• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      19 days ago

      My brother or sister, they didn’t have antibiotics. Electricity, hot water and cars were a little bit inconsistently available depending on where you lived. Airplanes and highways were a rare and exceptional thing to see to almost everybody. The first vaccine was twenty years in the future.

      Bakelite was invented by the 20s, but in 1924 I think it would still have been known as “artificial amber” and no one would have known what you were talking about if you tried to talk about plastic.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      19 days ago

      I was talking to a friend about this recently. It’s so surreal to think about when it’s so prevalent in the modern world. Take a scan around your immediate environment and imagine if all the plastic was gone