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How many centuries are we looking at here?
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I regret to inform you but your wall has tumours and they have spread far
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Mar 6, 2024 18:54
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kid sinister posted:How many centuries are we looking at here? I'm going to go with 20.
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Mar 6, 2024 19:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos
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Mar 6, 2024 19:24
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So does a troll live in that little door or does it go back to a Nazi bunker? There's so many possibilities!
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Mar 7, 2024 05:59
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Have you guys never left the US or something sometimes stone walls are old and crazy and awesome
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Mar 7, 2024 11:56
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peanut posted:Have you guys never left the US or something sometimes stone walls are old and crazy and awesome I've always wondered this about Europeans: do you guys get sore arms from reaching for things to be smug at Americans about? I would have to leave the continent to see a wall like that. it would cost several thousand dollars. most people only ever see the one continent.
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Mar 7, 2024 14:36
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ComradePyro posted:I've always wondered this about Europeans: do you guys get sore arms from reaching for things to be smug at Americans about? No because we're loving swimming in them. Any other stupid-as-gently caress questions, English? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 7, 2024 14:40
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“Look at ze Americano who has never enjoyed the sensual pleasure of a very old, janky wall”
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Mar 7, 2024 14:50
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Europeans and their lack of pyramids
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Mar 7, 2024 14:57
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Latin America has cool walls like that hth
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Mar 7, 2024 14:58
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Is it South America where one of the civilizations built structures by chipping away at the stones to make them fit together perfectly. So that mortar wasn’t needed, and these structures have withstood some pretty decent seismic activity up in the mountains. When I saw some stuff on that, it was pretty amazing. Granted, I will never get to see it in person.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:23
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Orvin posted:Is it South America where one of the civilizations built structures by chipping away at the stones to make them fit together perfectly. So that mortar wasn’t needed, and these structures have withstood some pretty decent seismic activity up in the mountains. No they used UFOs and LASERs and poo poo. A scientist called Von Däniken has written many well-researched peer-reviewed studies on it.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:34
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And yet here we are with actual lasers and America still chooses to use wood and structurally supporting drywall.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:36
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No because we're loving swimming in them. Any other stupid-as-gently caress questions, English? right, that's sort of why it confuses me. I'm going to flee my state later this year because my government wants to kill me, and like... you guys are smug about the reasons my life sucks because I live here and walls being old? bizarre energy at some point, a lot of you guys missed the memo that doing this kind of thing went from punching up to punching down and it's uh. not a cute look to just browbeat people about it all the time. It's like playing basketball with kindergardeners and being smug about all the dunks you're landing. fish in a barrel, pal. Isn't it kind of annoying when people say "Europeans" as though that was a valid way to talk about a hugely diverse group of people scattered across an entire continent? the US is roughly the same size as europe and it's annoying when you guys go "Americans" for the exact same reason.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:46
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like if I swung in on a rope to screech "LOL EUROS JUST CAN'T RESIST HAVING LAND WARS" it would not be an epic burn, I would be making myself look like a gigantic rear end in a top hat. mystifying that it looks any different on your end when you do it
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Mar 7, 2024 15:50
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Orvin posted:Is it South America where one of the civilizations built structures by chipping away at the stones to make them fit together perfectly. So that mortar wasn’t needed, and these structures have withstood some pretty decent seismic activity up in the mountains. Yeah that's Andean construction. Cuzco is full of it. When the colonizers did their thing, they built their buildings on top of the Inca foundations. So you have 17th century Spanish colonial buildings built on top of these trapezoidal dark gray rock foundations. And yeah, they are amazing. The guides' favorite trick is to show how you can't slide a piece of paper in between the huge, irregularly shaped blocks.
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Mar 7, 2024 16:51
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ComradePyro posted:like if I swung in on a rope to screech "LOL EUROS JUST CAN'T RESIST HAVING LAND WARS" it would not be an epic burn, I would be making myself look like a gigantic rear end in a top hat. mystifying that it looks any different on your end when you do it But that's true?  Us Americans are all about the land, sea, and air wars! 
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Mar 7, 2024 18:33
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Theres lots of stuff to poo poo on America and Americans about (Canada and Canadians too) but holy gently caress. "Lol amerikkkans and there lack of stone walls LOLO"
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Mar 7, 2024 18:35
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America had that one Stonewall, at least. No not that one, the other one.
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Mar 7, 2024 18:36
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It's a historical fact that Americans hate our walls because they envy us and want them to be torn down.
