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Rough Roman Memes

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Although Roman city traffic WAS notorious... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The ancient equivalent of driving behind a truck with a large and improperly secured load. That depiction is insane to think about.

[–] PugJesus 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who can identify the limbs, who the bones? The poor man’s crushed corpse disappears, just like his soul.

is such a raw fucking line too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And it still kinda hits home, after a couple thousands of years, and a couple centuries with ongoing progress. I really hope the day comes when this reads like the descriptions of naked slaves on auction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, I wonder if there were actual safety regulations, in some form. There definitely wasn't 400-1850 or so.

[–] PugJesus 4 points 5 months ago

There were, in fact! If I get the ambition I'll try to dig up a paper I read on it a while back.