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Regarde Aduck posted:Considering that city life is making everyone mentally ill i'm not sure destroying the little bit of nature some of you monsters ever see is actually a good thing. Keep the greenbelt and build arcologies. I want to live my cyberpunk neonlit megacity dreams out thank you very much
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Regarde Aduck posted:Considering that city life is making everyone mentally ill i'm not sure destroying the little bit of nature some of you monsters ever see is actually a good thing. Keep the greenbelt and build arcologies. London has beautiful (and huge, for such a large city) parks, yeah, don't touch them, I love them. Also, your typical London flat is already like living in an arcology.
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Is that a fancy word for shed?
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I don't want to imagine what a British arcology would be like.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't want to imagine what a British arcology would be like. The Tricorn Centre was a sort of tiny proto-arcology. It included residential flats, a shopping arcade, leisure units that were used for nightclubs and laser tag, and a multistorey car-park - all in one concrete brutalist monstrosity. By the time I was growing up it was an abandoned, piss-reeking wreck, but it was still a crying shame when they tore it down and put in a flat tarmac car park with probably half the capacity.
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Apr 27, 2017 15:48
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Guavanaut posted:Is that a fancy word for shed? More like an outhouse with a bed
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OwlFancier posted:I don't want to imagine what a British arcology would be like. Oberleutnant posted:an abandoned, piss-reeking wreck Also what a British economy would be like.
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Oberleutnant posted:The Tricorn Centre was a sort of tiny proto-arcology. It included residential flats, a shopping arcade, leisure units that were used for nightclubs and laser tag, and a multistorey car-park - all in one concrete brutalist monstrosity. It looks horrifying. And I like brutalism.
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Regarde Aduck posted:Considering that city life is making everyone mentally ill i'm not sure destroying the little bit of nature some of you monsters ever see is actually a good thing. Keep the greenbelt and build arcologies. I thought ppl in isolated places were more depressed
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Apr 27, 2017 15:53
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Humans are social creatures but we are not naked mole rats.
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Apr 27, 2017 15:55
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OwlFancier posted:It looks horrifying. 
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Apr 27, 2017 15:54
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Government has lost its bid to block the air pollution report, which is rumored to slam the government and recommend banning of diesel cars among other things. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39737981
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Oberleutnant posted:Yeah? Well that opinion puts you in a club of two, you share membership with Prince Charles rear end in a top hat! The pictures online only show a weird car park in the middle of an indiscernible pile of concrete. Brutalism's supposed to be, like, impressively oppressive, not "every city center in the UK" oppressive. I want to know that my corporate overlords care enough to set out to dull my soul properly rather than just letting the free market sort it out. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 15:56
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Breath Ray posted:I thought ppl in isolated places were more depressed No, that's people who have to spend time around you that end up more depressed. Oberleutnant posted:Neil's a Tory, Marr's a Tory, Nick Robinson was president of their loving youth club. Tommy Pickles is a Tory, or so I hear. They're all tories. But the BBC has a left wing bias. 
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Apr 27, 2017 15:58
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Lets not make light of mental illness
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Apr 27, 2017 15:59
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OwlFancier posted:The pictures online only show a weird car park in the middle of an indiscernible pile of concrete. You can see a sort of survey of the old structure here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/portsmouths-tricorn-center-without-city-marcel-krenz Most pictures only show the car park because it fronted onto a road offering unobstructed views. The rest was pretty well enclosed by surrounding buildings so it was super dingy and grim, and I can vividly remember the stench of that place even as an adult. Just like the nastiest pub toilet you've ever been in, but all the time. That's probably the perfect model of a british arcology.
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Breath Ray posted:I thought ppl in isolated places were more depressed It's possible to live in a densely populated city and still feel "isolated" due to little or no sense of community.
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If you want good Brutalism you have to go to Germany    Oberleutnant posted:You can see a sort of survey of the old structure here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/portsmouths-tricorn-center-without-city-marcel-krenz The interior picture looks pleasingly dystopian so if it's like that all the way through then yeah it's good. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 16:07
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Pistol_Pete posted:That's distinctly unfair to the middle ages. In that period, charity was dispensed on the basis of personal need, not restricted by arbitrary cut offs. So the middle ages operated a "to each according to their need" policy? Surprised that doesn't get mentioned more often round here. I was more hosed off at the implicit position that any third child (of a poor woman) will be treated as worthless to society unless the product of rape or an abusive relationship, and only then if the mother can convince the prejudiced powers that be that she really, really did suffer and is worthy. Also, can you imagine the stigma hell such a "rape baby" child could go through in later life? All this mugwump talk and no mention of Bill Burroughs (apart from the Bomb The Bass track posted)? smdh Boris might have been thinking* of the joke that a mugwump is a person sitting on the fence, with his mug on one side and his wump on the other. *No thought went into his word vomit. RIP Britsh comic maestro Leo Baxendale. This Breath Ray posted:Lets not make light of mental illness forkboy84 posted:But the BBC has a left wing bias.
