What are you going on about?

Oh trust me, it happens a lot even between native speakers, and it irks me too haha

From a quick search that didn’t provide anything really insightful, it seems that at least in Italian the term has been used since the XIV century, so it’s not photocopy related

Wait, the resemblance thing is also used in other languages: “spitting image” in English, for example, and “copia sputata” in Italian. I’m actually wondering for the first time where it comes from, so maybe there’s a reason for the Portuguese saying to be related to spit

Why does this read like a list written by chatGPT?

Why?

Italian here

We give a lot of shit to our train system (and rightly so) but it actually works quite well, in comparison to our European neighbours.

Bologna to Milano is a very nice line indeed

I got that reference!

I have the same surname as one of the most important composers in music history from the 1500-1600. It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t a musician, and a composer specifically, myself.

Every people I’ve interacted with in my trade has made some remarks on it, and if someone searches “[name] composer” they obviously won’t get to my music!

I still can’t get over how both Salvor and Gaal are “the chosen ones” in a setting where the whole premise is that there are no chosen ones and/or special individuals, aside from The Mule, but that’s the whole point of that arc.

The Cleon/Empire thing, tho, that’s great.

Just curious, how old are you?

I’m just curious, do you not have an ad blocker on your browser? I’ve never paid anything, and I still haven’t seen any ads

Max temperatures in Sicily (the hottest region in Italy) reaches 42°C (not 48) in August (not July), so it is quite a difference. It will really be miserable and outright dangerous for a lot of people, not only scary.

Where did you read that? The higest temperature recorded in Italy was 48.8°C in Sicily in 2021. Southern Italy is hot, yes, but whats is considered “farly common” is 40-42°C in August, not July, and not 48°C

You put the wasteland two times instead of the steampunk one!

Wallhaven.cc is my go-to source of wallpapers!

I’m absolutely not an expert in the field, but for identification is usually best to provide time of the year and location, since they greatly improve the chance of correctly recognizing the animal

Let’s see if this works, then…

I’m not going to shit on your excitement, I just want to give my perspective (and I liked the show!).

You’re right, this is a series that “builds a world”. The main grip I (as many others) have, in relation to the books, is that the books build a universe and a whole history, in addition to the series. The characters themselves, aside from Hari Seldon and a couple of others, are relatively unimportant, and that’s the beauty of it: it’s a way of showing how psychohistory works, by not focusing on the individual but the whole society around them.

This, of course, is quite difficult to translate to screen, but having one character being “the special one” goes really against the whole spirit of the worldbuilding set in the books (and that’s why I’m quite interested in seeing how they portray The Mule). The gender and ethnicity changes I couldn’t care less, but these kind of things… eh, they strip the story of what made it special in the first place.

Thanks! I do audio work, so the GPU is basically an afterthought.