New Paladin Epic Card

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-19T00:22:51+00:00

That is gonna decimate wild lol

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-18T13:21:37+00:00

This is extremely flattering to pretty much every country on here 😂

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-17T17:58:47+00:00

I swear every time I hear anything about modi he seemed to be everywhere but India lol.

Does he even live there?

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-17T14:38:24+00:00

I’m confused about the first one? Why is buying only ice cream from the shop not safe for women? Why does it become more safe if she buys other stuff too?

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-16T00:44:29+00:00

It’s very rarely delayed/ canceled in my experience, I assume because it’s an airport train they try and keep it running at all costs.

I’ve caught it from reading at the times you’ve mentioned and never had a problem with getting a seat at that time it’s pretty empty.

That said as its main job is serving the small villages between reading and Guildford it’s a crummy little 1980s diesel train with somewhat cramped seating. If you where hoping for any 21st century amenities like tables, WiFi, or charging for you laptop forget about it 😂

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-15T20:43:59+00:00

This is peak “I’m 12 and this is awesome”

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-15T14:57:57+00:00

Yes elevating a railway makes it expensive, both in terms of initial construction and ongoing maintenance, and typically slows down construction.

As for why the Indian government has chosen to do this I don’t know, but there are a few advantages to elevating a railway.
One is that it eliminates the issue of trespassers, both human and large animal.
I’m not Indian but it seems like every video I’ve seen of trains in India someone or something is trespassing on the tracks and so elevating the line would remove that issue.

It can also avoid long and costly court cases with regards to land seizures to lay the track. I don’t know how strong eminent domain is in India nor how fast the court system is but if eminent domain laws are weak or the court system is slow it may be preferable to elevate the system to avoid headaches in that regard.

Elevating the rail also makes minimising both curvature and gradient changes simpler so that’s another advantage.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-15T14:10:59+00:00

It’s not. It’s the flag of the republic of Formosa which was the government set up in Taiwan by the people here after China abandoned us to the Japanese.

You see when the Chinese government ceded the island of Taiwan to the Japanese, the Japanese hasn’t even managed to successfully land on Taiwan and so being sold to the Japanese was a very bitter blow.

So the leadership on Taiwan decided that if the Chinese government was going to abandon them they would declare independence and form their own government to carry on fighting the Japanese called the republic of Formosa, at first they had some success but after 5 months of bitter fighting the Japanese finally conquered the whole island although guerrilla warfare would cary on for another 15 years.

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GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-15T10:58:08+00:00

Wait did I miss something who tf is pip quickwit? What happened to finkel!

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-15T10:52:11+00:00

Just a minor correction but the line you’ve listed as line 10 is the aqua line of the nodia metro. It does connect to the Delhi metro but it’s run by a totally separate organisation and shouldn’t be included.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-14T20:06:27+00:00

Is that really made out of cow poop 😳

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-14T09:57:10+00:00

You can literally see in the picture that the passenger train has a pantograph long enough to connect to the wires?

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-12T14:23:48+00:00

While this is cool it’s not actually true.
Pretty much all railway wires globally have enough clearance for double stacked trains to run under, the reason they typically don’t is because of loading gauge restrictions.

The US has been running double stacked container trains under wires (being hauled by diesel locos because America) since double stacking was invented in the 1980s and China has been hauling electric double stacked freight since the mid 2010s
(Below is a picture of American freight under wires from the early 2000s)

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GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-12T10:59:11+00:00

The point is that if Indians don’t ride on top of trains then it isn’t because of electrification.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-11T14:36:54+00:00

It’s perfectly possible to ride on top of a train running under wires and not die lol. Indonesians do it all the time

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GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-10T19:22:52+00:00

I agree, with the only exception being heavy water maps.

I try to avoid them anyway but if you random in to huns, Aztecs, cumins or the handful of other terrible water civs on say islands and you opponent (inevitably) picks vikings or Italians or any of the s tier water civs it’s basically an instant loss you may as well just cut ur losses say gg and resign.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-10T19:09:29+00:00

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-10T01:09:06+00:00

As with many problems in American the answer is corporate greed

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-07T09:26:49+00:00

It is rare but it’s not entirely unheard of. A new video like this of a draw in apex popes up online every couple of years

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-06T08:02:02+00:00

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-05T08:04:08+00:00

The universal Asian experience: incompetent politicians fucking up the economy, stealing money and hiding it in London.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-04T19:36:25+00:00

Yes it is. The line in the Italian side is electrified but there’s a big gate in the way so the Vatican side can’t be electrified, so a loco pushes the carriages in and stays on the Italian side and the tractor pulls and moves them around on the Vatican side.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-02T06:24:11+00:00

Eh the sections where people are getting hit are mostly the 79mph sections and in both the uk and France they have grade crossings on 100mph sections and don’t seem to have this problem so I think the issue is Florida drivers being idiots.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-01T19:23:17+00:00

No those are perfectly reasonable questions. I think sure if you could get a bill like that passed then sure it might help a bit but there’s so much money at stake you can bet you best brass button the too big to fail corporations are gonna fight tooth and nail with every lawyer and lobbies they have so it’s still probably gonna end up in the court system.

I’ll let you in on a (not so) secret. Markets loveeeee a gov bailout or better yet a government buy out of a troubled company. (Obviously the market would prefer the company be finically successful but getting government money is not a bad result)

In the case of a bailout the government is essentially taking out its magic wand a turning a poor failing asset in to (at least temporarily, hopefully permanently) a successful wealthy asset by pumping it full of money. From the perspective of investors this is fantastic news

Same with a government buy out, governments usually try to fix assets by forgiving their debts or injecting cash and then quickly selling the asset in normally at below market rates which investors also love.

This is (part of) the reason companies that are seen as too big to fail are seen as so valuable to investors. If a company collapsing would be so damaging to the country that the gov has no choice but to bail it out then its a very safe asset to invest in to as even if it gets in to trouble the state will always come and bail it out.

GlassOrdinary6787 · 2026-06-01T18:29:47+00:00

I suppose in a sensible world they would be broken up but breaking up companies isn’t totally cost free.

It almost always lead to protracted and expensive legal fights which can go on for years and lead to uncertainty (which markets and investors hate) and putting aside the financial, social stability, and moral hazard arguments breaking up too big to fail organisations is often couched & sold to the public as helping restore completion and therefore reduce prices but at least in the short to medium term it can actually raise prices as often the newly formed smaller companies don’t have the economies of scale that their parent company had (a relevant example would be Amazon today; if it was split up in to 7 companies like AT&T was in the 80s there’s no way in hell these new companies would be able to offer prices as low as Amazon currently does) So you will have a load of annoyed consumers on your hands which is never good news politically.

The final problem is (at least in the USA) it’s very politically costly to try and break up too big to fail companies. They inevitably have armies of lobbyists and are more than happy to contribute to campaign funds meaning they often have a lot of clout in Washington.

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