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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i bet they’d get a kick out of moving stacks of barrels or fermentation tanks with a forklift.

Yeah, that would be really impressive!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"What are you going to tell me next, you have a one-time cure for consumption?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's witchcraft you're talking about! Burn them! 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Medicine might sound a bit too good to be true, yeah, and this was indeed the end of the witch hunting period. Forklifts might be easier to understand, if really awesome, seeing as they had long had foot-powered cranes for really big projects like cathedrals.