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tomo,
Enjoyed the optics stuff; away from my usual viewing, but interesting. Fun that he saves a bit of money on used cooktop glass, then uses equipment and time worth thousands to turn it into optical mirrors. One of the joys of a hobby.
Looks like the "whoah" page has been deleted. I'll imagine something lurid.
The need for instant crowd: just add dollars, says something about the candidate. I don't suppose Trump has needed it, but then neither did Obama.
The thing with crowds is that a few thousand can look like a *lot* of people, and may sway the resolve of politicians (such as it is). Squeaky wheel gets the oil, etc.
Comment at Jo Nova's today pointed out the Met Office heralding England's "warmest June since 1884". When you read the body it turns out that it's only the warmest on the basis of mean temperature. When it comes to max temperatures:
Average daily maximum temperatures were also well-above the long-term meteorological average for June, with England recording its third highest and the UK its sixth highest average temperature since 1884.Is the whole purpose of meteorological supercomputers working out better ways to lie with statistics? Silly question.
Australia's BoM is just as bad of course. I would have called last night's weather "wet and very windy", but apparently the official name for the phenomenon is a "bomb cyclone". I suspect it hasn't been an official name for very long.
Another comment linked to John Campbell interviewing a Canadian severely disabled by the COVID vaccines. The way the Canadian health system is treating him ... might be better to just create latter-day leper colonies for the vaccine injured.
Robert Swan
Not that he bothers these days but the last troll was sneerily adamant this wasn't happening ....
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831432259737649466
I still think Sarkozy's busloads of short people was the best
tomo
whoah
https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1939941983285358715
tomo
"Flexible at the nanometre level"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6fRT0FHgcc
tomo
tomo,
I was wondering along similar lines to you: we see quite a glow in the YouTube, but what does it look like in the room, since the camera and the eye aren't quite the same. There probably is quite an afterglow, but it shouldn't matter much as far as the photography goes. If I were the one doing the welding, a bit of extra light wouldn't hurt at all!
Enjoyed the story of the Battle of Athens. Bit of a Lord of the Rings feel to it: after defeating the arch-baddies, return home to find that petty-baddies have taken over, and you have to clear them out too.
Carlson and Rogan are probably rather intoxicated with their own popularity. I suspect they have given oxygen to the likes of the Tates on the basis of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Foolish. Some people are just a nasty piece of work, and that doesn't depend on whether you lean left or right.
Little old Oz punching above its weight yet again: our very own Twitter complaint category. Take that, world!
That's an impressively stupid roundabout. The fun thing is that you could have a single-vehicle accident on it, report it to the police, and the police decide that it's the other party at fault.
Robert Swan
I'm glad Topher's on X
https://x.com/TopherField/status/1938499025189453896
tomo
https://twitter.com/eevblog/status/1938467003645530202
tomo
Elsewhere, a reveal on the Tate brothers manipulation - early on in their rise to public prominence I wasn't bothered - but the moslem conversion didn't ring true / was phoney... some folk trying to report on them really need to man up and actually, I feel -apologise, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson in particular.
Live by the sword or something ...
https://youtu.be/uZAB9pmBsPM
tomo
Robert
yep, the welding video is top notch stuff - I kept wondering about the LEDs used as I've seen significant phosphor afterglow with white LEDs.
elsewhere
Quite the best sponsor endorsement I've seen in ages and an excellent telling of a story that needs to be told....
https://youtu.be/tdIK3JFIWNI
Same guy has some other entertaining content
tomo
The whoah! page is still up for me
Guy gets into a lift carrying an ebike battery - worst catastrophic battery pack fail I've seen (and I've now seen a lot)
The bussing in of crowds... They even have high power public address kit to make crowd noises - I've been there, seen it - been wtf'd or something - a 10% crowd crammed into a small section of a stadium - the cameras even had hard stops to avoid panning to empty stands, a crowd track playing out over a 20kW distributed PA. Sarkozy's dwarfs though - that were class...
Back in the Hilary-Trump election I recall being actually astonished when cell phone footage of a Clinton appearance in Florida surfaced after I'd seen the closely cropped MSM version - similar MO - crowd sounds and "big audience!" related hammy body gestures from Hilary from a large farm trailer ("stump").... to an actually empty small town sports field.
As for The Obamassiah - there was something really off about him early on that got my attention and not in a good way - the BBC were plugging him bigly well before the POTUS run, an anointed one imho... There were genuine moments - but there were a lot of fawning, overly grand media pieces that could only be attributed to personality cult cultivation by folk external to his immediate entorage. The genuine moments weren't spontaneous but the result of a lot of support from the MSM (yes, I know that's a bit mangled logic)
The weekend's Glastonbury gobby thickoe bonehead joose + whitey bad kerfuffle continues with MSM gits and Internet commentators repeating the description of the perps as "PUNK" performers - I note that king punk Johnny Rotten isn't being prominently consulted about the matter.