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SSTF to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago

GE Beetle, designed and assembled between 1958 and 1961, was a shielded vehicle meant to work on nuclear powered bomber planes.

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GE Beetle, designed and assembled between 1958 and 1961, was a shielded vehicle meant to work on nuclear powered bomber planes.

SSTF to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days ago
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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    Good ol General Electric

    Washing Machines
    Refrigerators
    Electric Stoves (before they were cool)
    Helicopter Front-mounted Machine Guns
    Shielded Nuclear Plane and Sub Maintenance Vehicles

    Sure, they looked dumb and weren’t very spacious, but I guarantee you some stuff they built in the 50s are still seeing heavy use today.

    • benignintervention@piefed.social
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      And then Jack Welch entered the scene and destroyed the company and also hundreds of thousands of lives

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        • SSTFOP
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          In the words of Alec Baldwin: “You’ve got to shoot your shot.”

        • benignintervention@piefed.social
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          You right

      • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
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        And somehow is the idol of every MBA exec.

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    Thing looks like R.O.B if he was REALLY into steroids.

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    Armored Core as fuck

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