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The world is never the same place as it was the day before. Whether we're talking about environmental, societal, or other changes, it always keeps evolving.

So when Reddit user Firewire64 made a post on the platform, asking its users to name the things that are slowly phasing out in 2022, they received a lot of interesting insights.

We often miss prolonged, subtle processes. Having an opportunity to discuss them, even if it's online, can allow us glimpses into the direction we're all heading. So continue scrolling and check out the answers to Firewire64's question.

#1

23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Women’s’ rights

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Lauren S
Community Member
3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I don’t understand why this is downvoted either… do people not think women’s rights are in jeopardy? I mean, if they don’t live in the US maybe nothing has changed in their world so this doesn’t impact them. Being American, Roe v Wade being overturned is terrifying to me.

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    #2

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Affordable food at the grocery store. It’s fine, it’s not like I need food to survive.

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    Icy_Question_4977
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ikr! Like everything is 10x more expensive nowadays

    John Ambrose
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just read an article that said groceries have increased 9% in the last two years. That is not at all correct...it's at least doubled here in California!

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    idrow1
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The government needs to intervene here. Inflation is 8.7%, yet stores have jacked up prices 100% and more. Eggs that were 99 cents a dozen a year or two ago are now $4.19.

    Blackheart
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CNN actually reported the rising prices of many foods are due to "greedflation," stating people were willing to pay higher prices for food. . . as if we had a choice not to eat

    BeaBea
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Basics should be free (selected food staples, shelter, basic hygiene) and if you want fancier, better, have choice.... earn it. I guarantee you that once people have needs covered, they'll outdo themselves to get better

    Did you hear that?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is textbook communism but I'm not against it considering we are in debt purely due to our grocery bill.

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    Cee Mor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I make enough to feed myself but I daily worry about others who can't. I"m a public school teacher )-;

    OnAFreakingRollercoaster
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prices have gone up exponentially while my paycheck remains the same 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Peej Maybe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Particularly in the UK. Weekly shop cost is rising, and rising, and rising.

    Valerie G.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that is why I went to the food bank last week for the first time ever in my 71 years.

    Liam Lowenthal
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They act like we're all too stupid to notice things have gotten smaller and more expensive. I'm sorry, but I've *never* had to spend 75$ on a month of meat to feed my family. I could just feed them questionable animal parts I guess, hot dogs are still 2$ a package if I buy the brand that might have bone chips in it... Ramen guys. RAMEN is getting expensive. Ramen. I know other countries have it really bad, but I'm not in other countries, I'm in this one. I feel for them, truly I do. It can't be easy living in dirt, scraps or possibly nothing. But that's not going to magically put money in my wallet to afford all these jacked up prices. I need to feed my family. If I had any excess id feed other people too. I used to, but God forbid I try to buy a cabbage anymore. You know here we're not allowed to have our own gardens or collect rainwater? It's not like I can skate by on my own soil and hands.

    Lara Verne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell me about it. Prices are insane!

    Breezy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This! Then they give us s**t about spending all of our money on fast food, when that is literally all we can afford compared to the $10 pack of f*****g strawberries that go bad in two days, and $35 for 1lb of beef. Ugh!

    Bleble BlebleBla
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My salary, which got raised with 3% throughout 2022 - agrees :(

    Catherine Miklavic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Started looking for a second job just to afford to eat

    Ernie Walker
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was at store today and a small I mean small head of cauliflower was $6

    Jan Olsen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can actually survive without food for the rest of your life

    Janet Howe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Perhaps, however it's going to be a very short life.. 3 weeks without food and your body starts to ingest itself.

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    Kipper
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw lettuce on sale today for $8!

    Leanne Hailes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You must live in Newfoundland, Canada; $8 & lasts 3 days before rotting

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    DKS 001
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    time to find a weekend job just to supplement the groceries!

    Headless Roach
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Food is overrated.. ahem.. overpriced

    daygon 239
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well thats what people get when they vote for Communist. That care about other countries then there own..

