What have you discovered is much more fragile than you thought?
It blew my mind as a kid when I learned most interior walls are basically made of paper and chalk.
The problem is when you learn how to fix that paper and chalk.
Now I want to cut holes all in the house to see what's behind the sheetrock and my wife, still in the blissful ignorance that walls are solid objects, objects to any holes being cut into the walls.
Accidentally kicking through a wall because I was trying to kill a mosquito was a big shock to me as a kid. And then finding out that you could pretty much do that in any building? Crazy.
Until you hit a stud.
Yeah, I said the walls not the frame. If your contractor tries to frame the house with chalk and paper fire him immediately.
With better insulation, window sealing, sound proofing and heating, buildings simply don’t need to be built as solidly as they were, so companies obviously will save money with construction. Also, with the population size, building new buildings in a classical style (not just a classic facade) is impractical. Takes too long and requires too many resources.
If you want a home that feels solid, look for 1930s construction and earlier.
My 40s house is the worst of both worlds. New enough that every corner has been cut. Too old for modern materials and technique.
Ha, when looking for a house I hired somebody who helps me determine what has to be done and how much it will approx cost.
First thing he said, never buy a house build during the war
I never would have thought of it like that, but that makes so much sense.
You pay quite the premium in my area to get something that was built outside of the 1940-1955 range.
WELL HELLO THERE GALVANIZED STEEL PLUMBING!!!
Mmmm yes that WWII and post WWII era housing. 9ft 2x4s use too much wood. Let's switch to 7ft 2x3s so that the ceilings are 7'3 now instead. So many of these ranches built from 1940-1950 were never designed to last 70 years. Most of them were only designed to last about 35 years, so just beyond the longest mortgages offered at the time.
Roofs are still only specced to last 30 years even today too in construction.
I think ceilings are lower because it costs more to heat a building with taller ceilings... I also think that the ceilings were so high because air-conditioning didn't exist back then so the tall ceilings and tall windows helped that
40s era homes are my least favorite to work on.
That depends on where you live. If you live in a seismic area like the west coast of North America, anything built before 1980 is a death trap in an earthquake.
light frame construction can be retrofit cost effectively; most failures are from sills not actually attached to the foundation and from shear failure of cripple walls. anchoring the sills and reinforcing those walls is usually straightforward, as far as construction goes.
I currently live in a house my great-grandad bought from the Sears catalog in the mid-30s; had to have a few pipes replaced over the years, but the construction itself is still damn solid!
We’re starting to get tornadoes every year, just north of Philadelphia. The difference between the new townhomes homes that we’re ripped apart, and even the older ones was noticeable. One house got every tree ropier apart around it, but it was an old, possibly colonial era, stone house. It needed minor roof patching. There’s definitely value in sturdy homes.
No one is saying those homes are valueless, just explaining the reasons newer homes are constructed the way they are/will continue to be built this way.
I have only lived in one home constructed after 1930, and likely won’t again as I appreciate the aesthetics/wooden floors/high ceilings/character/and sturdiness of homes from the period I suggested to the other commenter
I had a course in uni where we just go to class to listen to the guess speaker talks about collapsing infrastructure.
That course really scared the crap out of me. Everything looks so shoddy after that.
I was poking round a house under construction in my area cause I’m weird and was bored. The shiftiness of the floor joists was scary. They looked like 2x4 pulled from a burnt out poop barn.
The house has been under construction for like 5 years and failed inspection a lot
All my life I've been very wary of anything heavy mounted to walls. Particularly TVs. Never fully trusted it.
This isn’t completely true. I have built over 150+ houses. Some in the millions (Midwest). Homes are arguably better all around. Codes in which they used to be built were not good. Homes built in the late 1900s may be the best. But old homes used to have all kinds of issues they were just simply built out of stronger wood and material. If you were to build that same home today, it would be outrageously expensive. Engineering has also advanced tremendously. Energy efficiency has like quadrupled to say that least. Homes are really “worse”, just different style of construction. Newer homes are actually much more resistant to harsh conditions and overall safer.
This is what scares me when watching parkour runners running along rooftops and shit. They have a lot of faith that they won’t fall through cause of some dodgy builder.
I do believe this highly depends on the location and the type of industry. E.g., public infrastructure in Germany vs the US differ hugely in their quality standards, however, some key infrastructure in big, rich US cities is likely of much higher quality than elsewhere in the US.
