] years ago and it is almost certainly still prevalent. Take in account that the oral exam was often seen as easier than the written exam. Most university exams had a written and an oral stage passing the written stage was harder. I once somehow convinced a professor to let me to the oral after getting 9/30 at the written exam I got 27/30 in the oral so I averaged 18/30 and I got the course. That oral lasted [--] hours 🥹"
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"Well Italian exports to Turkey are nearing $20bn almost 3% of the total. The trade among the two countries is beyond $32bn heading towards $40bn. Italy has a very fragile economy its already suffering due the Russia - Ukraine war and the Libyan civil war it cannot really afford also an hypothetical Turkish - Israel war it would significantly hurt the country. I don't understand what Italy's economic situation has to do with a Turko -Israel war. @ELuttwak I don't understand what Italy's economic situation has to do with a Turko -Israel war. @ELuttwak"
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