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Not having the guts to follow through when attempting to fight for a cause is not collaborating against that cause. Sheesh.

E: What you are teaching Amnesty, and anyone else watching, is that it is better not to try to fight for human rights. Because if you ever have to take a step back, you will be dragged through the mud.

No, they caved to legal threats. That's an entirely different thing to agreeing with these anti-rights people. Their opinion is in the documents that got pulled but they're not strong or brave enough to stand by them.

Or they may really be reviewing them to republish when they're sure they can legally defend every statement in there.

You could also say that Amnesty is doing something, and if you tear it down, then nothing will be done.

I certainly haven't seen one in 10 years of living in Italy. But they might hide one in Milano.

Starbucks has arrived, though. Just a handful in the largest cities. I haven't been inside one, but I hope they're full of tourists.

You're confusing Starbucks with anything Italian. They're an entirely American purveyor of milk shakes.

Sure. I'm not heaping on the Chinese. But we mustn't allow ourselves to think that this is all solved now. Emissions are still increasing. There is still a lot of work to do.

Even so, coal use is still rising in absolute terms. Output from thermal power plants increased in the first half as electricity demand grew, partly driven by high-tech manufacturing, electric-vehicle charging and data centers. Coal’s share fell as cleaner sources expanded even faster.

So things are still getting worse, just not at the rate that they would have.

OK, I'll be that one person downvoting you. It wasn't about killing brown people. They don't give a fuck about brown people. It is all about power and the graft and so on and those brown people are just expendable.

I mean, the fresh stuff is certainly better. Also, Barilla isn't that awesome. I don't know what you have available, but I live in Italy and I never buy Barilla. (Although I'd like to thank them for being a large contributor to my adopted city's finances.)

But yeah, time things so that the sauce is ready when the pasta becomes ready. The sauce won't suffer for sitting for a few minutes.

Don't leave your pasta hanging.

You try telling the youth of today that, and they won't believe you.

String quartet squeezed in the back seat or GTFO.

So then Obama can run. Glad we settled that.

You'd think so, but here is a fart that we prepared earlier.

There is a silent /s at the end of that.

Isn't GB news for people who think The Daily Mail is too reality based?

Ah yes. And with the Grímsvötn eruption in 2011 and Holuhraun in 2014 I got confused about the years. What even was Iceland doing in 2012, right?

No, 2012 2011 (and 2014) was under a glacier and the magma hitting ice caused it to explode in dust. I think the term is tephra. This is from the last few years where there has been a series of eruptions right next to the international airport in Keflavík.

Ah yes. I cycled from Italy into France last weekend and rode on one of those for a bit. There was not really enough traffic to know how well it works.

But it will be done in the shoddiest way possible and it'll ultimately sink into the swamp.