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Amphibious Cars

Amphibious Car Challenge / Like in Top Gear
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If you remember the old Top Gear, you might remember that interspersed with their tests of exotic over-powered mobiles, they would occasionally throw in one of their do-it-yourself projects that were just a comedy of errors. The above video is more like the second kind. And since they are Russians, they remind me of Garage 54.

Detroit Steve got me started with a link to a history of the original Amphicar, which reminded me that I had posted a video of a much better and much faster amphibious car. That one is from 2009. The builder has kept working on it and now has a production model they are offering for sale. I don't want to know how much it costs, probably just like every other exotic mobile which means it costs as much as a house.

If you ask Google or YouTube there seem to be an endless number of people building their own version.

Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty

Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
The B1M
I've got a few things I could say about this but it's late and I'm tired, so I'm just going to give you a couple of links to things that are mentioned in the video:

• Hudson Yards (development)
• Accidental Skyline

I suspect many of the houses in west hills above Portland are vacant. You can drive through some of these neighborhoods and never see any signs of life. Could be they are all at work, but it's still very weird.

Gun Bunnies are Alluring

Gun Bunny at White Supremacist Gun Rally in Richmond, Virginia, MLK day 2020

This woman might not be every man's idea of a 'babe', but by her dress I'm inclined to think she has her head screwed on right, which is more important.

Handwaving Freakoutery has a good post up about internet memes and people's brains. I think this analogy about how society works is pretty good:

We have spoken extensively here about modeling the modern social media engine as a legitimate, verifiable brain, which works in the same manner as an artificial neural network.

We might summarize this idea as follows. People behave on social media in the exact same way as neurons in a brain. Your feed is a series of impulses you gather from your dendrites (connections), you evaluate which of those signals to amplify, and then you like or share a signal, sending it down your axon (repost) to other neurons. This evaluation you make, about whether to share something or not, is performed based on an internal function rooted partially in your biology, but probably rooted largely in your indoctrinations.

Mouse Jiggler

Mouse jiggler v2 2 Hours | Mouse Mover/Jiggler
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The Unwanted Blog explains:

Short form: if you work remotely using a company-supplied computer, chances are that the computer has “bossware” installed that tracks mouse/cursor movement to make sure you’re at the computer and on the job. So if you get up to take a leak or answer the door, your employers will know in a few seconds that you’re not moving the mouse anymore, and you could get in trouble.

Never fear: the free market is here to help with any number of “mouse jigglers” that will give the *appearance* to bossware that your mouse is being constantly manipulated. Some of these are bits of USB hardware. Some are software. Some are actual mechanical devices. My favorite, though, are simply YouTube videos: play the video on a phone or tablet and place an optical mouse on it; the moving lines spoof the mouses optical sensor into thinking it’s being moved.

Update next morning. I tried a couple of these videos and I couldn't get them to work with either my desktop display or my Android smartphone. Still a very cool idea.

More Gold, More Electronic Trash

Tony Beets Buys a Brand New $1.3 Million Bulldozer | Gold Rush: Winter’s Fortune
Discovery UK

Tony hopes to recover 9,000 ounces of gold from the ground he is tearing up. At today's price, 9,000 ounces would be worth $17 million. That would pay for his new toy and then some. Used to be that the D8 was the biggest bulldozer on the block. That was a long time ago. The D9 came around in 1955, the D10 in 1973 and the D11 in 1986. Progress marches on whether you are paying attention or not. At 124 tons, the D11 weighs about twice as much as an Abrams Tank.

How 6 Million Pounds Of Electronic Waste Gets Recycled A Month | Big Business
Business Insider

I don't know who is working harder to get the gold. Previous post on the subject.