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Bobby Digital posted:You guys like trains? 
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Jun 18, 2020 16:09
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I like that Sydney connects to Isfahan of all places.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:13
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Last year my wife and I were curious about taking a train for our trip to Florida. The trip required us going from our local area, to Dallas, up to Michigan or Illinois (I forget) over to the new England area then finally down to florida. With a few other stops along the way. We didn't travel by train. That's my modern US train system story.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:21
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BRB, got to throw together a Ticket to Ride knockoff.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:33
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MacheteZombie posted:Last year my wife and I were curious about taking a train for our trip to Florida. The trip required us going from our local area, to Dallas, up to Michigan or Illinois (I forget) over to the new England area then finally down to florida. With a few other stops along the way. It was Chicago. The only ways from one coast to another are Chicago or New Orleans, and the New Orleans train goes straight to South Carolina for some reason so it's almost always slower by half a day. Passenger rail in the US is in desperate need of work.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:49
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Memento posted:My kids were watching the old Pokemon cartoon and there's a dude in it who speaks in a really thick Texan accent. I looked it up and it turns out that character speaks with a Kansai dialect, which is apparently kind of a Japanese redneck. So I learned a thing or two about Japanese dialects and internal bigotry.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:49
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Memento posted:My kids were watching the old Pokemon cartoon and there's a dude in it who speaks in a really thick Texan accent. I looked it up and it turns out that character speaks with a Kansai dialect, which is apparently kind of a Japanese redneck. So I learned a thing or two about Japanese dialects and internal bigotry. A Kansai dialect isn't a redneck dialect, unless you consider places like Kyoto and Osaka to be middle of nowhere hick territory. It's just noticeably different from the standard Tokyo dialect, usually compared to a Boston or Brooklyn accent. The actual main redneck Japanese dialect is Touhoku, which is basically incomprehensible.
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Jun 18, 2020 16:59
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Scarodactyl posted:Schwarzenegger, being Austrian, offered to do his own voice for the German dub of Terminator bit they decided they didn't want the Terminator to sound like a farmer.
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Jun 18, 2020 17:02
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Scarodactyl posted:Schwarzenegger, being Austrian, offered to do his own voice for the German dub of Terminator bit they decided they didn't want the Terminator to sound like a farmer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw&t=68s
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Jun 18, 2020 17:14
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Ariong posted:Was that made by a flat earther? Why don’t any of the east coast Eurasian stops connect to any of the west coast American stops? The Pacific Ocean's pretty big
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Jun 18, 2020 17:33
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Plastik posted:It was Chicago. The only ways from one coast to another are Chicago or New Orleans, and the New Orleans train goes straight to South Carolina for some reason so it's almost always slower by half a day. I always knew passenger rail was bad but honestly I was shocked by how bad that trip log was.
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Jun 18, 2020 17:42
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The northeast corridor (Boston to DC) is a great place to take a train because Amtrak owns the tracks. Outside of that area Amtrak just leases them and has lower priority than all other traffic. Those train rides can be fun, but you have to be less picky about what day you arrive at places.
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Jun 18, 2020 17:55
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:The Pacific Ocean's pretty big Oh you’re right, obviously that was a result of the designer’s keen eye for logistics.
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Jun 18, 2020 17:55
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Meanwhile…
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Jun 18, 2020 17:55
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Oh boy time for my trip from San Francisco to Phoenix 
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Jun 18, 2020 18:31
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Bobby Digital posted:Oh boy time for my trip from San Francisco to Phoenix A truly visionary integrated North American rail network, Vancouver to Seattle with only one transfer in Buffalo, NY! 
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Jun 18, 2020 18:41
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MrUnderbridge posted:For the ultimate version of this, watch A Very Secret Service on Netflix (French: Au service de la France). The scene where the Quebecois try to get the French to help with their independence movement is hilarious, even with subtitles. One weird thing is that even in French, the Quebecois have a really obvious accent. And I don't speak more than enough French to get a hot chocolate half the time. (The other time I ended up with a ham sandwich, sooo....) There was an interesting twitter thread a while ago about the Quebec French dub of the Simpsons, which is done separately from the French dub in France, and how they will actually put a lot of work into the translation to regionalize a lot of the jokes (for example in the "steamed hams" bit, the references to upstate new york are changed to places in Quebec). One of the funny bits they mentioned is that in the episode where Bart goes to France, that posed a somewhat interesting challenge for them since the idea that Bart doesn't speak French is kind of central to the plot, so what they did is that when Bart has to talk to the policeman and he can't understand him, they had the cop speaking very proper Parisian French and Bart speaking in heavy Quebecois slang. After the cop fails to understand him for a while Bart has the line "I thought they spoke French in France?"
