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cities, history, sailing, boat building, transportation, buildings, land use policy, hospitality industry, trains, boats, ships, biking

[Mark O'Haire @MarkOHaire]

Alan Partridge tries to explain the format of the 1994 World Cup finals with the never-to-be-forgotten Soccermeter.

[Eddy Elfenbein @EddyElfenbein]

Has any franchise left more money on the table than M&C? The books are already written. Just follow the script and cash the dang checks.

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@berkie1 My great grandfather moved from Hudson, New Hampshire to Beverly, Massachusetts in that era and he likely took electric streetcars most or all of the way.

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@WWIIThePacific @USAMaritimeX All those bridges were completed while The Brooklyn Navy Yard was building ships and were built with explicit USN permission.

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@Aurajerk @stevecuozzo Is this communism?

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@NY_LBSS @maxwelltani The current mayor and the last mayor have eased restrictions and the length of the permitting process for building.

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@3stddev @wideofthepost Serval times NYC has accidentally banned hostels through anti-SRO and anti-short-term-rental / Airbnb laws, and other zoning restrictions on hotels etc. It has happened more than once and people don’t open them. https://t.co/MVVKMDx35N

[emily north @north0fnorth]

fun fact: duluth, minnesota is the world’s most inland location accessible to oceangoing ships at over 2300mi/3700km from the atlantic via the great lakes and st lawrence seaway. the ship in this photo is headed from lake superior all the way to the mediterranean!

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@P43144593 @mattyglesias Southern Italy was richer than Northern Italy before the Industrial Revolution

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@Bird78Lady @PhilSustainable Paris’s subway system opened 4 years before NYC’s.

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@Jake___Barfield @typesfast @paulg @andreasklinger Pennsylvania Railroad produced a dividend for over 100 years from the 1840s to 1940s in a business that is highly labor intensive, capital intensive, and cyclical.

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@jgebbia French speaking European settlement predates almost all the English-speaking emigration to British North America. How does this factor into your point?

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@NavidHedayati @DalrympleWill @JMPSimor Were the Hapsburgs part of “The West”? The Ottoman Empire inherited the Byzantine rivalry with the Persians, were the Ottoman Sultans “the West”?

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@fukkinonyamama @gbrew24 The USA was much more energy dependent then than we are now.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

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[Will Bredderman @WillBredderman]

Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.

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@dwarfmorgante @jacobkornbluh Christmas was a banned celebration in colonial times in some parts of the US, where does that fall on the scale American?

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@stanfordNYC Great point otherwise, but FDIC turns a century old in less than a decade!

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@iconredesign A common school assignment for graphic designers is to make an advertisement for a company.

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@benbawan @jburnmurdoch The development of the steam engine and the textile mill and the steam boat… and also joint stock company and concept of insurance… but then the legal system and insurance policies also have kneecapped anglophone places that had previously lead… consider China 1700 vs 1900