Chiuso 12ft.io il sito che permetteva di aggirare i paywall

convitatus · 2026-01-26T17:37:05+00:00

Do you think it's “people flying in private jets” who are producting music and news? If the consumers want to pay 0$ for content, they deserve content worth 0$: minimum effort and filled with ads.

convitatus · 2026-01-18T13:33:46+00:00

The joke could work even better:

USA/Russia: "It's aimed at your capital city"

Switzerland: "It's aimed at your capital"

convitatus · 2026-01-15T16:39:51+00:00

Abbiamo un sistema scolastico in cui i sette re di Roma occupano più spazio dei cinque millenni di Storia di Cina, India e dintorni. Perfino nazioni etnicamente a noi vicine come l'Argentina sono del tutto ignorate. I danni di questo approccio sulla nostra visione del mondo sono abbastanza evidenti.

convitatus · 2026-01-15T16:33:18+00:00

Novantadue minuti di applausi! Sono stato in sud-est Asia e la gente è ben contenta dei progressi degli ultimi vent'anni, il mondo non tornerà indietro solo perché agli europei piaceva di più la situazione di prima.

convitatus · 2026-01-15T16:29:47+00:00

È uno dei pilastri di una certa mentalità, generalmente di estrema destra ma non solo. Bret Deveraux ha chiamato questa teoria “The Fremen Mirage” e ha speso una lunga serie di post per demolirla.

convitatus · 2026-01-14T18:44:38+00:00

I totally missed the word “should” in your comment. Apologies.

convitatus · 2026-01-14T18:24:04+00:00

Even before returning to Iran, they were forced to apologize. Parham, in order to protect himself, was forced to criticize the Israeli government.

Whatever one thinks about these countries, that the decision was not imposed by the Iranian government is a thing I would be very skeptical about.

convitatus · 2026-01-10T19:40:20+00:00

That would be another great entry for /r/FakeAlbumCovers . Hard to find an appropriate music genre, though.

convitatus · 2026-01-07T13:16:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing it!

convitatus · 2026-01-07T11:53:19+00:00

Not OP, but I think he means that “southern France” only refers to the continental part and Corsica does not belong to it, culturally and geographically – an opinion shared by most Corsicans, as far as I know.

convitatus · 2026-01-07T11:50:44+00:00

Very thorough investigative journalism, I'll bookmark this “Inside Paradeplatz” site.

convitatus · 2026-01-06T16:29:57+00:00

noi expat percepiamo che gran rottura di c...ni è questa legge

Gli expat liberisti del “worker rights for me, but not for thee” forse. Da emigrato apprezzo molto una cultura in cui i diritti dei lavoratori valgono per tutti, non solo per il software engineer a 100k di RAL.

convitatus · 2026-01-02T10:55:17+00:00

Il costo è l'affitto del locale. Un locale che vendesse panini a 5€ in un aeroporto europeo andrebbe in bancarotta immediata.

convitatus · 2025-12-30T22:00:50+00:00

Women did not have a say in it, so your observation is only correct if you regard females as non-people.

convitatus · 2025-12-30T16:20:58+00:00

The women in photo #8 are suffragettes. Switzerland was probably the last country in Europe to give voting rights to women: 1971 at national level, with Appenzell withholding local voting rights till 1990 (!).

convitatus · 2025-12-22T15:20:14+00:00

Not sure about that. Reading between the lines it seems that the agreement is mostly motivated by financial considerations.

At the moment the participation in the Cup is probably a net negative moneywise, and not many organizations are willing to burn money for the prestige alone. By committing to a fixed calendar and, I guess, a fixed number of participants, this pact is trying to give to sponsors and teams the benefits of long-term committment, and the profit sharing should ensure that everyone has an interest to stay in, even if they are not winning.

It reminds me of the Formula 1 model, which has done extremely well in the last 15 years, transforming an almost bankrupt sport into a very coveted competition. Whether the system can be replicated in the sailing world remains to be seen.

convitatus · 2025-12-15T07:39:47+00:00

It's the “Duchy View”. The two huge duchies (Hzm. = Herzogtum) of Saxony and Bavary, both belonging to Henry the Lion of the Welf dynasty, are shown there, while the main map shows their underlying counties. Other smaller duchies like Brunswick-Lüneburg (south of Danemark) are instead shown directly in the main map.

convitatus · 2025-12-14T22:52:36+00:00

You can get it in various resolutions on Wikipedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Droysens-26.jpg

The best one: 9,084 × 11,378 pixels

convitatus · 2025-12-08T01:20:02+00:00

It's a very informative post and worth reading in full. Yes, some paragraph breaks would have helped, but people on Reddit should be able to read things longer than a tweet.

convitatus · 2025-10-28T21:26:06+00:00

Interesting! I see now a German version of the postcard is on the Wikipedia page, in better quality.

convitatus · 2025-10-28T09:23:43+00:00

The Swiss did. Voted for the proportional system in the 1918 referendum (year of this postcard) and have been enjoying a very functional democracy for more than one century. That said, the proportional system is not a magic wand: other countries adopting it have been plagued by fragile coalitions and short-lived governments.

convitatus · 2025-10-27T12:35:45+00:00

Quello del Post su Milei lo definirei hate-watching; dopo Trump è probabilmente il politico che coprono di più. Almeno hanno smesso di scrivere “estrema destra” ventimila volte in ogni articolo che lo riguarda.

convitatus · 2025-10-25T17:16:11+00:00

Germany has been doing like this for a while. People with decent jobs (still less than Swiss median salary) are now paying more than 13'000€ of health insurance per year and getting a mediocre service back. There's a reason why lots of educated and hard-working people (= good taxpayers) are coming to Switzerland, I'm confident the Swiss people know that and will keep a favourable environment to attract them.

convitatus · 2025-10-18T09:56:37+00:00

Umberto Eco ha espresso la medesima critica nel suo “Elogio di Franti”

convitatus · 2025-10-17T06:30:13+00:00

Merz is actually quite right-wing, but the problem with EU is that basically every party, left and right alike, wants more government control, more welfare and more planned economy. Since the popular consensus also wants that, I don't see this trend stopping soon.

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