Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines

• yoz@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh really ? Damn i was there last year and no different that other 3rd world. Rampant poverty, shitty roads etc. Mind it , I was not living in the city , city is developed but same is the case for all 3rd world countries.

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  • jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Come to the midwest of the USA. You’ll find all of that shit out here, too, if you know where to look.

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    • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US is also a third world country just like china.

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      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And Antarctica

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      • jmanes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t separate countries by arbitrary terms like “third world.” It’s a country and people live within it.

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    • VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Joe & Nic’s road trip is an eye opener for techbros not aware of the poverty in their nation.

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  • Sagifurius@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Third world” just meant Africa, but picked up the “poor” connotation from those ads in the 80s with the starving african children, a “Nimrod” affect.

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    • shottymcb@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you want to get pedantic about it, 3rd world originally meant countries that didn’t take sides in the cold war. 1st world was US and western European democracies and their client states and allies, 2nd world was USSR and their client states and allies.

      3rd world was Africa, India, a lot of SE Asia and some Central/South American countries.

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      • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fun fact, Finland and Sweden were also third world countries under this definition.

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      • Sagifurius@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, that was also a later definition. 1, 2, 3 were new world, old world, Africa.

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is sort of by definition. Third world doesn’t actually mean poor or backward

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