Early Reactions to the Eiffel Tower

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Down with it! It has no place in esthetic Paris.
The most majestic, spectacular and enchanting mechanical achievement of any time.
The Eiffel Tower will magnetize and trains will inevitably crash into it.
An ugly iron structure
The climate here has been much worse since the tower was built.
More comely than anticipated
No practical purpose
The elevator has a strange pricing structure
Magnificent
I ate a very bad sandwich there
@paulisci huh, Dawn and I also ate very bad sandwiches there. I guess it's a tradition?
@paulisci Contemporary mainstream / corporate media equivalent hysterics - NFTs, AI, blockchain, spy balloons, etc
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this is honestly reasonable nobody knows how electromagnetism works.