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alekwithakreply
lemmy.world

Please don't mention anything even remotely related to Civ on this site for the next few days. I have too much to do.

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My apologies, I've accidentally seen the sun rise a few times while playing civ

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Psythikreply
lemmy.world

Thankfully for me I find the game too confusing and boring to be enjoyable, because liking it seems like a really bad idea if you have an addictive personality.

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thelemmy.club

If you are saying you played Civ and never found yourself saying "just one more turn", you might just come out and admit you are a bot account.

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Nope, can't say I've ever said that. I'm sorry but the game is way too complicated and my ADHD is way too severe. Couldn't even make it past the tutorial.

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alekwithakreply
lemmy.world

Truly. When playing Civ I lose all sense of time, and even when in the mindset of 'I'm gonna save and quit' there's always one more quick thing to do first. I have to police myself hard because I will lose at least a week if I get into a campaign. I'm not even really a gamer. Games I enjoy I have a difficult time playing for more than a twenty minute spurt. But Civ... Civ is like fucking hypnotoad, it overrides all other feelings and desires. If you find it confusing and boring just go with that and you'll be much better off.

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lemmy.world

Stellaris is the same way. When I got hooked I played 40 hours by Thursday. And I was in college, so I realized then I needed to be careful

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alekwithakreply
lemmy.world

That's funny. Stellaris is the one game I have specifically forbidden myself from playing, so it's good to get confirmation that it would ruin my life!

But I really wanna try that Star Trek mod.

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It's definitely an enjoyable experience though, I have somehow managed to keep it at 220 hours. I will say after the first couple of games I started adding a titan (an endgame ship that you can build a handful of) to my new save files because I'm here for fun.

Might have to try some of the mods, and lose even more of my life to it!

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I don't think I've ever used a mod with any of them. Do you have any recommendations, for when I'm less busy?

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lemmy.world

Is that "cellar" built on the beach? I'm no structural engineer, but that don't sound right.

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Kenny2999reply
lemmy.world

" This baby can withstand seawater and nuclear explosions" -OceanDoor salesman, probably

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

If it does not survive a nuclear explosion 100% money back guarantee. You just need to personally turn up at the office in order to claim your money.

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Depends on the kind of apocalypse we're talking I think!

Asteroid impact? Probably not.

Supervolcano eruption? Nope.

AI developing sentience and craving human flesh to satisfy its murderous urges? Not likely.

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Once you add the underwater airlock in preparation for rising sea levels, it'll no longer be an issue.

Once the underwater airlock becomes a full-time essential feature, you'll get to test whether you properly installed explosive decompression preventions at high tide.

After that, you only have to worry about how much of your sand and bedrock the currents wash away.

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Well you have to build your apocalypse bunker compound in a scenic area with a beautiful view, otherwise what's the point?

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They are trying to sell a Shell out of Plastic which you burry in the ground

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Maybe he needs further education with the story of the 3 little pigs.

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There are some shells you can get that you bury to make a cellar like this. Sand would be very easy to do this with. It would also be less efficient, pretty sure heavy soils make better cellars.

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zurohkireply
aussie.zone

This guy mustn't be rich enough to reinvent trains but worse like the others.

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I see Adam Something appear over the horizon at the mention of tech bros trying to reinvent trains :D

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lemmy.ca

I mean, additional insulation is good.

Not sure what else is “tech bro” here

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

Everybody already knows that food lasts longer if not stored in direct sunlight. Tech bros are the only idiots that would try and pull something like this off.

We can only be thankful that it isn't another train. They love to invent trains.

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Serinusreply
lemmy.world

Wait. Trains are great. Please invent more trains.

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Echo Dotreply
feddit.uk

No we need to make more trains. You only invent them once.

But the tech bros like to talk about self-driving cars, that drive on special self-driving car roads, that are only for self-driving cars. Yeah that's a train.

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Let's build self driving cars that go on special self driving roads that handle all the steering. To minimize fuel losses from friction while being long lasting, the wheels should be made of some kind of metal, and have a specialized shape to stay centered on the self driving road.

