• Reznik
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    1511 months ago

    “Go till the men speak Italian and continue until they speak something else” (Kingdom of Heaven)

    • daisy lazarusOP
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      411 months ago

      That’s all good and well, unless you’re starting from France and heading West.

      (Nice quote, though.)

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      411 months ago

      Trips felt so much more like an adventure back then though, thanks in no small part to that whole reading the map, getting lost, getting found again business.

  • @bstix
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    511 months ago

    At least the horses had better automatic driving.

    • daisy lazarusOP
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      211 months ago

      Back then, they called AI: ‘Artificial Incitatus’*

      *(Incitātus (Latin pronunciation: [ɪŋkɪˈtaːtʊs] (meaning “swift” or “at full gallop”) was the favourite horse of Roman Emperor, Caligula)