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Bugatti Type 35: epic races and victories that created a legend
In the annals of motorsport, few cars have proved as successful as the Bugatti Type 35, which made its competition debut 100 years ago. As a race car, the Type 35 was utterly without equal. Ettore Bugatti’s visionary design and engineering principles, coupled with his relentless pursuit of perfection, resulted in a car that dominated Grands Prix, hill climbs, and road rallies across the globe,…
#automotive heritage#automotive history#Bugatti#Bugatti history#Bugatti Type 35#news#Press release#racing#Racing history#Type 35
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Ferrari 312T being used by the crew as a lunch table
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F-Zero was designed both artistically and mechanically to be a cool futuristic game!🏎️
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#history#f zero#nintendo#kazunobu shimizu#formula one racing#video game history#captain falcon#super nintendo entertainment system#mode 7#gaming history#racing#gamer girl#video game development#nintendo history#super smash bros#super smash bros ultimate#ssbu#snes#racing history#1990s#video games#cool#nickys facts
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August 18, 1991
Dale Jarrett’s last lap with Davey Allison for his first Winston Cup Win, in the 1991 Champion Spark Plug 400 at Michigan International Speedway.
#NASCAR#NASCAR Winston Cup#1991 NASCAR Season#August 1991#1991 Champion Spark Plug 400#Michigan International Speedway#Wood Brothers#Robert Yates Racing#The Alabama Gang#Dale Jarrett#Davey Allison#Ford Thunderbird#Citgo#Havoline#Racing History#Stock Car Racing
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Mike Hawthorn
#racing history#car racing#british racing#pipesmoking#vintagemen#pipemen#historic photo#pipes#smoking pipe#tobacco pipe#20th century
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I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.
it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"
plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.
anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.
#blazing saddles#finx watches tv#finx rambles#I recognize that I'm saying all this as someone who's not black#but I am also saying it as someone with a basic understanding of race relations in the usa#and a basic understanding of sarcasm#bc it really does not take more than that to recognize what they're doing in this movie#it is NOT subtle#and it is very funny#mel brooks movies are kinda hit or miss for me ngl#men in tights is great if a bit too crass for my taste#spaceballs has great jokes but the central story lacks any real heart so it doesn't grab me#history of the world was just kind of unpleasant and then I switched it off#but blazing saddles? phenomenal#I could not stop laughing the whole way through#and the central story DOES have heart bc it's the friendship between bart and#whassisname#jim#the Kid#plus bart working out how to succeed at an impossible task#also frankly cleavon little just grounds the comedy really well even before gene wilder shows up and we get their chemistry#bc he's cool calm collected and constantly inviting the audience into the joke#but the character's not too cool to ever mess up or ever be silly#he makes bad choices and gets into bad situations and then has to get himself out of them#but it's.....oh wait duh there's a term for this already#he's the straight man#he grounds all the zany nonsense by being in strong contrast to it#and he does a great job of it!#anyway#point is I deeply enjoyed this movie and I'm glad I finally watched it
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#Hydrogen-powered car race#Toyota Corolla#liquid hydrogen fuel#automotive innovation#decarbonization#extended cruising range#sustainable transportation#clean energy#racing history#automotive future#Japan#Tokyo#reddit
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Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #31
August 9-16 2024
President Biden and Vice-President Harris announced together the successful conclusion of the first negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. For years Medicare was not allow to directly negotiate princes with drug companies leaving seniors to pay high prices. It has been a Democratic goal for many years to change this. President Biden noted he first introduced a bill to allow these negotiations as a Senator back in 1973. Thanks to Inflation Reduction Act, passed with no Republican support using Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote, this long time Democratic goal is now a reality. Savings on these first ten drugs are between 38% and 79% and will collectively save seniors $1.8 billion dollars in out of pocket costs. This comes on top of the Biden-Harris Administration already having capped the price of insulin for Medicare's 3.5 million diabetics at $35 a month, as well as the Administration's plan to cap Medicare out of pocket drug costs at $2,000 a year starting January 2025.
President Biden and Vice President Harris have launched a wide ranging all of government effort to crack down on companies wasting customers time with excessive paperwork, hold times, and robots rather than real people. Some of the actions from the "Time is Money" effort include: The FTC and FCC putting forward rules that require companies to make canceling a subscription or service as easy as signing up for it. The Department of Transportation has required automatic refunds for canceled flights. The CFPB is working on rules to require companies to have to allow customers to speak to a real person with just one button click ending endless "doom loops" of recored messages. The CFPB is also working on rules around chatbots, particularly their use from banks. The FTC is working on rules to ban companies from posting fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, or paying for positive reviews. HHS and the Department of Labor are taking steps to require insurance companies to allow health claims to be submitted online. All these actions come on top of the Biden Administration's efforts to get rid of junk fees.
