• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We fucking LOVED DDT back in the day.

    These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950:

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      6 months ago

      Holy Silent Spring and Merchants of Doubt, Clair Patterson! That’s some Nuka-cola snake oil shit right there. Ye gods.

      Nog and Quark in Area 51, the smell of tobacco and profit fill the air.

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      6 months ago

      You can almost feel the paranoia that some folks have about a little bit of dirt or a couple of bugs in their house forming in 20th century advertising.