Reminds me of r/watchpeopledie
I thought this was r/PeopleFuckingDying, the joke sub with Tabaloid style titles of cute animals and shit
Nope, this sub has literally been banned.
r/PeopleFuckingDying is actually a really nice sub though, if you need some eyebleach this isn't a bad choice.
There was also /r/cutefemalecorpses and a slew of others. Not sure what bam wave they got taken out in, but not that long ago considering the content
First ban wave took out subs like /r/creepshots (sub for posting pics taken of women unaware a lot of upskirts) and I think /r/jailbait for obvious reasons
2022 will really reach its ShitStorm peak when r/PeopleFuckingDying is deleted by some idiot mod in a ban wave
Living in a country with rough climate, I'd be afraid of living in average American cardboard house.
Same. As a fellow rough climateer, it's the sheer lack of insulation that gets me. I get that you seldom need heat in some jurisdictions, but wouldn't you also want to insulate in order to keep the A/C generated cold in in the summertime? How about sound deadening?
You wouldn't survive in Texas without insulation.
I lost a friend cus I hurt his feelings. Meanwhile this dude would say fucked up stuff all the time to me as a joke and I took it as such. We made fun of eachother often but nah, hurt the dudes feelings once and he throws away a 10 year friendship. I feel like I wasted time and quite frankly as I hang out with more people I'm realizing that they're not the kinda friend I want in my life to begin with.
I'm still very much hurt by this but the idea of rekindling anything seems like a waste of time. I want him to be happy but at this point I'd prefer it be somewhere nowhere near me.
Had the same kind of friend.
Huge fucking ego. Was a dick to everyone and literally would admit to anyone he was a giant asshole.
Hurt his feelings once and he goes into such a bitchfit it threw away our long friendship.
That’s when I found out how fragile his ego was.
I’m sorry you went through this. I went through something similar where I ultimately said a lot of things that were on my chest while I had too much to drink and it made my ex friend so uncomfortable because deep down I think he knows he was a shit friend. Anyway he decided to end 16 years of friendship. It’s ok to feel both sad for your loss and also upset like you wasted time. I wish sometimes I could make up with my friend but I know that ultimately he isn’t a good influence on me. Maybe look at the 10 years as a life experience and not as a waste of time. It seems friendships are harder to maintain the older we get. Good luck
Fiendship is much tougher
"Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair."
Pierce Brown - GOLDEN SON, CHAPTER 44
Learnt this the hard way😂
My memories.
I used to pride myself on remembering all sorts of obscure things. I'll look through my old stuff and have no recollection of ever doing or thinking about some things. Time has eroded a lot of old memories away, and it's scary.
I used to pride myself on remembering every detail. Friends would be like how the fuck do you remember that. I cant recall any of those situations now and Im sure much more.
I’ve always had a killer memory too. It started faltering during 2020. I couldn’t remember words suddenly in the middle of a conversation, and often a completely wrong word would come flying out instead. I couldn’t remember names. I could see his face in my mind, that he served in Vietnam, was a POW, went on to be a US senator for the state of AZ for years, but for the life of me, I couldn’t remember the name John McCain. I refused to use Google as a crutch; I had to get my brain back. Then I went to a doctor about it and they took a PCR test (you know how every symptom is a symptom of Covid), and once that happened I was told to quarantine. So I went home thinking I was sick. Canceled all the crap we were doing that weekend. And I went to bed and slept. And slept and slept. And slept. And when I got up, I felt so much better. Words were coming to me. I could recall names. Turns out in the 2020 stress I wasn’t sleeping. I’d go to bed late and my eyes would pop open at 6 am. I was wired and tense. I made sleep a priority and I’d say I got 90% back of what I lost and I’m OK with that. I already was finding it hard to memorize things (I’m in my mid-40s) so I knew I didn’t have what I once had, But I couldn’t lose that much all at one time. Invest in sleep, is all I can say. Easier said than done. My dog wakes up during the night for a pee. I think he’s more bored than anything, but then I’m up for hours.
Mental illness and drug addiction did that for me.
I literally can't remember any events beyond 3 years ago.
I lately started to have a lot of moments where I remember an adventure I did and havnt though about in years. And I started to notice I have done a lot of stuff when I started to think about it. So I started writing down some of the stories to help me remember.
I feel seen.
My defense against it has been to write things down and store it in a safe place. I think of it as a conversation with myself through time, and the less I write for myself, the more I feel like I'm losing track of myself. Then again, there are some periods in my life which I'd rather forget, so it's difficult to escape getting upset anyway.
