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I celebrated when cigarettes were banned in restaurants (slrpnk.net)
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[–] devfuuu 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And airplanes. People used to smoke in airplanes.

Also it was a freaking huge industry to kill all the whales in the sea.

Once upon a time it was common to mine ice.

The world can be changed.

[–] Skanky 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Would you believe that they had a smoking section on airplanes? That is, you could smoke in the back of the plane, but not forward of a certain row number.

Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

[–] Cypher 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

With how hvac works when setup correctly it actually does.

It still isn’t ideal and I’m very happy it isn’t a thing anymore.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a freaking huge industry to kill all the whales in the sea

One of the wildest aspects of this was that they did it from fucking rowboats. I've never understood why the whales didn't just leisurely swim away from that bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Because they didn't know how the harpoons worked until they had been harpooned.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 1 month ago

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude