• RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    Castle toilets were sometimes just holes in the floor that emptied out the side of the walls to the ground below.

    (If that “Incredible Cross Sections” book I had as a kid was a viable source. Those books went into almost comical detail on how sewage is stored and disposed of in various buildings, ships, planes etc.)

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      Even today with quite advanced plumbing, “where the hell do we put all the shit” is one of the more important parts of urban planning.