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lancemantis posted:yeah that's exactly what happens when you let these rubes have too much input on construction of a home -- they'll build it all around their toys, it will be a total schizophrenic mess, and will be instantly outdated and even more ugly i know a general contractor whos a partner at an architecture firm and this literally his job
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Fun fact: every house you see on shows like the worlds most extraordinary homes is actually an "artspace" thats not meant to actually be lived in Also they intentionally overspend so no building inspector will gently caress with code violations on a 5 million dollar house
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Eat This Glob posted:what the gently caress? they pissed the future the jetsons promised never materialized and they tried to grab as much of that promise as they could? poo poo breaks my brain. 
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the boomer rube house i worked on was some $1M+ atrocity, in nebraska, and we were pulling stuff everywhere because they had a television in every single room of course, and they wanted it to have the latest cabling, all into some heat-death central-hub-room for a ton of receivers and other things, and of course there was a secondary garage for the guy to park all of his boomer-teen toys in and thousands of dollars of tools that rarely get used, tons of wasted empty space, a billion corners for some reason, a bunch of security cameras, a kitchen that will simultaneously be horribly expensive but rarely used outside of holding takeout bags, unless its a holiday and they need to bake a dozen artery cloggers, etc etc the guy was a total failson too also the guy was friends with the owner of the electrical business he hired to wire the place, and said friend threatened to quit because said failson and his spouses favorite evening activity was going over the the house and changing a bunch of the lighting and switch locations after his guys had already pulled all the electrical wiring to them Bro Dad posted:Also they intentionally overspend so no building inspector will gently caress with code violations on a 5 million dollar house yes, this guy was also going to immediately commit code violations after inspection because he didn't like some of them
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stories like these make me almost grateful for the over 10 years of my adult life I have never lived outside of a studio apartment and probably never will (I have chosen the cursed path of an academic)
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Mr. Lobe posted:stories like these make me almost grateful for the over 10 years of my adult life I have never lived outside of a studio apartment and probably never will (I have chosen the cursed path of an academic) dont worry oligarchs all actually live in apartments too, because who the gently caress actually wants live in an mc escher glass nightmare stuffed with (probably fake) basquiats
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oh yeah they had an elevator too because they knew their fat lazy boomer asses were destined for being barely mobile husks kept alive by thousands of dollars in prescriptions to keep their lich-state going while others died from dental infections and of course they were going to remain in their nightmare home
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lancemantis posted:a billion corners for some reason what does this mean? was the house a maze?
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Shear Modulus posted:what does this mean? was the house a maze? it's really hard to do it justice with a picture  
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poo poo, I thought you meant like, kitchen corners in random spots
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lancemantis posted:it's really hard to do it justice with a picture This cost one million plus dollars in Nebraska with another house like 10 feet away?? what the fuckl
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its just a big blob with peaks that look like poorly drawn diagonals on a etch-a-sketch
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punch drunk posted:This cost one million plus dollars in Nebraska with another house like 10 feet away?? what the fuckl they micromanaged a lot and were really really bad about how they were spending money
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:jesus that roof it’s like they loaded the wrong file as the normal map
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Bro Dad posted:Fun fact: every house you see on shows like the worlds most extraordinary homes is actually an "artspace" thats not meant to actually be lived in funny enough that bluff doesn't always work, especially if you do a lovely enough job that you wind up endangering other rich people houses. A former boss's failson sunk hundreds of thousands if not into the full million building a backyard pyrotechnics and watershow rivaling a vegas casino's. He did it all without proper permitting, and was told to scale it back and change his illegal modifications as he was doing it. He was just so sure he could ask forgiveness and get a small fine or whatever so he ignored the inspectors and did what he wanted. He wound up losing the pissing match with city hall and got his mansion condemned Coolness Averted has issued a correction as of 22:28 on Jun 17, 2019 |
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lancemantis posted:yeah that's exactly what happens when you let these rubes have too much input on construction of a home -- they'll build it all around their toys, it will be a total schizophrenic mess, and will be instantly outdated and even more ugly  but with houses
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Coolness Averted posted:funny enough that bluff doesn't always work, especially if you do a lovely enough job that you wind up endangering other rich people houses. or generally offend the sensibilities of the city egregiously enough: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/19/677929775/san-francisco-orders-man-to-rebuild-his-historic-home-after-it-was-demolished
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This is your daily reminder to run the antivirus in your car's infotainment system. One ransomware attack and you could be locked in the car with the heater cranked.
