general

[merry timber]

It was worth 15 mil

[latent wraith]

Hey it'll work out for my career

[kind trench]

Known artists usually get their artworks sold for a lot of money, cause people are assured it does have a certain meaning to it.

Personally I'm more a fan of the other modernism side of art.

[latent wraith]

Build something silly as an architect and let someone else tell me the crazy ass meaning behind it

[kind trench]

Like Banksy's works

[merry timber]

there was an art performance which was just a woman whipping a block of butter

and people applauded it

[kind trench]

I love postmodernism just for how crazy it is

Very popular postmodern structure

[latent wraith]

I do like the crazy stuff it makes

[merry timber]

noobs after discovering manual building

[kind trench]

Postmodernism usually uses funny, childish or/and ironic aspects

[merry timber]

the cat house looks like something kanye west would buy

[kind trench]

They're simply buildings which make you smile a bit when you come across one, which I really like

Not even talking about the complexity of some of these buildings...

[latent wraith]

It's similar to what India wanted for it's department of fisheries (?) shame it didn't come out as they wanted lol

[merry timber]

fishing and cats are completely different things

[latent wraith]

I mean in terms of design

[kind trench]

Also has smaller, simpler structures

Yet funny

[kind trench]

I like

They better be selling fish there

[latent wraith]

Of course though

[kind trench]

The craziness of some postmodernist buildings...

Much better then simple huge blocks of just stone with roof...

[craggy hamlet]

Ugly

We need to go back to art deco

[latent wraith]

The shame themselves are simpler

But the coloration

[kind trench]

Art Deco is cool and all

But postmodernism is not ugly

[craggy hamlet]

It is

[kind trench]

It isn't

[craggy hamlet]

Modern and post modern are both ugly

[latent wraith]

Every style for sure have some downsides

[craggy hamlet]

Only modern I like is mid century modern

[kind trench]

You're naming a lot of styles in a single sentence here...

[craggy hamlet]

Blocky one color or bright colored buildings

[craggy hamlet]

Example this

[latent wraith]

I mean the point of architecture to some degree is that it's art

[kind trench]

What about this then?

[latent wraith]

But then again it depends on use as well

[kind trench]

Since when is bright colored 'modern'?

[merry timber]

i mean if it works it works?

[kind trench]

Many old buildings used to be bright colored

[craggy hamlet]

Blocky

[latent wraith]

The Groninger Museum is an art museum in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. The museum exhibits modern and contemporary art of local, national, and international artists

[kind trench]

Also, I think the world is losing its color, and that it's bad

[proven nymph]

that's not their point?

[latent wraith]

It is literally made to fit the styles it was hosting

[proven nymph]

true

[kind trench]

They mentioned 'bright colored buildings'

[proven nymph]

mcm was goated

[kind trench]

It looks childish, quite a funny look

[proven nymph]

they were explaining what mid century modern is I'm pretty sure

although it is kind of a very run down explanation

[latent wraith]

Mid century is neat for housing

But that is about all

[kind trench]

I think almost every architectural style has some interesting designs

[latent wraith]

I'm not a big fan of how mcm handles commercial

[kind trench]

I like the nature kinda side of modern architecture too

Like this...

[latent wraith]

Mostly because alot of mcm doesn't live up to the plans

[proven nymph]

there are some mid century modern houses in my city

pretty cool

[merry timber]

Buildings here in abu dhabi are a mix between old and modern

But most are just modern

[latent wraith]

mcm was just done in a time where the materials couldn't met the intention

[proven nymph]

I'm just fanbouing at this point

[latent wraith]

Which made some things just look terrible

[kind trench]

They're cool for housing, but don't really have much interesting in my opinion

Postmodernism however has a lot of interesting aspects which I really like

And purely because it goes against the basics of architecture

[latent wraith]

Also in terms of the actually utility of living

mcm just screws it up

[proven nymph]

yeah i just really like 20th century architecture

[kind trench]

Also brutalist is pretty cool but gives off 'poor future' vibes

[latent wraith]

Visually cool, but function was an after thought

[true lintel]

whats your favourite building evan

[kind trench]

Wouldn't want to live in a brutalist architecture

[latent wraith]

I can not stand brutalism

I love the function

[kind trench]

Brutalist is mainly impressive, isn't really about looks

[latent wraith]

But I hate the form

[kind trench]

Looks are minimal

[latent wraith]

A solid 60% of the career of architecture is about looks though lmao

[kind trench]

I kinda like the boxy shapes stacked on each other, but yet again, doesn't involve any other interesting aspects then being intimidating

[naive ice]

Brutalism isn't about architecture i think

[latent wraith]

Let me think on that

[naive ice]

I love brutalism

[latent wraith]

it isn't it's purely about function

[naive ice]

Love the dystopia feeling

[latent wraith]

But it gets classed in with what we do

[kind trench]

Brutalism gets kinda close to constructivism

[latent wraith]

Deconstructivism is kinda neat

[kind trench]

Or no sorry

Oh wait yes

Constructivism

[latent wraith]

Abit blocky but in a more "modern" style

[naive ice]

Sydney opera house

[kind trench]

Kinda, I also see a lot of spirals...

[kind trench]

and pointy things

[latent wraith]

But this is the shit we get dogged on for

[naive ice]

Collapsed building

[latent wraith]

in terms of actually constructing them lmao

[naive ice]

Engineers are the enemies of architects and interior design

When you do architect, do you take in how "buildable" is it

[latent wraith]

Well they should be able to make that building floor float!

That is there job

[latent wraith]

And I do, because I think that is important

[kind trench]

I wanna study architecture next year

[naive ice]

Or you design away and leave the engineers to worry about it

[naive ice]

Me too

I want to drop out of comsci

[latent wraith]

If you show a client things that aren't possible then they will always be disappointed

[proven nymph]

architecture sounds fun

[latent wraith]

And literally everyone loses

[kind trench]

Didn't really gain much knowledge about architecture but I do want to gain more knowledge

[proven nymph]

i can plan outlandish stuff and boom

2 dollars in my bank account

[kind trench]

Cause one other thing I really like (which will be choice n2 after architecture) is car design

[merry timber]

why are brainrot memes not allowed

[kind trench]

And I try to gain as much knowledge about cars too

[merry timber]

like skibidi toilet, mewing, rizzlord, edging, et cetera et cetera

[kind trench]

Cars and architecture :))

[latent wraith]

Because you all beat that horse to death

[naive ice]

edging is disgusting bro

[latent wraith]

before the horse was born

[kind trench]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-fun-cat-lol-cat-laugh-cat-wtf-cat-fml-gif-17582873

[proven nymph]

yall burnt that meme too much

[kind trench]

I'm working on Art General now (subject from school), got my finals soon.

