Saturday, June 6, 2026
10 Short Videos #6155
This Stone is Flexible?
Sorry, I accidentally did the opposite. - Post-it notes
These DISCS Will Bend Your Mind! - "Two Times"
Launch control into a cement pillar - impressive amount of damage
Everyone Asked How We Do It...- Launching a truck off a ramp using cables
Otter Takes On an Orca (PART 2)
DAY 74 of 💯 posting everyday this spot is so relaxing - Remarkably capable RC truck
Evolutionary Arms Race: The Game! (CHEETAH vs. PRONGHORN)
a seaman's dialy life
Ram Being Teased - Ozzy Man Quickies
Gotha G.V German WWI Bomber
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| Gotha G.V German Air Service Bomber WWI |
The Gotha G.V bomber was powered by (2) 6-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engines with 260 horsepower each.
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| Internal fuselage arrangement of Burkhard's G.II through G.IV bomber designs. In G.Vs the Gotha tunnel was expanded, the bomb bay and the gangway were replaced with a fuel tank. |
Gotha Attack! The First London Blitz 1917
Mark Felton Productions
Flyboys 2006 - German Gotha Bomber Plane [HD]
Tonii Curtis Smith II
Friday, June 5, 2026
Beaufort Castle, Lebanon
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| View Looking Northwest from Beaufort Castle |
You may heard that Isreali Defense Forces (the IDF) occupied the ancient Beaufort Castle in Lebanon. I like castles so I go looking for pics. I quickly realize what I want is a 3D view of the place. Google Maps used to deliver that, but that facility (ability) has now been shunted over to Google Earth and response time on Google Earth is abysmal. The 3D view on Google Maps was great, you could pan and tilt to your heart's content and the view on the screen would pretty much keep up with you. 3D view on Google Earth is like that ol' hound dog from Saturday morning cartoons who can't be bother to get up much less fetch anything. What was his name? Droopy?
How about a video? Ask YouTube for Beaufort Castle and all you get is news reports about the Israelis and the only information about the castle is what you get is in the first line of the Wikipedia page.
The IDF has a video which gives you a good view of the castle. Parts of this video have been borrowed (stolen?) by everyone and their mother including Hezbollah, which I thought was pretty weird, but maybe that's just the world today.
Anyway, I looked around and I think I found four views of the castle from the four cardinal directions. Put that together with the video and you might get an idea of how this place is laid out.
IDF Releases Footage Showing Troops Seizing Historic Beaufort Castle in Southern Lebanon | APT
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| Southeast Corner Beaufort Castle |
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| West Side Beaufort Castle |
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| East Side Beaufort Castle - Getty / dpa |
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| View from Beaufort Castle |
I tried to logon to United Health Care and it couldn't, so it suggested I delete some cookies from my browser. I did that and now all my pictures and links are screwed up, I so I don't even know what these pics are anymore.
IDF Releases Footage Showing Troops Seizing Historic Beaufort Castle in Southern Lebanon | APT
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| Beaufort Castle Streetview Map |
Google Map's Streetview is notably lacking in Lebanon. This Streetview Map of the castle is only about a quarter mile across. There are no other Streetviews of Lebanon except for one road near the coast.
Amerimacka - The Cosmic Game
Amerimacka - The Cosmic Game
Thievery Corporation
I'm thinking that everything we have built are all devices to expand the reach of the most savage animals on the planet. Humans, shoot, all living things are almost infinitely complex. No matter how much we have learned about the human body, we have only scratched the surface. Everything we have figured out is like a cheat code to get us past some obstacle. Someday, maybe, we will understand it all, but I suspect it will be more than one person can comprehend. We might need a hive mind to be able to really understand it all. Some people might be okay with being a member of hive mind, but I suspect most people won't be. Or maybe I overestimate the desire for independent thought.
I've been hearing the argument about capitalism versus socialism since forever. It occurs to me that the big problem with capitalism is that it makes no provision for anyone but the winners. As we develop new technologies, all those who learned a trade under the old ways will find themselves out of a job. Some of the new kids will learn the new ways and be incorporated into the capitalist hive, but because they are more productive, the hive won't need as many of them, so all the excluded are going to be pushed out to the edges. Problem lately is that productivity has been improving faster so we have new waves of technology constantly rolling over the landscape. These wave went from 10,000 years (think fire and ax) to 1,000 years (stone buildings) to 100 years (sailing ships) to ten years (rockets and satellites) to one year (smart phones) to monthly (I can barely keep up) to daily (I'm swamped) to hourly (we're all swept away).
All this talk getting rid of billionaires isn't helping. Take a billion dollars from one person and distribute it to ten million people and each person gets $100, which might buy a tank of gas and, if you're lucky, a six pack of beer. And a week later, where are you? Howling for another billionaire. You would need 50 billionaires to get everyone $100 a week for a year. That ain't gonna work.
We've seen that welfare doesn't really work. Giving money to the poor has just given us a permanent underclass. The biggest problem is that it is very difficult to organize a group of people into a productive operation. The problem is not that we have a shortage of organizers. We have plenty of organizers doing non-productive things, like running scam calling centers, or defrauding the government. To build a productive organization you need an idea that is a least plausible, and someone who is willing to take the gamble that it will pay off. It might work out and it might not, but someone has to be willing to try.
But all this fussing about jobs and housing and war is just avoiding the elephant in the room - the umpteen zillion old folks on social security and Medicare. All I can see is that inflation is going to continue to increase. I suspect it might be ten years before the rate starts going up monthly. About then the rate will start going up exponentially and within months we'll be using trillion dollar bank notes to buy groceries. That's when people will start using the Chinese Yen or Crypto-bit strings.
Tokyo Swindlers - Netflix Series
Tokyo Swindlers | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix Malaysia
A small group of people carefully prepares everything they need to sell a piece of property they do not own. Their preparations begin with a scout who locates a piece of real estate that might work with their scheme. Then they prepare artfully forged documents and a carefully rehearse a chump to play the owner.
We only watched a couple of episodes. The show does a good job of showing the technical aspects of the fraud, but we never got attached to any of the characters.
10 Short Videos #6154
This Curtain Protects Your Privacy Automatically - Passive aggressive curtain
This Dog Has Life Figured Out.😂🐶
Is the owl always this dramatic？🦉🦉
Bunny Terrifies Horses - Ozzy Man Quickies
We probably can.- Chris Kohler News - Uber Eets
I know she did! - Railway ballast song - Very weird
Sugar Glider：A Tiny Gliding Cutie
Evolutionary Arms Race: The Game! (BAT vs. MOTH)
This project has been 14 years in the making!! I’m excited that it’s finally complete! - Glass plate photograph
lol I failed my inspection - home building inspection with no whining
Five animal videos today.
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