The Enduring Nature of Concrete Buildings

Concrete buildings have been a staple of modern architecture for decades, and their durability is often cited as one of the reasons why they remain so popular. Unlike other materials, such as wood or glass, concrete is resistant to rot, mold, and insect damage, making it an ideal choice for construction projects that require long-term stability and low maintenance. Additionally, concrete buildings can withstand harsh weather conditions, including high winds, heavy rainfall, and extreme temperatures, without suffering significant damage.

One of the main advantages of concrete buildings is their ability to last for a very long time. Unlike other materials, such as brick or stone, which may require regular repointing or replacement over time, concrete structures can withstand the test of time with minimal maintenance. This makes them an attractive option for builders and homeowners alike, who want to ensure that their investment in a building will continue to provide value for generations to come.

While some people may argue that concrete buildings are boring or uninteresting, they offer many benefits that make them an ideal choice for construction projects. For example, concrete is highly durable and resistant to wear and tear, which means that it can withstand the stresses of daily use without suffering significant damage. This makes it a popular choice for public buildings, such as schools, hospitals, and government offices, where safety and reliability are paramount.

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The launch of Trump Media and Technology Group's Truth Plus streaming TV platform is a significant development in the world of politics and media. While some people may view this move as a threat to traditional news sources, it represents an opportunity for alternative voices and perspectives to be heard by a wider audience. However, there are concerns about the potential impact of 24-hour political content on public discourse and civic engagement.

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In contrast, Discord has become a popular platform for communities and discussion groups, particularly among gamers and enthusiasts. The site's focus on real-time chat and community engagement has made it an attractive option for people looking to connect with others who share similar interests. However, there are concerns about the potential risks of relying on social media platforms like Discord, which can be vulnerable to harassment and abuse.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHello everybody welcome back today is August we forgot to look 13th 13th today 13th yeah we have government and design and it's going to be another weird one there's a there's two social stories as well there it's we were talking about this as we were organizing Stories the amount of government stuff that is now just all election related and it's only August is we're pre-filtering it for you we're trying there's still I mean the first story and then we have another story that are yeah we're not we're not making deliberately light episodes as you might have noticed Ryan is out again this week he's he's okay it's just the the normal human suffering he'll probably be back next week yeah a lot of lot of chaos this week people also go on vacations I guess it's because it's like you know you know the political season or whatever is going to heat up the fall of the year and everybody's like let's take two weeks in the middle of summer or at the end of summer well people who have children that makes more sense also anybody connected to like the university just a lot of not lot of non- news this week aside from just the chaos of things breaking I feel like summer is the worst time to take a vacation I weigh in in the comments below but it's so hot it's miserable to go anywhere it is nice to go to Taiwan in the spring yeah yeah spring is like ideal vacation time fall oh hell I'll even hike in the winter before I'll hike in the summer not so much yeah and then we have we have we do have a little bit of of political news as it relates to technology just a little bit I'm so sorry so sorry Camala picking Governor Waltz for VP is a win for the right to repair movement those of you who have been following the political hellscape here in the US know that he is the governor of Minnesota and Minnesota has some of the most intense rules around rights repair that they passed I think last year or the year before so that's hopefully yeah good news for us going forward if they were elected I love this I I just I don't like the mindset of you have the right to repair as if anything that you're not explicitly granted the right to you can't do yeah yeah and it's like it's sad that we have to codify that into law but if if people are going to strip try to strip it away from you I'd rather have it codified into law it's like no you must have this using technological means to try to keep people from doing things is a hugely problematic not just for right to repair but I like as more people get clued into this it's like I would like to replace the headlight on my my car it's like what do you mean they want to charge me $100 to like just to charge me $100 to replace the light in my car is that really the direction that we're headed in the answer is yes that's why I haven't changed the headlight out on my other car for like three years you you probably could DIY that one it's probably not I could you have to take off the whole front that's why it's so much is cuz it takes labor to do that and I'm like I