• TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It might be that they are machinery that moves heavy things, so our brain makes the association with heavy machinery.

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      1 year ago

      Forklifts are heavy themselves, even the small ones weight as much or more as a sedan and way up. It is quite literally heavy machinery.