But man it's actually fun

[naive ice]

When that part of my way comes on

[kind trench]

Like, gaining knowledge about art, music, architecture etc...

The subjects are really fun

I like Art General

[naive ice]

cliche hobbies

[latent wraith]

they way I look at architecture is less about the art and more ability the practicality

[kind trench]

Weird...

I want architecture to make me smile when I look at it

[naive ice]

Brutalism

[latent wraith]

In the modern day you aren't going to find many people who will fork out cash for something that is pretty but sucks to use

[kind trench]

Can never be too funny, original or iconic

[true lintel]

actually you can:

[latent wraith]

not necessarily

[true lintel]

proof is clothes

[latent wraith]

Homes and such tend to be much much much more expensive and complex than clothes

[naive ice]

Hello ss why aren't you asleep

[kind trench]

Not really how it works, there's beautiful old houses that are cheaper then those ugly ass copy-paste homes

[naive ice]

I mean don't question my hypocrisy, I'm cramming

[latent wraith]

Depends on where your from

I am from the US lmao

Any house is expensive

[kind trench]

Am tbh a bit sick of seeing only blue, grey, red, black and white cars, and seeing the same buildings copy-pasted everywhere, and it just being massive blocks of stone with a roof...

[latent wraith]

And the ones that aren't have lead paint and tons of asbestos

[proven nymph]

old houses fall

👍

[kind trench]

US homes are considered cheap to western Europeans

[latent wraith]

hahahahaha

I mean in most places yeah

[kind trench]

Paying a solid 300k for a small terraced house here... hell yeah!

[craggy hamlet]

In Florida our homes are built of brick

[kind trench]

Almost no one can afford a house here, we gotta rent em

[craggy hamlet]

Because of hurricanes

[latent wraith]

But I mean you can't build your entire life on dreams

[naive ice]

Rent you pay forever

[latent wraith]

I would love to be able build crazy bs

For that isn't realistic

Nor is it what most people want

[naive ice]

Why not mortgage

Is the g in mortgage silent?????

[latent wraith]

The T is

Not the gs

[naive ice]

I've been reading it as mor-teyj

[latent wraith]

Mor-gage

[naive ice]

Wtf

The more you know

[kind trench]

Imma go study for Art General again, was fun to talk here for a bit

https://tenor.com/view/goose-silly-funny-waddle-funny-walk-bye-gif-27198136

[latent wraith]

happy studying

[kind trench]

thx :D.

[naive ice]

Time for music

Then off to bed

[latent wraith]

@true lintel To answer your question from before, I don't have a specific favorite building. But I love the scale and feel of most European Cathedrals. Which I guess most of those are Gothic

[true lintel]

hmm

[naive ice]

Cologne 😍

[latent wraith]

Outside of the last 400-300 years, religious institutions were the only thing wealthy enough to build such superimposing structures. And I love the idea of building something that the region is built around

[craggy hamlet]

Mega churches

[true lintel]

good

[mossy portal]

Hello

[queen whale]

Okay?

Supreme spam/scam

[compact dragon]

hello

[kind trench]

https://tenor.com/view/486-duck-gif-22010892

[proven nymph]

gaeming

[gritty sand]

i'm moving east

[gritty sand]

yay no more brain rotting content for filipinos

ight that gotta be fake

aw

why though

[gritty sand]

does the government really care about skibidi toilet?

just immagine the president staring in disgust at a skibidi toilet video

that would be funny

[kind trench]

This is so ironic…

[merry timber]

oklahoma banned furries

its possible

[gritty sand]

oh

[merry timber]

well its fake anyway lmao

my editing skills are so top tier

[gritty sand]

my guitar skills are so top tier

[forest wren]

hello

[gritty sand]

Bonjour je voudrais savoir si dans le jeu ce serait possible de rajouter quelque chose qui permet de changer la texture d'affichage

[kind trench]

Stop spamming if I want to revert to internet explorer, I’m sticking with chrome >:((

[craggy hamlet]

#language-bar

[gritty sand]

J'ai pas compris pour

[compact dragon]

CONGRATS TO SWISS

[craggy hamlet]

We don’t speak German

[craggy hamlet]

Oui il existe des plugins et certains intégrés au jeu qui changent la texture du jeu

Dans les paramètres, allez dans les graphiques et cela vous permettra de changer l'apparence

ressemble a ca

[latent wraith]

@past sky I have been told Switzerland won

Can you confirm?

[past sky]

Yup

I'm glad they did

I'm glad it wasn't cough that certain country win

But they're in the top 5 which is 💀

[craggy hamlet]

Thank god

[latent wraith]

Was not very close at all

[kind trench]

The Netherlands would’ve won if that snowflake didn’t cry because of a movement Joost made

[craggy hamlet]

Netherlands are about to end diplomatic ties with a certain country

[forest wren]

im not recommending, it doenst even work

[kind trench]

Even internet explorer doesn’t like internet explorer

[forest wren]

@forest wren yes bro

never mind im chanching to fire fox

1 minute guys

[past sky]

You wouldn't know how intense it was

[latent wraith]

I would not haha

The whole it being region blocked thing is a bummer

[forest wren]

test

yeps im mozila

[past sky]

The only way to watch in America is thru peacock but you gotta subcribe to that so oof

[latent wraith]

yeah I wasn't paying for that lmao

[forest wren]

I'm Mozilla Firefox and I use myself in a Windows 8.1 pc that always make strange noises 😄

.

i dindt mean the emoji

[craggy hamlet]

Oh my god

I just seen a crazy tweet

[forest wren]

lmao i was testing and it send...

WHAT?????

