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Jesus Christ we really are reverting to the early industrial revolution aren't we?

What next, cholera? Consumption? Little orphan boys cleaning chimneys?

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[โ€“] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Consumption?

Look, little Jimmy lost a lung. But that's the price you pay for freedom.

Later...

Little orphan boys cleaning chimneys?

Little Jimmy's parents died because they loved FreedomBrand raw milk but somehow got bird flu. So now the little guy's got to get a job and he's just the right size to do the work.

[โ€“] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was a little shocked to learn recently, those chimney sweep boys actually crawled up the chimneys to clean them. I always figured they were just shoving those ass big broom things in the chimney, but no they actually had the little orphan boys scramble up them with a hand broom. Sometimes they'd get stuck and they'd have to tie a rope to them to yank them out, or they'd run into a hot patch of the chimney and get burned. It was so bad even people of the time began condemning it as a horrible inhumane practice and began passing regulations on chimney cleaning to do away with it.