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HookedOnChthonics posted:(though I thought they did get locomotives? IDK). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_RSD-1
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Enjoyed the episode; but the Soviets didn't need lend-lease war-trains; they had plenty of their own (though I thought they did get locomotives? IDK). The historical TL;DR is that the Soviets had a lot of trains and rolling stock, but during the war they switched most of their rail production to tanks and other fighting vehicles so lend-lease let them cover some of losses more easily. They got a bunch of Alco RSD-1s and liked them enough to copy the design for their own production. Stalin's train to the Potsdam was hauled by a RSD-1 modified for Soviet broad gauge.  What was more important was USATC (US Army Transportation Corps) operations on the Trans-Iranian corridor, which was the safe but grueling southern route for lend-lease to enter the Soviet Union. USATC took over operations from the British (who had overthrown the Iranian govt in 1941 in a joint operation with the Soviets) and massively expanded operations with new track, locomotives and rolling stock. The RSDs were particular important here because the long tunnels and lack of water made steam operations difficult. Operations expanded from ~1k tons per day in 1942 to a peak of ~6k tons per day in 1944.
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One thing to remember about the Soviet Union, they never had a problem adopting (and paying off) Western especially American equipment/machinery/vehicles at any point and regularly did so. It wasn't like the Soviets ever turned their nose up at it, and the entire leadership was always for it. The reason the Soviets turned to local production in the mid-1930s is they literally ran out of money and how to reverse-engineer and slowly develop their own designs. If anything Soviet history is very straight forward...unless you only know it from books in English available in American/British books stores.
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Apr 8, 2020 09:05
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Locos were definitely a big part of aid to the Soviets but the really big thing was trucks, without which a lot of Soviet offensives would have broken down a lot earlier OTOH aid to the Soviets didn't really begin in earnest until after the Germans failed to take Moscow at which point it's unlikely they could have won the war anyway (and probably makes it more like the war goes 18 months longer and Berlin eats a nuke)
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Apr 8, 2020 10:43
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I love that blackbird so much
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Apr 8, 2020 10:48
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Ohhh gently caress yeah Tenerife episode, this is gonna be hype hope they brought in a guest who actually knows how planes work
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Apr 9, 2020 03:34
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? whats to know, they are trains but flying
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Apr 9, 2020 03:38
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why didn't they just pull up harder?
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Apr 9, 2020 04:52
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...That plane is literally a fuckin' ute isn't it, person carrier that gets mangled into a cargo carrier.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:00
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Gotta say, the image of 747s taxiing around hunting scrabs is appealing.
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Apr 9, 2020 05:29
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Apr 9, 2020 06:53
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love 2 get churros at the churrasqueria hey, they might have some, you don't know
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Apr 9, 2020 21:00
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The cloud was a hired killer change my mind
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Apr 9, 2020 21:17
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Was the cloud pro or anti-independence?
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Apr 11, 2020 04:34
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Holy poo poo it's been a year since the last Franklin episode What a horrific waste of twelve whole dollars. The imagination buckles before the array of wonders I might have summoned forth with this money
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Apr 27, 2020 21:51
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SIX WHOLE BEERS
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Apr 27, 2020 22:17
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I PAID TWELVE DOLLERS AND ALL I GOT WAS A PODCAST ABOUT PRONOUNS
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Apr 28, 2020 08:19
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Are a pronoun checks pronouns it/its?
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Apr 28, 2020 11:48
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spankmeister posted:I PAID TWELVE DOLLERS AND ALL I GOT WAS A PODCAST ABOUT PRONOUNS you gotta pay extra for the pronoun podcast
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Apr 28, 2020 21:06
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Ridiculous History has an episode on the first time train wrecking was done for fun. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-ridiculous-history-28588696/episode/that-time-trainwrecks-became-a-spectator-61851485/
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Apr 29, 2020 04:30
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He's schemed tens of HUNDREDS of our sweaty, weird smelling dollar bills that we keep in a sandwich baggie inside our wallets
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Apr 29, 2020 09:37
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all it took was getting featured by cities:skylines and it all went to his head
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Apr 30, 2020 06:24
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HERES COMES FRANKLIN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44gkRzML9k 11am PST
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It's like Christmas came early.
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just realized after i uploaded that the merchants' exchange building has six columns on the tower, not four, and now i feel like a moron
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May 3, 2020 22:29
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donoteat posted:just realized after i uploaded that the merchants' exchange building has six columns on the tower, not four, and now i feel like a moron That's just an urban legend/they put them there after you were done
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May 3, 2020 22:32
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donoteat posted:just realized after i uploaded that the merchants' exchange building has six columns on the tower, not four, and now i feel like a moron That's what you get for rushing out an episode 
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May 3, 2020 22:53
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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donoteat posted:just realized after i uploaded that the merchants' exchange building has six columns on the tower, not four, and now i feel like a moron look, sometimes lightning hits the clock tower, sometimes it doesn't what I'm saying is that time travel's weird as all hell
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May 3, 2020 22:55
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donoteat posted:just realized after i uploaded that the merchants' exchange building has six columns on the tower, not four, and now i feel like a moron many people are saying it has four beautiful (perfect) columns
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May 4, 2020 17:17
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donoteat, i cannot wait until you incorporate decadent brutalist architecture into franklin, maybe in an episode about the postal service, thank you
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May 4, 2020 18:56
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I got to say I appreciate going back to a more traditional video where you can actually follow along with the story of what is happening. I want to go back and listen to TYP videos but the cross-talk makes them practically unlistenable. If anything donoteat probably should record a separate video on the actual subject and then you can follow it up with a chapo-style commentary video. That or he just needs to give a long monologue at the beginning of the video to get it out of the way. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 23:22 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 23:19
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It's not an engineering podcast, it's a podcast about engineering and has been from the start. I demand LESS engineering, MORE crosstalk, and pronouns before every sentance.
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May 6, 2020 23:22
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i will stake out the compromise position of changing nothing and producing nothing new, just re-release old episodes with new numbers
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May 6, 2020 23:26
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Plug the previous episodes into those machine learning writing programs and feed the results into vocal synthesis.
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May 6, 2020 23:33
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Rockopolis posted:Plug the previous episodes into those machine learning writing programs and feed the results into vocal synthesis. It would just be an hour of pronouns and the word "right?" played over pictures of rubble.
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May 6, 2020 23:35
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Weembles posted:It would just be an hour of pronouns and the word "right?" played over pictures of rubble. Yes.
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May 6, 2020 23:58
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Weembles posted:It would just be an hour of pronouns and the word "right?" played over pictures of rubble. The ultimate podcast
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May 7, 2020 00:21
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Just rambling non-sequiters followed by Justin saying "Right." Also now I want a vocal synthesis of the narrator from the Chemical Safety Board videos. I haven't seen one of those in forever.
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Ardennes posted:
What an incredibly wrong opinion
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