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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 20 hours ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 45 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Supply chains. It’s mindblowing how that patch of cabbage got to the produce section at your grocery store. Or how the parts of that gadget you bought at best buy were sourced, assembled, and shipped to the store. Some products that have multiple parts are shipped multiple times across countries, sometimes back and forth, as they get built and assembled by different factories.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And some of those parts cost less than a penny to produce or even purchase when done in bulk!

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago

Scale. That’s the one thing I can’t get my head around