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"That's because bottled water often isn't subject to the same rigorous quality and safety standards as tap water, and it can carry the risk of harmful chemicals leaching from the plastic bottles used for it, especially if it's stored for a long time, and/or exposed to sunlight and high temperatures, they explain."

Nah this is BS. Russian military bloggers don't need Telegram, they write on some website called New York Times.

Yes... and what good it did everyone to reduce the distance of objects... Sometimes distance is good. Gives me time to think about why I'm really going there in the first place.

Yay humans.

FTP?

Actually, citizens pay taxes to avoid going to jail or, in the olden days (perhaps soon to be reintroduced), to avoid being killed on the spot.

They vote because when you are locked in a room with no way out, you'll push one of the buttons in front of you frantically - trying to figure out if, perhaps, they are pushed just like this, you'll get out.

When you're not paying taxes or voting, someone richer than Smaug from the Hobbit is cashing in on the rest of your life.

To call this a system that serves its citizens seems... I'm not sure what to call it. Naïve? Misguided? Uninformed?

The solution to all/most of these points is open source software & hardware.

Yeah. And they're not even killing off the Germans! This doesn't make any sense!

My school teacher taught me I should be surprised at things like this.

Luckily, I am no longer 12.

Yes, slavery. It's been around for ages.

In 1962 there were no "lethal autonomous weapons".

Yes, this cost-saving doesn't directly benefit any billionaire.