Anti-Bike

World's First SCREW-BIKE
James Burton

This is kind of amazing. Amazing that it works, amazing that someone would expend the effort to build this thing. All that 3-D printing must have taken thousands of hours. And all that effort went into building a machine whose sole purpose is to demonstrate that it could be done. Got to give him credit that he was able to make it all work.

Tornado

Raw video: Tornado forms near Rockwell City, Iowa
KCCI

This is just one of the five tornadoes that touched down in Calhoun County Iowa on Tuesday. Rockwell City is my wife's home town. Rockwell City has appeared here before.

P. S. No injuries.

Neom - The Line

Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
Patrick Boyle

Patrick takes down Saudi Arabia's fanciful city in the desert in the most complimentary way possible. No, he isn't being sarcastic. Don't laugh, that could get you kilt.

Map of The Line - Neom

The Line is near the Straits of Tiran.

Via Iowa Man (previously known as IAman)

P. S. There is an ad somewhere in the middle for an outfit called Delete Me. It sounds like a scam to me, but they have a website which means they must be legit, right?

Giovanni's

Tundra Repair

My gang gets together for lunch every Tuesday. Today we were going to Giovanni's but IAman makes an excuse for not coming:

I’m busy with Tundra coils-over-shocks.  Can’t do lunch today.

You all are welcome to come over and commiserate with me. 

Again it was easy, except for the one inaccessible nut, that finally gave into a nut splitter.

Motorcycle

How many downshifts?
Lukas Höllbacher #72

Tamara de Lempicka

Young Woman in Green (1927–30) - Tamara de Lempicka

Variety reviews a Broadway musical about Tamara de Lempicka, a Art-Deco painter from Poland. Never heard of her, so I look her up and this image is the first one that pops up. Kind of reminds of old heroic, communist paintings, but that may just be due to the prevailing style of the time.

Fight

From ZeroHedge:

Renato Moicano and Joe Rogan

"Read Ludwig von Mises, Motherf**kers!" - Brazilian UFC Fighter's Victory Speech Pumps Austrian Economics by Tyler Durden

While the Middle East wobbled on the precipice of World War III on Saturday, a Brazilian UFC fighter gave us hope by using his victory speech to deliver an emphatic endorsement of Austrian economics, Ludwig von Mises, the First Amendment and gun rights. 

Renato Moicano's televised speech came after he pulled off a comeback win over Jalin Turner at Las Vegas. Joe Rogan joined him in the ring to discuss the fight, but Moicano had other priorities, and proceeded to drop a profanity-peppered liberty bomb on the T-Mobile Arena crowd and a worldwide audience:  

“I’m a huge advocate of the First Amendment. Today, of course I want the $300k bonus but they not going to give [it to me] because somebody say, 'hey, this is fucking Disney, you cannot curse'…so I’m not going to do my speech, but...

First off all I love America. I love the Constitution. I love the First Amendment. I want to carry all the fucking guns. I love private property. And let me tell you something: If you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherfuckers!”

By "six lessons of the Austrian economic school," Moicano was referring to a concise, 106-page Ludwig von Mises book, "Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow." Among the best-selling Mises works, it's broken into six sections: Capitalism, Socialism, Interventionism, Inflation, Foreign Investment, and Policies and Ideas. (The Brazilian version's title translates to "The Six Lessons.") 

The lessons are transcribed from a series of lectures Mises delivered at the University of Buenos Aires in 1959. Per the book's description, "Mises had urged Argentina to turn from dictatorship and socialism toward full liberty, so there is a special urgency behind the cool logic employed here. The book's continued popularity is due to its clarity of exposition on the ways in which economic policy affects everyone."

I like his attitude, and I'm surprised hear a fighter talking about economics, but I'm not sure widespread knowledge of economics is going to help. What we need is Congress to quit spending money like drunken sailors. And maybe a few entrepreneurs who can put a million people to work doing something productive.