My mental health
Oh look, I already posted
“Hello darkness my old friend…”
Man i used to think mental health issues were a weak people kinda think untill it hit me. I started feeling angry and resentfull and stayed that way for days. Hurt the feelings of many loved ones before one of them was persistent enough to get me on anger medication.
Changed my life it did.
Now i never fuck with people with mental problems i understand there are lots of unmedicated people out there who are helpless.
But on thing to note is that a lot of people THINK they are mentally ill when they are not. Or worse, pretend to be. The latter is something i cannot understand and the first i think it's due to bad faith psychiatrists who must find a problem with you to justify their wages. Those are some of the worst human beings on earth.
I have bpd unfortunately so I’m up and down a lot, medicated and in therapy though
They gave me borderline once altho i dont fit the criteria. Best explanation someone game me was "anger issues" which i dont know how to cathegorize.
But anyways good luck on your treatment !
I got misdiagnosed with bpd for what? 9 years? Turns out o, nope, sorry. You have ADHD. I'm still a bit salty about that one.
I think people who pretend to have a mental illness are indeed mentally ill, just not in the way they pretend to be.
Low key I would consider myself an absolute aircraft carrier when it comes to being stoic and constant but lockdowns during the pandemic had me all fucked up. I think its because I have worked out for so long then all of a sudden I couldn’t go to the gym
I was resilient as fuck pre-lockdowns. Then i ended up in the most locked down city; no swimming, or gym, or friends was genuinely gruelling. After the first 127 days, it all burns out.
Yup. It was weakish and it so turns out if you shake it a bit, it falls apart.
I always see stuff like this and wish I couls give advice that may be helpful.
But shit sucks, and bullshit doesn't help.
So. I hope the future is better for yah, or atleast less shit!
- Another mental fucked human :)
Sanity is for the weak!
You doing Ok?
It’s 3:40am here and I can’t sleep so I think maybe I’m not?
I have the same problem sometimes. Some stuff helps, the phone usually doesn’t. Hope you get some regular zzzz’s.
I can relate. At least it’s peaceful and no one is bothering me with nonsense.
People's ego. Edit:The replies are hilarious. Thanks for the laugh
How dare you!
Reddit admins
This.
Especially the people who go on about "snowflakes" or say their alpha's, assholes are so fragile they can't see a rainbow without throwing a fit
This 1000% and ive found some people who deem themselves "alphas" or exude overconfidence get upset and offended pretty easy
Calling yourself an “alpha” has the same energy as giving yourself a nickname that no-one uses.
Yup. Someone told me "I'm strong here (while pointing at his skull). You need to get strong too. You're too sensitive"
Gets angry cuz I said his theory was wrong about something that happen to me in his absence.
Thick neck and a thin skin
AKA crybullies
You don't know me man! You don't know me! Leave me alone!
You just made an enemy for life!
My father. I’m 35 years old and two years ago my dad retired at the age of 67. A few months after that the doctors told him he has cancer.
He is/was a Marine and has always been a good dad. I’ve seen a fragile side of him these past two years while he comes to grips with his odds of survival. Life’s a bitch.
I’m so sorry you’re going through that. It’s hard to see our parents get older and even worse when they develop illnesses. Stay strong and try not to remind them of their fragility. When my mom gets sick I try to remind her of all the good memories she has or all the good things that happened recently or I distract her completely. Life definitely sucks but I think we can make something meaningful out of it. I really hope your father gets well and healthy and that you guys get to create new memories together 💕
My dad is in the same age as your dad and while he doesn't have cancer, a whole lot of ailments from a life of 60 hours work weeks as a tradesman are catching up on him.
It hurts to see him like that. He was always a giant for me. He used to be stronger, more enduring, wiser and an expert and master at everything he had a go at. And now he seems to "shrink" more and more as the years go by.
I sympathize. My dad is the same age and was a glazer for almost 50 years. Now both hips are blown out, he’s overweight, got the beetus, can’t walk better than a shuffle, and is slowly drooping further and further at the shoulders. My whole life he was a towering, solid block of a man and I feel like every time I hug him now there’s less and less to hold. It’s heartbreaking.
Your father has my best wishes. I'm sorry that you and your family have to go through that.
He is/was a Marine I know you must've heard this a lot of times and it's cliche but Once a Marine, Always a Marine
Literally any given relationship. Don’t ever take it for granted.
