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Re:The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congres... by emodendroket on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @01:59PM (#17136397)
Those rising sea levels might as well be.
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Re:The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congres... by Aloha on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:14PM (#17140476)
they were not the last time.

Again, if you look at things with a long enough timespan, nothing is permanent.

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Re:The Average Age and Years Served of Members of US Congres... by emodendroket on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @10:58PM (#17140715)
As the often-cited Keynes quote goes, in the long run we're all dead.

Besides that, many changes are permanent. The passenger pigeon will literally never darken the skies again. It's gone, permanently.

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