How can our capitalist system allow this travesty to exist?
My BIC lighter is slowly guttering out, which is always a strange and unexpected phenomenon. Bic lighters aren't supposed to go out, they're just supposed to disappear. I've had this lighter for the entire time I've been here. I may have even had it during my last weeks at Stanford, which makes it at least two months old.
While attempting to nurse a flam…
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