    Vicko Fidelis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite Low Budget Instant noodle rising the price like 5x nowadays. But not my salary 😭

    Karen Harrington
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The national obesity rate should lower

    I Am LoKitty Of Meowsgard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just food. The battery in my renote start key fob died, so I was using the other one, well the other cold A** morning the second one died. Went to the store last night and they only had a 10 pack. For $22. Now what really pisses me off, is that both remotes take different batteries, and a 2 pack of the other kind was $8. So I bought a 6 pack of battery operated tea lights, since they use the same batteries, for $3.49 and then paid the $8 for the other ones. To top that off, this is the second or third time, depending on which remote, that I have changed the batteries on a 2016.

    Squee She
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My local grocery had an ad "Can't afford meat? Eat less of it!"...like, ok I'll have cardboard thx 🙃

    angel B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never thought my small family of two will be spending $600 a week on groceries that's 2400 a month more than my mortgage

    Ophelia Payne
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a matter of months! I cannot believe how little I get for my money. Good thing I like pbj.

    LucyGoosey
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I hate America .-.

    Robin Jackson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You do realize that this is a GLOBAL Inflation, right?

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    Aiodensghost
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's even worse if you have to have to follow a specific diet (gluten free comes to mind).

    Elita One
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount we pay for food just to s**t it out the next day is ridiculous.

    Liam Lowenthal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We live on soups for now. I'm hoping I can feed the kids something more enjoyable soon, but probably not. I can't even buy a small bag of flour without breaking my bank.

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    Alicia Swanson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you have to choose between paying rent or food. I chose food. But not I might be homeless soon 😭.

    Liam Lowenthal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're actually seriously considering getting a van and living out of it. But I don't want to put the kids through that. I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do man, rents gone up to 1900 now. I say "I can work, let me work more hours" and they just send me home after three. Who can live like this???

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    Nyx (she/her)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friends are joking about the price of a Fredo... It's so much more now

    jmdirks
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where is the money to pay higher min wage going to come from?????????????????

    Rand Hayeck
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is plenty of affordable food! Learn how to budget and use more vegetables and meats like the Russians.

    Leanne Hailes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An ugly medium size turnip, root vegetable, is almost $5!!! And meats are outrageously overpriced too!! Tell me how and where fresh healthy food is low priced????

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    Ruth Mayhan-Evinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Keep demonizing the energy industry. Making it harder and harder to domestically produce gas and fuel... and the prices with continually increase for everything. Not just food. It's like people have no clue why food costs what it does? You have Europe banning fertilizers, meaning less food per square acre. So costs go up. People who have no idea how economics works but will cry to high Heaven when their morning coffee is 15$ a cup.

    R Z
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    3 years ago (edited)

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    It’s to keep poor people dying. and just remember whenever you think going to the polls is important, it’s not, it doesn’t matter who gets elected. Has any year gotten better since the last few decades? Have the prices climbed every year or have they dropped? Exactly. It will never get better. Never.

    Liam Lowenthal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It has both gotten worse and better my friend. I can feel you're very angry, and I am too. If minimum wage bothered to keep up with inflation, I'd be making almost 30$/hr right now. No, no let's go ahead and keep it at half, *at most*. But good things have happened too. However angry you are, no matter how bad it is, never lose sight of whats true. The truth is far more important than religion, political loyalty or some such nonsense. Just make sure to keep going, you got this.

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    Ace
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    3 years ago

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    Clearly there's a spoilt generation totally unused to the idea of inflation, just shows how good things have been on the last few years.

    Pittsburgh rare
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think you spelled "inflation with stagnant wages" wrong. And l'm old enough to remember when inflation was 20% and YET people didn't have to resort to food banks to eat.

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    #3

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Biomass and Biodiversity.

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    WindySwede
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should higher! We need this to survive!

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    #4

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Privacy

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    Icy_Question_4977
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. In china, everything you do once you set foot out of ur home is recorded.

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    #5

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Affordable homes

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    #6

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Social acceptance for cigarette smoking in public. Like the old-fashioned light-them-on-fire tobacco smokes. I go all over for work, and it’s a noticeable event if someone smells like smoke. No buildings seem to have smoking areas anymore, even the butt cans are rare sightings. Can you even imagine someone lighting up *inside a restaurant*? People still do it, but they almost have to hide it, only smoking at home or in their cars or vaping while out and about. When you come out of a store and you smell cigarette smoke, it’s noticeable because it’s not always there. The difference from 10 years ago is huge. 20 years ago this would be unimaginable.