[kind trench]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-duck-gif-24672717

[craggy hamlet]

Not revealing the country name but did they confirm it finally

Relating to a certain news story

[forest wren]

bye guys, i wanna update myself and ill be back

[craggy hamlet]

Why are they creating web browser role play in here

[latent wraith]

As long as it doesn't effect anyone there's not harm

[forest wren]

back

[merry timber]

whats good

its 3:48 in the morning

[placid finch]

How do I switch the screen angle?

[latent wraith]

Like rotate the map?

[craggy hamlet]

Where are you ?

[merry timber]

I've mentioned it so many times

I'm living in Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

[craggy hamlet]

Oh

Abu Dhabi is better looking than Dubai

Abu Dhabi actually looks like a natural city

While Dubai looks like a hot mess

Good pick

[willow hawk]

It's not a hot mess. It's terribly designed. It doesn't even have a sewage system...

[craggy hamlet]

Yes

Hot mess

And the Qatar World Cup showed the world the big problem in gulf states

I would never visit Dubai

[willow hawk]

I still wanna visit but just to get no taxes 😎

[willow hawk]

Speaking of which. China also has it's own issues. To be specific. Made in China construction projects.

[craggy hamlet]

Yes we’ve discussed both problems here

[willow hawk]

It's insane... I would rather be homeless 💀

[craggy hamlet]

I wrote a paper on the China situation for one of my classes

The economic and population crisis

And what the future of China is

[craggy hamlet]

No state taxes in Florida 🗣️

[willow hawk]

There's still other taxes. Income tax hits hard

[willow hawk]

It's basically China is becoming Japan but communist version

[craggy hamlet]

Pretty much

And china kinds set themselves up

Bad policy’s

[craggy hamlet]

Ehh I pick human rights

[willow hawk]

In that case. I'll go to Iceland or Finland.

[craggy hamlet]

Nah America 🗣️

🗣️

🗣️

[willow hawk]

I actually want to go to America. But I can't handle the amount of car-centric cities.

[craggy hamlet]

Cities are the only non car centric places

Go to San Francisco, New York, DC, Boston

You can go anywhere with public transportation

I walked everywhere or took a train in Washington DC

Also you can rent cars if need be

[willow hawk]

It's usually suburb to suburb trips. But public transport in America is designed with City center to Suburb and vice versa

[craggy hamlet]

Don’t listen to anti American propaganda

I literally have taken public transportation in multiple cities

[latent wraith]

I mean

[craggy hamlet]

In dc I used only public transportation once

[latent wraith]

Most the of the US you can't get anywhere lmao

Which is the point

[willow hawk]

Honestly DC and NYC are the only ones that have public transport that's actually useful

[craggy hamlet]

Boston too

[willow hawk]

Yeah and where's the High speed trains 😭

[craggy hamlet]

Or go to a small tourist town that is small enough to walk around

[latent wraith]

You shouldn't be constrained to a seaboard or metro area for publiv transit

[craggy hamlet]

One I’ve been too is Gatlinburg Tennessee

[latent wraith]

FR

[craggy hamlet]

Very nice people In Tennessee

[latent wraith]

The US is prefect for high speed rail

[craggy hamlet]

Most countries don’t have high speed rail

The ones that do are smaller

[latent wraith]

Given there size

Most don't NEED it

[craggy hamlet]

Japan, France they are so much smaller

Imagine implementing that but across the entire United States

[willow hawk]

Yeah but China is literally the same size as the USA. They have high speed trains

[craggy hamlet]

It’s being worked on but it takes along time

Especially with difficult terrain

[craggy hamlet]

China literally makes people work 20 hour shifts and builds with styrofoam

[willow hawk]

Japan has more difficult terrain than the US 💀

[latent wraith]

You are more brainwashed than any "anti American propaganda" if you think the US shouldn't have rail mass tranist lmao

[craggy hamlet]

I want high speed rail but it takes time

They are in the early stages

[latent wraith]

Cut the crap

[willow hawk]

2030s 💀

[latent wraith]

We have had rail systems across the US since before most states were in the Union

The issue isn't time

It's profit

The reason the rail providers in the US got away from moving people was because of profit

And then when the fed did anything they made a shitty effort and created Amtrak

[willow hawk]

It's not profit. Having a route between Boston, NYC, Philly, and DC will literally make tons

It's usually funding and political bureaucracy which I will not talk about because I don't even live at the US

[latent wraith]

The reason the rail providers in the US got away from moving people was because of profit

Refer to this

Rather than that one off

Please and thanks

[craggy hamlet]

Amtrak wants to build a high speed rail network across America

[latent wraith]

Wants

You know why it won't happen

[willow hawk]

America's dream that'll come 300 years later

When we have maglev trains

[latent wraith]

Because no politico see the benefit in a system that has failed to make them money

[main pewter]

Oh God politics

[latent wraith]

Hell it's hard to get Blue cities to really push them lmao

Because no one wants to fork out the cash

[craggy hamlet]

If I was president I’d fund high speed rail

[latent wraith]

Okay

[willow hawk]

Maybe wait for Mrbeast. He is running for president anyway as soon as it's allowed

[latent wraith]

Your not in office haha

[craggy hamlet]

I plan to run for office one day

Probably like city level in Tampa

And then I want to get into state/ or federal politics

[latent wraith]

And no one on either side of the aisle has been able to do anything seriously beneficial for US public us of rail

[craggy hamlet]

The political system is broken that’s why

People are to busy picking a side

And fighting

[latent wraith]

The Fed sold it's soul during manifest density for growth

And won't be getting it back

[willow hawk]

Exactly. And also. HOUSES 😭

[craggy hamlet]

I would run as a moderate

[latent wraith]

haha

Good luck

[craggy hamlet]

I don’t know if I’d run as a independent because voters seem to not like the party’s but won’t elect independents

Unless your in New England

Floridians are moderate

And Tampa is a very liberal area

[latent wraith]

Que

[willow hawk]

Good luck. it's usually just democrat to republican but I don't wanna talk about it. 💀

[latent wraith]

No politics

[craggy hamlet]

I’m sorry

[latent wraith]

I have said nothing directly political you have lol

My rant was on rail and rail only

[gritty sand]

even the Baltic states with a combined population of 6 mil are getting a high speed rail

while Americans are not

[latent wraith]

real

[main pewter]

Damn

[craggy hamlet]

Alot of people will split ticket and vote for different parties on the same ballot.

