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They put the Precise Timing Facility in Italy?
by ppod 7y ago
They put the Precise Timing Facility in Italy?
- herpes 7y agoWhat's wrong with Italy?
- outside1234 7y agoNothing runs on time in Italy. Someone on this thread is going to say that is racism, but its backed up by a lot of data.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoCan you share that data with the rest of us?
- rbrtdrmpc- 7y agoNothing runs on time at Consorzio Torino Time (CTT), the guys quoted previously, also "The PTF in Italy been coordinated by the Consorzio Torino Time (CTT), with the partnership and support of SpT and T4Science in Switzerland." so i'm pretty sure as an Italian who enjoys to stab Caesar and switch sides during war, THE BLAME IS ON THE SWISS
- rbrtdrmpc- 7y agoA little rain today, despite that things are pretty good.
- toyg 7y agoCasual racism, because fuck yeah. Italy has a pretty big space-related industrial sector, and excellent academic standards in some fields. It might not produce geniuses with the same frequency of the past (Galvani, Volta, Marconi, Fermi and so on) but it's not some random backwater.
- martin_a 7y ago> but it's not some random backwater. And nobody really thinks that. My god, what a time to be alive, when you can't make simple jokes anymore, because somebody somewhere always is offended and thinks there must be some racist agenda in place. Even as a German with a total lack of humour (and an Italian motorcycle with strange quirks in the garage) I found this funny. Funnier than the Holocaust at least.
- toyg 7y ago>> [Italy is] not some random backwater. > And nobody really thinks that. As an Italian expat, I can assure you this is unfortunately incorrect. > you can't make simple jokes anymore No, you can't make jokes based on lazy stereotypes that end up affecting the lives of millions. It's a different thing. It might have been fundamentally innocuous, back when populations didn't mix as much as we do today, but now it's a real problem. If I go to a job interview and the potential employer assumes Italian == lazy, I'm done for. That's the casual bigotry that these jokes end up entrenching.
- martin_a 7y agoAnd I've worked with and for Italian people and they were just as lazy or hard-working as any other nationality. No reason to value them more or less.
- acollins1331 7y agoItalian doesn't count as a race
- hyayz 7y agoThe word "racism" does not mean what you think it means.
- ppod 7y agoI see the German Humour Facility has joined us.
- tmalsburg2 7y agoPlease no Youtube-style comments here.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post flamebait to HN, and certainly not nationalistic flamebait. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dfeojm-zlib 7y agoDang, you're always on top of HN, figuratively and literally. Thanks, bro for defending the community. :PrayerHands: :PeaceSymbol: