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Re:“An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018) by toomanybeersies on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:07AM (#25081112)
> Another plan I have is to build an island where everyone with life sentence get sent and live.

That's been tried, it's called Australia.

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Re:“An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018) by damnencryption on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:30AM (#25081222)
Woah, I didn't know that.

For anyone else: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-gr...

So the idea doesn't seem that crazy.

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Re:“An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018) by snypher on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:15PM (#25086197)
It's not 1840 anymore. Also, colonialism has plenty more problems then whatever it is you're solving by just shipping people away.
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Re:“An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018) by sgt101 on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:00AM (#25081360)
Fun fact - before Australia was the destination... the USA was the destination !
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