Ok I’m done

No more

[latent wraith]

the US has just fumbled the bag outright

Repeatedly

[craggy hamlet]

I still love my country

We have our flaws but are still the greatest

We’d be the greatest of greats if we had high speed rail

[latent wraith]

Being parotitic is different than being nationalist

Nationalism is bad

[craggy hamlet]

I’m patriotic not a nationalist

Nationalist aren’t patriotic

[latent wraith]

Pick your words better in the future

[willow hawk]

Even India is soon getting their own high speed rail.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and even our Southeast Asian brothers, Indonesia, got high speed rail

[craggy hamlet]

Oh that’s not

[gritty sand]

not always
sound civic nationalism can be good as long as it's not radicalized

[willow hawk]

We've gone back to politics 💀

[latent wraith]

But when it is ever lmao

As a concept

[willow hawk]

From high speed rail and Dubai's terrible design

[latent wraith]

Conceptually communism works great

But it never has in practice lmao

[craggy hamlet]

We could convince the gov to build high speed rail if they know they could transport military equipment at high speeds

[gritty sand]

or maybe just what nationalism is in my understanding is patriotism for you

so the issue of definition

[willow hawk]

Now that's more likely. Imagine high speed freight and passenger trains

There's no high speed freight trains yet if I remember

[gritty sand]

anyway kids don't be radicalized 🙏

[latent wraith]

Nationalism: Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

[craggy hamlet]

I dislike radicals

Hate is a strong word

[gritty sand]

I don't agree with the second part at all

[craggy hamlet]

Nvm

[gritty sand]

the nation can be strong only in cooperation with others

[latent wraith]

Whereas Patriotism: is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.

[willow hawk]

I hate radicals (math) 💀

[craggy hamlet]

I think Mexico, Canada and America will be unstoppable if we united into like a European Union thing

[craggy hamlet]

I’m trying to play a game and type

[latent wraith]

Yeah that's kinda the issue with nationalist

They choose to only focus on that last part

[craggy hamlet]

I think North America United is so goated

[latent wraith]

I am all for loving my country and supporting it however I can, but I will be the first to point out the issues as well

[gritty sand]

one country should put its interests on the top, but it's impossible to be a great nation while you're an autarky

[craggy hamlet]

North American Economic and Military alliance would cement us as the global superpower

[gritty sand]

and it's impossible to improve while blindly defending your country without pointing out the issues and resolving them

[latent wraith]

Hey that German tried didn't he lmao

[gritty sand]

sounds like the 5th grade trues

[craggy hamlet]

Nations should look into the interest of other nations

[gritty sand]

one silly rocket loving guy is also trying it rn, with no success whatsoever

[craggy hamlet]

Chinas kinda doing it

[gritty sand]

true

[latent wraith]

Kinda like most people like freedom lmao

China is a joke for many many reasons

[willow hawk]

USA is already powerful enough.

[latent wraith]

That aren't going to be talked about here

[craggy hamlet]

I agree

[craggy hamlet]

But with Mexico and Canada we will be unstoppable

Manifest destiny

[gritty sand]

what I meant is that one should not trade their country interests for the others, like in case with many African nations just selling themselves to China

[latent wraith]

I think the USs biggest missed chance was helping to build up the Americas

Rather than acting like South America didn't exist

[willow hawk]

Mexico has it's own domestic issues with the Cartel

Canada + USA is more realistic

[craggy hamlet]

Every country has problems they can be solved

[gritty sand]

the US should've invested in Mexican outsource production much more back then

[willow hawk]

Americans don't even know where my country is and point at Japan 💀

[craggy hamlet]

We should be moving all those factories from Asia to Mexico

Revive the rust belt

[willow hawk]

Philippines ≠ Japan

[craggy hamlet]

Make our continent a manufacturing hub

[willow hawk]

It Will happen but... It'll have to go against with Vietnam

[gritty sand]

also Brazil has giant industrial potential

[latent wraith]

I mean we should have just kept a hold of the Philippines after the war too (I'm trolling)

[latent wraith]

Shame it's in Brazil

[craggy hamlet]

Brazil has many problems

They should focus on the amazing

Amazon

[willow hawk]

Emilio Aguinaldo will literally curse you 💀

[gritty sand]

I think it's in everyone's interest to see strong Americas, where at least most countries are democratic

[willow hawk]

The Amazon is on fire, deforested, and thousands more

[latent wraith]

It is for sure the only thing keeping some across the Pacific in check

[craggy hamlet]

The only reason America will remain the global superpower is because China made so many enemies

[gritty sand]

you don't even imagine how I despise that winnie the pooh government

great nation, but just terrible hypocritical leaders

[willow hawk]

India is catching up though

[craggy hamlet]

India will never pass America

[latent wraith]

India is atleast democratic

Moreso than China

[craggy hamlet]

That’s true

But no chance in hell of passing America

[latent wraith]

India is just playing their cards right and I respect that tbh

[proven nymph]

[craggy hamlet]

Actually India is messing up

[gritty sand]

India is at least on a good track it seems

[willow hawk]

Though it may last longer than America

[latent wraith]

BRICS is gonna work out 👁️ 👁️

[craggy hamlet]

No

Brics is a hot mess

Some countries are literal enemies

[latent wraith]

Lmao

[craggy hamlet]

India will never last longer than America

[willow hawk]

That's a big no. Economics turned into Politics

[latent wraith]

It'll work out

Bigggg trust

[craggy hamlet]

Exactly

[willow hawk]

I'm confident they will

[craggy hamlet]

Have you seen India

[latent wraith]

I think India has alot more to deal with externally

[gritty sand]

the most pathetic alliance

[craggy hamlet]

India has too many people

Too little land

It will never make use of it

[latent wraith]

To where if there is infighting their neighbor is going to come through the mountains and help whoever will ally with them

[gritty sand]

hope India can leave that mess of a bloc

because

eehh

not the best allies

[latent wraith]

Not at all lmao

[willow hawk]

Have you seen America? Internally... Drug issues, Political divisions, Crumbling infrastructure, Bureaucracy.

