French tanker wearing a British 'splatter mask' to protect against shrapnel/'spalling' in the tank, WW1, 1918

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Dystopian as fuck
- No. That is just wartime PPE
  
  Now, when that becomes standard attire for cybertruck owners? THAT is when we enter a dystopia.
  
  It's a very dystopian aesthetic, though. The right mixture of 'crude' and 'industrial'.
- Very dieselpunk. WW1 was wild.
WW1 was supposed to be The Last War, shame they made it a sequel
- The Great War wasn't so great after all
This looks like a zdzislaw beksinski painting
Any evidence that they worked?
- A metal mask will probably be better than no metal mask. Almost surely for the eyes.
Look at them shutter shades.

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