Italy's horse of a different color

  EMBRACE THE SUCK Dedicated to the many, MANY wonderful intelligent persons I met through twitter. In a world where my measure of men and women is “a good person to have in a storm”, I would want you all on my boat. Italy is following hard on the heels of Macron's France in designing and enforcing Vaccine Passports internally instead of enforcing a COVID vaccine mandate. The intent, in both cases, is hampering the lives of citizens enough to “nudge” them into going in droves to vaccine hubs, arm extended. And it won't work. And it will NEVER work, in my opinion. Sorry. For that you need a spreadsheet. Imagine, if you will , that an unknown force transported you back in time to the early expansion of tribes of Homo Sapiens. You are given a choice: you can join one of two otherwise identical tribes of about 1.000 people, with similar territories. In One tribe, whenever the Council/Ruler/King/Shaman subsumes the wisdom of the tribe, everyone complies and acts in the pres

 I sing the body electric Why Italy's car capital is a signature example on how NOT to manage transport policy and electric cars I never liked committees. I don't like them at work, and most importantly, I like them off work even less. So, when the periodic Condo full assembly is due, I am rarely surprised at announcements about the latest and greatest in Italian Bureaucracy(c). A while back, the hot topic was... Garage regulations. Apparently, in order to mitigate fire hazards, every personal garage owner would have to refurbish his wiring/lightning (easy), install low consumption lights (ok, I can do it myself), install an EXTERNAL breaker (What the heck? What if I put a fridge in and kids cut it off just for giggles?) and..... get a government approved certification through a qualified electrician, 30 pages of gibberish for a paltry 120 EUR (Facepalm). It was not the 250 quid all in that bugged me. It was, as usual, the sheer idiocy of the whole process, because eve