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A lot of people think there's one weird trick to affordable sustainable ethical eco-friendly construction that BIG DEVELOPERS don't want you to know about. They want to feel smug and superior that they've totally disrupted the industry with their container house or pallet house. But in all those cases if you want the same quality of a house as "construction orthodoxy" provides you end up spending more for a shittier product, or end up living in something that falls apart or molds or leaks. We've built up our construction methods and building codes over centuries of trial and error. There's certainly room for creative thinking and better solutions, maybe even giving people a little more freedom and leeway, but for the most part all the rules in building codes are there for a reason and straying from them will lead to horrible results. Also I love the goal post moving with "alternative" construction: "We're going to use containers and reclaimed pallet wood and rammed earth to make a sustainable house that's cheaper and better than what big-construction would put up!!" "Man it sure was expensive insulating those containers, and we had to get all new pallet wood because our previous was toxic (omg why do corporations put toxins in pallets? Is it so we can't build homes??) but even though this is costing more it's worth it because our home will be sustainable and great" "Ok well it turns out even with the hay insulation these salvaged single-pane windows and pallet-wood doors don't insulate very well, it's going to be expensive heating this house but we'll just wear sweaters! Our house is super unique though" "Ok my house was more expensive, is lovely, is already falling apart, but god drat does everyone know me and my family are innovative free-thinkers!" Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Feb 27, 2017 |
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Feb 27, 2017 21:14
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Hello darkness my mold friend I've come to caulk with you again
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Feb 27, 2017 21:19
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It's important to clearly label your toilet connectors.
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Feb 27, 2017 21:50
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Bad Munki posted:Hello darkness my mold friend 
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Feb 27, 2017 22:05
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Didn't go with dampness?
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Feb 27, 2017 22:11
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:The least stupid idea from Dahir Insaat. It's still stupid, but it's the least stupid. what's the most stupid?
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Feb 27, 2017 22:17
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Qwijib0 posted:what's the most stupid? Qwijib0 posted:what's the most stupid? This has my vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4qKt6Wr5w
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Feb 27, 2017 22:24
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Qwijib0 posted:what's the most stupid? The meta-idea of Dahir Insaat itself. With the drive-through car grocery store in a close second, but possibly tied for that position with the suitcase tank missile launcher.
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Feb 27, 2017 22:25
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Bad Munki posted:Hello darkness my mold friend 
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Feb 27, 2017 22:29
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The road laying machine will always have a special place in my heart because it requires a steady stream of supplies that are transported along the road it lays. There's a loop between a - presumably - stationary supply point and a target that keeps increasing distance to that point. You'd either have to keep adding trucks to the loop, at which point they become another resource to be transported from A to B, or they would have to drive faster and faster as the machine chugs along.
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Feb 27, 2017 22:49
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The plane that can detach the wings and cockpit to turn into a survival capsule with an airframe parachute is my favourite in terms of it being impossible to engineer/stupid. The massive drive-through supermarket wins for sheer stupid though.
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Feb 27, 2017 22:54
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There's also the heavy goods transport quadcopter that receives its power through long cables from humungous generators carried on two trucks, so it can only ever fly above roads, and that goes through a complicated dis-/reconnection protocol whenever they get to a bridge.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:01
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Samizdata posted:This has my vote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4qKt6Wr5w If you want to see the picture of efficiency, cruise ship galleys are pretty incredible. Preparing fancy meals for 3,000 people in 2 hours is pretty amazing. Moving sidewalks, one-way foot traffic, escalators, digital ordering/paging. It's a real neat arrangement.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:06
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My Lovely Horse posted:There's also the heavy goods transport quadcopter that receives its power through long cables from humungous generators carried on two trucks, so it can only ever fly above roads, and that goes through a complicated dis-/reconnection protocol whenever they get to a bridge. Can you link this? It sounds amazing.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf34o2oL85g imagine seeing this from a distance and realizing you'll have to drive under it.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:12
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Bad Munki posted:The meta-idea of Dahir Insaat itself. With the drive-through car grocery store in a close second, but possibly tied for that position with the suitcase tank missile launcher. No way, it's absolutely the artery drill. Followed by the chain-gun quadcopter made from semis.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:13
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My Lovely Horse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf34o2oL85g :/ Soooo where is the gas for those massive generators or is this just the simple solution to get huge rear end things OVER bridges?