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    Stephanie Did It
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am severely asthmatic and if I have to walk through some employee's cigarette smoke to enter a business, I turn around and take my business elsewhere. Not worth it.

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    #8

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear NFTs And I hope they continue to fall in popularity because honestly they weren’t even popular to begin with, just a fad peddled by the rich.

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    Chich
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a 'stupid tax' if ever there was one.

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    #9

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Airbnb

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    Chich
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just stayed in this thing, - hotel they are calling it. Didn't have to take the garbage out, strip the room, pay a "cleaning" fee or feed anyone's cat. Hope they catch on.

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    #10

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Attention spans

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    Mohsie Supposie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Say that again... I got distracted at "Att..."

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    #11

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Faith in the future of humanity

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    Lesedi Tenyane
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree. I come on boardpanda on a regular basis and I find my faith in humanity restored regularly

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    #12

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Leisure time. Unless you're wealthy it's shocking to have any time off. Monday I had my first sick day in over a year and I was told I still need to make up my hours even if it means working overtime. Even when you aren't working, shifts are so long it feels like you're losing your whole day and your days off are the only chance you have to catch up on cleaning and doctor's appointments and maintaining your life that it's hard to find the time to do any leisure activities. Just watching TV or making a meal feels like such a time investment because there's so little time to waste.

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    #13

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear DVDs. It’s been going on for a bit now but it’s still crazy how fast they went from king to nothing

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    GettingCereal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still buy DVDs/BluRays. I like actually owning the thing and being able to reliably access it for the next 20-50 years. Only series and movies I've rewatched at least once and want to watch again though.

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    #14

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Cash… 2022 has seen a sharp rise in card only transactions

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    Amy Burke
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Without cash our society would be far worse off

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    #15

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Honestly? Cheap and neat finds at antique/thrift stores. Most places upcharge outrageous amounts for the items they get in, especially if it's a legitimate antique or unique item. On top of that, a lot of what's being sold now are nicknacks and decorative items that were made cheap at the time, and no one wants anymore. I think we're also phasing out of the cheap product phase for everything, or at least slowing down. More and more people are choosing to repurpose their items or try and fix them, rather than just tossing and buying something new. Repurposing is even easier than ever thanks to the internet, it's no longer a struggle to figure out how to fix s**t and to buy missing parts and tools that you'd need to get the job done.

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    Little Wonder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My local op shop has two buildings, one is the usual cheap things and cheap clothes and the other is the higher end stuff like vintage clothes or collectibles. It works well.

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    #16

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Term lengths of UK pm's

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    OnAFreakingRollercoaster
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard they've installed a revolving door at #10 Downing 😉

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    #17

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Having a savings account.

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    #18

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Working in an office

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    Nea
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless absolutely required, coming to office should be optional.

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    #19

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear 24 hour Walmarts

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    Frando Bone
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a 24hr city, and I feel for those who work nights and struggle to do their shopping now.

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    #20

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear I think the straw has broken the camel's back on laughtrack sitcoms; How I Met your Father is the first one ive seen in years to use one and its... not good Its jarring to see So id say those are finally phasing out, with the norm being laughteack free funnies (which have existed for years now ofc, but are becoming the standard)

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    Ban-One
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, Sitcoms are fading in general. Or are already completely gone. At least good ones. Maybe because you can't have dark-humored, sarcastic content anymore. Imagine "Married with Children" going on air nowadays. My favorite Sitcom...

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    #21

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear iPhone Chargers

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    Ban-One
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, with the new law in 2024 these are a thing of the past in the EU. USB-C for any brand. Not just Apple.

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    #22

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Manned registers.

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    censorshipsucks
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not in africa, we have too many unemployed people. We need job creation.

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    #23

    23 Things That Are Slowly Phasing Out In 2022 And Are Probably Going To Completely Disappear Physical menus at restaurants.

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    Chich
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, I think real menus are a hill many will choose to die on.

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