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'Civilization' is a point of view, it would seem (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which is funny because sewer systems pre-dated the European colonial empire by a few hundred years, in Europe

[โ€“] banghida@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

No surprise, Atlantic Europe was a backwater until the discovery of the Americas.