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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

But drastically increase plop emissions

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Interestingly, cars were seen as cleaner due to the lack of street poop.

Something Something full circle

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

The joke is people forget how bad and messy horse powered transportation was, not saying gas is great but not "oh god the shit" levels.

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/

[-] oo1@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i've no useful comment to add, but for those who don't click

Horse carcasses therefore also had to be removed from the streets. The bodies were often left to putrefy so the corpses could be more easily sawn into pieces for removal.

[-] amio@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Cities must've been... fragrant places, for a lot of history.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Give it 50 years - we will be shocked we used to walk around in streets with 100s of 1000 of little gas burning engines coming past us.

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