Science fiction writers of the 19th century would be shocked at smartphones and the Internet but more shocked they're powered by coalhttps://twitter.com/fahrenthold/status/841774350990630912 …
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Seriously in the 1950s they'd write stories set in the 1970s where everything was nuclear powered bc coal mining was barbaric
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Coal mining conditions have been barbaric since we started doing it, we went to tremendous effort to make it less barbaric
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Even with all that effort it's still one of the most fundamentally dangerous and awful jobs in the modern world
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And now they want to roll back those protections because they cost too much
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