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Andrea Matranga

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Economic Historian at Università di Torino. Pr. I aspire to a Plinian mind. From Palermo, Sicily. Substack: https://andreamatranga.substack.com

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · Jun 5

I created a Substack! for now it's mainly a place I post lightly edited versions of my long threads.
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@Natkhov and myself's paper on the introduction of serfdom in Russia in response to nomadic slave raids. Sign up here
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This substack collects explanations of my projects and interests, mostly relating to Economics, History and Geography. Click to read Andrea Matranga, a Substack publication. Launched 27 minutes ago.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 40m

This begs the question, at what point does the almost universal modified usage of an expression trump the original meaning?

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 5h

But now you got ten people who think they're god and have the money to act on their belief. And as a continent, we really dislike that.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 5h

I think a big problem with europe doing tech, is that basically you invest $1 in 1000 people, and 990 of those people lose everything, and 10 make 300 each, which pays for the whole thing in principle.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 6h

A perpetual emotion machine

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 6h

Perpetual motion machines are thermodynamically impossible, but Bennie Blanco got closer than most by first writing a song for Bieber about his breakup with Selena Gomez, then dating her

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 7h

We have to all learn Navajo so we can talk without AI unserstanding

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 19h

I never realized Carrie Fisher was in Harry Met Sally. What an actress.

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

www.regione.toscana.it/-/geoscopio The Tuscan region has just released ortophotos of the entire region. A priceless resource for researchers trying to indentify why they keep producing mediocre comedians who rely on their aspirated C to sound funny.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache is sitting in a chair and saying " agreed "

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of had something similar happen to me after watching Takeshis' by Takeshi Kitano. Action movies, especially say the post Kill Bill Tarantino movies just no longer hit the same way

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

There's a tick called the Lone Star Tick. If it bites a deer or whatever it picks up a bit of a protein called alpha-gal, and if it then bites you, your immune system can makes you allergic to red meat.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

This is like Frank Abagnale but if he hadn't made up the whole story

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"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 2d

All conservative UK politics is an extended auditioning process to get to do hits on fox or a sinecure at like hoover

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Smash burgers are an affront to the category of assembled ground beef entrees

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 4d

Can you imagine when they were new?

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/kJDyB7pcgEY?... does it have antishock

The Sony Discman - Gary Gulman Stand-Up Conan Obrien

YouTube video by The Secrets of Spoken English

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 4d

The thing with Chapelle is that comedy is based to some extent on surprise, so no matter how elaborate the setup, or how impeccable the delivery, my brain knows it can head the joke off at the Trans Pass

a man wearing a cowboy hat is standing on top of a roof .

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 4d

Life on Our Planet is aggressively bad

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If she had just remembered Michelangelo was Italian it would have been obvious a tight 4 would have been more than enough

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 5d

Try setting your tv to about two thirds brightness, in a dark room.

Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 6d

Has any comedy ever gotten more laughs out of giving British and A andmerican characters a conflicting set of goals

two men are standing next to each other in front of an elevator

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 7d

I am going to show you a series of outfits, and you have to guess if it's a German academic going to the faculty meeting, or an experienced hiker setting off to complete the Appalachian trail solo

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