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• 1. Pan as in pansexual, or an attraction to people regardless of their gender identity. The phrase used here, "Pan per focaccia" in Italian means "tit for tat", but "pan" can also translate as "bread"
• 2. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a 19th century French naturalist who proposed the early evolutionary idea that giraffes got their long necks by slowly stretching to reach higher tree branches, and over generations this feature solidified in the species.
• 3. The phrase "quando c'era Lui" "when He was around" is used by some older generations or right-wing Italians to refer nostalgically to the 20 years that Italy was ruled by the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini
• 4. Gender fluidity is a non-fixed gender identity that can change with time. Bar here is also referring to the coffeshops that are ubiquitous in Italy, but I've translated it here as just "bar" since that probably better conveys the role they play in Italian society as a place where people, paritculary older generations often gather
• 5. This statistical principles states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from only 20% of the causes
• 6. OnlyFans is an online subscription platform, often used for pornography, where performers can make money from users who pay to view their content
• 7. A sci-fi car from the namesake 80s British children's show
• 8. This is apparently a reference to Simone Pillon, an Italian politician from the right-wing Lega party who always wears a bow tie ("papillon" in Italian) in reference to his last name. In 2021 he was a major opponent of the Zan bill, a proposed law which would have criminalized discrimination and incitement to violence against gay, lesbian, trans, and disabled people
• 9. Feminist movement against sexual harassment and assault in which women on social media discussed sexual misconduct that they had experienced at the hands of celebrities and other well-known male figures. Here the Italian word for idol, "mito", is very similar to MeToo
• 10. A car racing video game
• 11. Public Digital Identity System, a credentials system established by the Italian government which allows citizens to access public and private services, and which has notoriously caused much difficulty for elderly Italians
• 12. A Saudi dissident journalist who was kidnapped and killed by the Saudi Arabian government
• 13. Literally "use Lei (the formal "you" in Italian) when talking to strangers". A common complaint by older Italians is that young people overuse "tu", the informal "you", which is often seen as impolite
• 14. A marketing term used to describe when companies disingenuously use LGBTQ+ symbols to signal support for the community, without actually supporting them in any meaningful way