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

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

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.

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
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

1958 is a weird name for a deer

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

That’s one cool kid

Track_Shovel, in One incredibly lucky British soldier showing a hole in his helmet, France, WW1, 1917
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Crazy that it peeled back the metal like that without making his head jello

FireTower, (edited )
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I’ve never worn a Brodie helmet but many have your actual head slightly below the top. This allows for some crumble zone.

nslatz, in Female IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973

Colman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: rte.ie/…/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman…

FireTower, (edited )
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Reminds me of this famous picture too:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e2ce361-7047-49ac-9f01-8d6a685afa84.jpeg

I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.

nslatz,

Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.

corsicanguppy,

Their ether? No; the guy has a rifle.

FireTower,
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Swipe text typo fixed it.

CurlyMoustache,
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It looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea1f99b0-372d-4a11-a63d-f7d3f93c6a3a.jpeg

governorkeagan,

That lawnmower looks like a hoover

CurlyMoustache,
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Beats raking, I guess

Crashumbc,

They look staged as fuck

CaptDust, in Female IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973

That’s hardcore

YoorWeb, in An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank

In 1974, the last prototype was discovered abandoned in a field at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Camouflaged in the middle of some bushes, it is unknown where it spent the intervening 27 years.

Huh.

someguy3,

Not in the field?

remotelove,
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Nah. That is just where they found it sleeping that day.

someguy3, (edited ) in An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank

the British War Office requested that the American government design a purpose-built airborne light tank which could be transported by glider into battle to support British airborne forces

it could be transported underneath a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft, although its dimensions also allowed it to fit inside a General Aircraft Hamilcar glider.

setsneedtofeed,
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A concept which would later be refined by the US Aerogavin.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2874d013-f1e8-49aa-bf3b-27392054e32f.jpeg

PugJesus,
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Oh no, NCD is leaking

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