… ordered by intensity. You didn’t know you needed this. But you do.
May 152022
May 152022
Here are the best “AI translation software app” commercials you are likely to see today.
I suspect that these are not legit Korean commercials… but I *really* hope that they are.
May 132022
This feller (somewhere in Asia… somewhere where monkeys are a thing) makes steel-reinforced concrete miniature bridges and similar structures. I wonder at how permanent they are… not exactly because of build quality, but because of the fairly vast footprint they have and the fact that they are anchored not to bedrock but to dirt.
May 122022
May 102022
It is possible that some writer on “Strange New Worlds” might have slipped in some non-leftist messaging. Personally I believe that the more likely explanation is that this was meant to smear the right, but due to the current-day Star Trek writers being lazy and none too bright, they screwed it up.
In short: in the premier episode of SNW, Captain Pike uses some January 6 footage to show how Earth walked into World War III, with the protests leading to the Eugenics Wars, and then to WWIII. Buuuuuuuut… Pike referred to the Jan 6 footage as a “fight for freedom.”
Hmmm. Pike’s not wrong there.
Another good point: “That’s why I watch a show set in the future, to watch video from last year.”
May 102022
This particular form of video meme has been around for a while, but it is sometimes interesting. The song “Little Dark Age” by MGMT, often slowed down somewhat, is played against a series of images all to a particular theme, such as “America” or “Space Exploration.” Often the videos start with images or video clips from the present that show some of the bad aspects of the topic, depressing stuff such as Antifa and Joe Biden and “Hamilton” for the “America” theme, then follow it with uplifting historical images. The point, it seems, to be to contrast the current-day insistence of many to view things only in the worst possible light with a much better view of the topic. A lot of these videos are lame, but the better ones have an evocative mix of despair and hope.
Some vary the style up by ditching the Black Pill content at the beginning and just use a vast number of historical images to tell a story. This one, for instance, tells the story of Western Civilization and somehow got itself “age restricted,” even though there’s nothing in there that seems to merit it… looks more like some algorithm decided that “western civilization = bad.”
May 092022
Mike released a video on some of the stranger aircraft designed in the US since World War II. It includes a plethora of full-color concept paintings, including the first color rendering of the McDonnell Douglas ATB that I’ve seen.
May 082022
This video looks like it took a *lot* of work…
May 072022
“The King’s choice” is a 2016 Norwegian film about the Nazi invasion of Norway. I watched it a couple years ago; it was pretty good. But there was one scene that stood out for it’s absolute spectacularness: the sinking of the German cruiser Blücher as it sailed into Oslofjord on April 9, 1940. The Blücher was the latest thing in naval technology and power; it was taken down by a pair of ancient 28 cm shore cannon and some torpedoes that had been launched from a torpedo battery that the Germans were unaware of. That they didn’t know about it seems kinda astounding given that the battery was built in 1901… the torpedoes themselves were manufactured in 1900 by a factory in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The fortress was manned largely by fresh recruits, conscripts who had been on the job for just a few days. The torpedo battery was under the command of a guy who had retired 13 years earlier, while the fort itself was commanded by a guy six months from retirement.
If you want to draw any other parallels to a beleaguered set of defenders taking out a more powerful and aggressive invading nations military vessels… well, I ain’t gonna stop ya.
“The King’s Choice” depicted the moment the cannon open up on the Blücher and fire two shots. It is damned spooky, starting off much like a scene from a horror movie (a *good* horror movie). It’s cinematic perfection.
May 052022
The most American vehicles for going to the most American of fast food joints.
Those of you who sneer and mock… we can all see that you’re actually jealous.