The Tank Museum channel on YT has really good information on tanks like this one. They explain each tank in depth with dry British humor. I fell madly in love with one of their 70-80 year old curators who was adorably frank about everything.
I might get flack for this but I don’t get the segregation thing because race is more trivial than AGAB. Usually people use AGAB to talk about health concerns. It seems race is a thing because we make it a problem.
I mean, race is a thing when it comes to likelihood of certain diseases and handfuls of medications affect some groups differently than others. There are legitimate differences in trends of bone structure/length/shaping. Like, even if you’re not outwardly presenting as being black, like if your family is Hispanic mixed but mostly Hispanic, sickle cell anemia is highly prevalent in the black community and you SHOULD know things like that if only for the doctor to better understand the results and tests
Race, or at least what regions your genetic makeup best adheres to, can be important for dietary changes, as there have been some (I haven’t looked at this in a decade) minor research in regard to whether eating foods similar to genetic ancestors might help that was inconclusive (I think. Mostly, if I remember, they just found some data to suggest people who have medditeranean ancestry benefit from adding fish to their diet, but so does everyone else for the most part).
Skin color matters for things like external medication absorption, varying levels of need for sunlight and vitamin d production. But other than that and the fringe elements above, yeah it’s mostly just a thing because we make it a thing, but we’ve made it a thing for so long it’s seemingly one of our ‘stickiest’ holdovers.
M3 Grant/Lee, the tank that came before the M4 Sherman. They couldn't engineer a solution for the heavy main gun to get on the turret and they needed a tank for North Africa as quick as possible, so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman.
so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman
yep, but you can also easily tell from that photo that the M3 hull formed the basis for the M4 hull. Basically they wanted to build it like the M4 the whole time but couldn’t, so the M3 was made on that platform as a stop gap solution
hmmm. im looking at the guy on the far left. his arms seem long enough to let him scratch his knees. or maybe he’s crouched and the middle bit of his body is hidden behind the weapon?
but then even the middle guy’s proportions don’t seem to conform to the median person’s.
(i am not saying dwarfism is abnormal. i do apologise if this comment makes it seem like that.)
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