– A little girl sends a letter to the boss of Barilla suggesting a pasta shaped like a marker cap so that the sauce gets stuck inside. Barilla works on it and sends her the test results. I doubt it will ever be commercialized, and that was probably not the goal. It’s a sin to think badly but it seems they were looking for the perfect story for a bit of free publicity. And they found it.
– Vietnamese tourists boarding the Matterhorn in sneakers and light trousers they didn’t deserve to be left up there, but hey…
– Putin threatens to use the atomic bomb. He has done so in the past, without ever putting it into practice. But this time, perhaps, it is a little different. First of all because Russia has decided to change the rules for the use of nuclear weapons, now possible not only in the face of a nuclear attack but also only “as soon as we have reliable information about the massive launch of aerospace attack weapons and their crossing of our state border, cruise missilesdrones, hypersonic aircraft and other aircraft”. In short: all it takes is one NATO missile fired from Kiev, and there’s trouble. But also because until some time ago the Alliance’s participation in the conflict was much less pervasive, limited to the level of logistical, political and armament support, while now things have changed a little. Will Putin really cross the atomic Rubicon? It’s hard to say. But it’s one of those issues for which it’s worth not taking risks.
– Countermand comrades. Look at what the unions wrote in their statement, ready to strike against the automotive crisis. Verbatim: “We cannot accept a transition against work and with enormous social costs”. What, excuse me? Finally the Cgil and the unions have understood that from Germany to Belgium, passing through Stellantisalso an accomplice the electric carthe registration crisis risks burning millions of jobs. Better late than never, of course. But if today they point the finger at the cost of energy and against a transition carried out “against work”, well: then hypocrisy reigns supreme. It was May 2022, Draghi government, when the Cgil and Maurizio Landini met with Paolo Gentiloni (EU government commissioner who created the green deal) and the then minister for sustainable mobility to “ally themselves with ecologists in the face of the challenge of the electric car”. Giorgio Airaudo, leader of the Piedmontese Cgil, said: “We are not convinced by the story that electric means redundancies. A recent German study hypothesizes a zero-sum balance in the automotive sector between jobs lost and jobs created with the new technologies of battery-powered and self-driving cars: let’s just think about the charging networks”. We saw how it went. Volkswagen it could end up cutting 15,000 jobs. BMW And Mercedes are raising alarms. The battery supplier, the Swedish Northvolt, has announced layoffs for 1,600 workers and will suspend investments for new factories. And Acea, the association that brings together European manufacturers, has denounced the “reduction in the market share of electric cars”. If the EU does not review the rules on emissions, with the farewell to the internal combustion engine by 2035, the risk – writes Acea – is that other families will be left without a loaf of bread to bring home. Question: was it so difficult to understand? Question for Landini: when in 2022 he preferred the Fridays for Future demonstrations to those of the workers, could he not have imagined that the farewell to the internal combustion engine in such a short time would have benefited China and the USA (technologically more advanced), leading to the collapse of the largest industry of the old continent? Perhaps, when he claimed that the priorities of the CGIL were “the fight against climate change, a just ecological and sustainable transition and the overcoming of the use of fossil fuels”, he had not fully understood what the consequences would be. Now the alarm has rung, and let’s hope it’s not too late. And to think that Giancarlo Giorgetti has been explaining it since 2021: “Do we want to choose the path of ecological transition? – he had said in unsuspecting times – All this will have a huge social and economic price in terms of unemployment. Those who work today in a diesel engine factory know perfectly well” that they are condemned to death. Landini would have done better to listen to the minister, instead of Greta Thunberg.
– In the diocese of Lecce, during the readings of the faithful, we pray that “the workers autonomous declare their income honestly and accurately so that the poor and struggling categories do not lack what is necessary”. This is a prejudice, largely false, perhaps based on some real experience of self-employed workers who do not declare every euro to the tax authorities. However, I say however, if this is the format, then we propose the following prayer which, we believe, is in line with the anti-autonomist oration and cannot be accused of racism: “The Roma and nomads should stop stealing from homes and pickpocketing in the subway so that the wallets of the poor wretches forced to use public transport do not lack”. If there must be prejudice, let it apply to everyone.
– Look for a man who looks at you like Musk Look Georgia Melons.
– Many, including Flavia Perinathey can’t understand why Elon Musk – who also supports surrogate motherhood and has claimed the use of drugs – is so popular on the right, so much so that he gets along with Meloni. The reason is simple: he is not a militant of FdI, nor a member or a leader. Nor is he even a gentleman to look up to. But an ally, with boundless economic capacity, on three fundamental issues for “the right”: freedom of speech, war on political correctness and the fight against demographic winter. No military alliance in history has automatically led two countries to unite and become one: differences matter. And between Musk and “the sovereign right” there are many distances, on some issues. But now the principle of every armed cooperation treaty prevails: my enemy is your enemy. We’ll see about the rest. And then, this ability to find convergences beyond differences is the reason why the center-right has been more or less together for 30 years. While the left, so radical in cultivating each one’s own little garden, always ends up slaughtering each other in the family.
– In an interview with Newspaperthe Minister of Education, Joseph Valditareexplained the new rules of yet another school reform. To summarize: understandable grades are back (excellent, good, sufficient, insufficient), with a 6 in behavior you are held back, those who misbehave will have to pay heavy fines and also do community service. All sacrosanct. Do you want to know why our school has failed and why we put young people incapable of understanding how to live in the world into the world of work? I read the statements of Giuseppe D’Aprile, general secretary of Uil Scuola and I understood that if these are the assumptions, there is no future for our young people. If a teacher is convinced that the goal of school is to “stimulate interests, curiosity, love for the subject to form free minds capable of thinking critically, beyond evaluations”, then we will not go anywhere.
Students go to school to learn from those who know more than them, preferably those who are able to propose the subject in a stimulating way. It is the boy’s job to study. If he assimilates, he passes, otherwise he fails. It is not difficult.