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Why many Asian megacities are miserable places (www.economist.com)
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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about Constantinople?

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Istanbul, not Constantinople

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

Byzantium, not Istanbul

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Now the song is stuck in my head

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a propaganda headline that would be written in the economist.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Because they are monuments to humankind's hubris and all shall fall in time