Heck, we could market this to trucking companies, with the low rolling resistance, they could hook a bunch of trailers together! Make some sort of a linked-cargo-hauler, that goes to special depots specifically for these extra long contraptions.

I'm so glad I alone thought of this breakthrough in transportation!

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I'm the consumer. Therefore I am always right. And I require more trains to be invented. Do you not want my money, or what?

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Serinusreply
lemmy.world

Those aren't trains. I don't give a shit if they want to use the word "invented" if it means we actually get trains.

Sure techbros. Be revolutionary. Invent the subway.

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JcbAzPxreply
lemmy.world

You're missing the "but worse" part of the equation.

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ceenotereply
lemmy.world

"apocalypse-proof" is pretty tech bro coded.

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ceenotereply
lemmy.world

You're getting pretty worked up over a lighthearted and frivolous conversation.

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lemmy.world

I have them tagged as "Dumb ass AI Defender" so they must act like this all the time

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ani.social

What frontend do you use? I want to be able to tag dumbasses too!

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Oh yeah, pointing out apocalypse and tech bro coded associations and writing a sentence is worked up 🤣👌👍🤡

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programming.dev

Hey guys I have just discovered a mechanical device with two wheels that you can use to get anywhere petrol free!

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lemmy.ml

With the recent heat waves we've been having it's nice to visit the cellar for a few minutes of cooling down. Of course I can't stay too long because of the radon.

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ThePantserreply
sh.itjust.works

Go diy a radon remover, 3in PVC and a centrifugal fan. Just get it as low as you can to the floor. No reason to get a real system unless you are gonna live there. Any abatement helps.

Edit: If its a dirt floor then it might not help.

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Alexreply

I was slightly exaggerating for comic effect. I do have an extractor fan on a timer which stops build ups. It's definitely not rated for human habitation but the servers are quite happy there 😉

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That reminds me: I un-vented my crawlspace not too long ago, so now I ought to check it for radon.

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My grandparents used to have an air raid shelter in their garden, you could use it to freeze water in the height of summer.

Although I wouldn't recommend storing food down there because it was always damp, and full of spiders. I don't particularly mind spiders but I don't want to accidentally eat them.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Silly... the concerpt of a underground fridge probably predates the word cellar.

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feddit.org

Lmao apocalypse proof, except he built it on the beach so even a little bit of global warming would flood it right away. Apocalypse proof, except for that one actual apocalypse we have confirmed is in progress right now.

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lemmy.world

This has to be a photoshop. The water table at the beach is the same level as the surface of the ocean, so usually somewhere between a few centimeters to a meter.

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Thorryreply
feddit.org

Yeah obviously this is fake as fuck. It's the perfect tech bro invention in that it's dumb and flawed in every way and also already exists but better for a very long time.

It isn't even good photoshop, the angles are all wrong. Like is it in the side of a hill? But it looks like it's on flat ground? It makes no sense.

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I love when capitalism loops back like that and rediscovers something it already was before they started adding shit to it to make it better and simpler and then just invent the original all over again and be like- I'm a genius.

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HerbGrowerreply
slrpnk.net

Sand dunes at beaches are often above the high tide line.

Its still fake, and sand is the worst soil to build something like this in. But it is possible it wouldn't flood at high tide.

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smhreply
slrpnk.net

but how deep could the not-cellar be before hitting high tide?

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Depends on the beach. Certainly seen some that could be a few metres above the high tide line.

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Yeah this thing would be floating with all that buoyancy

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I just dug myself a whole palace beneath the ground, in the sand right at the shoreline.

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That's not cold enough to preserve food.

Below 40F is needed to preserve food. Ideally, just above freezing, if you don't want to freeze it. I keep my fridge at 35F.

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Hupfreply
feddit.org

If only there was a commonly accepted temperature scale that makes it easier to see what's just above freezing and what isn't.

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lemmy.ml

Building the cellar on a beach might affect how well it insulates. Loose mini-rocks vs dense soil.

