So how do we like get rid of shit?

And I'm not saying how do we figure out what random stuff we don't want anymore.

No, how do we actually literally get rid of all the shit that pours out of our stinky buttholes?

For the vast majority of us, at least I hope the vast majority of us, having access to a toilet is probably something you don't really ever think about.

Though there may not be as many public toilets as we'd always like, it's usually pretty safe to say that no matter where you are in a town or a city or even along a freeway every hour's drive or so, there's an available bathroom.

Even if it's one of extremely dubious cleanliness and lots of poorly spelled

graffiti for us to do our business in. It might not compare to your sweet, sweet bathroom at home

with its sturdy door, familiar toilet seat, unsoiled by an army of possibly filthy-ass strangers,

cushy multi-ply toilet paper or wet wipes, and nobody banging on the door unless you have a particularly rude housemates or small children, but it'll do.

You do your business, you flush, you wipe, or you rinse with a bidet, and it's done.

Bye-bye, nasty-ass stinky-old poop.

And then that shit just goes, wherever shit goes.

You don't even have to think about it.

Not your problem.

All part of the miracle of modern plumbing and sanitation.

Well, it probably comes as no surprise that for much of human history, this wasn't the case.

It wasn't always so easy to get rid of human shit, but that also wasn't always a problem.

Way way back in the times of nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, about two million years ago until approximately 10,000 years ago,

shit simply cycled back into nature.

While you hunted or gathered, you took a dump wherever you happened to be,

as long as it was away from where you were picking berries

or sleeping, I'm guessing. And you kept walking, leaving your man or woman-made compost to fertilize the

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