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		hugh3 on Oct 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Steve Jobs has passed away. Yeah, but without death the whole world would be filled to the brim with protobacteria, and none of us complex life forms would ever have had room to exist.

danssig on Oct 6, 2011 [–]

I'm pretty sure he's talking about death of people. I'm sure he gets the same satisfied smile smashing a mosquito that the rest of us do.

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