Externally... More political issues.

[latent wraith]

It's like picking the two playground bullies as your buddies

[craggy hamlet]

All in India aswell

[willow hawk]

They eventually will. They're a Developing country after all. Improving and improving. Surpassing India's Master, The UK.

[latent wraith]

Drugs will purge the weak we didn't need them (that is a joke)

[gritty sand]

every country has social issues, but not every country has democratic institutions and powerful economy

[craggy hamlet]

Crumbling infrastructure

Average Indian neighborhood

[latent wraith]

India for sure has alot of catchup to play

[willow hawk]

They're at least doing something about that. America is barely doing anything 💀

[latent wraith]

Not to mention the religious divisions

[craggy hamlet]

Average American neighborhood

[gritty sand]

well this is just a nitpicking

[latent wraith]

Hey now Joe threw an ungodly amount of money at infrastructure

[gritty sand]

you can find nice indian neighborhoods and american slums

[latent wraith]

Things just take longer in the US because of the red tap

[craggy hamlet]

American slums looks better than luxury Indian neighborhoods

[latent wraith]

Like much much much longer

[craggy hamlet]

Indians drink sewage

I would know I read the UN report on it

[willow hawk]

Where's the improvements 😭

The only thing I see new is in Las Vegas, Florida, and NYC

[latent wraith]

Most things don't make the news?

[willow hawk]

Oh... 😭

[latent wraith]

Doesn't really meet the agenda haha

[willow hawk]

At least tell me some

[craggy hamlet]

Lots of small towns got money to fix roads and bridges

This one really small town nearby got like 100 million in funds alone to build a new main road and expand the existing one

[latent wraith]

One near where I live: https://brentspencebridgecorridor.com/new-bridge/

[craggy hamlet]

Thousands of small towns across America got money

[latent wraith]

Don't get me wrong I dislike that it's high infrastructure

[craggy hamlet]

It didn’t make news because it’s everywhere

[latent wraith]

But it's a much needed thing

[craggy hamlet]

The only thing that made news are large projects

[latent wraith]

Here's another

albeit international https://www.gordiehoweinternationalbridge.com/en

My state just put out a survey for feedback into possible changes to the rail system

[gritty sand]

I'm really happy to see that where I live, my taxpayer money are actually going to the public infrastructure

[latent wraith]

https://kyrailplan.com/2024/03/08/cant-make-it-to-the-public-open-houses-take-the-first-public-survey-instead/

[gritty sand]

and the city is looking better and better with each day

[latent wraith]

Don't get me wrong there are issues

Without a doubt

[gritty sand]

something which is not thought of that often, but still appreciated

[latent wraith]

But progress is being made

[gritty sand]

I really wish that the same will be a thing in my home country one day

but well, we have different priorities right now sadly

[craggy hamlet]

Projects in the infrastructure bill

[latent wraith]

Well in due time

Oh danke

Can I DM you

[gritty sand]

yeah sure

[latent wraith]

I want to show you a gift my of the exchange students got me

[proven nymph]

that is not

[craggy hamlet]

I literally looked up Indian neighborhood

[proven nymph]

am i gonna make an excuse for it

perhaps

but isn't india a developing country

[willow hawk]

Aight. Thanks @latent wraith to at least giving me a bit of hope for america

[willow hawk]

It is

[proven nymph]

the conditions will be better soon™️

[willow hawk]

Why does it have a trademark 💀

[craggy hamlet]

India is below developing

[proven nymph]

"below developing"? no

[willow hawk]

Then explain... The economic standpoint

[craggy hamlet]

Lots of people

[proven nymph]

indian economy grew a lot in the past 20 years

[craggy hamlet]

So did its population

[proven nymph]

well of course

[willow hawk]

It's better than falling birth rates like those in the US, South Korea, Japan.

People can't even afford houses there.
Education is terrible too 💀

Ivy leagues are "prestigious" but college is a kind of scam in the US anyway

[craggy hamlet]

People can’t even get houses in India

They live in boxes

And drink sewage water

[proven nymph]

the us as well?

[craggy hamlet]

They breathe in pollution

Etc

[willow hawk]

The population is growing due to immigration. But when that closes. It'll get less and less..

[craggy hamlet]

It won’t close

[proven nymph]

do you really think that's everyone

[willow hawk]

New York city = New Delhi/Mumbai
DC = Kolkata

They're all equals in pollution but US is worse with the amount of cars polluting the streets.

[willow hawk]

What about west Virginia. People they're are poor and have to resort and drinking unsafe water

[proven nymph]

at this point i feel like you're just exaggerating the un reports or whatever you were reading

[willow hawk]

Better than living in the streets

[craggy hamlet]

India has the most polluted cities in the world

[proven nymph]

true

[craggy hamlet]

People literally can’t see in the smog

[willow hawk]

Yes but it's usually due to agricultural ones because of them smoking. What if we do it in the USA. It'll result in the same way

[latent wraith]

I think this would be great for your alls DMs

if you chooes to keep talking about it

[proven nymph]

please

[latent wraith]

Now the jabs are getting a little too personal to the nations for my comfort

Factual or not

[latent wraith]

.

[craggy hamlet]

Ohhh

Sorry

[latent wraith]

Thank you

[willow hawk]

This is the first time I've actually talked a lot in the Theotown Discord server :))

[gritty sand]

well at least it's nice seeing people discussing some public issues

hope that once you reach the voting age (or maybe reached already) you'll transform this desire for better into a responsible voting

[gritty sand]

nice

[craggy hamlet]

✅

[latent wraith]

Oh HP

ugh

[gritty sand]

I heard they have not the best electronics nowadays

[craggy hamlet]

My school uses hp

[gritty sand]

is it a chromebook or windows one?

[craggy hamlet]

They are gonna replace them with those windows laptops with touchscreens idk the name

Windows

Eww chrome os sucks

No offense

[gritty sand]

at least it runs much better on low-end hardware

[proven nymph]

haitch pea

[craggy hamlet]

Chrome os is limited

Does the basics

[gritty sand]

can't you install Linux alongside it?

