10 Short Videos #6180

10 Short Videos #6180

This Simple Trick Mechanical Pitchfork Cuts Hay Loading Time in Half

One of the simplest designs ever. #bushhog #dairylife #sidewinder

바다에 돌 투하하는 거친 현장 - Building a breakwater

THE ULTIMATE SAFETY PROTOCOL: Deploying Heavy Buffers For Runaway Cargo Control - Mining

the audacity - Russian girlfriend

Plane Water Bombs Truck!

Torque and Newton’s Third Law Cause This Epic Boat Drift! 

Trichia- Slime Molds ✨❤️ - Mushroom girl returns

Ekologiczne nawożenie pola! 💥 Gülle und Mist ausbringen ASMR! - Ecological fertilization of the field!

work - riveting a bridge

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Nakajima Ki-87

Threatening Skies - Antonis Karidis
Nakajima Ki-87 high-altitude fighter attacking a B-29 Superfortress

Japan started working on the Nakajima Ki-87 well before the B-29 appeared, but they only managed to construct one prototype before the war ended, so it never saw combat.

Previous post about the Nakajima Aircraft Company.
Previous posts about the B-29.

Image is from the cover for a plastic model kit.

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10 Short Videos #6179

10 Short Videos #6179

Watch an F-15 Plug Into a Tanker in 360°

Can a Lockheed C-130J REALLY Do This!?! - Loop

would you let me mount you for macro photography? - close up photo of bug

How to shoot in all conditions - bullet in flight

Exceptional 🔥 - Crazy Train accompanies cardboard tube battle

you were existing…. - then you got a Russian wife

Earthquake Caught on Camera While Fishing! 🌎🎣

White rubber, black tires

Fighting Scrabble Tiles

This man has earned his right to an increase in wages 😳🫢 - removing porpoise from fish net

10 Short Videos #6178

10 Short Videos #6178

A fish that knows how to use tools—a rare find - Tusk fish opens clam

urvive the water.Rule the sky🇺🇸 - Military helicopters making moves

Pulled From The Depths of Pearl Harbor MASSIVE 16-Inch BATTLESHIP Breech - open & close

The War Siren Heard For Miles 🔊⚔️

THE SNAIL THAT SAVES CORAL REEFS - eats starfish for lunch

Feel a 300-Year-Old Surgery With Your Own Hand

This is the giant European legless lizard!

#戲曲傳承與創新 #戲曲傳播新思路 #青年戲曲文化傳播 #青年戲曲傳承傳播者 #戲曲舞臺技術技巧 - Traditional Chinese Opera Inheritance and Innovation #New Ideas for Traditional Chinese Opera Dissemination #Youth Traditional Chinese Opera Culture Dissemination #Young Traditional Chinese Opera Inheritors and Disseminators #Traditional Chinese Opera Stage Techniques

서로 엉덩이를 때리면서 ‘삼진송’ 김해리(Kim Hae-ri[金海莉])치어리더 - Cheerleader Kim Hae-ri singing the 'Samjin Song' while slapping each other's butts

20mm Anti-Tank Rifle Vs 400lb Weight! (Kentucky Ballistics)

P-51 Mustang

Miss Helen - North American P-51D Mustang

From Warbird Aviation:

P-51D Mustang “Miss Helen” was delivered to the US Army Air Force (USAAF) in 1945 where she saw active service in World War II with 352 Fighter Group (FG) ‘The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney’, and has several confirmed kills to her name. ​She was flown by Capt. Raymond Littge as ‘Miss Helen’ and by later by Lt. Russell Ross as ‘Miss Nita’. Today wearing the same paint scheme as she did in 1945 and is the last original 352nd Fighter Group P-51 known to exist. 352 FG flew nearly 60,000 combat hours in just 19 months of WWII, claiming 519 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air, 287 on the ground and produced 26 aces for losses of 118 aircraft. Her full name is ‘P-51D-20NA 44-72216’ and when she was delivered to Capt. Littge he already had a kill tally of 10.5, including an Me 262.

It’s uncertain exactly how many missions Littge flew in Miss Helen but it’s known for sure that he flew her on a mission escorting B-17 bombers to the marshalling yards in Dresden on April 17th 1945, along with another 51 Mustangs. ​They came across an airfield at Platting with about 70 parked aircraft and Littge made an astonishing seven passes, destroying three Me 109s and 2 Me262s on the ground, despite having been hit in the initial attack on enemy flak positions which nearly emptied his oil tank.

​She’s passed through several hands since the War, including those of the Royal Swedish Air Force and Israeli Air Force, starred in the Hollywood film Memphis Belle, and is now owned by Robert Tyrrell and based at the Boultbee Flight Academy at Goodwood Aerodrome.

Several earlier posts about the P-51.

