10 Short Videos #6309

10 Short Videos #6309

1. con viento 🛬👨🏼‍✈️🌲 - with wind - small plane lands on dirt strip
2. The gazelle played those dogs 🤣🤣
3. Anduril's New Bolt M kamikaze drone!
4. Giant harvester
5. Captain, crew and engine. All me 😂🇫🇮🔥 - Self service ferry
6. Heaven's IT Guy - When Your Faith Keeps Crashing
7. PART 7 READING EMAILS - Electrician reading customer fantasy
8. Cost in Units of 2012 Chevrolet Camaro - Military munitions
9. If they made comedy like this 😂 we would have less stress - Trunk monkey
10. My life is a lie pal 🐒 - Sam Alkhatib

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China

is it so different?
Nanjec
"The biggest natively spoken language on the entire planet." (40 second mark)
We have watched several Chinese historical fantasy dramas on Netflix, half a dozen this year. The clothes and sets are fabulous, and there are long scenes where we have fancy people just standing around and talking. The talk is mostly in consequential, but every so often someone drops a hint and, if you are paying attention, you will start to pick up on the evil plot the bad guys are making. But they all end the same way, happily, the guy gets the girl, the villains are foiled, and all is right with the world.

We watch these shows in Chinese and read the subtitles. Even after all this exposure, spoken Chinese to me is still incomprehensible, so the I found the above video to be enlightening.

 
Inside Chongqing’s Massive Hot Pot Industry
saintcavish
I don't much care about Hot Pot (an interactive, communal dining style where diners cook raw, bite-sized ingredients right at the table in a pot of simmering soup or stock), but first minute and a half he gives an overview of the town of Chongqing, and I found that interesting.

 

Changqing is in the middle of China


Chongqing is a big place. This map is about 500 miles wide.

There's a lot going on in China and my knowledge of the place is decidedly lacking. I have a pretty good understanding of the history of Western Civilization, but my understanding of the history of Asia is pretty poor. To that I end I looked up the section on Chinese history at Powell's City of Books today. Powell's, if you don't know, is big place, it's three story building and covers a whole city block. They've got a zillion books, but surprisingly, the section on Chinese history was only two books cases, and one case was devoted entirely to Communist China, i.e. the People's Republic of China (PRC), not be confused with the Republic of China (ROC - Taiwan).

Anyway, I picked up a copy of Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh. Don't know when I'll get around to reading it. I'm only halfway through the copy of A Quantum Mythology that I picked up in Las Vegas two months ago.

I've also encountered a few short videos about China, collected in a playlist here.

Intel

Agentic AI Concept – AI Generated

Talking to my lawn man the other day and he tells me about the Hillsboro Herald, a local news site / blog, so I go take a look and I find some curious stuff, like this story about the local politcal fight over data centers, and this story about Intel:

The Call Intel Couldn’t Give — Why Wall Street Misread the Fab 28 Panic

Sum dood has been collecting financial data about Intel for a few years and is feeding it an AI program, presumably to predict the future so he can make good bets in the stock market. It's kind of a long and complicated story about AI and finance. I'm not really interested, but you might be. 

10 Short Videos #6308

10 Short Videos #6308

1. Bunny came back for a rematch ! - dogs racing quarter horse
2. My new Halloween costume🎃| 2026
3. This Bird Can Fly Again
4. (Adrenaline / Drift Focus): SIDEWAYS AT MAXIMUM LEAN ANGLE! Kawasaki Ninja H2R Slow Motion Drift
5. I used to dream of this - Flying cars
6. Smallest Fighter, Biggest Weapon - Crab & jellyfish
7. 卷 4️⃣同行先天打工聖體人 - Volume 4️⃣ Fellow Travelers with Innate Working Spirits
8. Do you think he liked his present - highland cow
9. Cobra Picks a Fight With the WRONG Cow! 🐍🐄
10. Check out the latest creation from Kindig-It designs named “Shark Bite”

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1964 Plymouth Barracuda

1964 Plymouth Barracuda

1964 Plymouth Barracuda Interior

273 V8 Small Block Engine

Base price of the Barracuda in 1964 was $2,512. According to Wikipedia, that is equivalent to $26,000 in today's money. According to the Pergelator (me), that $2500 is equivalent to $250,000 in today's money, which means cars cost only about one-fifth of what they cost 60 years ago. This is what modern manufacturing has brought us - material goods that are vastly cheaper in terms of real value than they used to be. What this also means is there is a whole lot more profit to be made from making and selling things, which might explain the proliferation of very wealthy people.