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Oh that happened to me recently. So I actually talk to both beggars and cops, which nobody does, everybody takes advice from civil rights lawyers and the gangs
by daniel-cussen 4y ago
Oh that happened to me recently. So I actually talk to both beggars and cops, which nobody does, everybody takes advice from civil rights lawyers and the gangsters they give impunity, which agree that you should never talk to police. Same advice. Coincidence. Both treat both homeless and cops like shit. Coincidence.
Anyway so I'm talking to him, and he shows me some big huge format documents, like 30 inches by 40 inches, inches not centimeters, and I look, holy shit, somebody forgot to use the incinerator, military intelligence on the street. Literally on the street, laying there on the concrete, getting dirty, maps made in England with analog mapmaking, Crown Copyright from the 70's and 80's, of the coastline of Argentina, complete with information of reefs which eg an aircraft carrier could collide with. It was obvious that was the intention. Dude obviously threatened to nuke Buenos Aires.
Notably Banco Inglés, with a tilde and everything, we're talking high production values, the absolute highest, English Admiralty, Superpower internal information. As an native English speaker, I would translate that bank's name to English as Fuck You Sandbank, which protected Buenos Aires once precisely from the same Royal Navy. The depth is 0.7 meters, according to the map I had, and they map uses analog measurements from English satellites, analog photography. So point being somebody forgot to burn them, there's leaks, they're sloppy, they got to a spy, the spy moved to Santiago, the spy gave up on his conspiracy theories and gave them to a beggar, beggar had no idea what they were worth, I bought them for $20, a complete collection, like it says this part to the South is in map 3134, sure enough I also had map 3134, it's everything. Especially the Falklands. Even shows the kelp forests.
Military intelligence. No pixels no matter how close you zoom in. All hand made.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoThis comment made my day. You are not alone in talking to beggars and cops, they’re the most interesting strangers to speak with. I hope you don’t catch flak for putting it so dramatically, I really enjoyed it, and especially the story that followed. Super cool item to own. Like you’re living in an RPG.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoThat's exactly what it's like, like I'm living in an RPG. Attack damage carry. I do get a lot of flak. Unscathed. The word is videoludic, video like video, ludic like ludum meaning game in Latin, my life is videoludic.
- notch656a 4y agoSounds like you have a standard nautical chart (although when I check 3134 is Islas Canarias to Nouakchott). Now you need the yacht :)
- daniel-cussen 4y agoNah any chart has the depth for a yatch. This had depths for nuclear deterrence.
- notch656a 4y agoYou might enjoy Navionics of the area. https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@4&key=v%60dnIxlcbK https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@4&key=v%60dnIx...