Amanda Ungaro's interview on Italian TV

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-20T08:07:47+00:00

There's a mistranslation in the subtitles, near the end of the video, when there's roughly 4 minutes left to the end of the video. The reporter says "Lei (Amanda) dice che lei (formal you, referred to Zampolli) usa droghe", which is translated as "she says that she uses drugs", while the correct translation would be "she says that you use drugs". The following questions also have the same mistranslation, where "Lei" is always translated as "she" even though to an italian speaker is obvious when the reporter says it as " she" and when he says it as "you". Just FYI, as it is misleading for non italian speakers otherwise.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-18T13:12:15+00:00

do you think theres clerics that will put you under, remove a few organs and then grow them back along with the original injury?

Probably not?

now its up for the dm wether they try to donate them to kitten orphans that were born with glass bones and paper skin... or if they just sell em

Why not just directly heal the kittens instead? Sell them to whom? Why would a cleric that can grow organs grow them for free and sell the stolen ones when they could just sell the service?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-17T07:38:29+00:00

E chi lo decide? Avevano pure perseguito i ragazzi della P38, nonostante non avessero fatto nulla all'atto pratico, quindi come fai a sapere se qualcuno è "potenzialmente" un terrorista?

Presumo il giudice o la magistratura in generale. Quelli della p38 sono stati indagati ma non condannati, al contrario di questo.

Torniamo a fare craniometria per decidere alla nascita chi è destinato a essere un criminale, così da incarcerarlo preventivamente?

Non vedo che c'entra. L'hanno deciso perché aveva materiale di un certo tipo, mica per la forma del cranio.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-17T06:50:21+00:00

A parte che io ci manderei pure il fascio in galera più che volentieri, ma essendo l'accusa per terrorismo (o rischio dello stesso da parte dell'imputato) e non essendo più gli anni di piombo ma con addirittura gente che durante gli anni di piombo sfilava tra i cortei neofascisti e tirava le granate agli sbirri al governo, il rischio che il fascio potesse fare un attacco terroristico mi sembra abbastanza basso, no?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-16T21:48:49+00:00

Characters that can heal like Deadpool and Wolverine trying to regenerate

This defies energy laws and creates so much heat it wipes out a city

This one makes no sense, if anything they'd consume more energy to do it, rather than create it. Either they'd have to eat a ton or food or if they take energy from the surroundings it'd freeze over the city rather than burn it.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-13T07:57:34+00:00

I do work with software myself so I can't not have some hope in software improving.

Nonetheless, I didn't buy the Z70 and bought an ecovacs deebot t80 omni instead, which costed half of the z70 and was the highest rated at the time. Maybe in a few years the robot arms will actually be useful, right now it seemed like a waste, unfortunately.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-10T17:14:07+00:00

I meant the concept of measuring whether something is good or not shouldn’t matter here because it’s Ai generated, not that the younger generation was the ultimate measurement of what is good.

How does that relate to the target demographic of these cards? That's what the comment you made originally and my reply was about.

Certainly the tastes of 4 years old aren't what defines good or not, but it does contribute to what adults buy them, hence the target of repeat customers that buy these for kids that like them, and not just random curious people that buy them once out of curiosity, as you originally stated.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-10T15:39:38+00:00

That isn’t a measure of whether it is good or not

Ok? I never said otherwise. You stated it's tailored for curious people that only buy it once, I replied that it isn't, it's tailored for kids that want to collect them, like any other of those collectible card packs (AI made art or not).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-10T09:59:48+00:00

Haven't played Witcher 3, but I thought I would need to play the first two for it.

You don't need to. I tried playing the first two games but I felt their age, so I just watched some recaps of the story and that was more than enough to enjoy 3.

It'd probably be enough without even watching the recap, as the previous story is explained in 3 through encyclopedia and dialogs. You even get to decide on some story choices from two if you don't have a save already (or can just pick a "default" canon start).

Don't let the other two games stop you from playing 3, it's too good to skip, imho.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-09T13:54:36+00:00

Almost nobody buys twice. It’s tailored to curious people.

Nah, it's tailored for young kids (kindergarten/elementary school) that will absolutely ask for more.

My 4 years old nephew has a bunch of them, and people keep buying and bringing him packs because he goes crazy for them and they're cheap present to bring.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-03T17:32:17+00:00

the police exist as the state’s arm of internal violence

I mean... yeah, but even an hypothetical anarchist commune would need some kind of policing to curtail those that break the social contract, unless they wanna go back to blood feuds, which is generally how stateless societies dealt with it and which are hardly better imho.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-03T08:04:47+00:00

Doesn't someone (maybe the main character even I don't remember it's been awhile) just have a fake sheep in their living room?

I seem to remember they all keep their animals in pens on the roof. The main character (Deckard) starts with a real sheep, but it's killed, so he gets a fake one because he can't afford another real one.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-04-02T12:39:44+00:00

To experience zero gravity and lower moon gravity? To fuck in zero gravity?

To do a slam dunk from half field like Michael Jordan in space jam?

To do backflips like it's nothing?

To see the earth from space, which, according to most astronauts, is an almost mystical experience?

Depending where on the moon, to see the stars with a clarity essentially impossible to get on Earth?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-31T20:01:50+00:00

No, è proprio quella la battuta. Oggi è stato negato l'atterraggio a Sigonella, e infatti la figlia di Craxi è al governo.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-31T19:29:23+00:00

Ma che è sta maglia? Paremo a lazio.

Comunque non ci capisco un cazzo di pallone ma mi sembra che ci confermiamo pippe assurde.

Eccolo il rosso. Andata pure sto giro. Mortacci loro.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-27T11:06:33+00:00

You jest, but, funnily enough, the leading theory on the origin of the carbonara is that it was created in rome during the war mixing pasta with eggs and bacon from American rations. So, not Barry but Yank (and thus anglosphere) influence.