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Jun 18, 2020 18:43
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https://twitter.com/LLsunflower/status/1273474305939124225 https://twitter.com/LLsunflower/status/1273497988715986945
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Jun 18, 2020 20:08
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Sorry antipodeans, while we can build Atlantic ocean spanning spite trains, we must recognize you are barely human living out there on those weird islands and you still need to take the ferry from Australia to New Zealand.
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Jun 18, 2020 20:12
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Literally the map from Snowpiercer but worse
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Jun 18, 2020 20:19
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Wouldn't the continental drift steadily break those rail lines?
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Jun 18, 2020 20:22
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Yeah, but only at a couple cm/yr. We have trains that span continental divides already.
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Jun 18, 2020 21:01
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Jun 18, 2020 21:17
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This seems like a safe place to build a city, where no foundations will ever break down.
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Jun 18, 2020 21:23
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IIRC the city of Hollister repaired that particular kerb, much to the chagrin of scientists.
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Jun 18, 2020 21:28
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We found the spot where its changing, so we can just avoid it now
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Jun 18, 2020 21:44
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Bobby Digital posted:Oh boy time for my trip from San Francisco to Phoenix It looks like it got hit by an earthquake. California HSR finally got built just in time to get murdered by the San Andreas Fault 
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Jun 18, 2020 21:53
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Supposedly that rail map has all cities on it that have a subway system, with random lines drawn between them, and supposedly that's why Africa has less stuff - because it has less subway systems. I have no idea if that's true though.
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Jun 18, 2020 22:31
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Carbon dioxide posted:Supposedly that rail map has all cities on it that have a subway system, with random lines drawn between them, and supposedly that's why Africa has less stuff - because it has less subway systems. It’s the cover of a book of transit maps which I own as it turns out: https://books.google.com/books/about/Transit_Maps_of_the_World.html?id=u82tDQAAQBAJ
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Jun 18, 2020 22:40
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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:It’s the cover of a book of transit maps which I own as it turns out: https://books.google.com/books/about/Transit_Maps_of_the_World.html?id=u82tDQAAQBAJ Did...someone edit the cover so that Africa doesn't have any connections? It's labeled as "under construction" in the twitter photo, but on the cover there it's connected.
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Jun 18, 2020 22:47
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CodfishCartographer posted:Did...someone edit the cover so that Africa doesn't have any connections? It's labeled as "under construction" in the twitter photo, but on the cover there it's connected. The one that’s been going around is the 2003 edition. The 2015 edition has Africa connected.
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Jun 18, 2020 22:53
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Platystemon posted:The one that’s been going around is the 2003 edition. Presumably the earlier editions didn't have the African maps available?
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Jun 18, 2020 23:14
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https://twitter.com/tramfrau/status/1273591826344280064
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Jun 18, 2020 23:17
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https://twitter.com/Monogrammaton/status/1273743400139845633
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Jun 19, 2020 00:04
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So they went to the effort of writing the book on subways but didn't put in the effort of having a not-terrible network
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Jun 19, 2020 00:41
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The cover is usually not the author’s fault, they have very little input on it, but Ovenden seems to be taking credit for it, so maybe this is an exception. https://twitter.com/markovenden/status/1273596610027675648
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Jun 19, 2020 00:50
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HardDiskD posted:So they went to the effort of writing the book on subways but didn't put in the effort of having a not-terrible network I doubt there’s any not-terrible way to hook up all the current subway systems of the world.
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Jun 19, 2020 01:59
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Trebuchets.
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Jun 19, 2020 02:05
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I.... I guess Dallas has a subway? i mean it goes underground for a bit but really thats it.
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Snake Maze posted:I doubt there’s any not-terrible way to hook up all the current subway systems of the world. Probably not, and I'm not a subway engineer or whatever but I'm positive there are better ways than this and this
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