Anglo-Saxons fighting each other.
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It’s real! I’m not imagining things!
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I feel like I should quit the EVE forums. Would certainly be great for my mental health, with all those idiots running around here.
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Höffner has researched that early heyday of printed material in Germany and reached a surprising conclusion – unlike neighboring England and France, Germany experienced an unparalleled explosion of knowledge in the 19th century.
Too bad not much of that knowledge kept sticking until the modern age. People here are generally morons these days.
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Good night,lovelies. 
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Help
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This weekends objective is complete. Next weekend, complete engine overhaul. She already purrs like a kitten but it can use a good oil change and fresh plug. Cant wait to see it with a complete fresh coat of paint.
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We had a magazine called in translation literaly “Do It Yourself” like in english DIY.
There you could find plans of boats, cars, buildings, everything home build. There were even described some engineering tricks like shaping sheets of paper on a bag of sand, so the car could have had a real metal body. I think the times were good for that, as people were still poor and things were really expensive, so they could build their own, on their own. People even scan and make PDFs from it and put it in internet now https://docer.pl/doc/5x55c
I think there is a similar magazine in the west, called “Popular Mechanics”.
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Great magazine. We have a ton of fun building and modding together. My son loves the hands on melt and molding fabricating trickery we do. Learning this stuff at his age I can only imagine the things he will build. He sheared the two plates that hold our gas and brake pedals on without even asking for a hand. At 13 I’m super impressed with his abilities. Its just hard to keep his attention for longer than 10-20 minutes since that’s about how long a match in fortnite takes lol. After we arrived home today he showered and went right to bed after saying he was physically drained. Kids these days. 
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These were good times in Poland just after 1990. We could copy all the software and nobody would even bat an eye. What is interesting it also makes people make money on it, not only corporations. Chinese made consoles, cartridges and copies of PC games were on every stand in flea market, clothing also, everything. Some russians and vietnamese sold it with impunity from a back of the car, stuff just laying on a sidewalk, on a towel. 
Or from a stands like these:
One of the photos one could have made then:
These were all pegasus cartridges, Pegasus being essentially cheap chinese Famicom HVC-001 console knockof and cartridges were chinese too. From Taiwan I think.
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Ya se va el rabino para Kuskunjuk
A mercar a la bulisa camisa de bonju
Alvantes bulisa vo l’estrenares
El mazal y la vintura alta me la tenes.
The rabbi has gone to Kuskunjuk,
to buy an embroidered blouse for his wife.
Arise, my wife, go and wear the new clothes,
You have given me good luck and fortune.
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Ya se va el rabino para tefila
A mercar a la bulisa pita con halva.
Alvantes bulisa, vo la comeres.
El mazal y la vintura alta me la tenes.
The rabbi has gone to the prayers,
And to buy his wife pita and (sweet) sesame,
Arise, wife, go and eat,
You have given me good luck and fortune.
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Ya se va el rabino para el Besisten
A mercar a la bulisa manilla entenjen.
Alvantes, bulisa, vo la meteres
El maza y la vintura alta me la tenes.
The rabbi has gone to Besisten
to buy a gold bracelet.
Arise, wife, put it on,
You have given me good luck and fortune.
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Good morning LAGLers!
That’s not Spanish, rather Ladino, a mix of ancient Spanish and Hebrew with some Arabic. It is barely understandable for a modern Spanish speaking person, but with some intuition it makes sense.
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Heh, that used to be sold at flea markets too… now they still exist and sell Chinese knockoffs, but the irony is that people were barely selling things in the streets until we joiend the UE, general wealth improved and immigrants came to scrap a euro with this:
We call them “manteros” or “blanket guys” because of their sale metod. If police comes, they pull the strings, turn the blanket into a bag and run as fast as they can. Shop owners hate them but there is no political will to send them into outright misery by making laws like they did in Florence, where selling in the street is fined with 500 euros both for buyer and seller. That certainly headshot street selling in Florence, leaving only aurhorized sellers with a paid license to sell art products and only art products.
Blanket guys are akin to a plague in certain places, by their sheer number, but those are also human beings, you can’t really blame them to trade utter misery and despair for plain misery and the tiniest sliver of hope in our streets…
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Corporate and administrative laws on collision course with the poorest sellers. They want to eliminate all “unneeded” competition, even the smallest and poorest guy. 
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Let’s not get too romantic. They sell where ever they want regardless of safety issues, they have no refund policies or reclamation service, and some of these sellers are mere fences, selling stolen goods and helping criminals to their profits - if they’re not the thieves themselves.
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We should not jump into prejudices here. What if they are like Robin from Sherwood? Robbing wealthy and supporting poor. 
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