[craggy hamlet]

Idk how to use those

I don’t even use windows alot

I use macOS as my main os

[gritty sand]

😳😦

[craggy hamlet]

Not in this computer on my home computer

[latent wraith]

One of my good friends won a desktop from our Uni this year for their volunteer hours

Shame it was a Mac

[craggy hamlet]

Macs are good

[latent wraith]

Mac are good outside of STEM

[craggy hamlet]

My schools does giveaways and I didn’t even know

[gritty sand]

i still can't imagine how you can do anything serious on mac

[craggy hamlet]

They gave away a MacBook and ps5

[gritty sand]

in that case yeah

[craggy hamlet]

And I didn’t even know 😭

[latent wraith]

Minus medicine?

[gritty sand]

for creative purposes I think it's really good

[latent wraith]

Those programs are kinda made to run on iPads

[latent wraith]

I would love to use one for sketching, but I'd hate to do actual planning on them

left that @ on smh

[gritty sand]

it seems that's the only professional thing that can run on ipads

like

having the most powerful silicon in the world

inside of the sketching piece of glass and metal

[craggy hamlet]

I want the new pro

Tbh I only use it for games and to make PowerPoints and word documents so I don’t need power

[latent wraith]

I know a guy that uses AutoCAD on mac

[craggy hamlet]

Idc what it can or can’t render

[gritty sand]

I wish apple would've implemented the support for macos applications on ipad

[latent wraith]

Looks super bizarre

[gritty sand]

because otherwise it's just a pile of wasted potential

[craggy hamlet]

I like it

[gritty sand]

yeah m1 ipad pro can do that easily

[latent wraith]

It is kinda crazy that with all that power they waste it haha

[gritty sand]

(as long as apple won't start to artificially slow it down)

[craggy hamlet]

But it doesn’t look the same

[gritty sand]

yeah now it's even easier to bend it

[latent wraith]

xD

[craggy hamlet]

Magic Keyboard ))

It will always be in that

[proven nymph]

apple

[gritty sand]

which costs a fortune

[latent wraith]

Left is Mac

Right it windows

We all learned using the windows version on the schools computers

[gritty sand]

sorry but if apple won't introduce something meaningful at their conference in June, it will turn out to be very very ridiculous

[latent wraith]

I can't get behind paying for Apple devices

Or top of the line phones for that matter

In general

[craggy hamlet]

I like how it looks

And the ecosystem

[gritty sand]

I mean, their phones are good

but that price

meh

[latent wraith]

I will say

I HATE their messaging system

[gritty sand]

sadly android phones now cost the same insane amount of cash

[latent wraith]

Like just use the standard

[gritty sand]

ooh that green bubble stuff

[latent wraith]

iMessage is neat I guess

But ffs use SMS natively

[gritty sand]

thank god nobody uses imessage here in europe

[craggy hamlet]

No one uses android

I have only one friend with a android

[proven nymph]

y'all

[craggy hamlet]

And it’s a Z Fold so it’s valid cause it’s cool

[gritty sand]

(instead we have a dogpile of different shtty messengers and you'll never know which one the person is using)

[proven nymph]

is imessage just sms

[gritty sand]

no

[proven nymph]

ah

[gritty sand]

apple uses their proprietary stuff as always

[proven nymph]

who tf uses sms anymore

[latent wraith]

I have been using WhatsApp since my gf is aborad

Pretty neat features

I like it

[proven nymph]

unless it's the corporations messaging you

[gritty sand]

most of my friends use telegram, but it's mostly ukrainians

[craggy hamlet]

Everyone I know uses Apple so I use iMessages

[gritty sand]

but most of the europeans from what I understand use whatsapp

[craggy hamlet]

I’m American not European

[proven nymph]

i get messages from my carrier, secretariat of risk management, and that's about it

[latent wraith]

I will say I have only seen telegram used for devious purposes here in the states

nothing good goes down on that app

[craggy hamlet]

So do Europeans ask for WhatsApp instead of phone numbers

[gritty sand]

but I've also seen facebook messenger, signal, instagram dms (💀), snapchat (💀💀) and viber (💀💀💀)

[proven nymph]

wtf is viber

[latent wraith]

WhatsApp just takes your actual phone number most of the time

[thick crater]

It's the same, WhatsApp= Phone Number

[latent wraith]

Dank add me on Snap lmao

[gritty sand]

in Estonia as well

[fluid frigate]

thought it said vine

[gritty sand]

I've deleted it 😭

[proven nymph]

lol

[latent wraith]

boooo

lmao

[craggy hamlet]

Only social media I actively use other than this is instagram

[gritty sand]

you also need a phone number to create an account on telegram, but you can easily hide it

and that makes it really simple to abuse

but from my experience, it is still the most feature rich messenger

[fluid frigate]

all fun and games until you get added to one group named "REAL investment group no scam"

idk if that stuff happens in europe but its very common is se asia

[gritty sand]

easily solvable

[thick crater]

That happens worldwide mate, just need to disable it

[latent wraith]

I feel like Telegram is just a hub for bad stuff

Whereas actual communication is done on WhatsApp lmao

In my time odd in here I've come across some pretty sketchy telegram groups

[gritty sand]

yeah there are a lot of them

I just try to avoid all of that

[latent wraith]

The get you sent to Federal prison kinda sketchy lmao

[craggy hamlet]

Isn’t that just Twitter

[craggy hamlet]

Oh

Maybe not that

That’s not

[latent wraith]

yeahhhh

[thick crater]

Na, we have our company group there, It has two sides depending on what you want. But it does have very murky channels.

[latent wraith]

I mean I am sure it's just like every other platform

I just mean I have only ever seen it advertised for bad

[gritty sand]

when I lived in Finland, finns told me that they also knew telegram only for the illegal stuff

but somehow they overcame that stigma

[thick crater]

Well, Telegram was founded in Russia, so it is quite common to hear bad advertising just for that

[gritty sand]

and by the end of the term most of our uni courses chats were in telegram

[gritty sand]

yeah, that's the thing which is the most problematic at least for me

there is no guarantee that durov won't leak data to fsb

[thick crater]

Well, they left the country a long time ago, right?

