WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
I mean, I am literally working on a PhD in wood science.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Little known fact; heavy timber buildings will often perform better in fire than steel buildings like this.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
You can see them on the upper levels. On the bottom level, you can see the shear tabs, mounted on the girders that additional beams will frame into.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Specifically a girder is a beam that other beams frame into. Gravity load typically goes slab->beam->girder->columns->foundation. At least that’s what I teach in my steel design classes.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Partially correct. Those are beams, girders, and columns.
- Comment on Crossover we've been waiting for.. 1 week ago:
I’ll be…out here…where there are witnesses!
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 1 week ago:
I had an account of similar magnitude banned. Why? Because on January 6th, on the very day, I wondered aloud why there weren’t soldiers repelling the crowd of insurrectionists trying to overthrow our democracy with machine gun fire. I’m sorry, but if a crowd of thousands of people shows up with the intent of hanging the vice president and overthrowing the government? Well, you made your choice if you’re in that group. The correct response to a group like that is to first give them plenty of warning. But if they persist, use whatever force is necessary to repel them.
Other things I’ve been banned for:
- Telling an overt bigot posting in an LGBT sub to go kindly "go die in a fire."
- Suggesting, before the ruling, that if SCOTUS ruled that the president was completely above the law that he should simply drone strike Supreme Court justices to produce a majority on the court that would repeal his new powers.
- Evading bogus bans.
At this point I’ve got a lifetime ban from there. And you know what? I’m fine with it. The policies on reddit remind me of the blind “zero tolerance” policies that have screwed over so many in American high schools. When I was in high school years ago, the standard was “zero tolerance” for violence of any kind. If a bully attacked a victim, they would both get in trouble. Being the victim was no defense. It was zero tolerance, zero thought. And that is the standard that is now used on reddit. They’ll still allow racist dogwhistles and entire subreddits run by hate groups, but as long as you don’t cross a handful of explicit lines, you’re fine. You can openly celebrate the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, but tell one bigot to go die in a fire, and suddenly you’re banned.