• @goferking0
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    61 month ago

    Was a stankier time in general

    • RoabeArt [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Castle toilets were sometimes just holes in the floor that emptied out the side of the walls to the ground below.

      (If that “Incredible Cross Sections” book I had as a kid was a viable source. Those books went into almost comical detail on how sewage is stored and disposed of in various buildings, ships, planes etc.)

      • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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        21 month ago

        Even today with quite advanced plumbing, “where the hell do we put all the shit” is one of the more important parts of urban planning.