If I remember correctly, there was this hypothesis that these things were covered by symbiotic algae so the idea is that they grew tall to increase the photosynthesis of their symbiotic organism (so kind of a giant lichen). But I can't find the source anymore, and I think that there isn't much evidence of any photobiont.

Looking at this picture [1] of Bologna’s skyline from the sixties it seems it could be pretty realistic. The skyline has changed drastically and now you have many more tall buildings that make the remaining tower seems shorter. Also, I think the strangeness of the picture is due to the number of towers, but afaik there were around 100 towers in the city in the 13th century.

[1] https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torri_di_Bologna#/media/File...

Try with cargo pants. After three or four iterations the pants disappeared and were substituted by something that can only be described as an andrologist fever dream.

Nope, no more AI in Italy, at least that's what our government decided. And no more English too.

Garante della Privacy decided that, not the government.

You mean openai decided

Are you equating English to ai?

Have you read the legislation?

I think they're equating a different sentence talking about something different.

If I’m not mistaken RFC 4180 says that quotes should be escaped by prepending them with another quote, so “” and not \” (these are not double quotes but my phone won’t let me type normal quotes), but yeah I guess it is a rather perverse value to put in a csv.

Note that virtually no one implements that RFC. CSV is merely a style of file, not a true file format.

That's how Excel does it though

Actually it’s made in Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, part of Bologna and part of Mantua.

Yes, of course, sorry for not being precise, I apologize!

I simply wanted to show the connection between the name Parmigiano Regiano and the area it comes from.

Modena is my goto place when I am travelling to stop eating and I've lived in Bologna for two years, the whole Emilia Romagna is one of my favorite places in Italy.

Also, my father in law lives in Mantua, so, I can say I am a Parmigiano home boy :D

Nah, there are a bajillion ways of making pizza in Italy, it’s just that the thick and soft one is never round, but even the round one can be thicker or thinner depending on the local preference. It would actually be interesting to find out if the American style of pizza was influenced by a traditional Sicilian pizza called “sfincione” which is still very popular, given the strong Sicilian component of Italian immigration in the US.

It’s still debated if that is the correct etymology. A different hypothesis has “penguin” deriving from the Latin “pinguis” (fat).

Certainly in Czech the two are related:

tučňák = noun, penguin

tučný = adjective, fat

I don't know if that helps determine the origin of the English word, but it's definitely funny to think that there’s a nation which calls penguins “fatties” :D

Blueberries are actually quite common in the Mediterranean area, but you are right about salmon.

Blueberries are a new world fruit (but then again so is the prickly pear that is so common in the Mediterranean), the European equivalent is the bilberry and AFAIK it only grows in mountainous areas at our latitudes. Blueberries are widely cultivated, but for example in Italy the largest production comes from Piedmont, which is usually classified as humid subtropical (almost no olive trees, but large grape productiont).

It seems the patent has been discontinued: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6853964B1/en

Oh thank you. Hmm "Status Expired - Fee Related .. 2022-07-13 Adjusted expiration" .. is that like when your power gets cut off from not paying the bill? p.s. Vince's book was published in 2008.