local hunger games construction almost complete

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They're going to molotov concrete and steel?

Cool.

Cool cool cool.

No, a construction site contains plenty other stuff than concrete and steel: tools, equipment, building materials, temporary buildings for the workers, cables and piping.

On top of that each time concrete gets fire damage, it gets weaker and may need to be replaced, at least core samples + weeks of analysis time + $$$ is needed to determine the damage.

And let's say they eventually finish building the apartments, they may never stop smelling like a BBQ.

And then they need to hire 24/7 security, and maybe new workers because they don't want to work in a DMZ.

Ya...ok...have fun with that.

Thanks, I did have fun coming up with ideas.

No problem. These childish collective fantasies are fun, aren't they? Yup, they're fun right up until a bullet rips through your chest when you're trying to climb through the smashed out window of the barricaded doors to the Speaker's Lobby or the FBI is kicking down your door three years later. It's fun in your head when your enemies are incompetent boobs and everything goes your way. In reality you get arrested and/or injured/killed and the buildings get built anyway.

EDIT: 3 years later. Remeber right afterwards when they said that the FBI would lose interest and that there was no way they would arrest and try everyone. It seems to quaint, now.

EDIT 2: I went looking for a name for the childish collective fantasies but couldn't find one. The best I could come up with is a naïve collective fantasy that grew in an epistemic bubble inside an echo bunker. No one bothered to ask "What then?" or, "What will the consequences be if things go wrong and we are caught and held accountable for our actions?" Ashli Babbit and the neo-fascist red hats never considered the, "What ifs" right up until the moment the bullet ripped through her chest. At that point they realized, "Holy fuck, they're shooting at us." Everyone else watching on TV expected that to happen on a slaughterous scale much earlier yet they were surprised that it happened to one of them. Someone was not using their critical thinking skills.

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Apparently just a kilogram of sugar mixed into a ton of concrete will destroy the ability of it to actually function correctly as concrete. But I learned this here on Lemmy and have not checked the veracity of it, so take it with a pinch (handful?) of salt.

It's accurate or close to it.. Some concrete truck drivers will keep bottles of coke to pour in there in emergencies where they need to make sure it doesn't set inside the truck.

What happens to the spiked concrete? Can they add something else to counteract the sugar later?

You figure the cement trucks will pull up to a sugar table so that protesters can add a few bags of sugar to each one? That seems unlikely. It also seems unlikely that anyone could get enough sugar deep enough into any structural element to cause any real damage.

No for the concrete you use sugar, and for the steel... I don't know maybe jet fuel or something.

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