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pyre on March 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea

  | I thought it was really neat that when the
  | power goes out in the subways, everyone is
  | prepared with a flashlight. Smart populace!

Or you could just look at it as, "this happens so often that the people expect it, and are not complete idiots."

mikeash on March 4, 2013 [–]

Putting stuff like "frequent power outages make public transport unreliable" in the "pros" column is why I can't figure out whether or not this is satire.

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