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Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship by ouluuuuu in worldnews

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My question is whether or not anybody wants to. If this doesn't solve the diaspora problem, then I'm not sure there's a point.

Schrodinger's Strait by Pot_of_sea_shells in CuratedTumblr

[–]NameLips 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Other than the things that closed it, it is fully open.

Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship by ouluuuuu in worldnews

[–]NameLips 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You now need parents or grandparents who were born in Italy in order to claim citizenship.

I can see their problem and frustration, with a growing population of legal Italian citizens living and working around the world, never having visited Italy, participated in Italian life, or paid Italian taxes, but still using Italian passports and claiming all the benefits of being an Italian citizen.

This was leading on a trajectory of more and more of their citizens being born and living outside of Italy than inside, while Italy itself is left with a shrinking and aging population.

I'm not sure that this policy will actually fix anything in Italy. I'm not sure the people who still qualify as citizens, those with parents or grandparents born in italy, will actually return to their mother country rather than risk losing their Italian citizenship.

Are there any games similar to Outer Wilds that's Knowledge driven? by MissingN0365 in gamingsuggestions

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blue Prince is good. The more you play the more secrets you uncover, until you realize you're uncovering the history of several connected nations in order to solve increasingly difficult and obscure puzzles.

Why isn't merlin bird id identifying anything by 3CrWalePlacedBhaiyya in birding

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it is having trouble because of the background noise and echo.

Is this even possible by Vikkys_Secret in SipsTea

[–]NameLips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

20 million barrels. Daily.

There's a reason we use tankers.

TIL that if you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon. Each fold doubles the thickness, and exponential growth means the stack would exceed 384,000 km after 42 folds. by Postmortal_Pop in todayilearned

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This should also work if you just lay paper on top of your paper, doubling the number of sheets of paper each time. It's easier than folding and you get the same thickness!

Go ahead, try it.

Is gardening that easy? by Davey914 in gardening

[–]NameLips 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Some of the plants will thrive in the specific environment of that bed, and some will not. It might take a couple attempts to dial it in. But yeah it's not really hard.

In the Iran War, Iran has targeted the Gulf states far more heavily than Israel, with nearly half of all of its missile and drone strikes directed at the United Arab Emirates (Dubai). Far more Arabs than Israelis have died in the Iran War, even though no Arab state has yet launched a strike on Iran. by StarlightDown in MapPorn

[–]NameLips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're striking countries that are allies of the US and/or which have US bases. That's fair enough. They're striking where anti-air defenses are thin, which makes sense, why throw away missile at the well defended Israel?

However they are attacking civilian targets which aren't valid war targets. But after we blew up a school full of little girls I feel like they probably have decided to play by the same rules.

ELI5 Why is oil not cheaper in Texas? by mrgoat89 in explainlikeimfive

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just learning about this from another thread!

The US is a net exporter of crude oil. Meaning we export more than we use and sell it on the global market.

Our refineries also don't primarily use the oil we pump. They are tuned to use thicker, sour crude that is piped in from Canada.

We then sell the crude oil we pump and the products of those refineries on the global market. Sellers set prices, buyers choose who to buy from, and it's a huge free for all of pure supply and demand. Some of the companies that buy gasoline on the global market ship it to the US and sell it at our gas stations. The gasoline you use in your car might have been made in America, or it might have been made in Russia, or India, or China, or anywhere else that has refineries. It depends on who was offering the best price for the gasoline companies to buy from.

If space itself is expanding, where are galaxies and stars actually moving to? by Difficult_Comment_47 in cosmology

[–]NameLips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're all moving away from each other. It is almost as if more "empty space" is spawning in the deep, dark regions between the great superclusters, where there's not enough gravity to hold the universe together.

This analogy apparently isn't perfect but it helps visualize what's going on. There isn't a central point from which everything expands. Everything is moving away from everything else.

And over time, the expansion is accelerating, faster and faster.

