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  I'm not being pessimistic by saying I don't think any of us will survive to see the other side. This isn't due to apocalypse necessarily. Rather, it's that the transition off petroleum under the most survivable scenario will take long...
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  Re: 624/Heteromeles -- I agree that the "3rd world" descriptor doesn't really fit any longer. I've been using it in response to other commenter JH who used it. I also struggle a bit with the developed vs developing world model,...
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  You seem to have an exaggerated idea of what the 3rd world is like. Many places in the 3rd world have drinkable water, mostly functional electricity, trash collection, road repair, public education and so on. However, outside of the US,...
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  Which is the very definition of a 3rd world nation. You can live very well in a 3rd world country if you have the means. Responding to 480/John Hughes --- you can certainly identify some parts of the US where...
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  America is not a developed nation, in terms of functioning infrastructure. I think it's more that the US is not a uniformly developed nation, in terms of functioning public infrastructure. If you've got the means to live well, you can...
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Instructed newly-recruited analyst to pop down to the shops and pick up a creme-filled Dho-Na for the shoggoth on sublevel four....
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Characterisation of the BLUE HADES special visiting agent’s “non-Euclidean geometries” as “crackingly bootylicious” is not appropriate input to her 360 degree performance appraisal....
• Commented on Competition Time!
  “When the stars are right” is not an acceptable return date on your employee leave request form....
• Commented on Competition Time!
  Entrapment within the event horizon of a superdense all-consuming horror from beyond spacetime is not considered valid grounds for failure to submit your weekly records to timekeeping....