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Huge failed brutalist nightmares, you say? Got you covered Russia is probably full of those too
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Gonzo McFee posted:He's the interviewer. The host.
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ukle posted:Government has lost its bid to block the air pollution report, which is rumored to slam the government and recommend banning of diesel cars among other things. gently caress off, Brussels
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Apr 27, 2017 16:13
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Banning sprouts might help stop air pollution a bit too, it's true.
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Have just had a Labour leaflet for the council elections put through my door - it proposes a "council-run" energy company. Does anyone know anything like that already existing elsewhere? Seems like an interesting idea.
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forkboy84 posted:No, that's people who have to spend time around you that end up more depressed. Not to mention Laura Kuenssberg who seems to have a deep, burning desire to humiliate Jeremy Corbyn.
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EmptyVessel posted:This Thank you. Here is the thing I had in mind: Format: AbstractSend to Fam Med. 2006 Oct;38(9):653-60. Rural-urban differences in depression prevalence: implications for family medicine. Probst JC1, Laditka SB, Moore CG, Harun N, Powell MP, Baxley EG. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Rural populations experience more adverse living circumstances than urban populations, but the evidence regarding the prevalence of mental health disorders in rural areas is contradictory. We examined the prevalence of depression in rural versus urban areas. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study using the 1999 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). In face-to-face interviews, the NHIS administered the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF) depression scale to a nationally representative sample of 30,801 adults, ages 18 and over. RESULTS: An estimated 2.6 million rural adults suffer from depression. The unadjusted prevalence of depression was significantly higher among rural than urban populations (6.1% versus 5.2% ). After adjusting for rural/urban population characteristics, however, the odds of depression did not differ by residence. Depression risk was higher among persons likely to be encountered in a primary care setting: those with fair or poor self-reported health, hypertension, with limitations in daily activities, or whose health status changed during the previous year. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of depression is slightly but significantly higher in residents of rural areas compared to urban areas, possibly due to differing population characteristics.
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Party Boat posted:It's possible to live in a densely populated city and still feel "isolated" due to little or no sense of community. I literally just submitted my dissertation about this. Weird.
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I hope you asked peoples permission
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/27/man-arrested-over-incident-in-whitehall-near-parliament The rider never ends!
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Breath Ray posted:I hope you asked peoples permission They made me do it.
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LemonyTang posted:Have just had a Labour leaflet for the council elections put through my door - it proposes a "council-run" energy company. Does anyone know anything like that already existing elsewhere? Seems like an interesting idea. Sounds similar to OurPower, which is run by a bunch of big housing associations.
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OwlFancier posted:If you want good Brutalism you have to go to Germany This one doesn't count, it's clearly some kind of land warship.
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Bobstar posted:This one doesn't count, it's clearly some kind of land warship. Those crafty huns circumventing the Washington Naval Treaty even today!
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It's a university/animal testing center. Though it does look as though it might take off given provocation. 
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Apr 27, 2017 16:35
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OwlFancier posted:It's a university/animal testing center. What do they test? Range? Velocity?
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Apr 27, 2017 16:39
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Ah, Space Battleship Bismarck
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Alertrelic posted:Sounds similar to OurPower, which is run by a bunch of big housing associations. Thanks for linking me this. Found this BBC article talking about their launch but not much since. Does anyone have any experience of them? Seems like a good move forward. One year on I wonder how many people they serve and how many of them are happy with them. Here is a presentation clearly made by them during the start-up phase. Also, more info on Owlfancier's building found here LemonyTang fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Darth Walrus posted:What do they test? Range? Velocity? aerodynamics. Much success has been achieved with a sparrow loaded in a standard 125mm tank sabot round.
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Tesseraction posted:weaponised sound, I'm assuming I could actually feel the shape of the atoms of any substance within 10 feet of my genitalia.
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