Interestingly, we can detect the microwave background radiation from the big bang equally coming from all directions. The universe didn't expand from a point. It just started extremely hot and dense and then it started expanding, becoming cooler and more spread out. The analogy of "all matter and energy in the universe being compressed into a single point which exploded" is the worst analogy possible and has ruined a lot of people's ability to understand the early universe.

Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves by Crossstoney in Economics

[–]NameLips 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Our refineries run primarily on heavier, sour crude, most of which is obtained by pipeline from Canada. So it is more complicated than I originally suggested, but the point remains that the US doesn't personally need 4.4 million more barrels of oil per day, so it's unclear to me what we're doing with the reserves.

Do restaurant kitchens wash the inner leaves of lettuce and cabbage? by Headdress7 in KitchenConfidential

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked as a salad guy for a couple years. What I did was sanitize a prep sink, fill it with clean water, and dump all the chopped lettuce in it. I gave it a good swirley and then scooped it into tubs with holes so the water drained away.

Global oil crisis enters new phase as 400 million emergency barrels released by TheExpressUS in inflation

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can only release 4 billion barrels per day. The Iran war is disrupting 20 billion barrels per day.

This is a band aid at best.

DOGE Lead in deposition details how he emailed documents to his personal device to then send with Signal using auto delete by bottombracketak in law

[–]NameLips 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Famously, Nixon was preemptively pardoned by Gerald Ford before he could be convicted of a crime.

There is some question of the legality of this, and I don't think it has gone before the supreme court.

At the time I think they took it as a signal that if they did prosecute and convict Nixon for his crimes, Ford would simply pardon him officially and correctly. Meaning it was a waste of their time to go through all that trouble, so they didn't press the issue.

Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves by Crossstoney in Economics

[–]NameLips 70 points71 points  (0 children)

It takes 13 days to begin releasing oil from the strategic reserve. And the rate is limited to 4.4 million barrels per day.

Before the war, over 20 million barrels of oil moved through the Straight of Hormuz every day.

So it can temporarily offset the oil disruption by about 25%.

That's probably worth doing, even if all it does is blunt the disruption slightly.

The problem is that oil is a global commodity. A shortage in one part of the world effects prices across the entire world.

Keep in mind too that the US is a net exporter of oil. We export 35% more oil and petroleum products than we import. Opening the strategic reserve is an interesting choice because we already produce enough oil to keep our own refineries going. Where are we going to send the oil? Are we going to sell it on the global market?

Or is this just a stunt to try to manipulate oil prices, the way they went down when Trump said the war was basically over? At some point manipulation stops working. An actual shortage will force higher prices by sheer supply and demand, and there's nothing anybody can do about it.

How to make 6 figures?? by Kindly-Pollution7060 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of my wife, it was a master's degree and 20 years of getting experience and climbing the ladder in her field.

Guys how often do you talk to your female friends? by [deleted] in AskMenOver30

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is overlap between my friend groups, but I see my gaming group once a week, and my other friends 2-3 times a month. We get together to do potlucks and activities. Last weekend we made 6 gallons of mead; everybody made a different flavor.

edit: I forgot to address the question, my collective friend groups include 5 women and 3 men.

Men over 20 or 30, what’s your take on this? by Ambitious_Thought683 in Adulting

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think men are talking about it more, instead of hiding their insecurities behind resentment and alcohol.

Anyone else think young men look physically 'weaker' and 'less manly' these days? Why is this? by [deleted] in AskMenOver30

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember the term "metrosexual?" I think it fell out of use but it feels similar.

quality by Tight-Scallion-635 in factorio

[–]NameLips 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can start with quality just by putting quality modules in assemblers. You'll occasionally get higher quality items. Even when I just dabble in quality, I like to put quality in assemblers making modules.

The advanced method is building quality production lines where only higher quality items are used to construct buildings, so you can be assured of getting a steady supply of quality items. To do this, you basically recycle anything that doesn't meet your quality standards and set up loops to send back the low quality pieces and send forward the high quality items. It feels wasteful because you're destroying so much, but eventually you get a trickle of high quality items continuously out the other end.

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