It used to be like that around 2000s, things have vastly improved here though.
Have you ever tried Barcelona or New York or Paris or Krakow or Milan or, god forbid it, Naples?
Prejudices are fun, but usually they are grossly incorrect.
Also as I've said, I drive very little (less than 2.000km/year) and cyclists in Rome are still from Rome. they are not Martians so their mentality must be the same of everybody else don't you think?
if romans are bad drivers, isn't it safe to assume they are also bad cyclists?
I haven't driven in Rome, but I've tried the North of Italy, in Aoste. I'm from Paris and drive / ride my motorbike here quite often [0].
The only time in my life when I felt people were out to get me was in Italy. They drove like absolute maniacs. And I was on a big motorbike, not a bicycle going at 10 kmph. The road was wide, too (outside a city), with very light traffic, but for some reason they really couldn't be bothered to move over to the other lane when overtaking. Weren't going particularly faster, either.
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[0] I'm not saying Paris is great, mind. I'd even say that in the last few years it has deteriorated a lot: whenever a light turns red, at least one person is guaranteed to run it.
Any for-profit entity hotlinking Commons is unfair. Heck, they have the right to redistribute freely the image as they see fit, instead of consuming resources that are a common good.
But this goes beyond that - it's some blind check of internet connectivity for the app, and doesn't get shown to the user. We're pretty sure of that, given that with the amount of noise that task generated, if there was an app featuring that image at least one of the ~ 90M daily "views" would've been someone reading these posts.
One really nice things about newsgroups was that most clients let you write your own scoring rules for posts, meaning I could moderate each group and set "karma limits" based on what I cared about.
The hard upper limit on a neutron star mass, the Rhoades-Ruffini limit, is at 3.2 solar masses.
This discovery is significant, because we never found a collapsed object in the 2-3 solar masses range, but it definitely doesn't need new physics to be explained.
"In May 2015, Risker observed that a team called 'Search and Discovery' was 'extraordinarily well-staffed with a disproportionate number of engineers at the same time as other areas seem to be wanting for them'."
"We also know at some point it was an ambitious project to create a brand new search engine as an alternative to Google."
Basically no one is ever willing to wait for anyone else, as OP's reasoning shows pretty adamantly.
Of course they're grossly incorrect.