I guess it depends on how you measure quality of life.

We have higher owner-occupied housing than the USA in italy and trust me that doesn't make for a more civilized country lol.

But you can buy houses there for $1.

In rural depopulated areas yes, and?

when you care about something enough among a group of people who share a country, you can put it in your constitution

Hopefully the people who came up with Nutri-score are less corrupt than the ones who brought us the food pyramid.

Find me ten righteous men. Shabbat Shalom

The MIT apparently banned DEI monstrosities in hiring

https://twitter.com/JohnDSailer/stat...24352530325806

Good. The problem with DEI statements is that they don’t actually do what they claim to do. All they actually do is sort for ideology (although I’m sure most applicants know what they are supposed to say by now anyway)

Pretty interesting TED talk by an NYU professor about the US society now and in the future. He has some "leftist" Bernie Sanders ideas that makes a bit of sense to me.

"Arab sources are reporting an assassination attempt against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman"

People on twitter saying guards shot, attempt failed. Possibly nonsense, might be a devious troll out there.

Looks fake, a ton of accounts are saying "breaking news" But they all show this one car on fire. And it aint no lambo, some used toyota suv. I think it's a random car accident haha.

He has been in the media a bunch with opinions on the Palestinian protests as well. Add this to my list to watch Thanks

This guy has been on Real Time with Bill Maher several times in the past, including the week before last. He is always very well spoken and interesting.

Venezuelans are operating a complex fraud system to falsely prove original Italian ancestry and get Italian citizenship (we allow it even for very remote ancestry)

https://www.iltempo.it/attualita/202...tita-39236477/

Basically they get names of dead people who left Italy in the mid 19th century with no further traces and they create a fake backlog of certificates in small localities in Venezuela, resurfacing those individuals there in late 19th century and "proving" Italian ancestry for anyone in Venezuela who wants it.

Tbh I would grant them Italian citizenship for the effort which is clearly very italian

Don't you have quite a few Brazilian applicants also? I think it can go back to great grandparents, or am I wrong on this?

yes afaik but those are kinda legit I think, like the Argentinians.

We got 3-5k citizens "back" from each country each year lately.

afaik we had very little emigration to Venezuela in the 19th century (like a couple thousands total vs hundreds of thousands in Argentina and Brasil).

we were the biggest foreign community in Venezuela after ww2 though, like more than 200k, all emigrated in the late 40s and early 50s of the 20th century. so procedures to give citizenship to venezuelans of Italian ancestry are streamlined and they don't appear as red flag at the beginning.

but when they discovered the pattern of micro rural localities discovering Italians from the 19th century who magically all only had daughters (so the surname got lost with marriage and didn't get to children) the fraud was uncovered

Marjorie Taylor Greene went to Washington this week with only one thing on her mind: how to save face.
After being told by former President Donald Trump to “stand down” on her threat to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Nothing screams desperation like Greene’s ongoing threats against Johnson.
She knows her influence in the House is waning and that ally
Trump simply doesn’t seem interested in backing her chaotic play.

“She’s pretty much operating on her own, with one or two others who have expressed support for what she’s doing,”

“I am so done with words,” Greene said on Tuesday afternoon.
But increasingly, it seems pretty much everyone is done with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...son-rcna151169

Isn't she the conspiraloon?

Yes. She is also the one who doles out hand jobs in theatres.

I think you have your conspiraloons mixed up.

Oh right, yeah, Trolly said something to that effect too last time I mentioned it but I thought he was joking. Who is the handjob girl then?

Boebert

...SHE'S GOT MY VOTE!

She's got my vote too!

Lol mtg