Comment on You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy

umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• khepri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a lathe-and-plaster wall from before the invention of drywall, it’s actually strong af

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why do Japanese make theirs out of paper?

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m gonna have to test that with some offerings from Bad Dragon. I’m sure some of those would still be able to bust down a brick wall.

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Modern Japanese houses aren’t made of paper

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because we are very cheap and superficial.

  I… I’m not even joking, that’s why, its true in a pithy and literal sense, if you look into the economics / industry standards of why this happens.

  So, sooo many houses that got built in like the last five years, that every idiot bought thinking home prices would go up forever?

  They’re rush jobs, hack jobs, absolutely literally full of holes and problems, start falling apart… well it used to be ‘the moment you walk in’, but now nobody is even walking in to them, and some are literally falling apart before they are bought.

  Absolutely hilarious that a decade or so ago, every American I knew was laughing at Chinese ‘Tofu Dregs’.

  Building inspectors, the whole system, its massively, widly corrupt, you can find a few honest building inspectors on tiktok or youtube who just document how poorly built so many of these new homes are, when they’re called in to double check some other corrupt building inspector’s work.

  Its a massive problem, yet another entire element of the US society / economy where massive corruption and fraud is so normalized that I won’t be surprised if some other USAsian shows up here to tell me how its fine, its not that bad.

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