Aerosolized lead likely would smell like something, which is ultimately what we're taking about. A machine shop has a distinct smell because there's aerosolized steel in the air.
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Well, it makes me double check my knowledge, which helps me learn to some degree, but it's not what I'm trying to make happen.
Not at all. This person is only describing life/work in some of the post-WII developed world. Historically, this is the anomaly, not the norm.
For a large part of recorded history, the formula was that land/resource holders offered anyone the cheapest, lousiest, and worst acceptable conditions in exchange for work. The conditions of the resource holders also actually sucked, and when leveraging economies of scale, offers of relative physical and economic security (sure, you'll be kinda poor, but you don't have to travel to another town to sell grain to survive because the Lord will always buy it from you at a "fair" rate.) were typically the value add that made it worth it to consider share-cropping under nobility as opposed to simply going it alone.
I'm not sure why Reddit and Lemmy seem so hell-bent on this fantasy version of history where farming is a joy denied us by the wealthy, but its hilariously misguided. Considering where things are headed, it sounds like for many it will end up being a dangerously wrong fantasy that others can take advantage of easily, and people that post things like this will learn the lesson first hand.
I like to use GPT to create practice tests for certification tests. Even if I give it very specific guidance to double check what it thinks is a correct answer, it will gladly tell me I got questions wrong and I will have to ask it to triple check the right answer, which is what I actually answered.
Can't smell something that was so pervasive in the environment that an estimated 660 metric tons are frozen into Antarctic ice. Humans only smell changes in things, our brains are wired to grow to ignore a pervasive smell.
Seriously. HN doesn't even actually need JS to read it. And it's certainly not filled with trackers by any means. Might as well call Lemmy a privacy nightmare.
Yeah, that stale cigarette smell permanently baked into things like hotels or cars or houses is the smell that immediately brings me right back to the late 80s/early 90s. But fondly to some degree.
You rang?
Metal and stale.
And absolutely yes with the coal.
Bourbon back then wasn't as refined. Basically gasoline. /s
Before the 1990s, it was cigarettes all the way down.
1980s - cigarettes and hair spray.
70s - cigarettes and alternating body odor and heavy cologne/perfume.
60s - cigarettes and canned food.
50s - cigarettes and gasoline.
40s - cigarettes and either gunpowder or a machine shop.
30s - cigarettes and dust.
20s - cigarettes and bootleg whiskey
10s - cigarettes and bloody mud
1900-1909 - cigarettes and horse shit in the street.
You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I'm using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.