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@GrumpyBadger5

Not the work account, so I can say what I like. @grumpybadger5.bsky.social

เข้าร่วม Aralık 2020
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World's Amazing Things
Jean Bugatti standing next to his Bugatti Royale, one of seven built, 1932.
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Nicola Perugini
Nicola Perugini@PeruginiNic·
The Israeli military has been deploying in Lebanon the techniques of healthcare destruction it developed in Gaza. In less than three weeks, 128 medical facilities and ambulances bombarded, 40 healthcare workers killed and 107 wounded. Medicide.
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@manbearchipmunk @space_plowboy90 No, inverter welders are much better - even on stick. I scrapped one like this for the copper in the transformer. That paid for a much nicer welder.
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crawl
crawl@space_plowboy90·
My grandfather bought this welder when he got back from Korea, and taught himself to weld. Taught my dad on it, who taught me on it. It’s lived with me for about 5 years now and it just got set in its new forever home. This is generational real estate.
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@Only9built Not a Peugeot fan, but they did make some very stylish cabrios.
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@VotaSpartaco @aviationarchive Libya and parts of Abyssinia were OK, as they were sandy or small rock deserts. The roads were just dirt tracks, but they didn't have big rocks in them. The back wheels though were almost on the bump stops and had no suspension travel left. Any lumpiness and they lost traction.
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The workers' flag is deepest red
@GrumpyBadger5 @aviationarchive 1Z squadrons operated effectively across northern and southern Libya in the 1920s and 30s (the experience was then foolishly shelved and forgotten) and there were virtually no "roads" as we mean it, so some off-road ability must have been there
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Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer
Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer@aviationarchive·
The "interesting" looking Italy's Lancia 1ZM armored car rolled out in 1918 as an upgraded WWI scout vehicle. Built on a tough Lancia truck chassis with a 35 hp engine, it could hit about 37 mph on good roads, weighed around 8,200 lbs(3.7 tonnes curb, up to 9,300 pounds combat loaded), and packed three machine guns in a single turret for solid firepower. Over 110 were produced (after just 10 of the earlier double-turret 1Z version), seeing action in WWI, the interwar years, the Spanish Civil War, and even limited WWII use by Italy and others like Czechoslovakia.
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@Classicbritcom He was a guest at a Steampunk festival a few years back. He had no idea how popular he'd be, and how genuinely loved his work was. Really nice guy. So he shot the audience with a hat with a cannon on it. It's what they would have wanted.
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@qikipedia Or you could spend your life learning PostScript and then AWK in order to rotate it yourself.
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Quite Interesting
Quite Interesting@qikipedia·
In the 1980s, if you wanted to print a document in landscape rather than portrait mode, you had to buy a separate computer programme costing up to $100.
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@TheMonologist If you don't release a film, that does tend to limit the box office. It was also nominated for a bunch of awards about its production. In Britain and Europe, it won them. America? The Academy members were afraid to be seen voting for it. Nada.
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Michael Warburton
Michael Warburton@TheMonologist·
TERRY GILLIAM’s fantasy adventure was a box office disaster making only $8m back from its $46m budget. THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988) But it has a fantastic Cast & is way better than 99% of the shit in Cinemas today.
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@ChungTzuW Late in the war, a PVC 'mackintosh' was produced, but this tended to delaminate in the fabric and T-stoff also destroyed the stitching, causing holes to appear on the seams.
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Grumpy Badger
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@ChungTzuW Pilots had high quality sealskin flightsuits, made from Japanese leather. These protected against (some) T-stoff exposure. Ground crew had cheap German chrome-tanned leather suits. The metal residue in the leather acted as a catalyst.
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Chung-Tzu
Chung-Tzu@ChungTzuW·
Dissolved alive by T-stoff
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Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha
Saunders Roe - "We´ll built the Princess, the world´s largest ever jet seaplane" Kawanishi - hold my beer "The Kawanishi KX-03 flying boat: a 1943 study of an enormous 500-ton transport capable of carrying 900 fully equipped troops over distances of 11,509 miles. It was powered by 12 turboprops and 6 jet engines and manned by a crew of 24" (Note how it completely dwarves the "Spruce Goose") ℹ️ Cancelled Aircraft
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@GMScherr @aviationarchive The turret was too big. They carried 2 MG, but they had to point on the same bearing. Also the turret bearing was big enough to jam easily. The similar (sic) Austin had two turrets. Russian Austins put these 'en echelon', giving each turret a wider field of fire.
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GMS@GMScherr·
@aviationarchive Foxhole made me love early armoured cars with goofy turrets, this one definitely fits the bill. Looks like a big toy.
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@aviationarchive Another Lancia of this era were the 111 armoured lorries of them left by the British departing Ireland. These were used by the new Free State into the 1950s, but had similar problems of heavy bodies overloading the chassis.
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@10DowningStreet But instead of condemning Israel or trump, you've joined us with them in another illegal, unjustified and pointless war.
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UK Prime Minister
UK Prime Minister@10DowningStreet·
Together with our allies, we condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.
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