This isnt a bong tho, this is just a toilet steamroller, no water filtration.

Ya know, if this is how we bring along a universal exceptance of electric vehicles and improved electric grid infrastructure, it would be such a great silver lining.

How big is the file u working on? And what alternative FOSS program would u rather be working on. I haven’t looked into FOSS alternatives to illustrator in a while.

Oh I fully agree, I said as much in my second paragraph of ranting where I tried to back off of my personal hatred for them and point out the positive that they do. I know there is no intention of an actual replacement, and that “leave it to the states” will cause economic crisis. Again, I don’t agree with him I just also hold a belief that people shouldnt start defending FEMA as this benevolent government agency that only shits cotton candy for people that have lived through a natural disaster.

While I do think that FEMA is neccissary and that we need a nationalized safety blanket for those that get effected by natural disasters I’m not entirely in disagreement with a complete overhaul of FEMA. FEMA does suck ass and is way too bureaucratic. Anyone remember the shit show that was Hurricane Katrina recovery? And if you do you most likely don’t remember Hurricane Rita that hit the western part of Louisiana just a few weeks later. A much less populated area of the state but hit just as hard with significant loss of homes, several communities being washed completely away and a rediculus amount of costal wetland losses due to salt water intrusion. Still, New Orleans was devestated, lives were lost, FEMA severely dropped the ball on too many fronts to count, and the city to this day has remnants of abandoned buildings and houses that have been empty nearly 20 years later… FEMA trailers, the reselling of FEMA trailers, hundreds of people that lost what money they got from FEMA due to sheisty contractors who just took their checks and never did a damn thing. All of this either directly or indirectly due to the organization being a shit show.

On top of this the majority of the homes that are rebuilt are in questionable areas and due to climate change will be in danger of repeating this cycle in the next 5 years. The FEMA maps can go fuck off, as some one who has worked in a field that delta with them on a daily bases, they often times do not take into consideration the realities of flooding possibilities under climate change and are heavily influenced by insurance companies and other political entities.

On the flip side, I know many people that would have been homeless with out those FEMA checks. The money injected into the economy of South Louisiana is a big part of why it’s not considered an apocalyptic wasteland. It’s not great in it’s current state and is propped up on oil money and voodoo but I have no doubt I my mind that it would be a hellscape had the recovery been left solely to the good Ole boys in the state legislature. There is zero chance that the state would have had 5% of the money needed to recover to where they currently stand. The oil companies def would not have helped.

All in all I am two beers in and this article hit a sore spot that I have. I hate FEMA but don’t think that in any way trump is going to help this situation. Even a broken clock is right twice a day…

Yeah there seemed to be a lot of misinformation coming from both parties against these ballot measures. Neither side of the isle wants to allow these to pass as it undermines their power. Uninformed voters that simply follow party lines were being directed to vote against this on both sides. Go figure…

Narrator - “it wasnt”

I mean they kinda are, but those areas just miss out on tax dollars of larger scale developments. I’d rather see more support and for lower cost housing that doesn’t get flipped immediately into airbnbs. Stronger regulations that temper this current market of turning housing into a commodity where speculative reality businesses are out bidding home owners. That goes for single family and multifamily. U can build a huge priced right housing development but if all the units just turn into air bnb or rented out by shitty land lords, then we have solved nothing

It’s actually an instance of super small government. Those regulations are dictated by city’s and counties not by states

This man exploded 3 seconds later, those are gas lines

This chaps my ass almost as much as the beefy 5 layer burrito

That price held untill atleast 2012, that’s a solid 5 dollars of increase in just over 10 years. I could totally be talking out my ass

Chin cramp gang rise up. U remain the unicorn of the armpit cramp, that sounds agonizing, sorry for ur loss.

It is an anicdote that is in direct contrast to the OP message

That’s a square tip plug. It could be a gas line, but ur not getting the drier hooked up to that thing.

So I think it’s more like if u got a papermache piñata from some one that just so happened to be made of child porn and then u fucked that… Yeah seems unethical to me

I’m pretty early on into my career and am honestly still trying to navigate this myself, but after over a decade I’d say I’d agree with what clover said somewhere else in the thread, u just have to advocate any way you can. Depending on the client, that might be using the economic angle, or the environmental angle. Some people only see dollar signs and don’t care the most of Canada is on fire and there’s no wining, but in trying you may sway the people below them that might be in decision making roles in the future.

Idk, like just try I guess :)

I agree, it is a good way to get the owners asking for levels of environmentalism that might be out of their expertise, I just wish it had more teeth.

I’d say the majority of architects are more than willing but there are contrarians. LEED does provide an avenue for Architects to get involved but its not without his issues LEED is an interesting program that has its issues. For example there are a lot of credit swap opportunities in LEED that allow u to bypass some of the other requirements that would be more impactful. The core tennents of what LEED is trying to achieve is great, it just doesn’t seem to be rather effective where it counts, production builders that are supplying the majority of housing. These developers stray away from LEED certification due to the extra cost, it takes alot of extra documentation to go for LEED. Documentation that would not be neccissary even if you would choose to build a building that is equal or better than a LEED building. I view the program similarly to Target turning their logo rainbow, low investment for big businesses looking to posture.

I originally had a reactionary response to this… Like why should the burden be on Architects. Most of us would love to make a building as efficent as possible, but at the end of the day it all comes down to who’s paying. Sometimes no matter how much u try to educate a client they don’t care and will barely be swayed with “it’s not to code” as a reason. There’s sooo many people above us with more power pulling levers and making decisions and we’re lucky some times to push a client in the direction of more sustainable (and expensive) windows that are above code minimums.

Then I read the article, and after pulling my head out of my own ass where I was apparently throwing myself a putty party, I came out agreeing with the author. Although we do not usually hold much leverage, even with organizations like AIA and Ncarb, we do have a unique position of understanding the complexities of how things go from being design to built should use that knowledge to help inform and guide movements for the betterment of the environment. For example, even if IEEC insulation regulations go up, it is up the the individual municipality to accept them, same with all building codes, and I can tell u there is Wide variation depending on how liberal the municipality is and this can be just from county to county.

So while I want to blame everyone else that is responsible for allowing the wrong codes from being rattified or rich developer for skimping on windows and insulation(still legal cause energy codes) in a high rise, it’s on architects to educate and try to push the system from the bottom.