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I'm from Italy as well. I always like to remember a quote from Charles Mingus, who at some point in his career had an entire black band with the exception of his sax player, Charlie Mariano. When asked about it, he answered something along of the lines of "He's not white, he's Italian."

While it's true that "all elections are won on lies spewed by the parties", it's always a matter of context. The media landscape of the past 10 years has both shrunk and inflated at the same time: centralized social media now overwhelmingly represent the main source of information from which people read news and shape their views of the world. The fact that some of those social media have more or less explicitly stated their affiliation to some sort of government which might make their interests offers a worrying scenario: in one case, the state can require the manipulation of information so as to steer the results of election towards governments that might create strategic geopolitical tension or sweetened deals (i.e. China and TikTok). On the other, through the "loaning" of centralized social media to the highest bidder can create enormous echo chambers which corrupt the results only for symbiontic, growing entanglement of social media corporations into forms of government (i.e. Elon Musk in 2024).

Tl;Dr: Social media are a bigger problem than good old politicians' lies because they can be easily manipulated by external forces and because everyone uses them.

It wasn't that dry to the touch, actually! I was out on an excursion for a mycology class and one of the teachers identified it. Apparently it's a native species around here

Shivers [Impossible]: Success.

As someone else said, it's all about creating interesting posts first. I know that's the most difficult part, but the community needs to organically grow in quality of posts first (not that those that are already in here are bad, it's just that they don't create much engagement).

Italian here. Luckily it seems like the place I live now has been barely touched by Boris, but my wife's parents are stuck at home with flooded streets and whatnot. Hope it's not going to be as bad as last year.

I believe it's either The Blues Brothers or 2001.

Durov has been blacklisted in Russia because he refused to cooperate with Putin's government on several occasions.

I'm the groom!

The "white" tie actually has a small deep blue pattern in it, the photo really doesn't make it justice (but I'm still open for changing things up). I tried some double breasted but none of the models I tried on felt "right"; and yeah of course I'm going to try to fix up some of the hair ahahahah