Ragu just means a meat sauce. Bolognese would be ragu alla bolognese, but there are other ragus which aren’t bolognese.

Most countries in the world are “really metric countries”. And yes we do use the cm a lot for measurements inside the 1-100cm range.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it is an American thing. As to why, well, you said it: “bitching about learning anything beyond you might as well be illiterate”.

OP wishes for a world where bigotry against transpeople would be replaced with bigotry against Italians.

This way we can help them be healthier and study the effects better.

Yeah sure, that’s the reason.

I would expect that to be the case in France. Other European countries have a wider selection to choose from.

Not at all, Marxists are quite critical of Russia

That remains to be seen. Hasn’t happened yet. But perhaps some day?

Yes, that is exactly what you did. Repeating it does also make it funnier.

I read all that and I must admit I am still not quite sure what part of all that is markdown, and why any of it is markdown.

I get that this sentence must be the key concept: ““Markdown” is the name of a particular standard way of formatting text so that programs can reliably interpret parts of that text as representing the writers desire for their text to be displayed a particular way.” But it reads like a tautology without really explaining either statement.

They will claim to hate him (and Trump), and then keep on regurgitating propaganda constructed in favour of him.

Tankies are primarily authoritarians, not really far left in any useful sense of that term. And even though they are vocal, they definitely don’t constitute “the entirety of Lemmy”.

It is funny because tankie thought is literal positive reaction to anything Russia and China does. Your comment shows it is also pure projection.

Falling into the boomer and whole generational strife fallacy is basically falling for oligarchic propaganda. Intergenerational strife makes people forget that the actual enemy is the oligarchy.

Especially when you live in a roughly compass oriented grid city

I would imagine most of us Europeans would have difficulties with that. “compass oriented grid city” hasn’t really been a thing here since Roman times.

Because it is not always France?

How is this magic technology going to be freely implemented eveywhere and especially in the poorest parts of the world? You description of the mechanisms of invention and investing does not sound at all like how these things actually works in the world we are living in.

Some parts of the globe is going to run out of water, some areas of the globe are about to get way too much of it. You know, climate change and all that.

Since the IIII usage is common in the Middle Ages and even into the Early Modern Period, when nobody believed in Jupiter, that is obviously just something somebody made up.

If you choose to ignore amendments, sure. But nobody would do that with any good faith in this nonsense discussion.

To elaborate on the second point, the US Constitution having been in continuous effect for nearly 250 years truly is rather impressive from a legal history perspective.

Nonsense, What you are claiming isn’t even true… The latest amendment stems from 1993. Your definition is based solely on some completely irrelevant parameter defined entirely to fit only one single country.