Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "IT'S HISTORY" channel.

  1. I always love the story of the Ferris Wheel, London builds a giant iron and glass hall, France builds a giant iron lattice tower. The US builds a big wheel and sells tickets to ride it. It's just so different from the "Look at my cool building" vibe that was going on everywhere else
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  2. The one thing you could appreciate about AT&T vs the crappy ISPs we have today is they plowed money back into their network constantly, not the piddly few percents of profit the current ISPs do
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  3. that or you're the Manonock building and you build the whole dang thing out of brick
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  4. Gary was a planned city, and the steel mill has been floundering nearly since it was built. its just that the United Steel Works is still one of the few places that can take iron ore and process it all the way to steel. Gary's problem also has to do with workers being able to live anywhere else and still work at the mill because its not even that close to the mill compared to what you'd find in pittsburg, cleveland, or even chicago
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  5. a mildly interesting thing is there is no more coal being formed after bacteria began breaking down lignin, after that you only get much smaller bits of coal forming from peat bogs
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  6. weird because barbers have been able to do that for centuries, all before factories.
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  7. you don't need 30,000 people to run the plant anymore, that's part of your problem
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