This doesn't sound like old news at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQ4W3y88eo

1954: The END of RATIONING | BBC News | Classic News Report | BBC Archive

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"The ration book has done its job. It's been a long job. Indeed, children up to school-leaving age have never known life without the ration book."

On the fourth of July, the rationing of meat in Britain came to an end, the final step in dismantling Britain's whole wartime system of food distribution. After fourteen long years, Britons can at last tear up their ration books.

Richard Baker looks back at some of the key moments in the story of rationing and de-rationing.

Originally broadcast 5 July, 1954.

Assange is free

https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1805478946739245239

https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1805488867266449728

https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1805440497663496379

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1805583599317795016

@ThinPicking That was cute!

@ThinPicking If one is only indirectly affected by a climate disaster, he will nonetheless see great value in a water filtering system, alternative power sources and a portable radio.

This is funny, right? Right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
BBC 1957: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism

@ThinPicking you might also want to add

• flashlight and batteries
• candles and matches
• knee high (or higher) wellington boots
• waterproof fishing bib / outdoor pants / raincoat
• doxycycline (prophylatic use = 1 pill weekly)
• drinking water
• shelf-stable food
• portable stove / cooker and fuel
• life jacket
• ETA: air mattress, gloves, 2 power banks at least 20,000 mAh
• inflatable boat and paddles
• penknife
• toolkit
• 12 gauge shotgun
• flamethrower
• wooden cross, wooden stakes + hammer, and garlic
• chainsaw / axe
• pistol and silver bullets

@DavidPS "other industry" = "war industry"?

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

Environment
How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

by Sharon Lerner, photography by Haruka Sakaguchi, special to ProPublica
May 20, 6 a.m. EDT
Co-published with The New Yorker

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Kris Hansen had worked as a chemist at the 3M Corporation for about a year when her boss, an affable senior scientist named Jim Johnson, gave her a strange assignment. 3M had invented Scotch Tape and Post-­it notes; it sold everything from sandpaper to kitchen sponges. But on this day, in 1997, Johnson wanted Hansen to test human blood for chemical contamination.

Several of 3M’s most successful products contained man-made compounds called fluorochemicals. In a spray called Scotchgard, fluorochemicals protected leather and fabric from stains. ........