Once someone falls out of love with you that’s it, there’s no going back. Do everything you can to prevent that even if it means asking for feedback, and accept that given enough time they might still fall out of love anyway, despite your efforts.
Dude that in love feeling comes and goes.
Marriage is the process of falling in and out of love many times.
I wish everyone had the maturity to understand that, but it takes two to tango
It took me a few relationships to realize it. Relationships really do take work. It’s hard but rewarding too.
I dont agree. It's more a barage of bad things that suddenly become to much. Rather then one action that breaks it. Even cheating is often more of a symptom of more problems then the origin.
The global supply chain
It's being deliberately fucked with and is still getting 90% of stuff to where it needs to go.
Opposite actually. Even amongst a novel pandemic when ppl were consuming their asses off, we didn’t run out of most but toilet paper. Except for the UK ofc. But the UK are bonkers and them having shortages of everything has nothing to do with supply chain fragility.
The global supply chain is in shambles. Anybody working in supply chain knows this. If something used to have a 1 week lead time you can be looking at months down the line right now.
as far as i know, most toilet paper is produced locally because its a lot of bulk with low value. (take that with a grain of salt though its from a youtube video)
Yeah. Which strengthens my point. The one thing we did run out of was locally produced goods.
The postal service is pretty strained right now - people are quitting left and right. They're working 6-13 days in a row, 10-13 hour shifts. Well, guess that means it's stronger than we think BUT the union/organisation is weak because it can't protect it's employees from capitalistic monsters like Amazon. Normally we get 24 pallets of Amazon packages. Yesterday we got about 47. We got double the workload, and was still expected to deliver it all. It was not possible. Postal Service needs to charge super users of the postal service more because they're burdening the postal service.
I don’t get it. Does USPS charge a flat rate for ALL Amazon packages or does Amazon pay per package? I would imagine since the USPS is getting more packages they’re getting more money. That leaves more money for the USPS to higher more employees and/or pay accordingly.
I don't think they've made the contract public. I think the lower level folks are just guessing on the cost plan. Either way I know they're getting a hell of a deal because they keep using us.
Except for aluminium and chips and everything made by those
We had shelves cleared of bread, flour, and a lot of key food items. I’m not certain this was just toilet paper.
My tolerance for BS. I'm about done watching the news.
Same here
A person's spirit. In today's world, it is so easy to lash out and be mean. One spiteful remark and it can diminish that person's self worth and lead them to more discouragement .
Be kind. Be grateful. Behave.
Compliments ( within reason) can turn a bad day in to a better one.
Cheers from the trenches
We can do this
Cheers from the trenches
I like this line
I try to live by the mantra "People may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
This is exactly why I hate it when people call this generation snowflakes as an insult. Yeah, this generation does consist of a lot of snowflakes. So instead of name calling why not try to fix that?
The whole snowflake thing used to be about how each individual is different and special. It started out as a well meaning thing to acknowledge some important stuff. Unfortunately, it went too far and got obnoxious. Then came the backlash, which fed into what we see these days.
But y'know what? As ham handed as the people who started the snowflake idea could be, they also had a point. I'll take the good aspects like genuine self care (another phrase that can sometimes be problematic) and run with it. Fuck the haters; snowflakes make snowpack. A winter without snowpack makes for a bad summer.
My coping skills/ mental health
18 months ago I was standing in my kitchen on the verge of suicide.
Realized I couldn't do it on my own and asked for help. Best choice I've ever made.
Edit: friend helped me get sober.
Congratulations! Well done!
Oke I read that wrong and it confused me. But I hope you are getting better I've been at that point and now I can't imagine commiting suicide. There is a way out my friend.
Honestly, congrats.
On the flip side, children’s toys are indestructible, I babysat a 4 year old and he threw a hot wheels car at the wall, denting the wall. The car was as good as new
Hot wheels can survive hell. I have collected a lot of as a kid and now I'm almost 18, they still look like new. Nothing has happened to them. Not even a glass shattered
There's a guy on tiktok that sends them along one of the ramps, it might have one of those foam wheel super charger things on it, he embeds them in his walls/ceiling
My kids have hotwheels that belonged to my husband and ones that belonged to his parents. You wouldn’t know except for the style of cars has changed
Interesting. Infants are much tougher than I thought.
They’re made with a lot more rubber than I had thought before I had one myself. Seems they still have some rubber even in the upper single digits, as my kid decided to play recklessly a couple months ago and fell off our play set’s slide near the top of the slide in the back yard and still didn’t break anything. I thought for sure we were headed to the hospital that time.