don't most cars aren't or old cars aren't like that but that one is I I I had a had my own uh experience someone I know their car became unreliable because it decided decided to download an over-the-air update but uh the overthe a update ran the computer so hard it kept draining the battery what car was that and so it was just like I mean you don't have to answer I guess but it it was just like mysterious like why does it keep draining the battery the battery must be bad it wasn't must be the alternator not charging the battery also no it was the computer receiving an overthe a update and just destroying the battery but because something went wrong with the update and then that's the world we live in now yeah yeah what what kind of future and like I'm sorry it's like is it you got a license to do the troubleshooting to figure that out that's that's where we're you got to pay for the fancy diagnostic equipment which yeah yeah even rights to repair kind of makes that a thing but meanwhile if it was just a normal computer it could say hey I have an update I would like to apply it would you like to update it you can set it on automatic updates but it should be clear that it's doing something it shouldn't be just surreptitiously doing something in the background and then you have to figure out and be like oh that's why the computer is intermittently using so much power it's cuz it's trying to update we should turn that off uh the other side of the coin is that um these same copyright laws that you know have taken away all of our rights without actually having a law to take away the rights um also apply to copyrighted material and copyrighted media it's like it's like I'm helping organize you know I've I've inherited like DVD collections and it's like oo I would like to format shift though and it's like that's already kind of a murky area I think that's okay that might not actually be okay under the law um I don't know but it should be okay under the law for you to format shift your DVDs just as it should be okay like if you're watching a streaming movie on Netflix and you want to Archive that that should be within the law you should be able to do that legally most people don't understand you can't do that or you're not it's not it's not okay to do that I guess without objective morality all things are permissible yeah it's just it's like well how do I you know how do I enjoy this media without having to Reby it over and over and over again streaming shows don't even get released to DVD anymore they just expect you to pay for it forever even though it's like well I've already I've already paid to watch this yeah it's a if you're going to treat it like a license then it should be a Perpetual license not a Time limited license we're back to book publishers literally did this at the turn of the 20th century like this book is not eligible for resale I'm sorry come again what uh we almost lost the VCR 5 to four in the United States the Supreme Court was like I don't know if we should allow video cassette recording because it might negatively impinge copyright holders it's like I don't know you know uh something else that we're not really sure about Google is a monopolist what you should know about the historic antitrust ruling I this is pretty definitive also the judge's name was meta which I thought was funny that is kind of funny um so last week as we were doing the news uh the ruling for this came down and said yes uh Google does have a monopoly on the ad Spin and the rules around how they do ads and and search it was mostly around search because they pay other people to use their search specifically and uh this is the the ruling that brought us uh Apple saying Bing is so bad Microsoft couldn't pay us to use Bing which is kind of funny thing has gotten better which and I'm like is Google really the prize anymore like that it used to be I mean I know probably for the the name but like Google's not as good as it used to be either Google has gotten to the point where even when I'm putting my terms and quotes around that it it can't find anything and I'll search for things without quotes and it's like I'm just going to search for something else that I think that you mean and it's like oh sweetie no no that's not what I meant and then I use the quote bless your heart it's like how did it get this bad Bing is actually better not because Bing improved but because Google got that much worse yeah I find I have to bounce between duct go which I think is just Bing anyway and then Google depending on what I'm looking for we can talk a little bit more about that at the end because there's a funny story at the end don't skip ahead in the in the one tabs do do it we're not cops you can do whatever you want your right to skip ahead is not codified in law therefore you don't have that right like that's not how you must watch the entire video also we're going to do five ad reads this time that's not how that works at all so you know who might else like okay Apple and Google and there's a there's someone else who may be hurt by the ruling but for reasons you might not realize forget Apple The Biggest Loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and the Firefox web browser so it turns out Google pays them a lot of money to be the default search engine and that's where they get most of their money to develop this like 90% of their money like an absurd percentage of their money comes just to be the default search engine because they can make money from that like makes me nervous like I I saw that line I was like oh it it does create an interesting