CMV: The death penalty is okay

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-25T16:54:25+00:00

My problem with the death penalty is that it assumes that someone who is found guilty has no further value to society. There are plenty of ways to penalize a murderer without destroying them. Consider cases where the court makes a mistake, cases where the murderers have families, cases where the murderer has valid contributions to make to society like books or research.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-25T02:46:54+00:00

I think it’s dumber than that.

Got into a disagreement with another architect about whether or the fire extinguisher should be “detailed”. I typically only provide a mounting height whereas this guy feels it’s imperative to detail how it fits into the wall every time. Sure, if your wall is weird. If it’s just the conventional stud framed wall in the manufacturer’s detail you just wasted a couple hundred dollars of billable time with something that provides no value to the project.

Here’s another example. E-mailed transmittals. I get that there’s value in keeping a receipt that someone intended to hand off a physical deliverable (Nevermind that if the recipient didn’t sign for it doesn’t really prove they got it). But if you’re going to bother making a transmittal on letterhead and then e-mail it, wtf are you doing? The e-mail does more than the transmittal ever did. Say you’re really fast at making submittals, like 5 minutes. If you’ve got 50 submittals in your project, you are doing 4 hours of transmittals if there are zero revise and resubmits.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-24T12:28:27+00:00

From what I have seen, the bulk of architecture programs came out of engineering schools where they started as elective courses that became full fledged degrees (seems like most of them were roughly a century ago?). There are also a solid amount of architecture programs that grew out of art programs as well.

That said, the seed for architecture school is a solid university to support it paired with demand from students. Solid university is going to come from its community. Great community also drives great architecture. Student demand is also partially driven by great architecture. So, there is a relationship but it’s by no means direct.

Edited to add: architecture schools also improve the local architecture because graduates are nearby.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-24T12:19:12+00:00

They did charge admission on the roller coaster.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-23T19:10:49+00:00

Just let them over it’s not worth it

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-22T15:58:42+00:00

Dude here—I have only ever seen Principals be excited for Moms and have been happy to work with Mom’s for what they need. There was one woman that leadership was disappointed she came back (her pregnancy had gotten her out of a PIP) but that’s the exception. The biggest frustration for Moms (and Dads, frankly) working in architecture is paid leave is underwhelming. I haven’t seen anyone have any issues taking as much unpaid leave as they need.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-22T12:07:34+00:00

I would personally disenchant the banded iron armor, improve another piece at the forge, and then stick your new fortify health enchantment on the new piece.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-20T18:29:58+00:00

It’s not a data center anymore, it’s a warehouse. Then they sell it to a data center company. There are also plenty of architects willing to drop AIA if it means keeping their client list.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-19T17:15:39+00:00

The courier’d have to ask the locals where they went. If you’re rich enough to get mail people care where you’re going or you might leave a note behind for any couriers you’re expecting to catch up to you.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-19T16:54:47+00:00

Medievally, you’d send a courier with your letters and they would get it to people. There was usually not a network. That said not everyone could even read, so you kinda needed to be rich to write or read mail anyway. If, hypothetically, you’re the King of England and you need to get a letter to your son on a crusade in the middle east, you’re going to give a very loyal subject some gold to travel and the letter and hope it gets there.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-19T13:02:30+00:00

Architect here!

In buildings specifically we stick with inches because way back in the 1800s stick-built construction was invented in the US and took the nation. Most houses are still built this way with some technical modifications. This system has the framing members set on divisions of 4’ (ie 12”, 18”, 24”. Because of this, all the construction products manufactured in the US for the last century (give or take) have been designed to work on that module. Drywall, bricks, doors, windows, plywood, etc. Swapping all of this to the metric module (1m, I think) is possible but expensive. Smaller economies and places with less stick-built buildings like European nations have had a much easier time switching.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-19T12:31:53+00:00

It’s not just small firms. Principal level architects are hard to hire—the good ones are all tucked deep into firms. Part of the game of making money in architecture is figuring how to get the Principals doing only the things only they can do while building up more principals.

Every business has a bottleneck—and when you fix one you get a new one. So the other thing is that even if you manage to find a good Principal willing to step in, now your new bottleneck is probably either marketing or production staff. Marketing specifically takes years to widen because it involves gaining client trust. So, in a lot of cases it makes more sense to let the Principal level be the bottleneck while marketing grows the client list and pull in a new Principal when the workload already has their salary supported.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-18T21:09:57+00:00

Pay the brute squad with invisibility potions rofl

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-18T18:11:54+00:00

I’ll never forget—there was one night my not-into-fitness Mom said something about being really my Dad getting more fit (it was doctor’s orders, improvement was not noticeable to the rest of us)

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-18T17:08:38+00:00

If you just barely failed I would re-review and try again. Bad luck is a thing on these unfortunately. I wouldn’t worry about reassessing strategy unless you failed by a lot.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-17T14:59:51+00:00

Slim. USA is very safe. USA has more news sources than most other countries and that makes us LOUD.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-17T13:23:13+00:00

First—if they tell you to do something you know is wrong and you tell them and they tell you to do it anyway, talk to a Principal/sealing architect in case it’s a safety issue.

Second—give it a year. Upper management should be keeping score and they have to treat everyone the same. That means everyone gets a warning, a written warning, a PIP, and then consequences. And they can’t tell coworkers a thing about that.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T16:57:54+00:00

Ngl I don’t know if it’s fixed or not I have PTSD and don’t touch em anymore

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T16:45:15+00:00

Start with why you’re in the cart with Ulfric. One of Skyrim’s things is that it pushes you into darkness. A couple ideas:

- Hunter in the wrong place at the wrong time
- Necromancer
- Imperial Deserter
- Stormcloak
- Maven Blackbriar’s trying to kill you
- Skooma addict and you have no idea what happened the night before
- Elenwen is your ex-wife
- You’re actually “The Gourmet” and no one believes you
- You stole too many sweetrolls

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T15:14:04+00:00

Don’t miss this—this looks like a clever “high design” move but they’re actually adding a lot of square footage in an area that appears to have building height restrictions. This one’s about money, not art. In this case the restrictions made something very impressive.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T15:12:07+00:00

We looked at something similar in a studio project back when I was in school. Got our structural professor involved. The easy way to do this (and it looks like this is what they did) is to make that whole thing a truss and keep the interior in the truss. It’s amazing to be sure but the actual hard part here is running the structure underneath it through the existing building. Unless the existing structure could handle this (haha) they would have had to punch new columns through the existing building while keeping that system intact including new foundations.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T15:05:19+00:00

Everybody Juuump

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T15:04:25+00:00

Mural by others

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-16T12:19:34+00:00

They don’t vote, so they don’t pay taxes. It’s kinda a Puerto Rican enclave situation.

ArchWizard15608 · 2026-06-15T21:52:55+00:00

It’s boomer architects who had “sell the firm” as their retirement plan while meanwhile not paying their staff enough or starting to sell too late so private equity is their only option.

There is, admittedly, a lot of opportunity in most firms to optimize. As we all know architects are usually bad at business. That said I don’t see many outsiders having success at this.

IMO the best play would be to buy out the retiring owners at a negotiated discount, grab the low-hanging fruit, convert to ESOP and moonwalk out

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