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Tagusari Brothers - Netflix Series

Tagusari Brothers

Tagusari Brothers is a Japanese crime drama starring Masaki Okada and Shota Sometani. The story follows two brothers who join the police as a detective and a medical examiner. Acting as police officers, in each episode they investigate a new murder. On their own, they continue to try and unravel the mystery of their parent's murder that happened thirty years ago. Curious characters, curious cases.

Why have they waited this long to start investigating this crime? Near as I can tell, they were prompted by a new law that declared a statue of limitations on crimes committed before some date, or after some date, I was never clear about exactly what changed. In any case it was enough to prompt these two to start investigating their parents murder. They didn't start before then because the police were investigating and the brothers, being good Japanese citizens, do what they are told and leave the investigation to the police. This unquestioned faith in the police is exactly what got their father killed.

Their father worked in a machine shop. One of his coworkers has a wife who needs an expensive operation, so he takes on a side job of making some guns for the local mafia. The guns are made and they just need to be delivered. Right then, the sick wife collapses at the machine shop. The coworker entrusts delivery of the package to the boy's father. Everything would have been fine as long as the father doesn't open the package, but he does, and then he compounds his error telling everyone within earshot that he is going to report this to the police. The mafia is not happy and so mark him for execution.

It turns out that when the assassin arrives to kill the parents, they are already dead, or on their way, having been poisoned. The assassin knows nothing of the poison and the parents are still breathing, so the assassin follows through on his mission and kills them.

So who poisoned the parents? The pawnshop owner. Her father was also killed by the mafia because the gun deal went bad. Seems a little extreme, but maybe dealing in guns makes people super paranoid.

No trailer, but here's a couple of items of interest.

Pentax 645N Medium Format Camera
Shows up in episode 4 near the 14 minute mark

Illegal gun made in local factory
Shows up in the last minute of episode 4

Is it a problem if you don't notice it?

Problems experienced by original owners of three-year-old vehicles

Looking at this chart got me to wondering if it is accurate. Maybe we aren't looking at the actual number of problems, but the psychological profile of people who buy these cars. Maybe people who buy Volvos and Volkswagens are more particular about their cars, and people who buy Lexii are just oblivious. Or maybe people who drive Lexii have other things on their minds and can't be bothered with problems with their car.

To the Stratosphere

Solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft attached to a high-altitude balloon -  Ondirae Abdullah-Robinson

Defence Blog reports:

U.S. Army soldiers attached a solar-powered fixed-wing aircraft to a high-altitude balloon at Orote Airfield on Naval Station Guam on June 24, 2026, and prepared to launch the combination into the stratosphere as part of Valiant Shield 2026, the largest U.S.-led joint exercise in the Indo-Pacific.

This aircraft can cruise indefinitely at an altitude of 60,000 feet, which is 50% higher than commercial airliners. This is like U-2 territory (U-2 can reach 70,000 feet). Spy satellites will only have a specific spot on Earth visible for like ten minutes out of every 90 minute orbit, plus you only need a conventional radio to talk to an aircraft, not a specialized satellite communicator. Not sure why you can't use a conventional radio to talk to a satellite. Maybe because spy satellites have low power transmitters so you need a directional antennae to pick up their signal.

Previous posts about balloons and high altitude.

Venezuela Earthquakes

Venezuela Earthquake Slider

Notice how the shadows from the tall buildings in the left hand image disappear in the right hand one. Aljazeera has several other slider views of the damage wrought by the recent earthquakes. It's pretty bad.

10 Short Videos #6177

10 Short Videos #6177

Squirrels collecting nuts

Kronstadt Dock vs British Shipyard: Physics in Service of the Empire

The $60 Million "Scaffold" That Hid Nuclear Bombers From Invisible Death

Amazing People - Unreal Skills | Respect 🔥 102

One Stick, One String… Infinite Precision! 🏹 Ancient Horn Bow Making Process

GENIUS Cable Ferry LETS You Cross Roaring Rivers With ZERO Engines!

THE HOOD THAT SCARED THE WORLD

The micro monsters doesn’t wait for disaster💦. They lives inside it.

How to get natural light - sunlight tunnels

That’s not how it works pal 

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Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9 Mimetall

Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9 Mimetall
Image is from IGB model

Germany built over 20,000 of these fighter aircraft during WW2. Mimetall refers to the Mimetall GmbH factory in Erfurt, Germany, which manufactured the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 fighter during the final stages of World War II.

Rock Monster

Rock Monster

The aliens in Disclosure Day were disappointing. Shoot, every science fiction show I have seen that has alien life forms that are roughly humanoid has been disappointing, and they are all like that, aren't they? Which got me thinking - what kind of alien life form might we encounter? So I got to thinking about those fungi the live underground in the forest and cover acres. How about a slimy, jelly like alien that lives in the cracks of rocks and actually has enough strength to push the rocks around. It could do things like reshape a hill or open or close a cavern. It it got tired of its neighbors, it could break free and become a rogue rock monster. Lego a variety of them, and I think Marvel has a character that is made of rocks. You don't always have to use humanoids for aliens.