situation so assume for a second like just not that it's Google just think of it as company random company X does Firefox yeah not not El does Firefox create um uh a commodity that they can sell they've got all the users that use their application they could sell the ad thing or the search thing to the highest bidder like that seems capitalistic that seems like that should be okay but are we in a world where Microsoft and Google and apple and other companies would actually uh bid or compete to pay them to be placed for the search engine like or Duck Duck Go or you know some other search engine could some other search engine pay them and then monetize that and they would be able to sell it and I think the answer is no and the answer is no because the market for companies to do that is not large enough in the same way that it doesn't make sense to have like five different competing companies running wires to your house for electricity but maybe it does make sense to have five different electrical providers that can hook into the grid maybe there's something like that here but it does seem like Google's easiest response to this is to just stop giving Firefox money because you know they look like a monopoly and so this may be this may be an unintended side effect of um the ruling yeah I still use Firefox and I I would be very upset yeah if something happened to them but well and you know we're not arguing that Google's not a monopoly I mean I think you can look at it and be like but at the same time they' got the monacle they've got the top hat actually didn't we find out that he doesn't actually have a monacle a while back and it kind of another Mandela effect yeah uh this is not a Mandela effect you've heard this here before on this program leak reveals Israeli government interfered with whatsapp's lawsuit against spyware company the spyware company is Pegasus yeah we've covered this before and we've actually had people in the comments say that we're 10 foil hat which is annoying because we kind of are I mean we kind of are but you get this ruling and then they say oh yeah we've known all along and it's like which is it pick one Chuckles yeah is it paranoia yes but also they are out to get you but also the the Israeli government interfering with WhatsApp like if you look at whatsapp and you look at what's going on on the surface there you'd never realize that you have such an adversarial relationship potentially with WhatsApp it's just this is this is a goofy dumb application for keep like why would it oh oh oh it runs deep runs very deep so people use it to talk people use it to talk and deploy spyware journalists diplomats etc etc ET high value targets don't forget that uh the spyware uh is what you know Jeff Bezos was having an affair and because of the spyware and the affair and everything else it sent Amazon in a completely different corporate trajectory and arguably blue origin in a completely different corporate trajectory because Bezos was like how could they possibly know this and it turns out his phone was compromised and he had to hire a pi and like the the all of the details of that I think will come out in another 5 or 10 years and it's going to make an Incredible Book it's going to be like Jason Bourne except it's reality Jason Bourne but like him just cheating on his wife well no just trying to track down how his phone was compromised and like what happened and it's just and then it'll turn out to just be dumb information like information operational security or it's like oh I clicked on this this thing somebody sent me on my iPhone that was supposed to be secure and it's it wasn't secure at all I thought the iPhone was safe it wasn't you know what what else wasn't safe your investments in crypto FDX to paid 12.7 billion with a B to victims of Sam bankman Freed's massive scheme see this is weird because ours Technica says that FTX is going to pay 12.7 billions to victims of Sam but they got it almost all of it back so like all of the money that the um people had invested in FTX they're getting all of it or very close to all of it back because the stuff that FTX had invested in even though it probably was a scam well I mean the law under the ruling says that it was a scam um but all the people get their stuff back because the stuff that they invested in some of it actually did pay off in a big way which is kind of wild although universe takes care of an idiot if you uh if you had invested in in Bitcoin at the beginning though it would have done a lot better um I guess is the one thing that the commenters here have pointed out and I think that um there's a lot of things to be interested in with this but it's kind of wild it's like wait a minute we we we've shut down this company because they're running a scam and sure the company yes the company could have provided the people participating the company insanely way more returns but at least they didn't lose everything the way that it is with most other crypto scams which is not really the bars in hell but like they did clear it so I don't know did you did you know engagement challenge did you have you know stuff in FTX you know it's like oh I saw the Matt Damon commercial and that's what got me into crypto.com there's a I think it's not till the AI sections but there was a reference to all those commercials in one of our stories oh somewhere on the network drive there's clips of me uh making fun of uh Matt Damon in the South Parkway and also saying the same quote in front of the crypto.com um Stadium we need to work that into some video in the future just making a