I would have liked the see the journalists distanced and wearing masks.

You can, and you have. It takes a lot of work, though, to swing a ship of 300 million people: I am moved and encouraged when I see Americans doing it, and hope that they pull it off this autumn.

nice, but also somewhat painful to see them using manual labour: how much better could they do, using more modern techniques to make the same soap?

Team Bloomberg's story, after Super Tuesday, was that he'd done very well at boosting name recognition. As they were being presented as data wonks, I wondered whether they could have gotten even more name recognition, for a fraction of the price, by - say - releasing a single with Kanye, or riding down a golden escalator.

Liked, but solemnly intoning "and hardly no cavitation" spoils the overarching impression of competence.

10?

In the close-up of the carabiners at 1:06, the gates are both facing in the same direction.

When we see them in use (e.g. 1:17 - 1:22, 1:30), they're facing in opposite directions - which, as I understand it, is the correct way to use them as it reduces the risk that an accident (e.g. a falling rock hit, a fall that suddenly stresses the safety line...) opens both at once.

I liked this video, but would have expected a high-safety culture not to show carabiners the wrong way around?

for more background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

I would have liked to hear how efficient this is.

this reminds me a bit of that other film about a solitary, emotionally distant, laconic man who's good at fighting

I once wondered if we should promote particularly dirty cars (before 'rolling coal' became a thing), thinking they could shock people into realisation.

I don't believe as much that people are waiting to be shocked into significant change. Instead, I think that the herd will gradually move - more quickly the easier it is to do so.

If Shell's endorsing moving towards green, I support that: if they get a bit better, they take a lot of people in the right direction. If they're jumped on for trying this, the people whose idea it was will be fired: they won't try again for a while.

Howl's Moving Castle!

I may be more pessimistic than the commentators above: a single handgun rather than automatic weapons seems innocent now.

what a beautiful monster

Fun. I found myself wishing that the lab head wasn't the bearded, older man.

Yes: "Because they were marked with the letter K (for Voronezh Komintern Factory), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, 'Katyusha', about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service"