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What Era was the best and why was it the 90s? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This comment actually made that choice click in my head, I'd never asked why that was before and kinda assumed it was to help protect the internals of a machine you couldn't fix from the environment but really it's more likely to be so you always have some bandages on hand (however sanitary)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

oh, I figured it was just the ideal binding material for broken parts (e.g. limbs, rifle butts) whilst providing comfort and stretch/tightness control.