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Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, is old automobile paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished. It was formed from the built up [sic] of layers of enamel paint slag on tracks and skids on which cars were hand spray-painted (a now automated process), which have been baked numerous times.
ppl freaking out over bernie being like “Excuse me, I am talking” when clinton tried interrupting him during the debate…..have u ever watched a republican debate before. 99% sure ted cruz almost murdered donald trump right there on the spot for interrupting him the other night, just like he did 2 somewhere around 20-28 people in northern california in the late 1960s and early 1970s
i wish media would stop perpetuating the name “trekker”. never in my career have i met anyone who prefers that title over “trekkie”
Organized Trek fandom was started by women, especially the letter writing campaign that convinced NBC to give the show its third season.
In the 1970s many male fans felt “Trekkies” was too feminine (also disturbingly close to “Spockies” which I kid you not was a real thing) so the backlash was to try forcing Trekker into the vernacular. Which was more “masculine” sounding and also similar to the male centric Trucker fandom which also was a thing that existed in the 1970s. Nothing more testosteroney than big rigs and CB radios, amirite fellas?!
Anyway, it never caught on. Thank god.
Oh my God, we’ll that explains the story I just added to this exact post, THANK YOU.
Last year, I went to RICC dressed as Ro Laren. This was literally the first thing that happened when I finally got past the line:
two guys come up from out of nowhere and hug me. “Aww! Star Trek! Awesome!” they said.
Me: Yeah…I’m a huge trekkie.
Guys: Oh. You must mean “trekker.” that’s the correct term that fans preferblahblahblah
Me: No. I meant trekkie.
I can’t believe that they tried to mansplain the word trekkie to me. like, HONESTLY. I know what I’m about.
“The paternoster elevator at Prague City Hall. These door-less, continuously moving lifts are the 1860s invention of Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool, and were once popular all over Eastern Europe and Germany before production ended in the 1970s over safety concerns. ” Video courtesy Jada Yuan
you ever just instantly develop an irrational fear
my toddler brain immediately thought “in what brutal manner will you be crushed if you don’t get out at the last floor” but it turns out thats not one of the ways they will kill you
7 years ago today I looked like I lived in a 1970s hostel
It’s really weird but kinda heartwarming that in Japan it’s tradition to have KFC for Christmas dinner? Like Christmas isn’t a big holiday in Japan to begin with but in the 1970s KFC launched this ad campaign about having KFC for Christmas and it just took off and now KFC has Christmas wine and everything and you have to reserve KFC Christmas dinners in advance and it’s so weird but kinda cute?
It’s really weird but kinda heartwarming that in Japan it’s tradition to have KFC for Christmas dinner? Like Christmas isn’t a big holiday in Japan to begin with but in the 1970s KFC launched this ad campaign about having KFC for Christmas and it just took off and now KFC has Christmas wine and everything and you have to reserve KFC Christmas dinners in advance and it’s so weird but kinda cute?
Christmas cake is also a thing in Japan because it’s thought to be something Americans do and it got started because of American soldiers after WWII and Christian missionaries (at least that’s what I’ve read) but it’s just usually a vanilla and cream cake with strawberries and it always looks so cute and tasty
At least that’s better than fruit cake which I’m convinced has never been edible and if anything it’s a weapon.
The 23rd of January was meant to be another strike day at the Ministry of Justice. Just like the day before, an anti-strike workforce of cleaners, receptionists and security guards had been brought in to keep the building running. Early in the morning, Purma and the other strikers turned up to form a picket line. But then, all at once, they walked inside to do their jobs like normal. Rather than continuing the protest, the workers had secretly coordinated to go back to work a day early.
The unexpected non-strike meant that all the outsourced staff turned up for work and needed to get paid, and so did the anti-strike scab workforce. Someone was going to have to pay a double wage bill.
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Deliveroo and UberEats riders, however, are masters of the mindfuck. Because they’re technically self-employed, the laws on strike action and trade unions don’t apply to them. That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window. Instead, these workers can just do what makes sense to them. The result has been an explosion in militancy, as the platforms try to cut their workers’ already-low wages. Strikes are now breaking out every couple of weeks with little or no prior notice. They’re organised through complex networks of encrypted messenger chats which are completely invisible to platform bosses, meaning that all their standard management techniques need to be rewritten.
Remind them that the alternatives to them treating us fairly at the negotiating table is Open Goddamn War
I tried the AI time travel app and this is what I’d look like as an Egyptian, a Viking, from the 1950s, and the 1970s 😍
