10 Short Videos #6255

10 Short Videos #6255

1. Farm Subsidies Don’t Stabilize Grocery Prices
2. realty of america
3. The biggest culture shock living in Japan wasn’t anime, food, or technology. It was SAFETY
4. I Was Not Expecting That Ending - Skittles Advertisement
5. The World’s Biggest Building Is Insane
6. Why Japan Hides The World's Largest Bearings - and gears
7. This might be one of the strangest robots built for agriculture
8. OLD SCHOOL FARMING STILL WORKS 🐴🌾 - Horse drawn lawn mower
9. Flat Strip to Square ⚙️ - tubing
10. Automotive Inductor Coil Winding Machine | Enameled Flat Wire Coil Winding for Solar Inverters.

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American Battery

Good story about batteries on Oil Price: Trump's Grid Battery Ban Leaves Developers Guessing

I'm not quite sure what to think about China. They have made great strides since Nixon changed the rules. Now they are competing with us much the way the Rooskies were doing back in the sixties.

Cars & Trucks

Flame Paint

Saw this wild ride when I went to get gas today. Hard to tell in this photo, but he has stacks connected to the tailpipes. You can see them sticking up on either side of the poles supporting the big Union 76 sign on the corner. I think he has a wing on the back as well.

Custom 1957 Chevy Pickup

Iowa Man reports from Bingen, Washington, on his neighbor's 1957 Chevy truck: 

Years of work, on the cheap. Note: pipe strapping & expanded metal on hood, creative. Big engine.  Asking $28,000 , more details on marketplace.

Custom 1957 Chevy Pickup

Custom Hood on 1957 Chevy Pickup

Land Rover

Saw this early 1990s Land Rover in downtown Portland a couple of weeks ago. A guy I know has a similar one.

Land Rover

Land Rover

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10 Short Videos #6254

10 Short Videos #6254

1. the run of a CHAMPION 🤯 - Red Bull downhill bicycle
2. This Is Peak Human Engineering - Chimelong Spaceship in Zhuhai, China
3. Stranded 15-year-old rescued as sole survivor after 2 days on frigid Alaskan waters
4. CRC-90 Type Reels Into Strong Rope 🪢 || A2Z SKILLS
5. Tongue Twisters
6. Weaving Armor: The Machine Building Next-Gen Jets
7. This Tool Makes Carpet Fit Perfectly 🤯
8. How to stop bleeding in surgery.
9. The Coolest Way to Cut a Pizza
10. realty of america

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10 Short Videos #6253

10 Short Videos #6253

1. Praca nad rzeką: Klasyczna koparka lądowa pogłębia brzeg i ładuje urobek! - Working on the river: A classic land excavator dredges the bank and loads the spoil!
2. The Sahara From 35,000 Feet
3. Hear me out... Bensei Snow cones??👀 - Meteor hammer weapon demonstration
4. Sanding Drywall - NO Dust - MicroClimate Air3
5. Changing your wheel during the race. She does it. - Rollerblades
6. This Ship Was Built for One Crazy Job - Looking for oil
7. This truck runs on power lines. - Giant electric dump truck
8. We detected faster-than-light neutrinos in 2011
9. The Greatest Invention Ever? A Stapler!
10. Sliding Conveyor Cake Peel

City Streets

Pixel art cityscape by Waneella

Bangor, Maine

Split-level Dom Luis I Bridge on the Douro River, Portugal

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10 Short Videos #6252

10 Short Videos #6252

1. The Helicopter That Lost Its Radioactive Blades
2. The 1983 Report That Changed Schools Forever
3. Humans could never make this handle... 😳🤖 - CNC machines doing hand work
4. I HAD A STROKE AT 41 (day 16)
5. The Wheelwright's Gym, Rolling Tires on Spanish Cannons . Borax Wagons
6. Polish Navy's Underwater Fu*k-up
7. JOHN DEERE CRUSHED WILD BOARS🤯🌾
8. A close-up shot of a Sikorsky SH64 picking up a load of water
9. Flying tricks 🔥 - Circus acrobats
10. From round stock to functional crankshaft 🔥

The Flower Seller

The Flower Seller - François-Adolphe Grison

The Gentlemen: Season 2 - Netflix Series

The Gentlemen: Season 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Epic. Cross of The Godfather and James Bond. Upper class British dude has built a cannabis empire that is raking in zillions of dollars but he wants more. To that end he wants parliament to pass a bill that will make Mary Jane legal. He reasons that, like in America, the legal business will bring in more revenue without significantly impacting the illegal business. This is because illegal marijuana will be cheaper than the legal stuff. However, his boss does not agree, arguing that while our boy Edouard might be a general in this sprawling criminal enterprise, the boss is a field marshal and so has to consider the bigger picture. Unfortunately, he doesn't explain what the bigger picture is. We'll have to wait for season 3 to find out just what that is.

