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places where raw stuff walks in and gets peer-pressured into becoming something useful.
means a factory is a building where labor and machines convert materials into standardized goods, repeatably and at scale.
from from latin factorium, a place of making, via facere, to do or make — english picked it up in the 1600s for workshops, then the industrial revolution turned it into the word for civilization's engine room.
assembly lineford didn't invent it, meatpacking plants did first
lights outsome factories run fully automated, unmanned, dark
word twinfactory and manufacture both descend from making by hand