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slartibartfastibast:

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maketoastwithwethands:

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just-shower-thoughts:

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100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

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This absolute fucking clown thinks that everyone in the First World War was prancing about on a fucking horse when most cities had vast slums and could barely afford to feed their children

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They probably mean almost everyone in a briefly lucrative 19th century frontier town during the gold rush, or at another improbably interesting period in history (that is overrepresented in fiction).

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horses were more accessible in America with our abundant land and thus forage/hay

but even then, by 1919, bicycles were well established for the “cheap yuppie personal transport” role, the avant-garde had motorcycles, and the Model T had been in production for a decade

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