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🤔 architecture should be designed around two principles that are currently completely ignored.

1. Passive temperature and air flow. Save money on AC and use that electricity to run bitcoin miners. You would think this would be a no-brainer...

2. Avoidance of the top meter of soil. Either raise your structure on stilts, or go underground. The top meter of soil is an ecosystem. Besides not disrupting an ecosystem, by minimizing surface impact we can reduce use of pesticides. How frequently are people pouring a chemical into ant hives that are always right up on their house's foundation? The reason you have the ants is because you have a lawn. Monocultures invite pests ; pests are food for ants. Ants **_should_** be beneficial, but we don't see them that way because we're creating an artificial environment that's perfect for them but not perfect for us. So go up or down, but leave that top meter.

And... IMO it is not possible for a person to have both a lawn and valid opinions on anything. Can't you see how retarded that lawn is? You still have a lawn : you're still an NPC.

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halalmoney 6mo ago

Harsh!

“IMO it is not possible for a person to have both a lawn and valid opinions on anything”

Comte de Sats Germain 6mo ago

Yeah, a pang of regret hit when I wrote that. But... Maybe harshness is required.

Bill Cypher 6mo ago

Eh, I have significantly less lawn than when I first bought this property. I have limited time to work on it and some of the larger trees need time to grow.

In time I plan to only have open lawn over my drain field.

Comte de Sats Germain 6mo ago

If it serves a purpose, that's different. I'm bitching about suburban lawns. NPC traps.

I saw a really cool mini park in China that was actually a nicely disguised drain and water recycler for a water treatment plant. It was a little marsh with a raised wooden walkway above it. It didn't stink at all. Tons of wildlife... Dudes with buckets would go there at night to catch bullfrogs, which they sold to restaurants. Anything like that in the west would get accolades and articles and awards, but there it was totally run-of-the-mill.

I think I might try replicating at least the idea someday by connecting an off grid toilet to a little controlled marsh. Grass would be a no-no - a rock wall on two or three sides would look better.

Comte de Sats Germain 6mo ago

Ya know what's really wrong with architecture? The art in it is "try-hard." It's so try-hard, even the regular boxes the engineers come up with are better.

Here's the thing about art... there are only basically two messages in any art : the pain of the artist, or the pain of the observer. Both, usually. Even serene scenes still only speak to the pain you feel, oftentimes a pain of losing something that never was.

What passes as architecture is about as artistic as a Japanese dude's hair. Stupid angles going all directions and held in place by an invisible hardened gel, and stupid colors sprayed into the ends. That's modern architecture. Retards.

My hand hurts. I'm going to bed!

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