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Feb 27, 2017 23:15
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://imgur.com/a/OFVfk Screaming here!
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Feb 27, 2017 23:16
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Speaking of Dahir Insaat, this is fitting for the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTGVqZX4o0w Also, you gotta watch the Russian version of the artery declogger for its intense and repetitive music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bygPK0x1M78 [Edit] loving lol, it's like the sawdust house but even more absurd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYCAc1fPnM Buff Skeleton fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Feb 27, 2017 23:42
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~Coxy posted:(It's the three months it takes western power to install your meter lol) For us it was waiting for the final inspection from the city to estimate taxes. We had already moved in two months earlier.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:55
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Baronjutter posted:A lot of people think there's one weird trick to affordable sustainable ethical eco-friendly construction that BIG DEVELOPERS don't want you to know about. They want to feel smug and superior that they've totally disrupted the industry with their container house or pallet house. But in all those cases if you want the same quality of a house as "construction orthodoxy" provides you end up spending more for a shittier product, or end up living in something that falls apart or molds or leaks. I feel like there's a system where designers and such are presented with a problem like "we produce a lot of stuff just to facilitate the transport of other stuff. Maybe we could figure out something to do with it that isn't just a landfill" and they come up with ambitious ideas like housing or consumer goods, produce a sample and gin up a lot of attention for it. Soon all the reasons why that isn't done already are made apparent and the whole idea gets dropped on the venture capitalist scale, but Joe-schmo just remembers the upworthy video he saw and buys his own container unit to make a creepy bunker out of because the idea of shipping container= shelter has been permanently linked in his head
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Feb 28, 2017 00:58
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Great news y'all!! Liddle BubbaBill herd from cousinsister Bessie-Lee bout dat tiny house movement! He gon back in dat dere gold pile hind the house with the tigger welder and rigged hisself up a bran new office outta granpappy's ol car port and Big Bubba's ol hay trailer he done roll outta th'ditch. He even got one of them winders offa auntie's trailer, she so high she aint never gonna notice. Bessie-Lee's gonna sell 'em on her itsy web page where she sells them bones an poo poo to dumb city folk, and liddle Jessie-Lee got his phone screen fixed and gonner put it on craig's list. Hoo. My head hurts now. Anyhoo. I don't understand why people are dropping 2 grand on a raw shipping containers when 8 will get you one of those adorable little 12x30 lofted barn cabins. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Feb 28, 2017 01:38
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://imgur.com/a/OFVfk There is now a follow-up: GARAGE EDITION https://imgur.com/gallery/7Cn8L  
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Blue Footed Booby posted:My dad was in the army and got deployed to Panama during that whole Noriega thing. He's told stories about turning a blind eye to things like shipping crates and pallets going missing because impoverished Panamanians were using them to fix and even build houses. No one could bring themselves to poo poo on people so desperately poor that our trash was a godsend. Not just shipping crates and pallets - whole boxcars. You see, there used to be a tax loophole where if you bought a single boxcar you qualified for a bunch of tax breaks. But since you just needed to own it, and didn't really need to be a real railroad, the dentists or lawyers or whatever just leased them out to a company for a little additional cash. Because nobody really gave a gently caress about tracking them, and thanks to the vagrancies of international trade, these unmonitored boxcars gradually all migrated south, eventually ending up in Panama and used for housing.
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Feb 28, 2017 02:38
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Katosabi posted:I swear these pinterest people have a network to let them know where the free pallets are. It seems like they show up within 10-15 minutes of us throwing them out, and they end up taking them all, even the ones that are literally falling apart. To be fair the slats may be poo poo but the cross braces are almost always maple or another decent-ish hardwood.
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Feb 28, 2017 03:04
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Suspect Bucket posted:Great news y'all!! Liddle BubbaBill herd from cousinsister Bessie-Lee bout dat tiny house movement! He gon back in dat dere gold pile hind the house with the tigger welder and rigged hisself up a bran new office outta granpappy's ol car port and Big Bubba's ol hay trailer he done roll outta th'ditch. He even got one of them winders offa auntie's trailer, she so high she aint never gonna notice. Bessie-Lee's gonna sell 'em on her itsy web page where she sells them bones an poo poo to dumb city folk, and liddle Jessie-Lee got his phone screen fixed and gonner put it on craig's list. Metal Roof. On a trailer.
