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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:41:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On 26 Oct 2024 07:02:55 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> How about 423? Actually that's the entire population. The kids don't
> work in the refinery.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair,_Wyoming

How quaint. Is there a little schoolhouse on top of a hill? Where they 
teach all the grades together in one room? With perhaps a laser-optics lab 
in a shed out the back?

Is there a village doctor who still makes house calls? With perhaps an NMR 
and radiotherapy machine in a corner of the garage somewhere, next to the 
corner that is used as the surgical operating theatre? (Pathology? That’s 
in the kitchen ... between meals, of course.)

Is there a village tailor who makes all their clothes? A village generator 
to supply their electricity? A telephone operator who still connects calls 
by hand? A fire service with more than one bucket of sand?

Their own little TV station? Newspaper? Internet service provider?

I could go on, but you should have got the idea by now.