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Your Girlfriend's Dad said:
Holy shit, we have 2 designated Happenings threads for the Russia-Ukraine War. Can we keep the conversation ITT away from that outside of maybe US involvement in fostering a peace deal?

Every time it just devolves into the complete domination of the thread for 5-10 pages.
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The thing is, it's gonna be a hot button thing for a few days, and ever more so when a cease fire happens.
 
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Autistic Gunspergings said:
before we get too excited about RFK Jr, here's a "satirical comedy" about the republican party I found in my recommendations.
I had to see this retardation, and I simply must push it needlessly onto others who never wanted to see it instead of leaving it alone like an upstanding citizen.
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What’s funny is that if you swapped “Republican” out for “Democrat” but kept the script exactly the same, it would be 100% accurate to the current political climate
 
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Gregis said:
The artisans who would create the beautiful detail work simply no longer exist. It's not even a matter of money, if you want buildings in an old style, you'd need to start scholar-craftsmen NOW on a project of relearning and even reinventing the techniques of the past, so that maybe in several years you could start putting them to work on a handful of buildings doing that work, and slowly training apprentices so you could scale up. Unadorned concrete is cheaper on so many levels.

A beautiful, adorned style of the future will probably need to rely on mass-production techniques in some way to have any chance of taking off; perhaps automated yet custom production techniques like 3D printing offer a model.
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Fundamentally recreating traditional architecture is the equivalent of reshoring manufacturing, as the skillsets and human capital have to be reintroduced (design and technical), while government needs to prioritize it (like Made-in-America) in order to perpetuate a preference cascade in the profession.

The first place to start is to establish more classical architecture schools like Notre Dame, as the source of modernist indoctrination begins with the majority of architecture schools in the US. If a new cadre of students have the choice between choosing between a classical education and a modernist one, control of the architectural profession will likely be less lopsided, as much of the modernist domination of the architecture scene is driven by a whole ecosystem of media (academia, magazines, journals, awards) that effectively creates their world- a typical architect today will have always been born in the modernist context and does not know of a world outside of it.

Likewise, a new generation of classically-educated architects will effectively eliminate the 'bad' traditional architecture (i.e. McMansions) in the US- which is effectively caused by B-tier modernist architects tasked with design traditional architecture for tasteless developers despite lacking the knowledge of how to do so. The damage will have to be slowly undone- starting off with less-ornate traditional styles like late forms of Art Deco- but it's quite possible to have it done well since traditional architecture is really more about proportions, and effective results can be attained by switching skins while retaining the building systems inside.

The below Tuscaloosa Federal building was built in 2011 at a very reasonable cost of around $50 million, which is comparable to a modernist equivalent in Austin built around the same time.

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Necrosan said:
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"You vill be healthy, you vill be pureblood, and you vill be happy".
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I always find these people’s appeal to authority fucking hilarious. UMM IS RFK A PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR??? Yet when you take 1 minute to look at the list of physicians currently in the senate they all voted for RFK. So evidently the professionals who we have to defer to absolutely believed in him enough to confirm him lmfao.
 
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Quence said:
Egg prices are up because millions of chickens are being culled due to Bird Flu.
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people are willing to blame the federal government for killing old people during covid for a fake chinese virus without even a rationale or justification but the second they do it to livestock to manipulate grocery prices for a very obvious short term political goal, it's completely absurd and out of the question
 
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MexicanJumpingBeans said:
I always find these people’s appeal to authority fucking hilarious. UMM IS RFK A PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR??? Yet when you take the 1 minute to look at the list of physicians currently in the senate they all voted for RFK. So evidently the professionals who we have to defer to absolutely believed in him enough to confirm him lmfao.
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I blame college. They spend years drilling into your head that every single thought and opinion needs to have 3 sources all peer reviewed by professional experts. Don't try bringing up to them how a shocking number of sources cite themselves with a little bit of information laundering or how peer reviews pass because someone who's got buddies in the industry who stand to profit from bunk research going through, they'll just ask for a source.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
@Nuns with guns
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Soak it in my friend. You, me, this entire forum, we achieved a massive win today. We WILL Make America Healthy Again!
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invisibult plus+ said:
“You vill not consume the seed oils, you vill see your (grand)parents.”
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Maybe Americans can have the high quality cheeses that @Null demands.
 
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all of this has been tried so many times and it's so dumb

do you know what you need for beautiful architecture to come back? private wealth under law and order.

rich people like pretty things under normal circumstances. and if it's safe to do so they display their pretty things.

anything else is just central planning but make it william morris, it never, ever, ever works
 
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