The ‘Coffin Dance’
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Today I had a “21st century moment” when a Chinese young woman entered our shop and used her phone to translate her Chinese words into Spanish ones, and also translate my answers back. At first I didn’t quite get what she was asking, until I understood she was looking for a place to make photocopies of some papers. Unfortunately slow reaction time me was so shocked by the novelty and unexpected situation that I completely forgot about a place where she could had done that AND also forgot about the Chinese owned shop down the street, which with any luck might be people speaking her same language/dialect.
And yet… speaking Chinese to a phone, the phone translates to spoken Spanish, then translates spoken Spanish back to spoken Chinese well enough to convey simple ideas. Welcome to the 21st century.
And now I’m off to bed. Night night lovelies!
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So…
On the other hand, the energy for your stupid combustion engine is stored using about 40 to 50 kilograms of matter, whereas your electric engine gets electricity from some 900 kg of batteries which barely last as long as 25 kg of fuel for an ICE, among other things because you’re hauling around those 900 kg of dead weight even when there’s no energy in them.
But then, if we could just keep the source of electricity still, feed a moving vehicle though some array of conductive materials and (just to top it off) drive metal wheels on metal bars rather than lose energy to the enormous friction of rubber on asphalt…
Yes, guess I went full “it’s trains, stupid”. Electric railroad trumps everything transport by such a margin that it’s not even a contest. At least for distances where building the railworks makes sense…
Bonus: sudden track attack because, metal.
(I was todays years old when I noticed that the original “Metall auf metall” has a different sound than “Metal on metal”…)
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I dont know what she used but Google had that for few years already. Also if she had that phone she could have found the other closest place where she could do that on google maps or whatever map app she had.
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And trolley cars. Or horsecars. Some are still in use in cities. Rapid Transit.
But when you can walk everywhere because its close, you dont even need those.
Or just a bicycle.
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Construction work started in 1956, for the World Fair of 1958.
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Night Night
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I’d guess that her first try was finding a place to do photocopies. But then the translation software translated “copies”, so maybe there’s not even a word for “photocopy” in Chinese?
And then… tough luck finding anywhere where they still do photocopies in 2024. The place I forgot about is a graphic print service some 5 minutes walk away, and certainly she was not the first person asking us whether we know of a place to make photocopies in the area (less the language barrier).
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They do, such as small convenience stores, they will most likely also have a computer and printer there aswell as need it for their business, and print stuff out for you if you super cute.
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You do realise that you have an uncanny resemblance to @God_Emperor_Kane .
Are you his evil twin or something???
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I dont see it
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Probably because @LordOdysseus looks have been altered due to his evilness, he shows no mercy murdering defenseless unarmed capsules.
His acts of evil make @God_Emperor_Kane look like a saint.
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Podding…podding never changes.
I mainly pod those who don’t give back likes in this thread. 
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@Uriel_the_Flame didn’t give a like
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Maybe the hisghsec safety law enforcers should punish me in-game for this atrocity.
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Time to go to sleep… night night lovelies!
Also: Barcelona. Sunday 25th April 1909 at 11 a.m.
The filming of the film was publicly announced, thus many people came to the film locations to be recorded. The camera and cameraman were on a rail cart pushed by a tramway.
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Night Night
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