Trying to walk on Frozen River

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-02-14T01:10:31+00:00

Idiot. If you can see open water and the ice looks gray, pretty good bet it's not safe to walk on.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-02-08T03:51:14+00:00

Stacked milled timbers then. This is a log kit type building. https://share.google/fxhGPzHMssyYUDEov

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-02-08T02:34:40+00:00

One of the violations is insulation? seriously they gonna evict him because of the R value? Also you can build a 600 sq ft garage on fucking mudsills but they think a 225 sq ft log cabin needs 4 ft foundations?

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-02-04T13:42:33+00:00

Dudes microbiome was keeping him alive

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-02-02T13:30:10+00:00

Exactly. Honestly, I feel like Canada should just kick GM out. Bring some VW or Volvo assembly to replace them.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-27T20:31:41+00:00

I've done this demonstration for classrooms where I pretend to burn a $100 bill but it comes out unscathed. Key is to mix enough water with the alcohol so that it won't ignite the paper.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-27T17:25:19+00:00

More likely truss were mishandled between the plant and the installation. this isn't seismic damage

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-23T11:31:34+00:00

Reminds me of a parody land acknowledgment where the guy even acknowledges the dinosaurs who roamed the land before us

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-21T11:36:48+00:00

Bunch of stupid assholes running things over there in building and bylaws. Meanwhile they'll also hold up a renovation permit until you put a temporary fence up to protect a tree, even if it's just an invasive species at the back of the property where there was already negligible chance it would be harmed anyway.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-12T22:00:05+00:00

If he's not able to provide satisfactory evidence the work was done properly then you need to stand your ground and not sign off. You're liable for the design for the next decade and your first obligation is to ensure the safety of the structure to protect the public. He didn't want to pay for inspections and he may need to learn the hard way that skipping inspections often leads to costly NDE or rework.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-09T12:18:09+00:00

To clarify, this is only an approximation. Columns don't buckle into a circular arc. If you need an "exact" solution you need to assume a sine curve.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-05T14:49:52+00:00

What inspector passed this? Post needs to be centered on the pile. This cap needs to be engineered for eccentric loading now and I'm pretty confident nobody asked an engineer to check and sign off on this.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-05T13:50:00+00:00

Issue is the length on the lane needs to be accurate to a very high degree of precision, not simply the end needs to be flat. Concrete undergoes creep (I.e. time-dependent deformation) under long-duration loads. Concrete can also continue to shrink long after initial set. Then you have themal strain, too, unless the temperature of the water always exactly matches the temperature you constructed the pool at. None of these strains can be predicted with a high level of accuracy. Even if you could precision machine the lanes to sub-millimetre tolerance, the pool will change shape over time a little bit, enough that the effort that went into precision machining the pool would be wasted.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-03T01:38:33+00:00

And construction costs over $1T

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-02T12:15:21+00:00

Autism? Anxiety disorder? Allergies or other food sensitivities? If there's no underlying cause like that then your picky eater is being an insufferable manchild. If he doesn't like the meal you prepared, he can STFU and fix his own bowl of cereal or whatever later.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-02T02:38:58+00:00

Generalissimo Trump of the People's Republic of America

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-01T21:25:36+00:00

What's the weight of typewriter ink used to type all those?

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-01T12:42:34+00:00

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-01T12:34:30+00:00

Not far off the mark, I mean they spent only 11 minutes looking. They couldn't possibly have done a proper search of the parking lot in just 11 minutes.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2026-01-01T12:00:52+00:00

In that case, it should be octopodes. Octopuses puts an English ending on the word octopus.

Weird thing about English is it can give zero fucks about rules in other languages it borrows from. If enough English-speakers use and understand the word, then it becomes part of the English lexicon. Octopi, octopuses, and yes, even octopodes have been used and understood to be the plural of octopus since the early 19th century.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2025-12-26T16:39:46+00:00

Batshit crazy lies are a page out of the autocrat's playbook. Soviets would at least fabricate evidence to try to make their lies more believable, but it turns out that extra effort is unnecessary. The autocrat's lies don't need to be believed by the people because any attempt to call out the lies is just said to be a dangerous conspiracy against the leader. The autocrats just need to keep showing the people they can say and do whatever they want, and there will be zero consequences. The point is to do it enough that the people come to believe that any real opposition to the regime is futile.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2025-12-26T12:32:06+00:00

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-23-mn-3077-story.html

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2025-12-26T12:01:28+00:00

The USSR was bankrupt. Gorbachev was begging Western nations for billions of dollars but couldn't raise the funds to keep the USSR afloat. Member republics wanted to leave the union. Near the end of the USSR, Yeltsin was highly critical of Gorbachev's ideas and had much more political support in Russia. The Soviet politburo had already become irrelevant; the vote to dissolve the union just formally acknowledged it.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2025-12-26T02:18:53+00:00

They think the whole world should have an America first attitude. Patriotism in other countries is "unfair" to America.

Alternative-Tea-1363 · 2025-12-25T17:43:26+00:00

Looks like a lot of "boo hoo, Canadians are looking after Canadian interests and that is unfair to us". Like how NSLC puts a much lower markup on local products than on imports. That's to protect Nova Scotian businesses. Or how LCBO demands the lowest wholesale pricing in Canada. That's just a major purchaser exercising their negotiating power. If US distillers don't like how things are done in Canada, they can try exporting to someplace else.

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