• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    Explanation: Before the invention of the flush toilet, the chamberpot was the usual method of ‘collecting’ and disposing of waste. Better than shitting in a corner of the room (a practice recorded in some poorer urban areas of Europe as late as WW2 😬) and trying to collect and dispose of it later!

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        At least if no one’s looking.

        I remember a harrowing story about Late Victorian England, wherein they tore down an old apartment building to the (shitty) foundations and attempted to build a new one from scratch… only to find so much waste had been dumped in the immediately surrounding area that the terrain was basically shit-mush that all had to be removed and replaced with actual soil before the new construction could begin. 😬

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    As an offgrid person who likes travel I learned to harness the power and freedom of the old magiks.

    Embrace the urine bottle and sealed poop bucket, reject modernity.

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        Nope, trash bag lined portable toilet that gets filled up with cat litter and goes to the dump. Composting toilets are very much a homesteader thing that work in specific scenarios from what I researched, and at that point may as well dig up an outhouse and plant a fruit tree when its filled.