10 Short Videos #6176

10 Short Videos #6176

THE CENSER THAT FLEW THROUGH A WINDOW

Prop Shovel DIY

Holy moly!! Cheerleader Park Ye-eun, as dazzling as the sunshine

BEES DON’T JUST WORK. THEY ALSO SELF-MEDICATE.

Don’t know what she’s talking about 😳 #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autism

Old school comedy, probably get banned these days but still funny

This building's shadow was illegal

Liebherr 9800 Mining Excavator!!

This Wild Sea Otter Has Better Vacation Plans Than Us

How Iranian F-5s Bombed a US Base

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Ressentiment

 The execution of Louis XVI in 1793.

Stolen entire from My Daily Kona who got it from Liam Out Loud

A Culture of Violent Ressentiment

 

An insatiable lust for violence and destruction is bubbling up in the collective psyche of the worst among us.

An incel Marxist goes on a shooting spree in Montreal and leaves behind a 104-page manifesto. Charlie Kirk was brutally murdered and a significant number of people celebrated. Luigi Mangione assassinated a CEO and countless people called him a hero. Others will tell you, in supposedly polite company, that they wish the attempts on Trump’s life had succeeded. I open X and a post about a trans person murdering someone for misgendering them has thousands of likes from people insisting it would be justified. Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire launched a wave of calls to eat the rich. On Facebook I find a page called Guillotines for a Better America, with a post claiming “all of your problems are because billionaires have heads,” and commenters debating whether they should execute millionaires too. One says all capitalists — which presumably means everyone who owns a business or a home. Another proposes starting with the wealthiest, waiting seven days, killing the next, and repeating until things improve, as though French Revolution-style slaughter were the surest road to prosperity.

We are told these are all different. And in scale, perhaps they are — some carry lethal consequences, others are only confessions typed into a screen. Most people treat them as unrelated problems, each with its own thing to blame. I believe they are deeply linked. The murderer, the celebrant, and the online daydreamer all hold the same conviction: that blood is the only path to a better world.

In each case, people argue over the cause. With the Montreal killer, one camp calls him an incel, another points to his Marxism, another to his anti-Zionism. Each reading holds some truth. But they share one flaw — they all assume the belief came first and the violent impulse second. That these were ordinary people until an idea entered them, took hold, and drove them to something horrific. Radicalization as infection.

Corrupted people do not stumble into dangerous ideas. They go looking for them.

Ideology can and does corrupt people. But the opposite is the more compelling explanation: that corrupted people seek out ideologies to justify their twisted aims. Centuries before the comment section, Nietzsche diagnosed this in his own time. He called it ressentiment — not ordinary anger, which comes and goes, but the slow poison of those who surrender all hope and autonomy, come to see themselves as perpetual victims, and resent the world for it. And ressentiment is creative. It does not merely sour a person on the inside. It builds values, justifications, entire moral systems designed to make a grudge feel like justice.

Nietzsche wrote that every drive within a person wants to become master, and once it rules, it philosophizes in its own spirit. The feeling takes the throne first. The philosophy is what the feeling dictates. We imagine we reason our way to our convictions and then feel accordingly. More often it runs the other way. The emotion seizes power, then conscripts whatever ideas will make its bloodlust feel virtuous.

These people say they want a better world. The guillotine page talks about co-ops and worker ownership. The killer’s manifesto promises an end to the loneliness that wrecks ordinary men. The activist swears the violence is self-defense for the oppressed. We are told this is idealism that has lost its way. But watch where the energy goes. The guillotine crowd is vivid, specific, and delighted about the killing. The Montreal manifesto spends pages detailing who must be liquidated and how, and offers only a flimsy sketch of the communal society that supposedly justifies it. All of these people — back to Marx himself — spend far more time naming who deserves to be on the receiving end of theft and violence than working out how their ideal society would actually function, let alone building it.

This is the difference between a genuine grievance and a pathological one. Ressentiment only subtracts. It locates the entire source of its suffering outside itself and proposes to remove that source from the face of the earth. Take off the billionaires’ heads. Liquidate the favored men. Cut down the one who said the wrong pronoun. None of these are doctrines aimed at stability or coherence. They are justifications for resentment.

That is why these movements hate the language of self-improvement — why the manifesto sneers at lifting weights, at becoming confident, at building something. It is why all the blame falls on the health insurance CEO and none on the millions living with lifestyle-induced chronic disease. It is why billionaires’ heads become the cause of all your problems. To improve yourself is to admit you have agency over your own life, and agency is surrendered long before ressentiment swallows the soul. That is what the sane are truly up against. Not a single ideology, but the spirit that spawns them all.

