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How This Two-Wheeled Car Uses A Disk To Balance

Stormsinger says...

There's an interesting bit of history that was -never- going to be a decent design for a car. Single-person, low speed, and a high-speed heavy-weight gyro just waiting for a collision to turn it into shrapnel. I'm still trying to figure out how anyone could claim that it wouldn't slide...with only two wheels, it's going to get -far- less traction than a four wheeled vehicle.

Deer Park - Nara Japan 奈良鹿公園

Stormsinger says...

I do love the way they've learned to bow. But this isn't really a joke, they are -incredibly- prolific and do a tremendous amount of damage to parks and greenbelts now that they have no predators thinning the herds.

Postal Delivery Truck Off Road While Speeding

Rabbit tries a lemon

True Facts : Dragonflies

Stormsinger says...

Just one? He was probably one of those oddball gamer dragonflies, hoping to snag a few minutes of playtime.

Payback said:

I had a workstation set up in my garage. Every year, about midsummer, a dragonfly would fly up in front of my face, hover, checking out what I was doing onscreen for about 10-15 seconds, then leave. Coolest freaking thing ever. Must have been something about the refresh rate or colours, but still hilarious.

Heat Shrink Self-Solder Butt Splice Connectors

Stormsinger says...

Sure wish these had been around when I spent hours wiring up a new fuse block in my old VW, in 20-something degree temperatures. Could have been done in 20 minutes, rather than 3-4 hours.

Trump On Bullying Ford-"Doesn't Matter, We Won"

Stormsinger says...

It doesn't take a miracle. Someone willing to sacrifice their life to remove Trump from the equation would do it. I'll even donate to their defense fund...which is a much more honest promise than Trump's promise to pay the legal fees for anyone assaulting a protester.

RFlagg said:

.... We really need a miracle turnout to start to change things...

Trump On Bullying Ford-"Doesn't Matter, We Won"

Stormsinger says...

He's nowhere near as useful or lovable as a scorpion. Trump is the absolute worst kind of filth, and this world will be a substantially better place when he is gone. The sooner, the better.

Mordhaus said:

No surprise here. We elected a scorpion, started carrying him across a river, and he is doing what it is in his nature to do.

Why North Carolina Can't Solve Its Hog Poop Problem

Stormsinger says...

As long as industries are allowed to leave their crap for others to clean up, nothing is going to change. Ideally, every manufacturer should be required to clean up every bit of pollutant they produce. At a bare minimum, they -have- to be held accountable for that which they have obviously caused.

JINJER - Pisces (Live Session)

Just fishing

Livingpoolroom!

Marconi Union - Weightless

Stormsinger says...

I might have been partaking just a bit, but I had one hell of a time deciding how much of the video was CGI, or how much was camera tricks. There's obviously -some- quantity of effects, if for no reason other than the duplication of the drones. OTOH, the landscape looks perfectly real, as did the ripples on the water.

To be perfectly honest, I don't even remember now what I decided...but I remember arguing with myself for almost the entire video.

moonsammy said:

Can you explain what your description text has to do with the video? I watched it based on that, and was expecting something along the lines of a logic puzzle or a look at some of the quirks of the human decision-making process / biases.

Lazy Nashville Police Fatally Shoot Black Man

Stormsinger says...

You've gotta be fucking kidding me. You're seriously trying to imply that the police have no alternative if someone runs but to shoot them.

My own view is that cops shouldn't be shooting people who weren't shooting first, period. Obviously that's not what the law says in many places, or we'd be seeing a lot more cops convicted of murder.

Sagemind said:

Okay - So help me understand - If a police officer tells you to freeze, and you run, that's a perfectly okay response, and the officer should let you do so?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but what is "any" officer's response supposed to be, if they can't catch up - just let them go?
Because if that's the new rule, why would anyone ever stop when running means a free ticket?

I mean this sincerely. What is an officer supposed to do in this situation? And you can't say, let him go....

You're gonna need a bigger boat



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