Yeah your good till they hit about 10 then they harden.
"Would I test the durability of a baby by hitting it with another baby? No, that's not something I would usually do..."
Especially when you help them fly
"I SAID TUCK AND ROLL WHEN YOU LAND! YOU NEVER LISTEN!"
Haven’t had this experience, mine is they are very resilient…. Though that’s them bending backwards while I hold them, reaching way further than should be possible, unfortunate head injury which was accidental and I don’t think they knew it happened (not me, it was completely accidental so don’t, parents even flipped to be sure!, they weren’t there!), eat a whole chocolate cake and want to eat more then shortly after sleep….. babies are so much more resilient than I ever imagined! I wasn’t even physically involved in any of this but a witness- parents were there, they were , honestly overly cautious in my book, and nothing would give you any indication kid went through antic this! (Pls know none of what I mentioned was abuse/neglect/anything like that!) I would have called CPS asap myself as soon as I saw anything like that…. Just watching how a baby can lean back almost 180o wow, but makes sense based on bones, their bones and joints are growing and moving so the movement is just not normal at all for us adults- it freaked me out tbh! The head bump… every kid has it happen, my brother I think back and he had a constant bump on his forehead for a few years- he tripped and hit his head same spot every 6mos or so- I saw it, to me as a kid - hilarious, I picked on him, laughed about it, still give him a hard time and he’s in his 30s,lol.
Oops.
Yeah this. The first time I held my son I was like holy shit, you are so delicate and I need to cover you in bubble wrap. I now avoid holding other people’s babies because I’m worried I’ll somehow hurt them no matter how careful I am.
My joints
Larger glass jars. I've had small ones fall and hit my fridge rug and not break even from 6 ft up. Knocked a larger size jar of the bottom shelf (maybe 2.5ft) and shattered to pieces on the fridge rug.
"alpha males"
Whenever someone calls themselves alpha male I instantly think they beat their wife/daughters.
Does beating them at Mario Kart count?
My reaction is just to start smiling they call themselves a winner of the game only they are playing.
Metal. Holy crap is a lot of metal super brittle. And I don't mean like malleable. I mean like strait up SNAPPING it. I found that at the right temperature, and with the right amount of pressure, you can snap rebar like a KitKat. It's crazy!
Fingers. Unrelated topic: I learnt that assholes are much stronger than I thought
figuratively or literally?
Nothing like seeing a proctologist with broken fingers.
They hold a lot of shit together.
Life. My dad was strong and never ill. Two weeks ago he died in our arms from an aneurysm. He said he had a big sudden headache, 30 mins later he was gone.
You never know what can happen, friends. Give a big hug to the people you love.
Plants!!! You move them 2 inches to the right and they are pissed. A drop of water lands in the wrong place - leaf falls off. Mercury retrograde - goes completely limp. Full moon - the whole plant turns yellow.
My begonias are unkillable.
Cars. One pothole, or sometimes even just a speedbump can ruin a car...
I used to be a tire tech. One time I drove in this (brand new at the time) Kia, with an aftermarket push bumper on the front. I drove over the speedbump in the parking lot, and then heard a scraping sound after. Got the car in, raised it up, and saw that the push bumper had fallen off one side and was scraping on the ground.
Here's the kicker, it was bolted to the frame under the car, and it wasnt the bolt that broke no. It was the frame itself that broke, meaning the car was done for, repairs were worth more than the car was. Also, since it was an aftermarket part on a brand new car, insurance wouldnt cover the repairs. Thats what happens when you drill a hole in your frame to put a heavy metal push bumper on it.
There's a reason KIA means killed in action.
The twist of the handle that moves the water from warm to hot.
my ego.
I've found it helps to think of each shard[very personal & singularly unique inner thought] as part of the whole of a consciousness. Not every thought has to clump together in the voidspace of your soul, so learning more than 1 side of your own ego is learning to add rhythm&flow to your thoughts along with multi-perspective viewing of why you do what you do to any varied stimulus.
Over time you can begin to learn to discern how some clumps of thought/ego are based on a flawed assumption of your surrounding reality, these are the ones you should focus on as the manifested "face&mood" of each part of some influence upon your psyche from your past that has ingrained itself upon the current "self". That makes it easier to shed the toxic shards of ego from detrimental influences. A fragile ego also means you are still leaving room for your own future growth, with acknowledgment of flaws.
