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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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From the site I got it from, "This photograph shows the amounts of butter, milk, bacon, lard, sugar, cheese, tea and jam received by two people per week in Britain."

PugJesus,
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No soda or juice, so one supposes that was the primary non-water non-alcoholic drink.

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They called them Victory Gardens

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/98/a2756298.shtml

PugJesus,
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I don't see any. Removed by admins?

PugJesus,
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Unfortunately, I can't see it on my Lemmy.world or Kbin account, so I can't do anything about it. I banned a fellow like that not too long ago.

PugJesus,
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Well, I imagine it wasn't actually too practical in general. XD

PugJesus,
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It almost seems like Antarctic and Artic expeditions are a bad idea

PugJesus,
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Just show up one day, start doing it, and demand money.

PugJesus,
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abortive
adjective
abor·​tive ə-ˈbȯr-tiv
Synonyms of abortive
1
obsolete : prematurely born
2
: FRUITLESS, UNSUCCESSFUL
3
: imperfectly formed or developed
4
: tending to cut short

The Snow Cruiser was shipped to Antarctica, but it performed poorly and the expedition itself was cut short due to the US entry into WW2.

PugJesus,
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To be fair, if I'm a failed prototype scientific machine, 'Buried under the shifting Antarctic ice and lost forever' is a helluva grave.

PugJesus,
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Smooth, to prevent snow from building up in the grooves!

Unfortunately, it also made it so they couldn't grip the ice and would spin fruitlessly in place.

Bit of a problem machine, this one.

PugJesus,
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I bet this one could take a sledgehammer, though.

PugJesus,
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Who knocks up the knocker-uppers?

PugJesus,
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Generates lift

PugJesus,
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I thought he had a mustache under the face shield, but it might be a reflection rather than transparency.

PugJesus,
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It's almost rocket science.

PugJesus,
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Why would you think that?

PugJesus,
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Gotta keep the morale on the home front up. o7

Seriously, it was an industry in and of itself. WW2 was... something else. Total war.

PugJesus,
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There's one I haven't heard in a while.

PugJesus,
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On this specific individual, no, but here's a bit on the Jewish Kurdish community in general

PugJesus,
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WW1 is when drones were first invented, that's why you only see the one (pigeon) model. Nowadays we have all sorts of advanced models - bluejays, crows, vultures...

PugJesus,
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Depends on how strong the wind is.

PugJesus,
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Be the shitty technical you want to see in the world fediverse?

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Not sure. One imagines they're at least somewhat effective to have been in use for so long.

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