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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by mikeash on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:11PM (#20647002)
Me. I hate how the planet is arbitrarily sliced up. I hate the bureaucratic nonsense involved in going to various parts of it. I hate how my wife is forced to choose between citizenship in her country of birth and citizenship in her country of residence. I hate how our children have to get government approval just to visit their grandparents. And I hate how my welcome home to my own country after a brutally long plane ride is a long line, an agent who treats me like a suspected criminal, and the threat of upending my life.
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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by pixl97 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:17PM (#20649435)
Cool, but we're not going to do much about changing that anytime in the near future. The vast inequality between different places along with massively overpopulated locations in others sees sure to that.
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Re:Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open ... by mikeash on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:53PM (#20649715)
No shit. That’s why it’s a “dream.”
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