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Mar 7, 2024 18:40
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I just discovered a thing that exists and could very well produce much crappy construction. Or possibly not crappy construction. 3d printing houses. https://printerra.ca/ https://builtin.com/3d-printing/3d-printed-house https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/3d-printed-buildings-future-or-gimmick/ https://www.uwindsor.ca/engineering/civil/142/3d-printed-housing
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Mar 7, 2024 18:41
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:But that's true? Yeah, it's true, but it's punching down, as OP noted. Low-hanging fruit.
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Mar 7, 2024 18:49
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We have stone walls that have been jankily repaired in the United States. A stone wall doesn’t have to be 1000 years old to look like that.
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Mar 7, 2024 18:52
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St. Augustine has cool walls.
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Mar 7, 2024 20:29
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Nenonen posted:It's a historical fact that Americans hate our walls because they envy us and want them to be torn down. We weren't keen on Berlin, you got us there.
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Mar 7, 2024 20:47
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:And yet here we are with actual lasers and America still chooses to use wood and structurally supporting drywall. Completely unrelated, but I own the costume in your AV. Best $15 Halloween gag costume I've ever bought. I removed the inflatable boner part because even uninflated it hangs like a half chub and gets in the way. When you remove it entirely its basically just a dick sock that you can tuck in to make the costume G rated.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:29
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wesleywillis posted:
I've been lightly following WASP for a few years because a 3d printed house seems pretty awesome. The only concern I have are the materials used to "print" the structure and their off-gassing potential, there are I am sure several downsides to building in this way but overall it seems like a cool idea. I am not necessarily onboard with it "solving our house crisis" since that is a multifaceted issue that involves zoning, parking requirements, how we build communities, and so on... Cheap small homes will only go so far. Also that opinion piece is pretty loving salty... LOL
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Mar 7, 2024 21:55
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Platystemon posted:St. Augustine has cool walls. Coquina! I impressed a Petrology professor by knowing what that was when we were learning about types of limestones, because years earlier I'd taken a guided tour of Old St. Augustine before getting drunk there that evening.
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Mar 7, 2024 22:16
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3D printing the structure of a home: fine, I guess? but framing out a house is just one of many, many steps in building a house. You still have to: - install electrical, plumbing, ducts, maybe gas lines - insulate and add vapor barriers - drywall the interior, put up sheathing on the exterior, and generally make sure that wind and weather stay on the correct side of the walls - probably a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten about None of that can be done by a printer, it's all human-driven labor. Also we already have low-labor housing construction, it's called prefab houses. You don't have to haul a giant printer to the build site, you just deliver the house in sections and assemble it.
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Mar 7, 2024 22:18
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There was a 3D printed city as a plot point in that one Deus Ex game, checkmate tech pessimists!
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Platystemon posted:St. Augustine has cool walls. I can't find a picture of this on google, but in (North Central, at least) Florida, when the water level in the rivers are low enough you can sometimes see where we got the idea to build walls out of it from! The Castillo de San Marcos, a fort on the shore near St. Augustine, has walls made of coquina. According to a tour I went on in 4th grade, it was notorious for being impossibly tough, you can still see where cannon shots landed on the walls. The shells give it a much greater ability to absorb the energy of the impact, essentially acting like rebar in concrete and the crumple zone of your car.  for every inch of stone you make it through, you've created an inch of coquina's worth of powder between you and the next inch. instead of blowing a hole through a strong, brittle material you pulverized a small piece of softer material. I think modern composite armor does the same kinda thing, so if I'm right about that, the average fort wall was using the equivalent of WW2 steel tank armor and the Spaniards had the equivalent of modern composite ceramic plating.
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Wall envy
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rjmccall posted:We have stone walls that have been jankily repaired in the United States. A stone wall doesn’t have to be 1000 years old to look like that.
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i like nice words
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Sash! posted:So does a troll live in that little door or does it go back to a Nazi bunker? There's so many possibilities! That's a hearth.
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titty_baby_ posted:Completely unrelated, but I own the costume in your AV. Best $15 Halloween gag costume I've ever bought. I removed the inflatable boner part because even uninflated it hangs like a half chub and gets in the way. When you remove it entirely its basically just a dick sock that you can tuck in to make the costume G rated. Sorry but that two-hander does not sound very powerful to me
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Anne Whateley posted:I know right, that wouldn’t look out of place at all in New England mill towns where the river kept eating chunks of mill and factory. It would probably have some more modern patches of concrete, too, though, with a high chance of misspelled graffiti Years ago in my home town someone was going round spray painting pentagrams and talking about how "satin" rules.
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wesleywillis posted:Years ago in my home town someone was going round spray painting pentagrams and talking about how "satin" rules.
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Slugworth posted:They ain't wrong Your avatar just works with this statement.
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