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i love my lib wife a lot. she is making strides, imo
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Subjunctive posted:it’s like they loaded the wrong file as the normal map Lol
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Look at this marketing poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdhx8wfyxA RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 23:43 on Jun 17, 2019 |
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Radirot posted:Look at this marketing poo poo. So IBM invented....... a bench. A thing the city could easily afford itself if IBM paid it's fair share of taxes. Also share your idea with us so that we can steal them and take credit 
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Shame Boy posted:~Smart TV's~ are generally just running android or some other linux flavor with some overlay UI, and they're likely never ever patched for security issues past like a year of ownership because why would the TV company give a poo poo, so it only makes sense that they'd put some bullshit not-actually-a-solution antivirus on there too to make you feel better. The next tv I buy is getting its wifi antenna desoldered
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Hizawk posted:Hack the toaster. But the Shareef don't like it 
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Subjunctive posted:or generally offend the sensibilities of the city egregiously enough: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/19/677929775/san-francisco-orders-man-to-rebuild-his-historic-home-after-it-was-demolished i'm torn because lol rich guy gets owned but also gently caress historic preservation laws, your city's 1930s designs sucked poo poo and are better off gone caring about the historic look of your neighborhood is some rich privilege bullshit, pretty sure poor people would would rather be able to afford rent than to make sure it looks like you stepped back into the 1800s Shipon has issued a correction as of 00:12 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Problem: the United States government does not have a place to hold migrants and asylum seekers while they await trial. Solution:
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Shipon posted:i'm torn because lol rich guy gets owned raging at historic architecture when large chunks of cities look like barbie mansions and/or concrete cubes is an interesting choice edit: save the pretty old places and nuke this poo poo 
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Peanut President posted:raging at historic architecture when large chunks of cities look like barbie mansions and/or concrete cubes is an interesting choice Why would a city be proud of this?
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Pave it all and put up some nice brutalist communal housing imo
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The Nastier Nate posted:Problem: the United States government does not have a place to hold migrants and asylum seekers while they await trial. i think you need a conviction for such a terrible punishment.
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I worked with a guy once who was just so loving proud that he had over 120 lightbulbs in his McMansion. We were talking about LED bulbs because it was a few years ago and he goes "do you know how much it cost to put those in my house?
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autism ZX spectrum posted:I worked with a guy once who was just so loving proud that he had over 120 lightbulbs in his McMansion. We were talking about LED bulbs because it was a few years ago and he goes "do you know how much it cost to put those in my house? my uncle lives in a McMansion and his living room ceiling is like 30 ft high. It costs him $300 to hire some guy with a ladder to change his $5 light bulbs. I don't even wanna ask what it costs to heat all that empty space
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Does he know you can buy a special stick with a suction cup for changing bulbs? Better yet, you can buy or rent a ladder! Optionally, you could live in a regular loving house.
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I wish landlords weren’t monstrous bloodsuckers determined to wring blood from stone because owning a house has never been a goal of mine at all and a small apartment is plenty enough space
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50 story soulless concrete apartment
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bob dobbs is dead posted:50 story soulless concrete apartment walk-up
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If you live above the 5th story the landlord charges you more every month because you're essentially getting a free gym membership
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autism ZX spectrum posted:If you live above the 5th story the landlord charges you more every month because you're essentially getting a free gym membership Also there is a slide to the ground from each floor, so there's that bonus too.
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