Everyone's common sense.
Ain't nothing common about sense
Metal is surprisingly fragile when stressed the wrong way
I was deliberately trying to snap a piece of tungsten carbide at my shop earlier, couldn't do it. Put it in the vice to use more leverage to snap it in two across it's length, pop cracked it lengthwise and now I need more carbide.
Democracy
That's why you guys need to give all the power to me, make me a benevolent ruler
The world as I knew it. For my whole life the world was basically predictable. Even the scary things were expected. Then one day the pandemic happened and everything I knew and understand changed. It felt like everything was collapsing around me. Nothing was safe and predictable anym
To be fair, pandemics always happened, but our generation never lived through one of this scale before, so it feels really overwhelming
Yes, very true. I always knew pandemics were a possibility on an abstract level, but it was never something I really thought was going to happen to me. I'd grown up with Ebola and Zika turning out not to be a real threat, at least not in the Northern US where I lived. So I thought COVID was just some far away thing that would blow over in a few months too
I was in my last semester at law school, and right before we left for spring break our teacher told us there was a chance we would have to extend the break because of the virus. I just remember thinking “that would be nice but no way is it going to happen.” And that was the last time I was ever in a class room.
Life
Society
fossils.
we found what i assume was a mammoth skeleton at a quarry. big boss told us to ignore it becuase if someone found out the work would be stopped by government i guess? I wanted to take a piece to preserve as much as i could but it crumbled like ultra burnt campfire log ash. almost weightless.
You big boss is a shit person destroying a potential discovery like that.
My self esteem
Youre an awesome person
My head space. My husband died 5 years ago and I am still in pieces
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's ok to be broken by something. A good grief counselor can help more than you think. A family member has been struggling for years with a death and has refused to seek help and has been in a very bad place for decades.
Thank you. I did get great counseling, mainly around the parenting strategies for a young child. Just in my third quarantine after covid positive twice so that’s made it much worse
My emotional well-being
Tbh everything, everything needs to be treated with respect, discipline and decorum. We are so lucky to be alive and we must meet our opportunity with grace.
The hinge on my new air fryer thing. It popped back into place but you would think a bit more effort would have gone into keeping the front on.
American Democracy
The veneer of civilization.
Javascript dependencies.
American rationality
Sea urchins. Decades ago, I read that sea urchins can only march in 1 direction. So a while after then, I saw a sheltered tidal pool with sea urchins. I lift 1 out of the water and it crawled away on the rock surface. I gently reoriented it & it crawled in the “new” straight away. I felt guilty & set it back into the tidal pool.
That urchin walked over to a bigger urchin and they both sped away in the same direction, my test urchin in the lead. I must’ve made it look like it got abducted by aliens. An unexpectedly large wave whipped around the surface of the rock & muddied the sand for all 8 or so urchins in the tidal pool. My test urchin crawled underneath the urchin that it had recruited- like a kid running into a parent’s arms in a thunderstorm.
I then fretted that the urchin colony would kill or ostracize the test urchin for bringing so much bad luck… a crazy story & a crazy-strong wave all in the same 3 minutes, but after seeing how the 2nd urchin was following the test urchin, I didn’t have the heart to scare any other ones.
For some weird reason, I think the phrase “test urchin” is going to stick in my mind for awhile. Lol.
Sanity I guess. I mean... COVID... Some ppl are crazy right now lol
Democracy
Friendship. It’s true what they say about hitting rock bottom and finding out who your real friends are. Hint: It’s a lot less than you think.
The diy workbench I built. Gotta reinforce the legs
Drywall. Remodeled my bathroom by myself and had to cut drywall sheets. All you need to do is make a shallow cut with a knife, then crack the board like youre folding a book and it breaks right in half. Im not even that strong of a person. We make houses with this stuff?
It's not there for support.
Financial circumstance. Most people are just a few paychecks away from homelessness…
Democracy
My sense of professional self worth, despite my achievements and evidence
Apple headphones
I raise you iPhone charge cords.
Life. It terrifying.
The human body.
A heart
My psyche.
Me
A very large segment of the American population . OK maybe not large for its size but its still large .
A lot of construction. As a kid I always trusted that things like walls, railings, and other infrastructure was built to actually be durable and withstand a bit of "roughhousing". When I got to be a teen I realized I couldn't always count on that and the world as a whole became a lot less solid feeling.
Makes me have an appreciation for good construction and how shoddily a lot of things tend to be built today.