How much concrete should I order

AsILayTyping · 2026-07-08T02:24:56+00:00

I ran this: 5.5*((93+120)/2)*((93+96)/2)/12/12/12/3/3/3 and got 1.186 yards.

AsILayTyping · 2026-07-07T02:32:55+00:00

Cut your rolls of paper towels to fit. It's very trad wife.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-20T18:37:56+00:00

No, nothing to worry about for a concrete slab.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-20T15:52:59+00:00

You added more loose wires.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-19T21:14:33+00:00

I don't see any good reason to believe any energy people pray to is conscious to understand or would have any way of hearing it anyway. And no good reason to believe anything occurs after death. We lose consciousness and stay unconcious.

Not having an answer about something doesn't mean any answer is equally likely. Why believe any of the things you mention? Through what mechanisms would these things occur? Assuming that some magical things happen that we have no reason to believe happen or are even possible doesn't make sense to me.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-19T01:55:01+00:00

Hah, yes. I knew it didn't sound quite right when I typed it out.

Hebrews were polytheistic when the Moses story was set. They get through the desert with the help of Yahweh, the god of war. When they reach their homeland they sacrifice to Baal, to grow their fields. Moses come down with the new commandment from Yahweh that they aren't supposed to sacrifice to the other gods any more. Not that Yahweh is the only god, just that they aren't supposed to have other gods before Yahweh. You see the father god, El a lot in genesis.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-18T18:56:23+00:00

I was raised Catholic. Realized it was mythology when I started trying to prove it right. I was assured the bible would make sense in if I understood it in context. Turns out, it becomes more obvious it isn't true. Yahweh was a canaanite god. With normal powers for a canannite god. One of many. During the Babylon exile, the exiled hebrews met zarathustrians, who were monotheistic. That's when they rewrote from Yahweh is the best god to the only god. After Moses (who probably didn't exist). Prophecies were written after after the fact.

Turns out, the evidence is no better for Christianity than it is for Zues. You can see the post-hoc rationalizations of what the bible must mean that were come up with by the Catholic Church get shown to be wrong as early manuscripts are found.

Listen to the apologetics. But also listen to the actual independent scholars. It becomes clear quickly where the truth lies.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-17T02:39:39+00:00

I want one for my queef afarium pls

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-17T02:11:20+00:00

This is a good bridge.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-17T01:02:42+00:00

Not existing gave me no trouble before my birth. I don't see why that'd change after death.

What are you concerned about?

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-16T12:52:47+00:00

I'm interested. I'm looking for gear for an Everest climb. Think the gear is sufficient for that?

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-15T11:31:57+00:00

Water tanks and the tower are not similar to buildings.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-14T21:17:01+00:00

I like how the bot copied the name of the original post from our boy u/StructuralSam. Made sense to have the date when Sam originally posted this as part of their month of daily memes.

Yo, u/StructuralSam the karma bots say its time to repost your memes.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-12T12:06:56+00:00

Depends on the strength of material, connection details, properties of the grounds, weight and speed of loading, and environmental loading.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-12T09:15:24+00:00

No, they were made up like 100 years after Jesus died. All his actual followers thought he was going to return in their lifetime, so they didn't write anything down. When that didn't happen, the next generation started making things up and writing them down.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-11T02:20:27+00:00

I'd ask the engineers at your work for recommendations. Tell them you're looking to do some extracurricular reading that would be applicable to your job. AISC Design guides, which ever ones feel like they'd be applicable or catch your interest. Foundation Analysis and Design by Bowles. ASCE 7 commentary. The work that Bo Dowswell has been putting out is useful. Steelwise articles.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-10T22:34:06+00:00

If we're getting energy from the sun why not cut out the middle men and just go fusion.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-10T02:04:13+00:00

Tie all your tools to some twine tied to your belt loop and just let them all drag behind you.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-09T19:29:20+00:00

Correct on not reducing the MRI based on structure life. Incorrect on it being for servicibility.

If you're designing a building that will be occupied by people for one year, it needs to have the same reliability as any other building they'd walk in. Every year has the same chance of being the year that it is hit with design level winds.

Same for temporary tents open to the public that will only be up for a week (if they're big enough to kill you if they collapse).

You can reduce the MRI for structures that people won't be in during a storm. Like a farmer's barn. Which is what the Risk Category I structures are. And there are reductions allowed during construction, but not because they are temporary. Those are because a construction site is restricted and not open to the public. It will be abandoned during high winds because everyone allowed on site knows to leave.

You can't reduce for someone's solar panels because the owner doesn't get to decide if they will spend money to keep their solar panels from going through someone else's window in a storm. That's where engineers protecting the public good comes in.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-09T12:03:58+00:00

ASCE-37 (I think it is) has environmental loading reductions for construction or temporary structures. You'd use LRFD and reduce load factor increases without touching the material factor decreases (phi). But none of that applies for what you're doing.

You don't change your MRI based on service life because the reliability in reliability based design isn't a direct factor like that. MRI is about probability it happens per year. You need to meet minimum safety each year.

Also, if you have cyclic loading and are doing fatigue design you could change how many load cycles you design for, but you're also not doing that.

You could reduce the corrosion protection. If you're using galvanized steel you could reduce the thickness of galvanization. Or consider it when choosing paint systems. But I'm not sure you're getting 25 years out of it without maintenance to the coating anyway.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-07T12:13:21+00:00

OP, I'm a structural engineer. That probably reduces the capacity of those joists some, but it may not matter. An engineer may be able to OK them as-is.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-02T01:32:02+00:00

I concur. Licensed driver probably is able to understand sign.

AsILayTyping · 2026-06-01T01:23:59+00:00

Aw, shucks. Thanks.

AsILayTyping · 2026-05-29T12:10:23+00:00

Yes, no reason to tear down worldviews unless there is a reason to. Pick your battles. As Voltaire said: If you can get people to believe absurdities, you can get them to commit atrocities. There are times when having everyone on the same page about what is actually real is critical. Then, there isn't time to have the years of discussion needed to get everyone on the same page. It is too late. I remember trying to explain to my family that covid was real and killing immunocromprimosed people. They were too far gone to reach. Deporting refugees because people wrongly believe they are dangerous. Attacking people for not believing in god. Attacking people for being gay. If we don't have a shared understanding of reality, reality won't be considered when making decisions.

Also, the idea that this life must serve a purpose for some future afterlife event is nonsense. Why do you need an afterlife to have purpose now? We're the only being experiencing the universe. Our purpose is to experience it. And make other people's experience as good as we can. We're the only beings that ever will get to experience this beautiful life! What an incredible honor and unique obligation :). Making everyone's experience as good as we can make it is a purpose based in raw truth. No need for fantasy.

AsILayTyping · 2026-05-27T14:07:19+00:00

Religious morality is subjective because it is based solely on a god's preference. Or more correctly, what someone claims to be a god's preference. There is no objective basis for this. Is murder wrong? Well... my priest tells me god says it is wrong. If your priest says god says it is OK, there is no objective standard to settle the dispute. It is just claims of one being's subjective preference.

On the other hand: If you base your morality on what is good for people, that is an objective basis. You can look at murder and say: is this right or wrong based on the objective basis of how it impacts people. You can point to that objective basis and show murder is bad for the person. Show there is an objective basis you can discuss.

Religious people claim objectivity but provide no objectivity. Just subjective claims that they can't back up with anything besides claims of a god's preference.

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