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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.
Readability? https://www.readability.com/
One 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.
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My tap water (from a well) is highly sulfuric. The quality and taste of tap water varies greatly from location to location, "developed world" or not. There are all sorts of good reasons to buy bottled water.
If your tap water is unusable, you do not live in a civilized society with modern infrastructure.
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Yikes! Perhaps it's best to leave "civilization" out of this?
(Thanks for the correction; fixed.) A civilization needs modern infrastructure. One of these is certainly tap water. If the tap water is not usable for one of its primary purpose – drinking – then I would say that the infrastructure is lacking, and, by inference, the civilization. The same with road systems. If I can confidently know that I can drive safely on the roads, I live in a civilization with a modern, mainta…
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Yikes! Perhaps it's best to leave "civilization" out of this?
(Thanks for the correction; fixed.) A civilization needs modern infrastructure. One of these is certainly tap water. If the tap water is not usable for one of its primary purpose – drinking – then I would say that the infrastructure is lacking, and, by inference, the civilization. The same with road systems. If I can confidently know that I can drive safely on the roads, I live in a civilization with a modern, mainta…
I guess civilization isn't possible in North America above 45°N then.
The other poster is right, your comments are better suited for Reddit.
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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.
My tap water (from a well) is highly sulfuric. The quality and taste of tap water varies greatly from location to location, "developed world" or not. There are all sorts of good reasons to buy bottled water.
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Readability? https://www.readability.com/
I would rather have something local, not send a list of everything I read to some server somewhere.