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Illustrations of history

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think a more recent map is more interesting:

Remember, America was not built for the car, as ignorant people often claim. It was demolished for the car.

[–] FinnFooted@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's crazy to me is that many of the railroads still exist and are used... But for freight only.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I looked at taking the train from Albuquerque to Denver, it goes east to Chicago before going back to Denver. It is a 7 hour drive, but a 32 hour train ride.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

To be fair, we're using really fucking old technology so it's not surprising that it's that much slower.

If we had proper high speed rail, like the Shinkansen, it would be much shorter.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is also the fact for a 450 mile trip you have to go 2300 miles.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What people with epilepsy or other conditions do?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

suffer in silence
but also hopefully they have friends and family who will chaffeur them, and greyhound buses exist, airplanes too.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Look at what they took from us!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Look how they massacred my boy!