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Old 11-30-2019, 03:54 PM   #14 (permalink)
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The are a religious group mostly located in the state of Pennsylvania who have arbitrarily set limits to the adoption of technology (for reasons unknown to me). They use horse and wagon, with no combustion engines.
That was basically all I knew about the Amish.


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They allow a landline telephone and locate it in the outhouse (primitive outdoor bathroom).
Didn't know they were already allowing a landline telephone. When it comes to outhouses, they're not unheard of in my homeland Brazil, even though they've been quite uncommon nowadays.
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