We get to see what competent former soldiers can do when circumstance dictate. Gentlemen by all accounts during the day, but killers when the need arises. There are a couple of scenes when several bad guys are shot down without any warning. At least one situation was entirely warranted, but there were a couple that seemed unnecessary, but these guys are essentially operating on a war footing, so maybe it was a valid tactical decision.

Best show I've seen in a while. 6 stars out of 5.

Season one here.

10 Short Videos #6251

10 Short Videos #6251

1. Petrol Engine Timing Gear Fitting - oil pump drive gears
2. Align honing this Dart block for one of our 1600hp shelf stock builds 😈
3. The ultimate 1950 Studebaker sleeper? 👀✈️
4. MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS PERFECT  - Bendin with Bendon
5. 31 axes on 5 stations?! - Super complicated CNC machine
6. How good was Pete Maravich
7. This race looks very beautiful when seen from above - How do they steer? Thai longboats
8. Protecting Factory Hands From Serious Daily Strain - knot tying machine
9. Getting Older Doesn't Mean You're Smarter
10. my pride and joy - LEGO toothless

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
Elle Cordova

The world of typography is full of crazy people. Fortunately they are mostly harmless. I just use the default font except when I am writing code, then I use Courier, which seems to be only fixed pitch font that is generally available. I've never heard of Consolas.

The Whisper Man - Netflix Movie

The Whisper Man | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Creepy movie about child murderers. Michael Keaton plays a man who murdered five children. Robert De Niro is the cop who caught him 25 years ago. Adam Scott is De Niro's adult son. His kid has disappeared and he is understandably losing his mind. Owen Teague plays Keaton's adult son who is carrying on his father's tradition of killing kids. Hamish Linklater plays Norman Collins, an eccentric collector of murder memorabilia. 

Once again the cop on the spot, Amanda Beck, decides to charge ahead into danger without waiting for backup, and once again, we have the villain sneaking up behind her to stick a knife into her.

Murder mystery. All the pieces are there, someone just has to pick them up.

Cast

Actor		Role	Character
Robert	De Niro	Detective Inspector	Pete	Willis
Michelle	Monaghan	Detective	Amanda	Beck
Michael	Keaton	Villain	Frank	Carter
Adam	Scott	Father	Tom	Kennedy
Owen	Teaque	Villain redux	Frank	Carter Jr.
Hamish	Linklater	Collector	Norman	Collins

Directional Control

Upper stage engines of Stoke Space first test vehicle the Hopper 2

The Silicon Graybeard reports:

Remember Stoke Space? They developed a novel way of making a rocket's stages steerable that depended on regulating the fuel flow to the engines on a ring, so that instead of moving the engine bells in angles to the vertical, the engines are fixed and the fuel flow is varied. 

Sacroiliac Joint

Sacroiliac joint of the male pelvis, posterior view

I've heard the word 'Sacroiliac' before, but I had no idea what it meant. Bayou Renaissance Man has a post up about his ongoing back problems and the sacroiliac joint figures prominently. And now I know what it means.

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10 Short Videos #6250

10 Short Videos #6250

1. The ocean creates moments that don’t feel real 🌊✨
2. STAİR CLEANİNG ROBOT VACUUM - The world's first
3. How Hundreds of Underground Mining Blasts Are Triggered at Once 😳
4. Aerial Refueling Device That Can Refuel Various Aircraft
5. horse riding horse full teaching man
6. How they switch tracks on the steepest railway in Switzerland
7. Forming a symmetrical figure with two pieces, simple or impossible?
8. Perfect Overcasting Stitch for Denim | Strong & Clean Hand Sewing Trick - Button
9. Cost in Units of RTX 5090 - Bullets & rockets
10. Scenes that required insane amounts of takes

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10 Short Videos #6249

10 Short Videos #6249

1. The server in the closet
2. today's mushroom finds 🍄
3. Top tricks 😱🔥 - Circus acrobats
4. THE CROWN JUST FALLS OFF - animals losing their antlers
5. Behind the scenes of a 2,000-drone show. 👀
6. The Bug With A Built-In Flamethrower 🪲🔥
7. This ESP32 Can Hear a Bearing Failing Before You Can
8. How Vintage Cartoon Sounds were Made!
9. Smooth skills
10. CAMERA SETUP FOR FARM MACHINERY

Computers

UFO Research Room by Krzysztof Maziarz and Joyce Silva

Vic Cyber Game in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Vương Luân Computer

Man From Uncle

1964-1968 Napoleon Solo, played by Robert Vaughn, and Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum. Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, the British chief of the organization. Barbara Moore joined the cast as Lisa Rogers in the final season.