• Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4914 days ago

    The blocks of buildings in 1800’s Manhattan were designed with the idea that a shared courtyard or laneway between two buildings would serve as everyone’s outhouse and garbage burning space. As space became a premium these spaces shrunk but nobody developed a solution for the garbage the way they did outhouses so they just started piling it on the sidewalks and expecting someone else to deal with it

    • @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      4014 days ago

      Amazing. An entire city dedicated to dumping shit on the ground and wondering why they have rats