• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 hour ago

    We survived a few thousand years or so without deodorant.

    If you shower daily and wear clean clothes, you shouldn’t need it.

    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 hour ago

      We survived a few thousand years without showering daily and clean clothes. We had different lifestyles and different expectations.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      38 minutes ago

      Our lives are filled with things we don’t “need” that we are not going to do away with any time soon.

    • McGuirk808@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      19 minutes ago

      We also lacked indoor plumbing, sanitation, sewage management, and typically had livestock near people as there were no highways or 18-wheelers to deliver meat from a farm in another region.

      Life was stanky for thousands of years.