This is from a while back, but the video is *damned* entertaining if you are into spectacular engineering failures. Mexico City: newly opened Artz Pedregal shopping mall collapses In short: Cantilever has it’s issues. Especially when, seemingly, you’re using glass window panels as compression members.
Finally saw unedited video of the recent shooting of the armed (with a toy gun as it turns out) robber in Texas. With the edited videos, you can’t tell anything about the customer’s shooting of the robber other than at least one shot in the bad guys back. But with the edited video there appear…
Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? Salt Lake City seeks to solve mystery It seems that someone is building devices consisting of locked boxes with electronics, powered by solar panels and attached to sizable antennae, and are putting the atop various hills around Salt Lake City. Their purpose remains unknown, but unlicensed…
The title of this YouTube video claims that “Chrome Lords” was a 1988 movie that ripped off “RoboCop” and “Terminator.” But in fact “Chrome Lords” never existed. The video is ten minutes of “stills” from a movie that never was… all the images were produced by an AI. And other than places where it looks…
A lot of people think that the US is simply throwing money away. These people are wrong. The majority of the weapons that the US is giving to the Ukrainians are old stock, stuff that would have gone to the incinerator or the scrap heap pretty soon anyway. If you expend a million-dollar weapon…
A couple of tweets showing the spectacular state of American cities today… Someone needs a tazin’… https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1610427328823455745 And New York City? Don’t go there. https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1610367040249790464 Here’s a fun related article: Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities People no longer *need* to live in big cities quite as much as they used to. The…