mental note that's two years too late so no one will know the reference oops oh speaking of other people who won't know the references anymore Mass YouTube outage hits Russia amid escalating official criticism so I guess YouTube this turns this this always this isn't the first time we've covered this but YouTube up until recently was still basically available in Russia but Russia was sending takedowns to YouTube to say hey hide to this content in Russia or we don't want to see this content in Russia no scity toilet and and so Google's like oh okay I guess we can do that but now they're saying it's I think some people are saying like 70% of the time it's just out like you can't get to it at all anymore yeah and even if you can get to it it's only at dialup speeds 128 kilobit so you could listen to music on it that's about it but I don't know things uh things seem dicey in many parts of the world as it turns out um and in in case things get dicey uh you know some folks are looking at what Elon Musk is doing with starlink and they're saying wow that seems like a really good idea China launches satellites for major Network to rival Elon musk's starlink neat China's going to build their own starlink well 18 satellites recently launched so far they only need a couple thousand more so we can no longer see the night sky and we can finally just fill it with advertisements as the good Lord intended that was another story I almost put in that that one might be in the business section is uh that one's a government story because you know but uh the new ones the new starlink satellites that also have the cell tower capability they're apparently a hundred times brighter than the other ones so it's a bad time to be an astronomer yeah remember well remember the first gen starlink they put up and they were kind of silver and then they painted the matte black and that helped a lot these are like insanely way more reflective than even the first gen Starling so and they're like it's too expensive we did the math and it's a little too expensive to paint them plaed so screw being able to see the universe we don't need you know it makes it harder to detect the uh the stuff that's going on all the spy satellites and the spy planes and stuff that are flying around so we'll just say it's like oh that was a that was a starling satellite it's a feature not a bug yeah it's some fun times although that might be one hell of a Counter Intelligence operation it's just oh those are all but they're not they're just over everything at all times uh the only way to know for sure would be to hack in and find out right USPS Tech scammers duped his wife so he hacked their operation this is a level of petty that I aspire to the smishing Triad Network what an amazing name for a network sends up to 100,000 scam texts a day globally and so one of those went to Grant Smith who is a hero of our times he infiltrated their Network and exposed it to us authorities there was uh the article said that it was mostly targeting people in the US so like it's based in China but there like almost none of the the things that they were targeting were Chinese citizens it was all American my mom got sucked into some of that just like that I don't know if it was from this network but those scam text messages where it's uh oh you just need to fill this out and you're going to get a discount on your you know prescription drugs or whatever she's like that sounds great and I was like no not no that's not that's not well in this case I think they actually did have a package coming and they got a text that was like hey we need more info and it asked for credit card info and it got his wife so that's one of the ways that they got people too oops who would just randomly ask for credit card information that seems unlikely and yet uh this is also uh just so obvious pler jumps 11% on Microsoft partnership to sell AI to us defense and Intel agencies so you might have noticed last week we had a bit of a hiccup in the in the global stock market situation starting with Japan and uh defense contractor spending or defense stocks went way up insanely way up and Baner just said hey we are incredibly unprepared for any anything remotely relating to anything electronic but we have a plan we just need money 11% jump we just need money please give it to us okay I don't know it seems the unironically named too just like we want to be able to look at everything and analyze it using the power of AI I was looking at other text stories and another one that popped out to me was endural Industries and I was like stop taking these things like just let them be fantasy those are uh those are the same billionaires as it turns out it's almost the same it's like the simulation just copy pasted the same parameters into another body have you guys read the books you know this wasn't a good thing right yeah it's like and there's a sword so is it uh you know does is the sword inherently good or evil no but it is Aragorn sword so they probably think that means that that means they're good but the plan here is inherently well I guess it was initially designed to let people communicate over great distance I think there's speculation that fenor himself made them and then for a long time they were being used by the people from newor and then they brought them over to Gondor then they passed down but a bunch of them got lost oh so you never know who's listening yeah you never know who's on the other end and then saon gets hold of one and then Saron has one so it's like it's uh it's kind of a wild time when you can use the communication