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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe (i.redd.it)
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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (22 children)

All roads lead to… Chicago?

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Chicago has been a major transportation hub for nearly 200 years, it is the furthest inland you can reach from the sea by ship. cattle arrived from Texas ranches to Slaughterhouses on their way to the east coast. Wells Fargo was founded because American Express didn't want to operate further than Chicago, but they saw there was the opportunity of linking NY to San Francisco by Chicago

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    it is the furthest inland you can reach from the sea by ship

    That's not actually true. There are several further in than Chicago. Duluth is the furthest inland sea port in the US

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    I would say that even this is untrue as the US has the largest system of navigable inland waterways in the world You could load a barge with cargo in Albany, NY and get it all the way to Omaha, NE without ever having to portage or unload the barge.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Your wiki link is pointing to the Amazon Sidewalk article.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Thank you. I have been having issues where the Wikipedia app doesn't properly open up a page and instead puts the text of the new page over the old page.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I didn't even know there was a Wikipedia app. What's the point? What does it do better than a web browser?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The UI is much better than the mobile browser and it opens up articles in a new tab that i can come back to without cluttering up my browser tabs

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As a non-app-user for basically anything…

    That’s totally fair. I might check it out, because Wikipedia on my phone browser is blinding and the private browser I use doesn’t have tabs.. and I don’t need Wikipedia private. Does it have a dark mode?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Firefox Focus user identified

    Hmm still kinda like going through iCloud Private Relay even for Wiki but I guess it’s about the most trustworthy site out there

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Hahaha I love FFfocus so much. I just love that every time I’m done with a sesh, everything is GONE. Yes I accept all of your cookies, cookie my ass up, web site… they will be gone in five minutes.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    When in Chicago…

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes. Please, go on...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    Much like in Rome, you eat their signature pizza and then judge. Then you visit the buildings that were left from the time where it was burned to the ground.

    Then you go to for their religious sites: for Rome it's the Vatican, for Chicago it's the Rat Hole.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: Cleveland OH was all set to become North America's hub for continental and transatlantic airship traffic. The problem was that airships fundamentally suck, something that the Hindenburg disaster merely highlighted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Real late reply to this but Cleveland nearly became a hub for a lot of shit in the US, but then everyone decided Chicago and New York were cooler.

    Like the largest rail depot in the world was in Cleveland until they built a larger on in NYC. Cleveland ended up replacing that depot by building the second tallest building in the world at the time that remained the tallest building in north America outside New York until 1964.

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