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Feb 28, 2017 03:06
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Fasdar posted:Metal Roof. Also, the trailer doesn't have vinyl siding, it is vinyl siding.
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Buff Skeleton posted:Speaking of Dahir Insaat, this is fitting for the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTGVqZX4o0w All I can figure out is that Dahir Insaat is one of those inventor marketing companies. You give them a ton of money and rights to your invention and they promise to do their best to make you a bazillionaire with their mad marketing skills. Yeah, that's all I got. Samizdata fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Feb 28, 2017 04:41
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~Coxy posted:(It's the three months it takes western power to install your meter lol) Ugh, after waiting about 5 weeks for a meter replacement for solar that "will happen within 3-5 days", I finally called them and asked what the hell was going on, they were like "hmm, I see the work order, but nothing has been done with it. I'll check on it and call you back". Of course, no callback, but meter magically replaced 2 days later.
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Feb 28, 2017 05:27
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Samizdata posted:All I can figure out is that Dahir Insaat is one of those inventor marketing companies. You give them a ton of money and rights to your invention and they promise to do their best to make you a bazillionaire with their mad marketing skills.
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That's the general theory, but I have a friend who works at the patent office and she said a lot of Dahir Insaat's stuff would be tough to get a patent for, because technological feasibility is a factor in whether one is granted. Or something. It's been a while.
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I assumed that he was some young guy in his bedroom who was really good at 3D software. Basically, he's just made the animated version of the doodles I did in the back of my school books, only animated.
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Feb 28, 2017 12:02
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My Lovely Horse posted:That's the general theory, but I have a friend who works at the patent office and she said a lot of Dahir Insaat's stuff would be tough to get a patent for, because technological feasibility is a factor in whether one is granted. Or something. It's been a while. That's one of the reasons Arthur C. Clarke didn't patent the idea of geostationary communications satellites. He's given a number of reasons he didn't do so over the years, but the first I read was something like this: It was a novel idea in 1945 but his patent lawyer convinced him the patent would be rejected for being impossible with current rocket technology. Plus, he thought the patent would run out by the time rocketry had advanced enough: He didn't think we'd be launching sats until the 1990's. By the time rockets were advanced enough to put a satellite into orbit the idea of using a geostationary satellite as a radio relay would be "obvious" and the patent would be rejected.
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The one I find weirdest is the personal message to Vladimir Putin about how Dahir Insaat's technology could all work together to form the city of the future, solving all Russia's housing problems. It doesn't seem to fit in with any sane business strategy, which is why I'm going with this:spog posted:I assumed that he was some young guy in his bedroom who was really good at 3D software. I was assuming teenage son of Russian billionaire, with daddy hiring him a team of 3D artists, but I suppose one really talented weirdo is also possible.
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Feb 28, 2017 13:45
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My Lovely Horse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf34o2oL85g I'm the massive IDE cables for power
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Feb 28, 2017 14:16
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Retsupurae's Dahir Insaat mock videos were sheer gold, it's a shame they got C&D'ed. You can probably still find them out there but the original uploads are private now. Death Bed is pretty amazing, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ8tuAoyT14
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Oh my god, Dahir Insaat is a sci-fi web-series, this explains everything!quote:The plot takes place in the distant future. The Earth, ravaged by the destructive nuclear wars of humans thousands of years in the past, has returned to its lush neutral self. However, the first long-term nuclear shelters have begun to unseal, and humans once again roam the planet.
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Enourmo posted:Retsupurae's Dahir Insaat mock videos were sheer gold, it's a shame they got C&D'ed. You can probably still find them out there but the original uploads are private now.
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Enourmo posted:Retsupurae's Dahir Insaat mock videos were sheer gold, it's a shame they got C&D'ed. You can probably still find them out there but the original uploads are private now. I searched through their channels about a month ago and was sad to see them gone, I really wanted to watch the one where they comment on the giant quadcopter drone that comes out of a truck trailer and destroys American jets on the runway
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