the medium for all the evil communication you want but you you can't trust it for any non-evil communication well it's a it was a huge Advantage during the war because no one else has instant communication like that you think this will be a huge Advantage during the upcoming War the boring new Harris W walls logo it's actually pretty historic why this is the headline is Goofy this is a design story this is your fault yeah well I put this in here it's fine like I I definitely think it's kind of boring the applications are more interesting but the the thing that he's they're breaking away from is that it doesn't look like Biden Biden's branding oh it's much more like Millennial coded especially if you go to their website they're using a lot of really like bright colors and bold typography and that's not it is according the youth vote is is one way that you would describe like design for millennium or Millennials as uh it's designed for people who have been over stimulated their entire life so it needs to be as Bland as possible it is a little bit like their website some of the t-shirts and stuff like the merch is funnier but like most of the website is very like clean plane works well on a mobile device like your your political candidate is going to work in the direction opposite of the end of civilization we promise it's not bad it's not fantastic work but it's not bad I really you know uh we we we're always Doom and Gloom but I love stories like our next story projects like our next project because this this seems like really amazing stuff but there are people that come out of the woodwork that are so against this I don't I don't understand why and it's just I don't know well let's let's let's let's get the headline there you go world's largest 3D printed neighborhood in years's completion in Texas I think we were both excited by the story cuz we both put it in at two different sections ryers has some really good video here and uh information about it and you should check that out because this is incredible the the one so we actually did a story about this same housing development in 2022 but they're they're starting to be ready to go and people are starting to buy them the only thing I I thought was kind of like ooh was the price a lot of these are like $400 to $500,000 which is not affordable yeah but maybe since it's kind of more like proof of concept maybe the price will go down as they start to learn like ramping it up yeah yeah I think that the cost could come way down I've seen um there was another uh group that had uh like giant foam and plywood Legos that snap together and you can just build a wall and like a Sears catalog house yeah yeah well Sears catalog was even more like you really had to have your head screwed on your shoulders correctly in order to be able to do a Sears kit home but everything was labeled and you could Source the lumber for it a lot of the time from a local lumber yard and then all the specialty woods and the stairs and crap like that and it's funny to look back to at some of the newspaper articles from like the 40s 50s and 60s where like the you know the the OG subdivisions were being built and it's like all these houses are similar they're not the same floor plan but they're you know like thematically there's a theme in this neighborhood they're all brick houses they're all siding houses they're all you know whatever they've all got shutters yeah there's probably like four or five variations they go through and at the time you know people were very anti that in the 50s or 60s and now it's like those are some of the most sought-after houses because they're very consistently and very well built versus you know modern you know like Pine Construction may not have used the right Nails may not have used enough Nails those neighborhoods usually have like mature trees and like generally are just laid out nicely too in terms of space the lots are usually a little bit bigger like yeah so I wonder if we'll have that with it's like oh you got one of the cont the 3D printed concrete houses those will last forever you could just hose that out and then your kids can move in and it's great it'll be interesting to see if that you know materializes if that is a thing in another 10 or 20 years they did mention at least in the article I read I think I I had linked to a different one they were talking about like it's great for like your heating and cooling costs cuz the walls are huge and super thick not so great for your Wi-Fi signal so they were like that's one of the things we had to troubleshoot when we were putting these houses up Wi-Fi 6 wants you to have an access point in every room room anyway or Wi-Fi 7 so yeah it's probably fine it's totally fine the LA and plaster people have the same problem so it's not it's not terrible which is another thing there's a lot of people that want to rehab houses and like the the higher tier Builders will figure out a way to keep the LA and plaster because it is amazing soundproofing between rooms versus H let's you know if you're going to do a drywall you got to do like two layers of drywall plus the soundproofing material between the drywall and then it's like that on rough number 2x4 studs it's not gets gets a little sketchy versus let's take the trim off and put you know smooth the wall out and rkim coat it if you can but if you can't then you know dry wall over top of that can work although it messes with the thickness of the wall which makes the trim less desirable to deal with at least they have trim I have trim on the bottom but I don't have any on the top I wish