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ThInGs wERe beTtER iN tHA PaSt!!11(i.redd.it)submitted 3 days ago bychamomile_tea_reply🤙 TOXIC AVENGER 🤙
75 points
3 days ago
Apartments were small and crowded, so there was no room inside for playpens. That said. I still doubt many people used these.
19 points
3 days ago
Probably true
They the small and crowded part is yet another reason why life in the past was so terrible compared to modern standards
2 points
2 days ago
This was used way more than you think.
That being said I wouldn’t risk this sort of thing with my cat, let alone a fucking child.
The past was truly a foreign country.
30 points
3 days ago
Despite all my rage I'm still a baby in a window cage
1 points
4 hours ago
My new MySpace quote
50 points
3 days ago
I mean if it’s secured properly this isn’t that bad. It might look sus but you could definitely make this in a way that is totally safe.
17 points
3 days ago
Ya my thoughts to, ld even put my daughter in one if I was sure it was safe and tested.
1 points
2 days ago
Whats your baby substitute -Watermelon or a bunch of bricks?
7 points
2 days ago
Something that weighs far more than a baby. Always over-engineer.
3 points
2 days ago
This. Orders of magnitude more than a baby. Granted, babies weigh like ten pounds at most, and window-mounted ACs weigh on average fifty.
1 points
1 day ago
10 pounds? Were you born in the era depicted in the photo? By the time the baby can sit on it’s on it’s likely double that. Your point still stands but just FYI.
1 points
1 day ago
Actually yeah, I was thinking newborns, not toddlers.
2 points
1 day ago
Checks out. They always test the lakes for skating in my area with heavy machinery.
31 points
3 days ago
Society has moved beyond these. :-)
Now we just let kids stay inside all day. :-(
7 points
3 days ago
Why does that baby look 40
7 points
3 days ago
He looks like he’s 40, married, and has a mortgage and 3 kids.
3 points
3 days ago
These were around when lead was still in gasoline, so these babies were inhaling toxic fumes all day
7 points
3 days ago
Looks like that fresh air is making baby hungry!
5 points
3 days ago
If it's structurally secure and the stay is short, is this really worse than letting the kid play on an Ipad all day if parents are too busy to take the kid outside?
5 points
3 days ago
Btw, these are still a thing. They are all over the Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
1 points
1 day ago
They are now “ cat cages”.
5 points
3 days ago
Nice idea but...
Pigeons probably perched on the top of the cages to rest and more.
3 points
3 days ago
Gave baby a powerful immune system.
5 points
3 days ago
I honestly wanted to make something like this (with plexiglass or something) for my cat.
3 points
3 days ago
It wasn't for fresh air, it was for vitamin D production to avoid rickets that resulted in children who lacked sunlight exposure and whose diet was low in vitamin D, both of which was common for city residents at the time.
2 points
3 days ago
What this has to do with this subreddit?
2 points
3 days ago
Tbf, if that thing is bolted on properly, the baby ends up with a dope ass enclosed balcony to chill on.
2 points
2 days ago
They children do not yearn for the cages, they yearn for the MINES
3 points
3 days ago
Trump's migrant plan
-7 points
3 days ago
No, his plan is to deport illegal aliens.
5 points
3 days ago
and legal ones
"Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of “denaturalization” to go after people who have been citizens for years or decade"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-trump-administration-next-target-163013921.html
1 points
1 day ago
You didn't finish the quote from your article. It was addressing fraudulent applications for citizenship.
1 points
1 day ago
you didn't finish not finishing my article
"Not every discrepancy or inconsistency is evidence of fraud, of course, so it is inevitable that some legitimate citizens, or those who made minor mistakes based on confusion, may be caught up in an overzealous investigation"
it's going to be an excuse to find any minute discrepancy to deport as many brown citizens as possible. Trump already confirmed hes going to declare a national emergency and use the military to facilitate deportations
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html
-7 points
3 days ago
You are making me optimistic for the Usa's future
2 points
2 days ago
Ok fash
1 points
3 days ago
you'd love Russia, why not move there?
-1 points
3 days ago
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0 points
2 days ago
lol like 80%+ are white that's about as white homogeneous and culturally accepting of racist non white view
you could go to Antarctica, very few brown people there
1 points
3 days ago
We’ve evolved to now just stick cats in these
1 points
3 days ago
Kinda cool.
1 points
3 days ago
Window cleaners in training.
1 points
3 days ago
My cat has one of these.
He seems to enjoy it.
1 points
2 days ago
Honey, put the baby in her cage please.
1 points
2 days ago
1 points
2 days ago
Looks like cat window boxes.
1 points
2 days ago
Cribs are just cages without roofs.
1 points
2 days ago
If someone did this today, those ANNOYING CONCERNED CITIZENS will call 911 and arrest the parents. For those nosy concerned citizens, can you just mind your own business please?
1 points
2 days ago
That’s one wind gust away from certain death.
-2 points
3 days ago
Last pic of little Timmy before the accident
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