My sister is a civil engineer in PA and is familiar with this situation. She told me that basically these municipalities did not take care of their pipes, refused to raise any money for them, then, when they got old enough that the situation became critical, sold it off. Now this company comes along, has to make required fixes to the pipes, and has to raise the money to do so. The private company gets to be the bad guy, while the local governments, who neglected the pipes for a decade or more, don't get heat.
All this said, if they weren't allowed to sell it to a private company, there would be no "get out of jail free" card and maybe they would have pushed harder to take care of them damn pipes.
Point is, I don't think it's quite as simple as it looks on the surface.
A party made up of a blind character, a deaf character, and a mute character. I'd play that.
I really think the vast majority of Duo Lingo users, even the ones who use it every day, never progress past an introductory "101" level in the language. I know people who use it every day for years and know some vocab but can't hold even a basic conversation.
If you actually want to learn the language you have to... Believe it or not... Interact with people who are fluent in the language.
I highly recommend the book Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.
I have a programming joke, but if you're not a fan of recursion, you might find it repetitive. Reread this joke to get the punchline.
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For me. I don't care about resolution after I've downloaded it. Heck, I don't need to know the resolution before downloading, I can tell by the file size.
They aren't the only one, but they are the largest one. They didn't make the system the way it is, but they benefit massively from it staying this way.
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