[gritty sand]

yep

and from what he said it's very unlikely he will do that

but still

and also the fact that telegram is not actual p2p messenger as whatsapp or signal and stores all your unencrypted messages on their servers

[latent wraith]

I mean privacy is cool

[proven nymph]

telegram is not pay to pay

yay

[latent wraith]

But I feel like if your trying that hard to stay private your likely up to no good

[gritty sand]

it's good in the cases of political oppression

but otherwise

[latent wraith]

But then again what I am doing hasn't been private since that patriot act, so maybe I just don't know what privacy tastes like

[gritty sand]

problematic

[craggy hamlet]

I mean discord is used for bad is if not

[gritty sand]

discord is problematic but in a bit different way

[thick crater]

Discord is regulated, so they could do it but they still get their accounts closed

[gritty sand]

especially in relation to minors

[fluid frigate]

the only reason I still have telegram is because my school prefers it over whatsapp

[latent wraith]

I am just going to say Automod saves you all for the onslaught of porn bots on this app

Which given the audience is troubling

[fluid frigate]

its THAT common?

[proven nymph]

that's a lot of bots

[thick crater]

The scam/porn bots? They are

[latent wraith]

I mean I guess once you enter those servers you do something that loses you the account

And most people are weak willed

or kids that don't know better

Or just sickos

[thick crater]

Mostly kids I guess

[gritty sand]

that's why I'm for the regulation of social media usage by kids under 14

[latent wraith]

Is that not common outside of the US?

[gritty sand]

no

[latent wraith]

Really?

[gritty sand]

I have been using social media since 8

[craggy hamlet]

I’ve had social media since I was 14

So 2 years

Actually no

3 yesrs

[latent wraith]

I would have guessed if the US had those rules in place the rest of the world had them

[craggy hamlet]

Since 2021

[gritty sand]

a lot of the us regulations are just unheard of in Europe at least

and vice versa

[latent wraith]

You all just really hate red dye 40

Afraid to live alittle

[gritty sand]

here it's more of a parent responsibility, and a lot of parents are well irresponsible

[latent wraith]

I think it worked well for the first internet generation

But the iPad generation was doomed to start with

[thick crater]

I really support that the responsibility lies with the parents and not with an institution/company.

What is going to happen is that making parents continue to be irresponsible

[craggy hamlet]

Honestly millennial have been bad parents

Not all

But many leave their kids to be raised by YouTube or what is out there

[gritty sand]

I really hope that gen z will be much more responsible in that regard

[latent wraith]

Well most parents learn form the flaws of those raising kids before them lmao

[craggy hamlet]

Older people are either too old to understand and or give their kids tech or they actually look at their kids stuff and monitor it

[latent wraith]

I personally will not let my kid be an iPad kid

[craggy hamlet]

Same

My kids will not have technology

Or a personal device until middle school

[gritty sand]

that is the other extreme

kids should be familiar with the technology because it's a crucial skill in the modern world

but the access should be dozed

[latent wraith]

oh 100%

[craggy hamlet]

I mean unsupervised tech

You can’t shelter kids

But can’t let them run wild and untrained

[latent wraith]

100 hours of liveleak before 2 years old

Ensure they aren't sheltered

[fluid frigate]

realest real statement

[craggy hamlet]

I was a iPad kid

Trust me I’ve seen things before the age of 6

YouTube was a unregulated place before

I will not let it happen to my kids

[fluid frigate]

Somehow once got adware on my phone when I was a kid

[gritty sand]

I think I'll give my kid some kind of a dumb phone just for the communication, but I'll give them a PC at home

[fluid frigate]

let's just say it gave me 18+ ads

[gritty sand]

not heavily monitored, but with parental controls

[latent wraith]

The most scaring thing that happened to me on the internet was when my brother watched the MC series we watched together without me

Most painful lesson I have learned

[craggy hamlet]

In middle school a girl had me watch gore

I didn’t know what it was

But I hate gore now

[gritty sand]

middle school was wild

[craggy hamlet]

I can’t see stuff like that it makes me feel sick

Yeah

[latent wraith]

Middle school is always a free for all

That seems universal

[craggy hamlet]

Oh

[gritty sand]

I remember I guess in 6th grade I was sitting at the guitar class with two of the older students

[latent wraith]

Automod strikes again lmao

[craggy hamlet]

Kids would show you thing you shouldn’t see in middle school

18+ stuff

[gritty sand]

and they were watching some really crazy stuff

[craggy hamlet]

Casually

[gritty sand]

then on the topic of telegram

in 10th grade we've found some really interesting channels

and we were watching it "for fun"

☹️

[craggy hamlet]

That’s not ok

[latent wraith]

I was chatting with some people I had in uni class who said someone set up a drop box on their highschool email

That was full of nudes

And then the feds found it

[gritty sand]

ouch

[latent wraith]

That did not end well

[fluid frigate]

bro 😭

[latent wraith]

They were able to pull the IPs of anyone who used it, and left it up to catch new people

[fluid frigate]

so basically a mouse trap

[latent wraith]

Yeah, but I mean given it happened years ago anyone who still knows about it is 100% creeping

In the worst way

[craggy hamlet]

Feds can’t find creeps in the capitol building but can in some random town in Wyoming

[latent wraith]

Well that would impact both aisles too much

[craggy hamlet]

True

[latent wraith]

Really any amount is too much

[craggy hamlet]

I liked when we were talking about car prices

[queen whale]

Hello

[craggy hamlet]

Hellur

Fun fact Florida has the largest island on the mainland United States

[latent wraith]

New (not really) house render just dropped

Dear lord a 4.59 MB file

Fun fact: The program used for this is hella slow

And takes the files take up like 35GBs lmao

[thick crater]

Are you studying civil engineering or architecture? Or none 😅

[latent wraith]

Architecture

I love living too much for civil

[thick crater]

Jajaja in my opinion those in architecture suffer much more

[latent wraith]

I have some friends going through the civil program at my school, I could not take that amount of time in my life

I suffer because the engineer can't do what I want them to lmao

[thick crater]

Jajajajaja I remember when I was at university how the architecture and civil spent their time fighting about these stuff all the time, it's been 6/7 years since that, the good times of life

[latent wraith]

I enjoy the banter with some of our Civils! But I'll give it to them, they are doing things I can only dream of

[high hill]

Average Architect - Engineer relationship

[latent wraith]

The amount of math alone is crazy haha

[craggy hamlet]

I heard those were hard

And I’m not good at math

[high hill]

"Mate, just poor the concrete into the curvey mold and lock it in!"

