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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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It’s a multi-win week for MrWilson, who takes both top spots on the insightful side with one serving as a double-winner at the top of the funny side too. In first place for both insightful and funny is a rebuke of a very argumentative commenter who defended John Roberts’s claim that the Supreme Court is […]
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May 10 in History: First Transcontinental Railroad Completed

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On May 10, 1869, the United States completed the First Transcontinental Railroad when the “Golden Spike” was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah. This was not simply a celebratory moment; it linked the country’s rail networks into a continuous line from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Travel times and shipping costs dropped sharply, which accelerated migration, commerce, and industrial growth. The railroad also had painful consequences, including the displacement of Indigenous communities