A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
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A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
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Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#2I scroll down past the opening photo so the 1st line of text is at the top of my browser window and settle in to begin reading and then the header scrolls down to cover the top 3 lines of text.
Hate.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#3> The government played no role in establishing this system, which worked remarkably well. Social scientists often cite it as a success story among developing-world megacities... Brilliant!
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#4One year, we couldn’t buy bottled water for months, because the plant that produced the water somehow caught fire.
Ouch. A way to know one lives in the developing world.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#5I scroll down past the opening photo so the 1st line of text is at the top of my browser window and settle in to begin reading and then the header scrolls down to cover the top 3 lines of text. Hate.
Side project idea, chrome or firefox extension that takes text and pictures from popular news sites and removes all the distracting bells and whistles. Now that I think about it, something like that probably already exists.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#6One year, we couldn’t buy bottled water for months, because the plant that produced the water somehow caught fire. Ouch. A way to know one lives in the developing world.
Meanwhile, in the actual developed world, nobody buys bottled water because the tap water is perfectly indistinguishable from the bottled stuff, which the stores only keep for tourists.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#7I scroll down past the opening photo so the 1st line of text is at the top of my browser window and settle in to begin reading and then the header scrolls down to cover the top 3 lines of text. Hate.
Side project idea, chrome or firefox extension that takes text and pictures from popular news sites and removes all the distracting bells and whistles. Now that I think about it, something like that probably already exists.
I do this manually sometimes, with chrome dev tools. The whole issue actually has a pretty profound effect on which sites I read. For example, I won't follow a link to usa today unless it's something really interesting, whereas I'll read almost anything from the la times, just because I enjoy their bullshit free layout.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#8One year, we couldn’t buy bottled water for months, because the plant that produced the water somehow caught fire. Ouch. A way to know one lives in the developing world.
Meanwhile, in the actual developed world, nobody buys bottled water because the tap water is perfectly indistinguishable from the bottled stuff, which the stores only keep for tourists.
You are generally right, but nitpicking, bottled water is useful for: large parties; hiking and camping; certain outdoor jobs.
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#9I scroll down past the opening photo so the 1st line of text is at the top of my browser window and settle in to begin reading and then the header scrolls down to cover the top 3 lines of text. Hate.
I used to `fix` that with the .js extension for firefox [0] and in my `$HOME/.js` folder I would drop a `newyorker.com.js` file :
$('div,a').css('position',
function (index, value) {
if (value == 'fixed')
return 'static'
}
)
Re: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt
#10One year, we couldn’t buy bottled water for months, because the plant that produced the water somehow caught fire. Ouch. A way to know one lives in the developing world.
Meanwhile, in the actual developed world, nobody buys bottled water because the tap water is perfectly indistinguishable from the bottled stuff, which the stores only keep for tourists.
I know plenty of people in the developed world that drink bottled water. Its not that hard to taste the difference between 2 sources of water (filtered vs spring), and not everyone wants to drink fluoridated tap or rusty well water.