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Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

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 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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aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before industrial pollution

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- Olap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  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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  - Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You have died of dysentery.
    
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Dil@is.hardlywork.ing ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
“So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone” This made me feel like I was on reddit not lemmy lmao

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- Olap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Old habits die hard. But the most teenager comment I have seen on lemmy needed a rebuttal
  
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unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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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- Olap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  To get back on topic: I bet you pull your phone out at the urinal
  
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