Aww that sounds sad π
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At least he is forming concrete opinions
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I love autism
People when autistic boys have mental shutdowns: haha it's so quirky when he hyperfixates.
People when autistic girls have mental shutdowns: what a bitchy and emotional teenager. She's not even autistic she just does it for attention.
Really? Because I just got whipped with a switch or a belt when I had my little boy autistic meltdowns.
Autistic boys sometimes get called quaint. Other times people call the police and they get shot.
Bullshit concrete is inferior to brick. The Romans used concrete. π€
The irony is brick was thought of as cheap when buildings moved to it, from traditional stone blocks. The term "oh, that's so Redbrick", was a slam against something that had become cheap or slummy
*Self repairing concrete, agree. Tho the cheap stuff we use today is ass
We should work on making self-healing and self-replicating concrete to become superior. π
are you trying to give buildings cancer
modern concrete fuckin blows massive asses
honestly I love bricks and hate concrete blocks.
btw what's the most (not necessarily among these two) sustainable building material, lemmings?
Honestly, whatever makes the most sense with the materials in the local area. And then I don't mean what you can get from the local hardware store, but literally, what the earth in the area provides. If you have lots of clay, then brick would be best. If you have lots of big stones, then stone construction it'll be. If you're deep in the woods, then a wooden building would serve you just right. Maybe a combination of materials and techniques if you have options in the area.
Bonus points if you can build in a way that passively optimises for managing things like moisture and temperature.
Cob and rammed earth are hard to beat if youβve got the right environment for them
Stone. It's natural, subject only to the slow erosion of time.
Iβd bet wood is better since if you use it for construction and farm it you can theoretically use it as a carbon sink, and itβs renewable.
Whatβs the delta on mining and shaping stone vs lumber is the question
Well stone lasts forever barring someone turning big stones into little stones. So I think stone might still come out on top
Caves. We should all live in caves.
unfortunately there aren't that many caves out there and it's hard to build new.
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This post kinda feels like op is ridiculing autism with a probably made up story. Hyperfixation is a thing with autists but they don't only talk about one topic and they shut up from time to time too. Autists are more than their hyperfixations, they're humans.
thought the point is that the kid is right and concrete does suck
Nah concrete is dope. Fight me about it.
Yeah, I actually kinda like brutalism
Maybe, I really couldn't tell that. To me this was a story about someone's autistic brother who had multiple mental breakdowns with rampaging construction sites and injuring other classmates. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
I wouldn't expect many people to know about concretes dangerous environmental impact through released CO2 during production and it is not mentioned in the post either.
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I had a learner on spectrum who physically attacked me for 2 hours because, after our classroom won the 'Golden Trashcan' Award for cleanest room, the Golden Trashcan was not real gold.
The only quote I remember from this was him screaming at me while gesturing at the trashcan, "That's not a thing! That's not even an animal!"
10/10, would teach again.
I hope you're alright after that physical attack! Hope someone educated the kid on their autism and their actions too. I think I slightly understand the train of thought with the "it's not an animal" argument though. I'm guessing the kid assumed that the word gold was reserved for actual gold unless talking about animals like the golden hamster or goldfish where it just meant gold colored :P
Edit: also sorry for sending this comment thrice, no idea how that happened
Also, there was no successful remediation of this behavior. I worked with him for 5 years and, while he did learn the academics, he never really adjusted well to our society.
Yep. He was we would be getting the precious metal. This was made very clear by him.
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You didnt have that one kid in any of your classes? A kid I went to school with had similarly deep feelings about evergreens over deciduous trees, and got in a fight with a Canadian kid after he started talking smack about maple syrup and maples in general. I dont think the Canadian wanted to fight, but he had on a Canadian flag shirt so the maple leaf was front and center, making him a target for the arborist. But it was literally trees all the time. Evergreens can photosynthesize year round so they are always giving us oxygen. Evergreen lumber is better for construction. Evergreen seeds are adapted to sprout after fires when there is more likely to be room for them to grow. Nonstop. Middle school is a weird time for a lot of folks and people on the spectrum are not exceptions.
I have a similar thing with flat roofs. They are terrible. When you are 5 years old, you already learn to draw houses with a pointy roof. The pointy roof has been invented about a 100 times in history, as people were looking for the best shape. The wave shaped roof tile with 2 waves per tile has been invented about 3 times in history as people were looking for the best shape. The advantages of a pointy roof over a flat roof:
- Rain flows off. Yes, you can give a flat roof a small inclination, but rain will not flow as well, and if your roof tilts a small bit during the decades, it can become horizontal again.
- Snow falls off, reducing the chance that the roof collapses under the weight of heavy snow.
- It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.
- It gives more interior space.
- It allows more sunlight to reach the street.
- It has a smaller area-to-vloume-ratio through with heat can escape.
- Solar panels get a higher efficiency.
- It allows the roof to be made out of wavy roof tiles which provide the following advantages:
- Roofs designed with wavy roof tiles can be constructed when it rains.
- When a tile breaks, you can easily replace it, without having to cut it loose from the tiles next to it.
- Roof tiles do not fracture upon an uneven heat distribution. Meanwhile, the advantages of flat roofs are:
- If you design an apartment building, you can copy and paste the interior. (Thus less work for the architect.)
- A horizontal line is one segment less to draw compared to two diagonals. (Thus less work for the architect.)
- If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn't make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat. In other words: the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing.
Flat roofs are good for putting large unsightly equipment on, particularly AC units
- It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.
- It gives more interior space.
If you're using lighter cheaper materials you'll need all the added interior space for roof trusses, none of it will be livable space.
- It allows more sunlight to reach the street.
No, for the same amount of occupiable space the shorter flat roof blocks less light than a standard 10:12 or 12:12 roof
- It has a smaller area-to-volume-ratio through which heat can escape.
The greater surface area of a pitched roof means this is absolutely not true. The hypotenuse is always longer than either leg.
- Solar panels get a higher efficiency.
This one actually depends on latitude, equatorialy it's better flat. And don't forget that the minimum summer angle is limited by the pitched roof.
- If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn't make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat.
No it makes perfect sense. It goes back to your comment on letting sunlight through to the street. The maximum height is the maximum height so everyone gets the same amount of light.
In other words: ~~the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing.~~ this guy thinks their habitat is the only kind over the whole planet and can't imagine people living in areas where snow load wouldn't need to be considered.
More non livable space would've been nice in my attic recently. I was trying to diagnose a potential leak, but the chimney is in the corner of the house, so not only do I have to walk across the rafters, but I have to squat down in the corner to even begin to be able to peak at the chimney pipe. But that's a very niche scenario. I just sort of dislike the idea of void in houses, I think it should all be accessible to an extent.
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I like flat roofs because I want to be able to use a roof for a deck. Though, full disclosure, I don't know how bad the leaking is and I don't live in an area with snow.
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John Betjeman has been reincarnated as an Autistic German guy.
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