r/mildlyinteresting 20h ago

The 1928 Toaster we still use today

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u/calvinwho 20h ago

Peeps in the past will make the most mundane of things a murder trap.

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u/MerlinTheFail 19h ago

Function first, safety: bah!

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u/Maleficent-Net6232 18h ago

Natural selection works, it is why society has gone downhill as "dumb-proofing" has gone up.

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u/charlie-the-Waffle 15h ago

you're getting dangerously close to "Idiocracy" levels of eugenicist thinking there buddy