Roofing is the most expensive and trickiest parts of a building, so let’s take an enormous skyscraper and make one of the walls a roof. They probably plan for a team of flat roofing slaves working around the clock like window washers. When they get to one end they go back to the start in an ourorobus of roofing.
I know what a watershed is, we’re talking about borders between states.
Draw a squiggly line that follows the river. You get the left side, I get the right side. The river moves as rivers do. After 100 years we do a survey and find I have a big chunk of property that used to be my side of the river but the river moved towards me and now that’s on your side of the river. I’ve lost some land due to some being on the other side of the river and more due to the land I used to have being a river now.
Is the boundary between us the water and we put up with the uncertain nature of our property, or do we honour the line drawn 100 years ago even though the river isn’t anywhere near there now?
While using rivers to divide states may seem conceptually simple, the natural tendency of river courses to change over time has caused complications. If you look carefully at maps and legal history, there are numerous territorial oddities and disputes that have arisen over the years.
For instance, a series of earthquakes in 1811-12 shifted the course of the Mississippi River in a way that stranded two Tennessee towns—Corona and Reverie—west of the river in what seems like it should be Arkansas. Upstream, the same earthquake, and a lack of precision by early surveyors, left a bit of land known as the Kentucky Bend completely surrounded by parts of Missouri and Tennessee. Meanwhile, Kentucky and Indiana have engaged in a protracted debate about which state owned a piece of land near Evansville that connects to Indiana if the river is low but becomes an island if water is high.
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don’t want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn’t seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
That’s a good idea. I’ve blocked so much almost all I get is depressing news. They need to let you export blocked lists. Mines so long it’s probably worth something.
I’ll go one further, it was the textile age. Thread (and string and rope and sewing) was the huge technological revolution that shaped humanity. That stuffs even more entropic than wood though.
During a bad day the bosses mom asked me why I wasn’t my usual chipper self. I said if you want me to smile all day every day I need paid more. Then the boss yanged at me “why are you telling mother you want paid more?!?” and I told him, because I want paid more.
I found these kind of cool as an idea, as they can be added rather easily to existing cities and provide some greenery without taking up space, while providing shade:...
This is totally dumb. I wouldn’t want one attached to my building. How heavy are they? I’m guessing it doesn’t snow there? How do you weed it when it invariably gets infested with weeds. The irrigation system is sure to break, how do you service that? This will look like absolute shit in a year.
I make canvas and awnings. Shade sails are almost always really stupid. Big bucks for very little bang. Most of the day you end up with a wee thong shadow halfway up the wall
It’s important to understand that, as formidable as Darth Vader’s armor may be, its main purpose was to keep Darth Vader alive. That means it was constructed of fairly common substances in the Star Warsi galaxy, with a plastoid girdle and a plasteel helmet - lighter to allow Darth Vader more mobility. The bulk of the armor,...
Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once considered the emblem of everything that went wrong with the long-running space saga, as a bona fide classic ripe for rehabilitation 25 years on? As the much-derided 1999 film returns to cinemas this weekend, there are...
Boeing is for sure a shit show and terribly managed, but I don’t think they would blatantly kill guys like that. I think it’s far more likely that the first guy did kill himself because he figured everybody would think Boeing whacked him and that would do far more damage to the company than his testimony would. Now any news...
Well, easy is in the eye of the tool holder. It’s certainly achievable to do it yourself, but there is a large skill set involved. Not to mention the tools necessary. A capable sewing machine is a necessity.
I have tied springs. I’ve replaced swivels. Tieing springs isn’t really hard, but it is time consuming. I do almost 100% boat upholstery and canvas. People usually choke on the price for furniture but boaters are maybe used to it lol.
pay to win (lemmy.world)
Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper (futurism.com)
Boy Scouts of America rebranding to more inclusive Scouting America (www.pbs.org)
Fatherly hazing (lemmy.world)
2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5 (kbin.run)
I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you'd think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.
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The slime! (lemmy.world)
How many communities do you have blocked?
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? (www.nytimes.com)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Generate shadows without trees: vegetable awnings, a new way to generate shadows in the city. (www.singulargreen.com)
I found these kind of cool as an idea, as they can be added rather easily to existing cities and provide some greenery without taking up space, while providing shade:...
Is The US Headed Towards Fascism? (youtu.be)
What Darth Vader’s Armor Is Made Of & Why It Isn’t Beskar (screenrant.com)
It’s important to understand that, as formidable as Darth Vader’s armor may be, its main purpose was to keep Darth Vader alive. That means it was constructed of fairly common substances in the Star Warsi galaxy, with a plastoid girdle and a plasteel helmet - lighter to allow Darth Vader more mobility. The bulk of the armor,...
Star Wars – The Phantom Menace: still terrible after all these years? (www.theguardian.com)
Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once considered the emblem of everything that went wrong with the long-running space saga, as a bona fide classic ripe for rehabilitation 25 years on? As the much-derided 1999 film returns to cinemas this weekend, there are...
I don't think Boeing killed those guys
Boeing is for sure a shit show and terribly managed, but I don’t think they would blatantly kill guys like that. I think it’s far more likely that the first guy did kill himself because he figured everybody would think Boeing whacked him and that would do far more damage to the company than his testimony would. Now any news...
Elon Musk hosted an ‘anti-Biden’ dinner party. Here’s who attended (www.independent.co.uk)
The super heavy duty living room furniture of the 70's and 80's (i.redd.it)
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A Cool Guide on different types of knots (i.redd.it)
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