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We’ve all heard the stories about the tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to government programs that, in the end, wound up providing things like broadband Internet access to eight houses or, like here in California, the decades spent on the high-speed rail system which has gone absolutely nowhere (and never will).
I seriously wonder about our fellow humans sometimes.
Here are some truly peculiar ways to express the number “57”:
Having been to quite a few of them, this seems just about right!
