carbanara

TIL: There is a city named New Haven

pitenius

Yep... named after "The Haven"... in Boston... Boston, Lincolnshire. Today you also learned that there was a conspiracy by exiles to recreate a "new" England... in New England. (They also reused names between states: Worcester in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, etc.)

luckyguy

One, philly isn't important. Anyone who says otherwise has either never been to philly or has never spent any real time in any other city on the east coast. Baltimore is the sister city to the capital and so some real power players are in that area. Two, the size of NY means you could adjust that line quite a bit to go to nearly anything near the coast left of NY.

I know you guys are going to laugh at baltimore saying its nothing but run down and full of niggers. Have you been to DC. The important cities are run by people who live in small mansions in artificially rural areas just outside of the city (or rather the city is run by locals but the outward impact of the city and thus its power is not local). If it's important the actual city itself is going to be full of powerless placeholders.

404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND

Philly used to be very important. It was the original capitol of the US.

pitenius

One, philly isn't important.

Agreed. It was less true when the Ivies were being founded.

Anyone who says otherwise has either never been to philly or has never spent any real time in any other city on the east coast.

Check the username, bro.

Baltimore is the sister city to the capital and so some real power players are in that area.

Johns Hopkins is the seeekrit ivieee ! U BLO MA MINED!

caelaorn

TIL how coasts worked

pitenius

Today I learned that Dartmouth and Cornell are not Ivy League schools, and that there is a seeeekrit iveee in Washington, DC. You can learn a lot when you get your American history from a European.

european

The title says top 5 not all. Try to read the title again to understand why 'seeekrit iveee' is irrelevant.

pitenius

Oh, so there's a canonical ranking of ivies? I strongly doubt Penn outranks Brown.

Here's your fucking missing variable: these are the oldest American cities and the oldest American colleges. At about 200-300 years, they're probably at the peak of their importance. Maybe in another 100 years, you could draw a line up the West Coast. Demographics is not a conspiracy.

You know what's a great book? Franz Kafka's unfinished "Amerika". You should read it.

european

I found some more info regarding this conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

pitenius

STAAAHP. Demographics is not a conspiracy.

Try this one: Every morning, people wake up and are sleepy. They stumble toward a seeekrit symbol where caffeine is dispensed. It's some kind of green sea witch. HOW DID THEY KNOW? What secret path of communication let them know that Starbuck would give them coffee? WHOO PLANNED IT? THE JOOZ?

pitenius

Thanks!

Demonic_Mime

Why would anyone would conspire to do this?

Craxic

You know, sometimes I think that there's a conspiracy going on to post completely unbelievable conspiracies in places where other conspiracy theories are discussed. That way, all the other conspiracies with at least some degree of merit get thrown out with the piles of stupid shit.

Of course, it could also be that OP wants them sweet sweet internet points for no effort. One of the two.

macredsmile

Classic disinformation.

luckyguy

No way. Project Blue Beam is totally real.

european

You know, sometimes I think that there's a conspiracy going on to post completely unbelievable conspiracies in places where other conspiracy theories are discussed.

You might very well think that, I couldn't possibly comment

Craxic

You know, somehow I don't regret watching that. Have some sweet sweet internet points for no effort.