The wheel, the steam engine, the lightbulb, the aeroplane.
Marvels of engineering to be sure, but all were put to shame when Otto Frederick Rohwedder (blessed be his name) invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine.
No longer would man suffer the long indignity of having to slice their own bread!
It proved instantly influential and in a few short years 80% of the bread sold in the United States was sliced!
Unfortunately, like all true visionary undertakings, the forces of reactions would soon emerge in a vain attempt to halt man's progress and in XV Annus Panis Nostri Quod Est Divisa a ban would be placed on the product.
U.S. officials cited "war time conservation measured" but the brave people of the land quickly rose up in outcry and the ban was rescinded.
Today people from all around the world are free and able to enjoy the bounty of bread that is already sliced.
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Fun lil train based story for you sickos. Today I had a doctor's appt in the suburbs and so I took regional rail, but it's about a 20 minute walk from the station to the doctor's office. This being suburbia, only about 50% of the walk has sidewalks, and the entire trip I felt like I was breaking the law by not being a car. Peak environmental hostility to human beings type stuff.
BUT. As I'm about to walk under an underpass where the speed limit is 35 and there's no sidewalk - the most dangerous part of the journey - what do I hear? You're god-damned right I hear a train horn blairing from the station I just got walked away from. This brings traffic to a halt obviously bc they have to wait for the train to pass. So in the exact moment I am about to cross the underpass, there are no cars moving on it bc they're waiting for the train. I make it across safely without so much as a single car coming near me.
Then, on my way back from the doctors to the train station, the same thing happens again! I walk past a line of dozens of cagers and arrive at the station having never been in any danger at all. I'm currently :comfy-cool: at the station waiting for my train home. My guardian angel trains really saved me a lot of stress today, in addition to getting me where I needed to go.
TLDR: traiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnn gaaaaaaaannnnnnnnggggg
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