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A sobering thought, care of some insomnia-induced googling: I will most likely be dead by the year 2059.

If this is true – and the Australian Bureau of Statistics assures me it is – I have just four decades left to leave a mark on this planet. I don’t like my chances of leaving a big one; I’m prolifically lazy and there is a lot

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