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antitomireply
sopuli.xyz

I dug a hole on a beach once. I wonder if it's still there. I think about that hole sometimes.

Damn, I should call her.

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Today's geo engineered ice will last half an afternoon and it won't even burn like normal ice.

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I keep my fridge at 35.6 F myself, not sure there's any point in going down to 33.8 though I've considered it

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feddit.org

10 °C for us normal people.
A 50 °C hot cellar would be so deep, one should be careful not to awake the Balrog.

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Its in Fahrenheit because any idea this stupid could only be marketed to Americans.

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Only if they rent it for $900 per month and list it as a single bedroom with access to subway

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sh.itjust.works

NAPSF?

needs work.

Hmmmmm...

Cool Enclosed Longterm Lettuce And Root Preserver, Organic Dimension

CELLARPOD

still needs work.

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lemmy.world

Keep in mind that the stick and cardboard houses those people live in usually have a "crawlspace", nothing more.

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antitomireply
sopuli.xyz

They live in what now? You mean like, in a slum?

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They're referring to wood-framed houses that have a layer of what's essentially cardboard between the frame and the plastic vapor barrier that adds rigidity to the framing.

It looks flimsy as hell, but is actually good engineering. Think of it like Ikea furniture that racks until you put the cardboard backing on it, but then is remarkably stable. It also doesn't crack as the house settles or the ground moves, is easy to patch and repair, can be effectively environmentally sealed with tape when you run plumbing or electrical to it, and can be cut to whatever shape it needs to be with a knife.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Meanwhile in Europe, in some places you can literally get a castle for free!*

*Just as long as you can pay the titanic maintenance bill to maintain it to historical standards.

In an era of rapidly evolving technology, there ultimately isn't much point to construct buildings, especially individual homes, that will last for centuries. Yes, the house may still be there two hundred years from now, but will anyone actually want to live in it? Or will it require so much updating that you would be better off just building something new?

If we hit a wall on rapid technological progress, then things will be different. If you can be reasonably certain that human beings will be living much as we do now in 500 years, than building a house to last that long will make sense to me. Until then, why waste the resources?

I definitely want to see houses be made of materials that can be recycled. But raw durability is not itself a virtue. Remember the ultimate truth here. Buildings serve people. That's why they exist. And most people in 2026 do not want to live in a home built for the lifestyle of a 16th century peasant. How many people today know how to tend and cook on an open hearth wood burning stove? Yes, some homes that age do survive. But if anyone is still living in them, they have been heavily renovated and modified, many times over the generations. Old buildings like that are very much Ships of Theseus.

The wisdom of the American style of home construction is precisely in its impermanence. It's an admission that we don't have all the answers for all time, and that many of our choices today will seem foolish to our grandchildren. Yes, American homes can be quickly built and quickly torn down. But that is the entire point.

I am Ozymandius, King of Kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.

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Treczoksreply
lemmy.world

A friend of ours bought a farm with land for 10k€. The land alone would have been worth that many times over, but the farm house, barn, and all the other buildings are somewhere in the range of 400 years old. And, of course, listed.

So they spent every weekend for over ten years and a fortune into renovating this and making it inhabitable. And the department responsible for historical buildings made the renovation process hell.

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It's a real hard problem for localities to get right. On the one hand, you want to preserve old buildings. On the other hand, buildings are expensive as hell. And when those ancient buildings were constructed, they were built by modest people. They were never meant to be super expensive to maintain. But over the ages, techniques that were commonly known then became rare specialties now. Every Medieval peasant could thatch their own roof. Now you'll pay a fortune to bring in an expert in historical construction techniques to do it.

Yes, it would be ideal to require everything be maintained to historical standards and methods, but at some point, people just stop trying. People only have so much time, money, and resources. If you make it too difficult to renovate properties, they can't be updated for regular use. And if they can't be used, then who will put in the money to maintain them? The properties just end up being abandoned and slowly succumbing to the elements.

