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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.

MadBob, in King Frederick IX of Denmark, a former naval officer, showing off his tattoos, 1951

Quite cold in the studio that afternoon.

Zonetrooper, in Experimental WW2 Japanese fighter plane, the Kyushu J7W Shinden
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…and thus became fodder for Imperial Japan what-if wankery everywhere.

The nose and cockpit section of the fuselage is on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. “Other parts” are preserved in storage, although it is unclear if they mean the remaining fuselage, engine, and wings, or if those were destroyed following examination.

setsneedtofeed,
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Sure, no other nation had a fighter plane folded over 1000 times.

toast, in Russian Cossack firing from behind a dead horse, WW1, 1915

Shoot the man, not the horse. Dead horse is cover, live horse a great pile of panic

penquin, (edited ) in Pro-segregation rally in Arkansas, USA, 1960s

“Race mixing is communism”. Lmao How? Stupid has always been strong in thr the US.

FlashMobOfOne, in During the Berlin Airlift Children of West Berlin Wave to Supply Plane Delivering Aid, 1948
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I miss the days when we fought war with theretofore unimaginable charity. I imagine if the Israelis dropped five billion dollars in aid over Gaza instead of five billion in bombs they’d probably be more likely to experience a positive outcome.

MethodicalSpark,

Eh. This charity was done to prove how superior capitalism was to communism at the start of the Cold War and align hearts and minds to Western ideology.

This is right after WWII, when it was common practice to drop hundreds of unguided bombs out of an airplane and blanket entire sections of densely populated cities.

I’d argue we haven’t really changed that much. Charity just isn’t appealing to achieve current agendas.

FlashMobOfOne,
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Oh I get it.

But a guy can dream.

infeeeee, in The Texas Superconducting Super Collider under construction, 1990s.

Since the last hbomberguy video I’m a bit sceptical about long format youtube essays by random youtubers. Should I watch this? I havent heard about this broccoli guy before, but on tvtropes they write that the third part of this video was removed originally due to a copyright claim: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16506531…

Isn’t this just some wiki articles read out loud, right?

vzq, (edited )

Bobby broccoli is legit.

I have a very small personal stake in one of the scientific fraud videos (I was a grad student with one of the profs that brought the Hendrik Schon thing crashing down) and we talked about it in the Reddit comments of his first video. He definitely knows what he’s talking about.

In fact, if anything, his videos err more toward the side of “insider drama normal people never heard of or care about” than “dry regurgitated facts”.

setsneedtofeed, (edited )
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His channel has good presentation and organizes a lot of disparate information about a topic into a coherent structure. Much more than a “just reads Wikipedia” type channel.

I personally don’t pay much mind to copywrite strikes and uploads, it’s a lightning strike that happens to a lot of good channels for reasons that can be dubious.

flooppoolf,

Oof. I don’t have exact facts and evidence for my claims, but he does a pretty good job at giving his interpretation and summarizing various events while showing the sources he gets his info from.

Is there another tertiary source out there that wrote on this topic, not sure. Is his content 100% accurate, not sure either. But I can sure vouch for his videos being good and very well made. All the graphics in them remind me of studying for big finals, they’re easy to recall and keep you in the long ass explanation.

He has episodes on serial plagiarism in the scientific community, it would be very hypocritical of him to do the same.

kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915

What a gorgeous house. Nailed it

dream_weasel, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915

I wonder how he’s doing today.

GBU_28,

He’s a vtuber now

blahsay, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915

See many trees? No wood means no roof. Four walls but no roof is really common in that area even these days. 🤯

PugJesus,
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Looks like a thatched roof to me.

blahsay,

Me too. Still needs supports

Akasazh,
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‘there is no te in this picture, therefore there aren’t any trees in Uzbekistan’

Said him who died of thirst because the rivier was outside his field of vision.

ivanafterall, in Early color photo of a nomad in Uzbekistan, taken between 1905-1915
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I could get into that life.

Hobbes, in Belgian refugees leaving Brussels with a dog pulling a cart, WW1, 1914

Anyone know what breed of dog that is?

xep, in British engineer J. A. Purves in his 'Dynasphere' vehicle, 1932

What are the pros and cons of this against modern single seater motor vehicles like motorcycles? Seems like the giant wheel would be hard to replace and service.

PugJesus,
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Pros:

  • Cool way to die

Cons:

  • Literally none

More seriously, I believe they're very fuel/energy efficient, but generally have stability problems.

PhlubbaDubba,

I mean, E-Bikes tho

In a country with good infrastructure they basically instantly upgrade the accessibility and travel distance one person has within their area.

Plus they’re just insanely fun to ride on, not having to get off and walk up hills makes it ridiculously easy to pretend you’re in a mariokart game when you’re on a loop of streets by yourself.

PugJesus, (edited )
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As an E-Bike user, I endorse this statement, but I think a vehicle that weighs a literal ton tipping over might be a bit more trouble than a bicycle doing the same.

Sharpiemarker, in The ISOLATOR, invention from 1925

Where’d you get this picture of me?

Diplomjodler, in The ISOLATOR, invention from 1925

Where can one buy these? Asking for a friend.

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