Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.

Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.

That would be a warlock I guess.

Given the rate at which people would become mentally or physically disabled because of diseases, you could argue it would have a network effect (probably a better term exists): I would have more chances to meet people and influence them, to learn something useful, to accumulate and use wealth for the above, so yeah…

Wash my hands

Technically, so are the Israelis.

And yet, Israel has practically dictated US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, which is a theater of conflict in which everyone is playing, including China.

As already discussed in another comment, scheme does not have a devious meaning in non-American English.

Mildly infuriating? I was so infuriated I downvoted at first.

Francis said that judgement should be suspended on gay individuals and theorized a gay cabal in the same sentence. That’s different than being kind to them.

Meloni copying this (once more, as Italy has already done it many times, since the 1920s) in 3…2…

Nah, that is One Hour Photo kind of apologetics.

I don’t think he is a Nazi, but if you think that is what would save you from being a Nazi, you haven’t been following the last 80 years of developments in Palestine.

Not really into the manosphere I think, but he is definitely a tech solutionist.

Depends how tuned in you are. If it wasn’t for this pinned post on Lemmy I wouldn’t have known.

They are priests, they are all the same, no matter the cult or the specific affiliation (Jesuit in this case): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-paedophile-priests-children-god-vatican-b2336786.html

You literally missed the right number by one.

Repeat with me: “Morto 'n papa, se ne fa n’antro”.

This is Romanesco (the dialect of Rome) for “When a Pope is dead, another one is made”, usually used to comment situations in which the present condition will not be changed simply because of how the underlying mechanisms work.

Literally nothing to see here.

I believe him to be of Russian descent, and playing hard on the American stereotype of that.

He has had a troubled academic career due to a faulty paper trying to prove Tesla’s Autopilot to make people more attentive.

He has a long standing podcast in which he interviews mostly techbros and politicians such as Musk, Carmack, Trump, Modi and the like for hours at a time. He never really challenges them and lets them speak on whatever they bring up, turning his podcasts into hours-long PR stunts.

Probably a Russian asset, given that in this comment to his conversation with Zelensky he reiterated Trump/Vance talking points.

I have noticed that people who later reveal themselves to be into Joe Rogan and the like first test the waters by asking you if you listened to the latest Fridman podcast. I work in a tech consultancy so I have quite a sample, but it could also be a bubble.

Andrew Rousso made a spot on imitation of the guy here, as usual. It’s worth listening to a Lex Fridman podcast intro just to enjoy Rousso’s imitation.

As an old enough Italian, I can assure you that my friends who attended those schools in the 90s still received the same treatment and especially that teachers in public schools who attended those schools kept telling us of how they dreamed of doing that to us.

Wow, just wow. Are you Drax?