[HN Gopher] Motorized Ox Carts
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       Motorized Ox Carts
        
       Author : mean_mistreater
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-11-18 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | > My boarding school headmaster, for instance, possessed an
       | Edwardian bathtub of some magnificence, with great brass wheels
       | and levers which could rapidly fill it four feet deep with hot
       | water or subject the user to a bracing shower from above, behind
       | and on either side.
       | 
       | So there's a real world version of the bathtub described in Terry
       | Pratchett's Discworld series, where the head of the Unseen
       | University has something like that. There must be pictures of
       | such things.
        
       | secstate wrote:
       | Oh wow, the Lamp on HN? And Peter Hitchens no less. I don't even
       | know how I found myself reading this the other day, but my take
       | away then was it felt like ramblings of an old man wishing the
       | world had technologized "better." Though because Hitchens is a
       | pretty skilled writer, the better part is subtle and it mostly
       | ends up couched as "different". But all in all I was left
       | unimpressed.
       | 
       | Though I did learn about slip coaches, which sounded neat, though
       | pretty clearly fundamentally flawed.
        
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