"Needs more rebar."

[craggy hamlet]

So I choose political science and journalism 🫡

[latent wraith]

I mean after calc 2 they start making up fake stuff lmao

I have been watching this guy on YT make a steam locomotive in Solidworks crazy stuff

[high hill]

I was gonna make a math joke
Then I realized it was going to be more Geometry than calculus

[proven nymph]

i reallg feel like studying either architecture, graphic design or both

after finishing school

[high hill]

I've also never taken calc
Only Geometry, and the little bit of trig my teacher touched on

[proven nymph]

and i like music production as well, but i don't have much resources, i can keep learning it by myself tho

[latent wraith]

Those would mesh pretty well tbh

[craggy hamlet]

Architecture pays well and it looks fun

[proven nymph]

yeah

[craggy hamlet]

My cousin is a architect

I would pick that if I was you

[latent wraith]

It for sure depends on what you do in it

[proven nymph]

graphic design is a decent career here as well

[latent wraith]

I personally hate residential

[craggy hamlet]

My cousin does residential

[thick crater]

My recommendation, go for architecture and do some specialization in graphic design

Only graphic design is very difficult at work options, since you need a portfolio

[latent wraith]

I can't stand the cookie cutter American home

But if you can rock on

People need homes and there's good money there

[craggy hamlet]

Recently she’s been doing homes destroyed in hurricane Ian

On Sanibel

I’ve seen her work it’s really nice

[latent wraith]

Oh that area is lovely

[proven nymph]

yeah

[latent wraith]

I went to North Captiva Island for a vaction a few years back

[craggy hamlet]

You came to my area :))

It’s very beautiful

[latent wraith]

it was!

[rough tusk]

the true render program would be just recreating it in minecraft

[latent wraith]

The gulf is much nicer than the ocean lmao

[rough tusk]

and then enable shaders

[craggy hamlet]

Very pretty :)))

Now it’s not

[latent wraith]

tbh I doubt those lab computers could handle that lmao

[rough tusk]

lol

there are some crazy architecture mods in minecraft

[rough tusk]

like

[latent wraith]

If I had the will power I would do some that stuff in MC

[rough tusk]

lol

[proven nymph]

damn

i don't remember vanilla being that desaturated

[high hill]

Man, if you think Architecture in minecract is brain-hurting
Try Redstone

[latent wraith]

But I can just make them in actually architecture programs in like 1/5 the time

[proven nymph]

but wow that's a glowup

[rough tusk]

it's crazy lmao

[rough tusk]

redstone is for the engineers

[latent wraith]

Poeple who can do that are wild

[high hill]

Well yeah, but still

[latent wraith]

Especially since MC wasn't made for that

[rough tusk]

i have never figured out redstones lol

[latent wraith]

And redstone still trips me up

[high hill]

e.g. Grian

[craggy hamlet]

I took this vid in Captiva after the hurricane

[high hill]

For your architectural stuff anyway

[latent wraith]

That's why I couldn't live down that way

your whole lives can just be gone

[craggy hamlet]

Well I live more inland so I was good

[latent wraith]

And the math says it will happen at somepoint just a matter of when

[craggy hamlet]

It’s worth the risk

[latent wraith]

But you know the we will rebuild mentality is pretty cool

[craggy hamlet]

Also hurricanes are rare in south Florida

Compared to other states

I’ve only had 2 major ones in my life

Irma and Ian

In Irma I was actually in the eye while it was Cat 4

But I live far enough from the coast the water doesn’t reach

[latent wraith]

I mean I guess you could say the same about tornadoes and living in tornado alley

[craggy hamlet]

The tornados we get here are weak very weak

[latent wraith]

I have said it before, the human will is so damning

[craggy hamlet]

And rare

[latent wraith]

They are more common here

That system we had last week had a good chance to mess things up

[craggy hamlet]

Tornados are like EF0

Also one perk is when a storm is passing by they cancel school for a day because the school buses can’t drive :))))

Free day off school

Most storms pass by and don’t hit us

[latent wraith]

To get cancelled for severe weather here, they have to be expecting something crazy

Or just snow

[craggy hamlet]

We don’t get snow sadly

Or extreme weather outside hurricanes

[latent wraith]

Well you did get one of the more wild extreme weather events

[craggy hamlet]

It’s not that bad in my opinion

[latent wraith]

so that is the trade off

[craggy hamlet]

During hurricanes it’s kinda like a family reunion for us

We meet up stay together and then go home when it’s done

I was here during Irma

[latent wraith]

I mean 6 months of the year your pretty much guaranteed that you will get some type of storm, and then by the end of it all atleast somewhere in the US will have been devastated

[craggy hamlet]

And while it was happening we kinda had a cookout

[latent wraith]

Atleast hurricanes are fairly predictable

[craggy hamlet]

Not 6 months Florida’s months are August and September

Ian wasn’t predictable

[latent wraith]

Okay most are xD

[craggy hamlet]

It was supposed to go to Tampa

Then we woke up day of landfall and it was about to make landfall a few miles from us and it was a cat 5

Very unexpected we thought it was just a rainy day turned into the big one

I remember growing up my family talked about Charley and Andrew and now the big one is Ian

[latent wraith]

Which I am sure being from Florida your more use to them, but to me they are just a few levels under tornadoes

Just because of their scale

[craggy hamlet]

I’ve only experienced 2 major hurricanes

Irma and Ian in my whole life

Everything else was tropical storms

They don’t even cancel school sometimes for those

[true lintel]

hi pwyll

[proven nymph]

i relaly dislike how manly pompadours are

hi bunny

[weak temple]

Hi bunny

[proven nymph]

hi ikey

[true lintel]

ikeyyy :>

[proven nymph]

they technically work in my face shape but

they're juwt so manly

[craggy hamlet]

I don’t like that hair style

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[proven nymph]

nah