a few different takes on this.
Starting with The Construction Geneneral - a vietnamese dude who builds mini hydro electric dams in his back garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNyQCkKaNRk
A Pakistani guy making a large nut and bolt on a lathe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXqIcadSWCo
One or more Japanese people making a model diorama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26Q6KACoPM
― Ed, Friday, 3 October 2025 23:30 (one month ago)
that dam build is amazing... SO much effort for what's essentially a proof-of-concept scale model
I've watched similar time-lapse video of guys rebuilding these completely rusty, decrepit Honda motorcycles, found in Asian ponds or the jungle, working on the ground wearing flip-flops... and they come out looking and running just absolutely amazing. But of course these are to sell, not just as a hobby
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 4 October 2025 00:05 (one month ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZ_bafNtvk
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 4 October 2025 00:50 (one month ago)
that one's pretty good, this is more what I was referencing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lOk43pst7w
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 4 October 2025 01:03 (one month ago)
This one's a classic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKast1BZ_aE
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 4 October 2025 07:41 (one month ago)
I think maybe map posted this somewhere? Amazing video of a wood-fired bakery in the mountains of the Kyoto Prefecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOK3nS4t7_Y
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 October 2025 07:45 (one month ago)
tiktok to thread!
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 4 October 2025 10:23 (one month ago)
I love when people eat dinner at the bar during a slammed service and get really involved watching me with my head down making drinks nonstop for an hour or more, sometimes asking questions or doing a little running commentary. A lot of "how do you remember all those drink recipes?"
― Noob Layman (WmC), Sunday, 5 October 2025 01:38 (one month ago)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZBo82eXTfUJ2hvLcmlG0oRxGYKKq5qNE&si=KRJvst_o3LH0TYvW
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 October 2025 02:10 (one month ago)
Perhaps because I clicked on the video with the Honda, YouTube has now recommended this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSXo0XdWoA
It's a restoration of a 19th-century German Weltrekord screwdriver. I don't want to stereotype an entire nation, but as the video progressed I remember thinking "hahaha Germans". From 12:00 the video shows the process of making a home-made ball-bearing!
Which raises the question of whether the International Space Station could be repurposed into a ball-bearing factory. You'd just have to suspend balls of molten metal in zero-gravity until they cool, at which point you'd have a perfect sphere. Which apparently is an idea as old as time. How would the ball-bearings get back to earth? I suppose you could fire them out of the ISS and let them re-enter. What could possibly go wrong with firing millions of ball-bearings out of the ISS towards the Earth?
These videos are a lot like pornography. The one above in particular even has electrodes.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 5 October 2025 18:52 (one month ago)
My Mechanics is one of my favorite YouTube channels.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 5 October 2025 20:20 (one month ago)