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by boogies 1973 days ago
Wikipedia says there are ~350,665 Old Order Amish (apparently in the New World? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#cite_note-Elizabethtown_...).
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est31 1972 days ago
This is not an exaggeration. Nowadays basically anything you buy that uses electricity also has chips included for various purposes. Those chips of course run proprietary software.
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MaxBarraclough 1972 days ago
Sure, but I'd meant live in the modern world in the sense of living in tech-enabled society, rather than just living in the current day.
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