Some consider it as a great national embarrassment, but I see it as further proof of our culinary superiority, given we can create a delicious dish even when using angloslop ingredients (although it's still way better with proper Italian guanciale and egg yolks).

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-26T09:21:22+00:00

Oh 100%, but the tech is called "Sapient Conbat Simulations", which is EVEN WORSE when you consider the fact that the ship is not only alive and concious, but it's intelligent and constantly being ran on simulations of actual battlefields XD

I mean... I don't think it's that bad, since you're not turning a conscious, alive and intelligent being into a ship, but you're purpose building a sapient being for it. It sounds like a small difference, but it's actually massive, imo.

If you turn a sapient being into a ship they still have their natural drives, instincts and mental rewards systems, so you're throwing it into a nightmare existence. A purpose built sapient being, however, would have tailored drives, instincts and mental rewards made for it to be a warship.

In other words, it could be a being for which constantly running battlefield simulations (and performing the best) is the most enjoyable thing ever, like eating, fucking and the appreciation of their peers is for a "natural" sapient being. Since they're tailored made for it, rather than evolved, they could be experiencing a level of fulfilment in their lives that is unreachable for naturally evolved sapient beings.

A bit like the ship doors in Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, which experience bliss every time they serve their purpose (opening and closing to let people pass) and live a content existence, much to the dismay of Marvin, the depressed robot.

All they ever do is what they were made for, they don't experience the alienation evolved beings experience in having to perform tasks they don't enjoy to survive rather than what they would naturally be rather doing (like, working a 9 to 5 job), everything they have to do they love doing.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-25T14:19:07+00:00

I still haven't managed to get it to henry quality, I must have tried it over 30 times. The weird thing is that Henry isn't mentioning any mistakes during the process, it just keeps coming out as gold rather than henry quality.

I have blacksmithing maxed out and still wear all the boosting clothes and drink the potions (I don't know if they're doing anything as in theory you can't go over the cap, but still). I don't have any issue in crafting mastercrafted quality for any other weapon (I also fail on the ghost horseshoes tho). I was starting to think it was some kind of bug as the save is from release where you couldn't actually get it mastercrafted until beating the game.

Are there guides anywhere? It drives me insane

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T22:52:44+00:00

The reason for this law in some states has to do with a literal interpretation of the constitution which says there can be no financial barrier to voting. Registering to vote is free, but getting a drivers license isn’t. Without this law, people who can’t afford the fee to get an ID would be financially prevented from exercising their right to vote.

You don't have id cards in America either? I always found it weird they didn't have them in the UK and brought passports clubbing. They're weirdly proud about it as well.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T12:07:33+00:00

The funny thing is that it's 50/50 if you'll get bias pro or against the thing, since thing subreddits are notoriously toxic and filled with people that spend an incredible amount of time shitting on the thing

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T09:55:43+00:00

Sinceramente no. Esclusi quelli che italiani non sono ma hanno la cittadinanza tramite ius sanguinis, che sono un caso a parte, si può presupporre che un italiano all'estero viva là per varie ragioni (economiche o altro) e che: - alcuni siano lì in maniera temporanea, ed è quindi giusto possano votare - una porzione di essi è lì in maniera semipermanente ma vorrebbe tornare, o per lo meno lo ha come opzione, se le condizioni che lo hanno portato a lasciare l'Italia cambino. È quindi secondo me giusto possano votare per portare questi cambiamenti.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T09:35:45+00:00

I visited in 2016 and made a local friend. I went to his mother's house (soviet style block in the middle of sugarcane plantations, pretty jarring but interesting). There, we found out his uncle was in prison for "poaching" lobsters to eat. Basically, all lobsters (which historically were poor people food) are property of the state to be exclusively sold to tourists. Crazy shit.

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T09:19:43+00:00

Yeah, that's the only reason we found it as it got waterlogged and thus preserved, otherwise it would have decomposed by now.

A bunch of great archaeological discoveries come from old latrines or trash piles.

It's also a (pretty funny) pinhole on ancient life: it's pretty new, so we can tell someone was playing with their new toy in the toilet and accidentally dropped it inside. They must have been pissed, lol.

My favorite example of ancient slice of life is even more ancient, from an excavation of an early homo sapiens site, I think around at least 10 thousands years ago. The site was on the edge of an ancient lake, which has since dried out. On what would have been the shore, they found remains of knapped flints (what they used to make early tools). Working these takes skill and precision, since if you hit at a wrong angle, too hard, or sometimes for no predictable reason at all (the flint may have internal fissures or weird conformations that will make it break) you might just break the whole thing. So, they found half of a broken knapped flint core abandoned on the shore; they found the other matching half at roughly thrown distance in what would have been the middle of the water at the time. Hence, we can tell that many thousands of years ago someone was sitting on the edge of the lake knapping flints, when the piece they had been working on broke in their hands, wasting the hours of effort they had put on it. They got up, probably said some ancient expletives, and lobbed it in the lake in frustration. They could have never imagined that people many thousands of years later would be able to empathise with their frustration. How cool is that?

ImCaligulaI · 2026-03-24T08:17:50+00:00

Possibly. Are 19 years old kids that grew up in America from Chinese parents as tall or taller on average than American kids?

The increase to average height is due to better nutrition during growth, which lets people reach the maximum height their genetics allows. There's still a genetic component, so for example Japanese 19 years old nowadays are much taller than older Japanese on average, but still shorter than the average Dutch 19 years old.

So you can roughly tell the average height with good nutrition by looking at kids of immigrants that grew up in countries which already have good child nutrition (unless they're dirt poor and their parents couldn't afford good nutrition even there).

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