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[–] 37 points 1 month ago

Just imagine how rock hard their collective calves and hamstrings must have been during that time

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Holy shit I've been in that tower and I didn't even know. TBF, we showed up in August, and apparently 95% of the town just shuts down for vacation. Still managed to find some mind-blowing tortellini.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Because context is fun

    Rich family were batteling themselves to have the highest tour because after a 2 years old without enough sleep the biggest baby are the richs

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is there meant to be a link to a source, here? I’d really like to read about this. Wikipedia article linked by another comment does not mention any more towers besides the two that continue to exist today.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    that seems like a lot of "lessons learned"

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    The leaning tower of Pisa was cute. Those two are really menacing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Oh, that's Bologna!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Poor Garisenda family. Too poor to build a straight tower. Get richer, noobs.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That's almost a deci kilometer!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    The word you are looking for is a "hectometre".

    That tower would be:

    • 0.097 kilometres tall
    • 0.97 hectometres tall
    • 9.7 decametres tall
    • 97 metres tall
    • 970 decimetres tall
    • 9700 centimetres tall
    • 97000 millimetres tall

    Wikipedia List of Metric Prefixes

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Is this picture of the same area? I cant find the towers that are still standing

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I thought those were towers to provide air conditioning

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    That black and white picture looks fake as fuck hahahah

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, what I expected happened was that the b/w pic was from the early days of photography (1850's) and that the most of the towers were ruined during The World Wars.

    Though reading on the topic of the towers, it sounds like the populations of towers has declined much more gradually since the 13th century ish. Says to me the vast majority should have been knocked down by the time photography emerged.

    Probably means the photo is fake or (as another commenter suggested) is a photo of a clay model of how the towers were described.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    Image is AI. There were no photos in medieval ffs

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I have AI as much as the next guy, but this is a drawing from 1929 by an artist named Angelo Finelli. The caption translates to: "Bologna at the time Dante stayed there"

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    Edit, Dammit! Hate, not have. I hate AI. Friggin' V is no where near the T. What the hell.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    Not everything you cant immediately explain is AI.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Except that your statement becomes incrementally more false every day.

    Sure, it’s still mostly true. Likely in the 80% range, at most. But give it another year or two of additional AI improvements, and it won’t be anymore.

    Hell, even now I’ve had to start filtering videos more on the content’s behaviour - whether it is realistic or not - than any AI oopsies like sudden changes in the background.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    Sounds like there will always be things you don't immediately understand and falsely attribute to AI.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Sounds like there will always be things you don't immediately understand and falsely attribute to AI.

    You’re holding a mirror up and seeing your own reflection, there.

    I work in the IT industry. I am embedded into this bullshit quite deeply. I know what to look for and can see just how pervasive it’s getting.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    You thought a picture of a model was an AI interpretation of a photo from the middle ages.

    So I doubt that whole-heartedly.

    I can believe its amped your paranoia though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    You thought a picture of a model was an AI interpretation of a photo from the middle ages.

    What TF are you smoking? I never said anything of the kind.

    Next time, compare the usernames of the commenters instead of making wild, unsupported accusations.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I think someone said it's a picture of a model city made to represent what it looked like. Not sure how true that is or if it's AI. The buildings look cartoonish though so I'm inclined to believe it's really a model city.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    In my eyes, it's clearly a clay (or similar material) model of a city. Some of the towers taper through the middle as if they'd been sqished into shape by hand, windows and other features don't maintain a constant shape/size when in rows, and in the modern day image you can make out individual bricks in the tower while in the b/w one everything is completely smooth.

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