10 Short Videos #6231

10 Short Videos #6231

1. オムロン多機能タイムリレー徹底解説｜制御部品のメカニズム解析 - A thorough explanation of Omron's multi-function time relay | Mechanism analysis of control components
2. Heavy Utility Truck Anchor Digging Into Earth
3. Best Sounding Missile System Ever - Strela-10
4. 대형 바위 해체를 위한 중장비 견인 파쇄 공정 - Heavy equipment towing crushing process for dismantling large rocks
5. Do you remember the legendary masterpiece from the All Japan Costume Contest? 🎭✨.
6. My Knob - rotary encoder
7. The green one has probably worked in Hollywood 😂 - Birds play acting
8. he found treasure - grapes
9. Why Number 2 Pencils?
10. Me thinking i have mastered English Meanwhile a random British

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Saildrone

Saildrone Surveyor USV (unmanned surface vehicle) armed with Lockheed Martin JAGM (Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles) Missiles

First I have heard about Saildrone. Apparently it is an unmanned vessel that moves about using the wind on that big vane sticking out of the deck. Defence Blog has the story.

3D Figurines

3D Custom Figurine

TEMU, source of endless amusement, has done it again. You send them a picture of someone and they will 3D print a figurine based on that photo for like $15. The figure is about six inches tall.

National debt hits $40 trillion

The US Department of the Treasury building in Washington, DC [Daniel Heuer/Reuters]

Aljazeera has the story, but it raises as many questions as it answers. For example:

Total debt, which includes debt owed to others and what the government owes itself, has doubled since January 2017, when Trump began his first term as president. US debt at the time was $19.95 trillion.

The government owes money to itself? What does that even mean?

Here's the elephant in the room:

The US spends about $7 trillion annually, with about 60 percent of that going to Social Security Administration (SSA) payments, health insurance including Medicare and Medicaid, and veterans’ care.

I have no idea how to fix that.

Public debt borrowed from domestic and foreign investors makes up 80 percent – roughly $32 trillion – of the gross debt, according to Treasury data.

. . . 

Separately, another 20 percent of the gross national debt – about $8 trillion – is owed intra-governmentally and therefore does not affect overall finances.

There we go with 'the government owes money to itself' again. 

I'm still going with ten years until we get hyperinflation and things get really bad.

From a previous post:

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.

Fried Chicken

Krispy Krunchy Chicken (Sophia Mick)

I like fried chicken, though I don't get it very often because - reasons? I'm not sure. Anyway, here's a story for you:

Krispy Krunchy Chicken Has 35 Metro-Area Outposts. Ever Heard of It? - Matt Kalinowski

You’d likely guess that KFC is the country’s biggest fried chicken chain, with 4,100 locations. But No. 2 is less obvious. It’s not Chick-fil-A (3,100 locations), Popeyes (2,000) or Church’s (975) but Krispy Krunchy Chicken.

Who?

KKC flies under the radar by cleverly leveraging gas stations and convenience stores that have full kitchens and fryers. A lot of them. Founded in 1989 in Lafayette, La., the privately held company numbers 3,600 locations in 49 states. It even has the quaint origin story of being started by a single convenience store owner, Neal Onebane, a real-life Cajun with a very good fried chicken recipe.

Read the whole thing here, it's an entertaining story.

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