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[-] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 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.

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