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Didn't mean to say that it's worse, just that it's still bad. It's better in some places, but it does seem worse in others. Been to DC in the last few years?

>>genera+(OP)
I've never been to DC.

I did go past… where was it… Kawangware? I think?

I've never felt so much like a parodic stereotype of my own background[0] in my life as I did that day.

But that, in broad brushstrokes rather than details, is what most people's lives used to look like 200 or so years ago, basically everywhere.

50 years? 1973; back then, even the UK broadly didn't have double glazed windows, cavity wall or roof insulation, even in good middle-class homes. That was only a decade after we stopped calling Kenya a colony.

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