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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Homelessness. But I don't occasionally think about it. I see it every day. In the richest nation in recorded history.

[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

It's always been a rich man's country. All for one, none for all.

[–] mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

And the wealth of only one single manchild is enough to pay housing for them all - at least in this nation...and probably in some more. (Just looked some numbers up - world economic forum reported in 2021 that there are 150 million people homeless in the world, that would be ~2700,- per individual homeless person, taking his net worth into account -for 770. 000 homeless people in the US it would be ~525. 000 per person)