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rosymind, in A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976.

That’s one cool kid

Fenrisulfir, in Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958

1958 is a weird name for a deer

fox2263, in Overturned street trolley during the Vaccine Revolt by antivaxxers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1904

You can kind of sympathise with the antivaxxers of that time. It’s fucking 120 years ago. Medicine was still not very advanced and neither was education for the masses.

However, in 2024 people should be somewhat wiser.

PugJesus,
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I don't know man, vaccination was still over 100 years old at that point.

gravitas_deficiency,

I’m a staunch supporter of public health myself, but the point about comparatively poor educational standards still stands.

SharkAttak, in Overturned street trolley during the Vaccine Revolt by antivaxxers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1904
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All of those antivaxxers are dead now, and it surely is not a coincidence.

AquaTofana, in Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958

Damn, look at how short the shelving is! I’d be able to get anything I needed by myself!

xor,

hey, you shorties get so much extra shit… more leg room, cheaper clothes, wider selection…
ability to hide from predators in small spaces…

all us tallies get is easy access to high shelves…

setsneedtofeed,
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We used to have a market where I live that had shelves that low until a few years ago. It was a shock when they installed the tall ones.

Candelestine, in Overturned street trolley during the Vaccine Revolt by antivaxxers in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 1904

In case anyone else wanted further reading:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_Revolt

Such a crazy period in world history. Until the tone of more recent times, I was always more of an Age of Sail kinda guy. The World Wars and their run-up was always a little too sad, since we should’ve known better.

It’s become more pertinent though.

fallingcats, (edited ) in A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976.

Leave it to Americans to only provide a street name that’s not even an actual name, but not the country, state or city.

be_excellent_to_each_other, (edited ) in NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher
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That looks to be a sausage, egg, and cheese Croissan'wich they are advertising for 99 cents, and another concrete example of the massive corporate greed of today:

(Or are we all making 4x today what we were in 2001 for the same jobs? That's a rhetorical question, we are not.)

Edit: 1 dollar from 2001 is 1.78 today. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2001?amount=1

PugJesus,
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Inflation calculator says it should be $1.72 to maintain pace with inflation since 2001.

Dagwood222, in NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher

Context time.

Actual Police Headquarters at One Police Plaza is/was about a mile away from Ground Zero. The store shown was being used as the onsite HQ for the rescue/recovery effort.

selokichtli, (edited ) in Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958

I mean, she’s famous for being gorgeous, but damn…

felykiosa, in NYPD enter their temporary headquarters near the World Trade Center. New York, NY, September 13, 2001. Photo by Andrea Booher

You know that its old when there is an ad for a 99 cent’s burger

InFerNo, in Construction worker at the Hoover Dam, USA, 1931

I wonder what he’s up to these days

ComradePorkRoll,

Patrolling the Mojave while wishing for a nuclear winter.

Rolando, in Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958

FWIW apparently the deer was tame and she only kept it while making a movie (and maybe for a bit afterwards while she was recovering from a miscarriage.) In the movie, her character was followed around by a deer so it had to get used to being near her beforehand. source

Hawke, in USS Monitor

Couple of errors in text: “wreaking” havoc, not wrecking; “foundered” in a storm, not floundered.

setsneedtofeed, (edited )
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Looks like the original “floundered” was correct. The ship struggled, which is the meaning. Wording taken from Wikipedia as well.

“Foundered” doesn’t have any meaning close to that which I see on a quick google glance.

Hawke, (edited )

It’s definitely “founder”. Edit: This is also the word that was used in the Wikipedia article.

founder (on something) (of a ship) to fill with water and sink

Our boat foundered on a reef.

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/…/founder_2

setsneedtofeed, (edited )
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Floundered is still a appropriate use of a different word (struggled in water) in the context. I’m done making edits.

I appreciate all the input.

Peppycito,

I was wondering the difference:

floundered is to “struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud”

foundered is to fill with water and sink.

I didn’t know there was two words.

setsneedtofeed,
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Thanks. I guess that’s what I get for putting this together on the go. I’ll fix it when I can sit down properly and look it over.

Napain, in A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976.

how dies their head look 31

PugJesus,
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You know some young-lookin' 31 year-olds.

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