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10 Short Videos #6194

10 Short Videos #6194

MY HEART WILL GO ON LIVE COVER || CELINE DION - Mom sings in the kitchen

ELITE Soldiers Vs Fast DRONE

Crazy Winger Went FLYING 🤯😱

The Most Dangerous Light for Photography? - homemade carbon arc

Hoeker in stormy weather at Madestein 12 jul 2026 #rc-sailing

Everyone Laughed At His Technique… 🤯🥇 - Fosbury Flop

THIS happened when we were training 💀😭 - handstand on barbell

SURFING A 6ft SWIVEL SKI

Wall of rain approaching! 🌧️ - Alabama

Trades chanting like soldiers

Hard Reset

A Dream of Italy - Robert S. Duncanson

Not a cheerful outlook, but perhaps a realistic one:

Hard Reset by Brett Stevens

Kind of a similar theme to my last post. 

Circumstantial Evidence

Stolen entire from JMSmith:

Circumstantial Evidence

“Society has always the Scylla and Charybdis of Socialism and Individualism on its right hand and its left, and it is never without danger from the one or the other. It is sometimes, of course, in much more danger from the one than from the other” Robert Flint, Socialism (1906)

Robert Flint (1838-1910) was a Scottish theologian and philosopher who was neither a socialist nor an individualist.  As he very helpfully explains, a healthy society balances society’s need for cooperation and the individual’s need for elbow room. A sane and sensible man therefore inclines to socialism or individualism when he believes his society or local circumstances have drifted too far in the opposite direction.  

I incline to socialism if my neighbor has taken to keeping twelve howling wolfhounds chained in his back yard; I incline to individualism if he demands that every house on the street fly four American flags on the Fourth of July.

There are, of course, absolute socialists who would like to see everyone perfectly equal and entirely the same.  There are absolute individualists with imperial egos that will be curbed by nothing short of guns and fists.  But between these lunatics the mass of humanity aims to sail between Scylla and Charybdis in a society that blends sociability and freedom to maximize the good.

Flint’s explanation helps us to think sanely about all sorts of ideological positions.  A sane man inclined to “authoritarianism” when his circumstances give every sign that canibal orgies are about to break out in the streets, but that same man will incline to “libertarianism” if a meddlesome harpy phones the police because a whiff of cigar smoke has drifted over her backyard fence.  A sane man inclines to “ritualism” when gibbering energumen are rolling in the aisles of his church, but that same man will incline to “charismatic enthusiasm” if a dull and precisian priest allows cobwebs to be spun between the sagging shoulders of parishioners and the pews.

Our ideological positions are, in other words, circumstantial and not absolute.  In whatever direction we may be inclined at the moment, a shift in circumstances can (and should) cause us to change.

Wheeled Robot

I’m building something I probably shouldn’t...
Excessive Overkill

Great video! I don't know what this guy is planning on building, but I will definitely be checking up on him. I had a job in Houston 50 years ago (!) delivering scissor-lift work platforms, much like the one being cannibalized in the video. I did some repair work like replacing hydraulic hoses and splicing broken wires. Most were new machines so they didn't require much work. So this is kind of like old home week. 50 years ago there wasn't much in the way of robots. Times have changed.

Sabetta, Yamal LNG Plant

Sabetta, Yamal LNG Plant
(the red placemark in the upper right corner)

Report from RT:

EU buying record Russian LNG volumes with total ban looming – Financial Times

Can't get enough gas from pipelines, especially since some of the pipelines dun got blowed up. What's the deal with Europeans? Are they crazy? Stupid? Or evil? I just don't get it.

LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) has appeared here a couple of times.

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