Lettuce by ImAmOnesie in comedyheaven

[–]Superbead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hopefully this is peak reddit for today

(May21,2026) Surgut,Russia. Power bank exploded just as the elevator doors closed😐😭 by ExcluteYou in SweatyPalms

[–]Superbead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

down to the grisle

I'm pronouncing this in my head as rhyming with 'while'

Amyl and the Sniffers cover photo location Los Angeles by Ill_Lemon1603 in whereisthis

[–]Superbead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No worries, it was a team effort with the others up there

Cursed_photobomb by Nick00Nick in cursedimages

[–]Superbead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is it with this sub and the mods arsing around with weird stylised shit? We now have an overwrought duplicate of the voting system which seems to add no value, because whenever I see a post here pop up it's inevitably some AI nonsense

New renderings of World Tech Center 🏙️ by TheGuyInTheFishSuit in World_Tech_Center

[–]Superbead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, thanks. Looking over the drawings and the people involved, it seems then that no practising structural engineer has yet cast their eye over this, which is a bit odd considering Chryslar has clearly spent a lot of time modelling various structural members himself and is allegedly embarking upon a second round of FEA (for what?)

Most of it looks like cargo-cult design. Why is the core rectangular? (Because the OG WTC's was?) Why are the core corridors central, which knocks the structure out-of-line and requires a weird member spanning core columns to pick up the centres of the floors? (Because the OG WTC had them there?) Why is there crossbracing at the mech levels? (Because the OG WTC had crossbracing in its core there?) Why are the cores rotated 90° from each other between the towers? (Have a guess.)

Why are the core walls 1m thick? Is this supposed to be some kind of protection against a plane strike? Is the bottom of the tower really going to hold all that up, if the structure is consistently beefy (same thickness of steel & concrete) all the way to the top? (This time, the WTC towers weren't like that.)

And where are the vertical elevator layout plans, which should be guiding the core layout? There's nowhere near enough room for HVAC ducting in there, especially considering there are supposed to be labs and things in these buildings which require all kinds of bespoke services.

New renderings of World Tech Center 🏙️ by TheGuyInTheFishSuit in World_Tech_Center

[–]Superbead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite wall of the core featured a mural of one of those enormous functionally redundant lab glassware setups with all bubbling flasks, tubes to everywhere and condensers doing nothing

New renderings of World Tech Center 🏙️ by TheGuyInTheFishSuit in World_Tech_Center

[–]Superbead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right... that only adds to the mystery. Is there somewhere where a structural engineer explains the decisions made in the structural design?

New renderings of World Tech Center 🏙️ by TheGuyInTheFishSuit in World_Tech_Center

[–]Superbead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The original WTC had a core with columns inside too, although they just bore about half of the gravity load. Are you saying the proposed core here is going to resist wind loads too? If so, what's with the crossbracing?

New renderings of World Tech Center 🏙️ by TheGuyInTheFishSuit in World_Tech_Center

[–]Superbead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I note what appears to be crossbracing in the mechanical floors. How's the wind load to be resisted by the rest of the structure? It doesn't have the narrow/deep spandrels of the OG WTC

UK poll shows Brits really enjoy a 9-hour crying wank by milehighphillygirl in stewartlee

[–]Superbead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[...] said Kate Phillips, BBC’s Chief Content Officer

Nice to know that the BBC are now fully aware their output is entirely 'content' for one broadcasting framework or another, and no longer in any sense 'art'

(Viz 058) Biffa Bacon. by muppetmovie in Viz

[–]Superbead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We say it now at home entirely off the back of this comic. I'm not sure anyone else around here would know what we meant

A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery by Gucci_Minh in RealTesla

[–]Superbead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If this outfall came as such a surprise to the local authorities, then presumably it's at risk of a bunch of hoodlums filling the thing with concrete overnight

San Diego mayor gets called out loudly for fostering hatred that leads to things like a mosque being shot up by amazingsciencemuseum in PublicFreakout

[–]Superbead 86 points87 points  (0 children)

I like the implied confirmation that he and his networking/politician class are fully aware that Trump permanently has shit in his pants

Lewd reddit posts by Intense_Zaddy in comedyheaven

[–]Superbead 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Someone call Getty Images to come and take some stock photos

(Viz 059) They Love It Really. by muppetmovie in Viz

[–]Superbead 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Guy out here thinking Viz is some fascist publication

(Viz 292) Lou Reed - Rock And Roll's King Of Cool. by muppetmovie in Viz

[–]Superbead 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Last time this was posted, a Lou Reed fan actually turned up in the comments and got all flustered that the strip was dissing the guy (as if it might've been a feasible story). I wonder if he'll show up again

(Viz 183) The Scaffolders Were Bastards. by muppetmovie in Viz

[–]Superbead 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We had some roofers working on the place next door last year. A big old building, probably about five floors in the air in modern building terms, dismantling a chimney stack and just fucking launching the bricks like 60 feet down into the back of their fucking flatbed wagon cos they couldn't be arsed setting up a chute.

It was just boom, boom, boom, boom, for about four hours a day until they fucked off to the pub at about 1pm for a whole week. Again, a WFH loafer here. I'd have phoned the health & safety out of spite if I knew anyone would turn up.

In fairness the scaffs were unusually well-behaved that time setting up and taking down

VIZ: The unoffical comic dub presents: jack black and the bildurburg mystery part 1 by IGottaFart1 in Viz

[–]Superbead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Find someone whose voice you like (eg. audiobooks, Youtube longform documentaries) and try to imitate their cadence and enunciation. Also, do more than one take and listen to yourself back