I had like the pretty crown molding I really really hope that we figure out the 3D printing thing because I would love to see like lowcost housing developments to just make the housing problems go away and it's like oh we've got too much housing and it's like well it's it's concrete there's we can take the house and tear it down and or print another one it's like oh we've got too much housing great tear some of it down and have some more yard oh we don't have enough housing great we'll just print some more that is like a little bit of a simpli just print just have more housing but it it does help yeah yeah well and metal roofs you know the all of the stuff there is very very very recyclable so even though it's made out of concrete that sounds counterintuitive but really in theory that though that's going to last a long time like yeah concrete buildings ain't going anywhere yeah even better than like cinder block but I don't know speaking of things the that are the opposite of not going anywhere Trump media and Technology Group launches truth plus streaming TV platform I could have sworn they already had this but I guess it's different than their social Network the the darkness of this I think is that unlike say C-SPAN or something like that this is 24-hour political content which is perhaps not healthy to engage in yeah I certainly have been trying to avoid it as best I can though it's everywhere right now at the opposite end of the spectrum we have this Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits I saw paid subreddits and I was like out so I think this is this is a little bit going to his head in terms of I mean okay so the reality that we're at in 2024 is that there is so much AI generated content that is such low information density that it is basically impossible to find anything we're we are at where the internet was before we had Google to be able to search everything was basically link directories and web Rings we web Rings you know that that sort of thing a banner you put on your blog redddit finds itself as the OG web ring in this era it is the OG uh Dem the you know the great internet link directory and so yeah they're looking to monetize and capture but the reason search engines are so interested in this we covered this last week where you know Google is paying Reddit a lot of money to use it as a data set for search which is horrifying for a lot of reasons but part of that is because of the curated content on Reddit is people discussing the real websites or at least websites that are real enough that people will use it as a reference so even if you're not linking directly to reddit reddit talks about you know like the level one text Forum where you can get awesome help with stuff or serve the homes Forum where you can get awesome help with stuff and then links to drivers and links to things you can download and links to how-to guides and links for like how to reverse engineer the firmware on the the Nano KVM from cped fun stuff like that and so that is a basis for um building the contents of search and when something that looks kind of spammy pops up on those user places the users usually deal with that with fire which is amazing and so Reddit thinks that their data set is worth a lot but also people wanting to be inside the Walled Garden uh will pay money and that's probably true if you think about it if you think about the horror that we find ourselves in and how much time you waste trying to find something useful would people be willing to pay for that probably they're probably thinking of like I know for certain things Discord has become much more prevalent as well and a lot of people will pay for Discord Nitro yeah because or they'll pay like you know patreon or something to get access to a specific channel in a Discord yeah all of the content being tied up in Discord is alarming think of it like all of the bad downsides of Reddit that you're instinctually like I don't want everything being on one platform like that yeah but then it it's also lock literally locked away from search engines but arguably people are driven to use things like Discord because the quality of content there is insanely way higher because it's real people for the most part yeah but the end game is all of that content evaporates in a puff of acquisition so I will say too Discord search is generally pretty decent which is not what I can say for Reddit there's a reason people go to Google to search for things on Reddit engagement challenge what what are other resources when you're thinking about you know imagine that you're building Google 2.0 under another name in a startup are there other resources on the internet other than Reddit that are as good or better than Reddit for having already weeded out all of the bad content or all of the least useful content it's like I want to find all the information on gardening I want to find all the information on doing fun stuff with firmware I want to find all the information on doing cool stuff with Linux where do you go permes Forum was one that I used to browse I don't know if it's still up or not but again like there's like these little little Community places but they don't get indexed well by search engines anymore it's too much work costs too much when you can just have ai generated swill all right we've wasted it perfectly another perfectly good half hour with us we will see you tomorrow in business and the business one's kind of long this week there wasn't really a lot of the store distribution this week was weird yeah so we will see you tomorrow thanks for hanging out bye\n"