Some historical artifacts are easy to preserve. Give me a 300 year old violin and ask me to take care of it, and I can do so for almost no cost to me. Just keep it somewhere safe and dry, and it will be preserved just fine. But buildings require constant maintenance, and they are built assuming the easy availability of certain maintenance techniques. Requiring excessive adherence to historical standards does not result in more preserved homes; it just results in old homes being left to rot.

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lemmy.world

There's no wisdom there, dumbass. They build it that way because it's cheap.

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It's a not wisdom of individual builders. They obviously will go for the cheaper option. It's more a wisdom of the crowds/market. A lot of folks outside the US have a cultural aversion to the American style of home construction. There's a lot of areas of the world where even if a builder could affordably construct American-style stick-framed houses, that they simply wouldn't sell. Look how some folks lament the "cardboard, sticks, and glue" that make up American homes, as if an inch-thick OSB panel is in any way comparable to the cardboard boxes used to package food. Even things like "tape," as though the purpose-built and engineered weather-sealing "tapes" are in any way comparable to common masking or Scotch tape. It's like denigrating a well-engineered concrete house as "just a pile of rocks."

Americans have more of a cultural attitude of impermanence. It wouldn't say it's anything like the Japanese, but it's still there. There's an old saying, "in Europe, a hundred miles is a long distance. In America, a hundred years is a long time."

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I don't hate the style, I'm fairly well versed in it actually.

But yeah, they're pretty fragile. There isn't a typical house in the US you couldn't cut clean through with a sawzall. No problem. Whatever.

My point was there's no fucking wisdom in it, there's no thinking about the future, there's zero planning ahead. Wisdom of the market my fucking rosy red asshole.

There is absolutely not some grand master overlord scheming about the next upgrade and how to implement it.

It's some fucking dipshit trying to afford more oxys by using the cheapest shit he can.

And they're sure as fuck not using inch thick osb. Christ they don't even use that in commercial unless it's both mandatory and expected to be inspected. 3/4 might be code, 5/8 is what gets used, except everywhere 1/2 will do. Furthermore, OSB, at any thickness, is fucking trash that disintegrates at the first whiff of moisture. You ever see a house in florida with OSB?

But no, the fucking plan, the great wisdom of the market, is to build a sodden pile of shit, that is worth less than any work you might put into it in ten years, pay to have it demolished, and then pay to have it rebuilt.

Meanwhile, the owners of the house built in 1927 are cutting it off the foundation, excavating it, and adding an extra floor. For less money. Some of the lathe and plaster might crack.

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Reminds me of the Grand Strategy mirage of history, wherein people ascribe some overarching, long-term vision to some sequence of ad-hoc decisions

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sopuli.xyz

Put some hot coals, a bucket of water, and birch whisks in there and baby, you got a sauna going!

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feddit.uk

Who needs a celler when you can just purchase my newly invented "meat preserving dust".

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Alexreply

You mean salt right? At least according to the picture they should have ready access to it.

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slrpnk.net

Wouldn't mind a cool cellar to retreat to at this point tbh. Diggy diggy hole!

But doing it reasonably safely probably costs a fair bit for materials to reinforce the soil.

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lemmy.world

Oh shit yeah windows. I thought they just meant smashing holes through walls.

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Domitianreply
lemmy.world

50 Fahrenheit is 10 Celsius. Not as cold as a Fridge, but chilly.

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According to UK punk music yes, but they don’t seem to know what it meant originally and it means more just like “wealthy, educated, sheltered and white” the young adult professional part seems to be irrelevant

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I dont think my first thought in an apocalypse would be "Damn, if only I had an electricless fridge right now!"

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

50 degrees. That's even warmer than last heat wave which reached temps of up to 42C. I thought underground would be cooler. Or does he mean the angle of the door is at 50 degrees? Or is it a dumb American again, who doesn't understand they should note an F behind the number because they are the only ones who still use that outdated dumb scale.

Don't bother, I know the answer.

Edit: it's so funny how Americans can't take a joke about their joke of a measuring system and being self centered.

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lemmy.world

Imagine not being able to use context clues to such an extreme degree while calling others dumb…

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