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden announced further funding as part of the President's Cancer Moonshot. The Cancer Moonshot was launched by then Vice-President Biden in 2016 in the aftermath of his son Beau Biden's death from brain cancer in late 2015. It was scrapped by Trump as political retaliation against the Obama-Biden Administration. Revived by President Biden in 2022 it has the goal of cutting the number of cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years, saving 4 million lives. Part of the Moonshot is Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), grants to help develop cutting edge technology to prevent, detect, and treat cancer. The President and First Lady announced $150 million in ARPA-H grants this week focused on more successful cancer surgeries. With grants to Tulane, Rice, Johns Hopkins, and Dartmouth, among others, they'll help fund imaging and microscope technology that will allow surgeons to more successfully determine if all cancer has been remove, as well as medical imaging focused on preventing damage to healthy tissues during surgeries.
Vice-President Harris announced a 4-year plan to lower housing costs. The Vice-President plans on offering $25,000 to first time home buyers in down-payment support. It's believed this will help support 1 million first time buyers a year. She also called for the building of 3 million more housing units, and a $40 billion innovation fund to spur innovative housing construction. This adds to President Biden's call for a $10,000 tax credit for first time buyers and calls by the President to punish landlords who raise the rent by over 5%.
President Biden Designates the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot a National Monument. The two day riot in Illinois capital took place just blocks away from Abraham Lincoln's Springfield home. In August 1908, 17 people die, including a black infant, and 2,000 black refugees were forced to flee the city. As a direct result of the riot, black community leaders and white allies met a few months later in New York and founded the NAACP. The new National Monument will seek to preserve the history and educate the public both on the horrible race riot as well as the foundation of the NAACP. This is the second time President Biden has used his authority to set up a National Monument protecting black history, after setting up the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument on Emmett Till's 82nd birthday July 25th 2023.
The Department of The Interior announced $775 million to help cap and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells. The money will help cap wells in 21 states. The Biden-Harris Administration has allocated $4.7 billion to plug orphaned wells, a billion of which has already been distributed. More than 8,200 such wells have been capped since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2022. Orphaned wells leak toxins into communities and are leaking the super greenhouse gas methane. Plugging them will not only improve the health of nearby communities but help fight climate change on a global level.
Vice-President Harris announced plans to ban price-gouging in the food and grocery industries. This would be a first ever federal ban on price gouging and Harris called for clear "rules of the road" on price rises in food, and strong penalties from the FTC for those who break them. This is in line with President Biden's launching of a federal Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing in March, and Democratic Senator Bob Casey's bill to ban "shrinkflation". In response to this pressure from Democrats on price gouging and after aggressive questions by Senator Casey and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the supermarket giant Kroger proposed dropping prices by a billion dollars
#Thanks Biden#Joe Biden#kamala harris#Politics#us politics#american politics#Medicare#drug prices#health care#cancer#Cancer moonshot#customer service#Housing#housing crisis#racism#black history#race riot#climate crisis#cost of living#food prices#shrinkflation
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F1 Team history in visual form
More about teams in my 2024 season guide:)
#hope it makes sense!#i've tried to put all the info in there but lmk if there's something i forgot to add#f1#formula 1#f1 info#f1 history#f1 primer#formula one#ferrari#mercedes#mclaren#red bull racing#haas f1 team#sauber#williams racing#aston martin#alpine#f1 guides#miami gp 2024
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#slavery#ron desantis#jason aldean#education#politics#florida#racism deniers#whitewashing history#crt#critical race theory#dei
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‘The King’ Richard Petty wins the 1979 Daytona 500 as the Allison Brothers scrap with Cale Yarborough in this memorable NASCAR finish.
#NASCAR#1979#1979 Daytona 500#Daytona 500#NASCAR Winston Cup#Richard Petty#Cale Yarborough#Bobby Allison#Donnie Allison#Oldsmobile Cutless#Ford Torino#The Alabama Gang#Racing History#Stock Car Racing
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I can’t thug this out anymore 🙁
#f1#formula 1#logan sargeant#ls2#williams racing#james when i catch you james#i can’t anymore#my poor boy 😞#they should have at least done it after monza or like someone who wasn’t a fucking rookie#they just love repeating history huh?#f1 x reader#ohemgee a hit tweet!
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Patron Saint of One Way Trips (2024)
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Acrylic on Wood
#my art#illustration#painting#Laika#russia#Russian history#space race#laika art#1960s#My sweet girl#eclipse
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this is chief among the reasons why i have no respect for black republicans.
#disrespectful black republicans#jim crow era#white approval#historical revisionism#black community#racial injustice#seeking white validation#black conservatives#misrepresentation of history#political pandering#black lives#systemic racism#conservative black voices#white supremacy support#black history distortion#self-hatred in politics#race relations#black identity#minority tokenism#historical denial
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