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France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools (www.engadget.com)
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we didnt have clean drinking water either, or daily showers, we lived without soap for millenia

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lol, we definitely have had clean drinking water for far longer than we have had dirty drinking water, thank the industrial revolution for that. And try skipping a shower for a day - you'll be fine. Soap also has a long history https://www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/ over 4000 years

    So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before the industrial revolution

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure, loads of sewage. But it also had smaller settlements, less people, and human waste was recycled more in times gone by too. Far more water was far more drinkable even 150 years ago

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Motherfucker how long do you think humans have been around for? Okay, sure, soap has been around for like 6k years, wow, such a long time. Modern humans have been fumbling around figuring shit out like an untrained ai model for the last 60k-160k years. Quick math shows us that for somewhere between 54k and 154k years of our history as a species, no soap. MILLENIA!

    Drinking water: you're making a distinction between clean, as in unpolluted by chemicals and other substances, and cleaned drinking water, which has been processed by humans to make it fit to drink with a lower risk of causing illness. Clean water has obviously been around for eons, but cleaned water, as I believe OP was describing, is a much more modern concept.

    Showers: "try skipping a shower for a day"? Motherfucking neckbeard no, shower every fucking day. Try it, people might find you somewhat less repulsive until you open your mouth.

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