Piccard goes where no one has gone before

The First Trip To Earth’s Stratosphere Was A Disaster
SciShow

Different Piccard, but still an explorer. Piccards have appeared here before:

• First Solar Powered Airplane to have flown around the world
• Whale Graveyard

Re-2000

Re-2000 fighters Royal Hungarian Air Force

Reggiane Re.2000 Falco I was a minor player in WW2. It was designed and initially built in Italy. Italy made almost 200 of these airplanes. Hungary made 200 more under license. Performance was good in 1940 - speed of 300 MPH and altitude of 30,000 feet, but it was soon outclassed.

Hungarian Air Force Reggiane Re.2000 Heja of 1/1 'Dongo' squadron
Zoran Petek

Reggiane Re.2000 Falco (Svenska Flygvapnet J 20)
silvan500

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10 Short Videos #6175

10 Short Videos #6175

Difference between Nascar and Formula 1

Diffusion welding explained: How highly conductive copper joints are created

Panda Cub Froze Mid-Bite, Gave Her a Look — Pandas Look Like Stuffed Toys. They're Not.

This 1967 Chevrolet Nova SS got a full show detail, full body PPF, and every inch ceramic coated!

Sony used 70,000 Ltrs of paint for this advertisement in 2006

Shinyoung who makes you focus as if time has stopped😍

How to sight in airplane machine guns

Landing Algorithm Test

GABE 🇮🇹 @partytillimpact instagram | PARAGLIDING

Baby Beaver

Library Dream

Books

My daughter and I are going to the library. We're driving down a narrow street in a small town. As we approach a corner a hot-head in a red car passes us on the right side and cuts in front us. Now he is stopped behind another car at a stop sign. No sweat off my brow, our corner is just before we get to him. We pull up at the 'library'. It appears to be an old cinder block garage with a gravel floor. There is a glass person sized door to the right and an automobile size opening to the left with no door. There are a few people sitting inside. The place looks like a second hand junk shop. I follow my daughter in through the person size door and we start looking for the books. It's a library, therefor there must be some books in here somewhere. We find a big ol' wooden wardrobe towards the back, but nope, no books in there. But next to it is a small bookcase, and there are the books! Must be several dozen at least. I'm looking through this collection and I find a magazine sized paperback book with a colorful cover that says Pergelator on the cover, which is very surprising because I have no memory of ever having written a book of any kind. The book is in kind of rough shape, it's been wet and is still sort of damp. I debate whether I should buy it or not and finally decide that I need the actual object for show-and-tell at lunch next week. A photo just won't do. The book will go in the trash afterwards, it's rubbish.

10 Short Videos #6174

10 Short Videos #6174

smooth movement🔥

Massive RC Excavator😳

Quad 600 Mercurys: The Ultimate Fuel Addiction

Tractor lift - lift disabled man up to the tractor cab

Houdini V9 // Squamish - climbing underside of a boulder

Punching the snot out of a heavy bag

I’m onto you pal 🇨🇭 - Smores

The Forgotten Technology From 100 Years Ago That Powered Cars - Ford Model A Ignition

I was today years old when I realized… - there are couple things in here that were new to me

20th Century Fox Fanfare on Snare Drum | Iconic Movie Intro 🎬🥁

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Lavochkin La-9

Lavochkin La-9

I did a jigsaw puzzle of this image this afternoon, but it was watermarked with AIRLINERS.NET, and I'm not gonna post that here. Asked Google to identify it because the label on the puzzle was entirely cryptic, and Google found the same image, sans watermark, on Ebay, so that's what we have here.

I had never heard of Lavochkin before. I've heard of Antonov, Beriev, Ilyushin, MiG, Sukoi, Tupolev & Yakovlev, but not Lavochkin. The company is still in business and is kind of a big deal.

Wikipedia:

The Lavochkin La-9 (NATO reporting name Fritz) was a Soviet fighter aircraft produced shortly after World War II. It was one of the last piston engined fighters to be produced before the widespread adoption of the jet engine.

The Lavochkin La-9 descended from the La-7 which descended from the La-5. The Soviets built many of these aircraft:

Model	Year	Quantity
La-9	1946	1,600
La-7	1944	6,000
La-5	1942	10,000

Lavochkin. The Evolution of a Fighter.
KOC1

DARPA Heavy Lift Drone Challenge

I'm building a drone for the DARPA lift challenge
Hoarder Sam
Previous posts about carry drones:

• Delivery Drones
• Heavy Lift Drone
• Drone Delivery Service

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Took some pics while I was down at South Waterfront today.

Elevator to walkway
Support for tram on top

Bicycle parking lot at the tram station

Tram arriving

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