Licensed Architect (18 states) High Security, Energy Efficient, Off Grid Capable Homes. Certified Passive House Consultant, Fortified Home Professional, NCARB.
@OfficerbenTOPO
1. just because someone's banging to let them in claims to be the police, means they are the police.
2. Right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean shit if any person can be shot and killed by police for just having a firearm at their side.
3. 100% the cop was wearing handgun
@itsaftabb
@MattWallace888
Small Children have this incredible closeness to the Spiritual world. They hear voices of Angels and God in the best possible ways.
Somehow this child just knew the man's heart needed healing.
@githii
@NoPlugMedia
I do not know Mexico's building code for this but in the USA; the code lateral force strength rating of the railing is historically 200 lbs "point load" AND meet 50 per foot continuously. but typically these are over engineered by at least a 50% safety margin.(so 300lb point
@GunloverClub1
Lots to unpack here.
As many noted, might not survive a second hit let alone 4 or more.
Yes you can have such for your home.
They will be +$10,000 per window
and at .50BMG rated, they don't open, too heavy for hinges.
and are not insulated glass
which means in the winter they
@Mrgunsngear
Yea; Kinda pricey for a native in Haiti dont we think?
masked and Ear pro?
thumb over the top grip?
proper trigger finger discipline?
Thats trained.
IMHO Thats not a native, thats a hired merc.
Fed.
@howdymoopy
@rgpoulussen
People died. People who knew them, had to write letters to their parents, had to spend years away from their own family to fight the enemy, some lost their own family members in attacks on civilian targets by the enemy. The ending can be tremendously bitter, even for the victor.
@USConspiracies1
yes.
w/ paper ballots, hand count, no mail in, plus ink dye on voters right hand after voting to prevent repeats.
just like they already do in some parts of latin america
@Rainmaker1973
Please
Don't do it like this.
Death trap.
We do shelters as Licensed professionals with for over 11 years.\
Failure points of this example:
1. no air filtration. needs CBRN over pressure air filtration
If you bury is with a meter or 3 feet of soil
@GigaBasedDad
In Japan, our home property tax Depreciates to land value only over 35 years. One home we own is under $50 USD and the other under $150; per YEAR.
And the schools, healthcare and civic infrastructure are better than the US.
Americans are getting robbed so badly by the
@9mm_smg
We recommend the 3% max rule.
if your locality is greater than 3% of any people group, which is hostile toward your own people group;
leave that place and seek shelter/employment/life.... elsewhere.
Applies to any type of societal difference.
@archeohistories
Have not seen this here in Japan....yet!
currently rural Japan is nearly ALL forested. ( even of many ancient rice terraces)
But forest management here goes back many hundreds of years, with each shogunate granted only so much wood of each species
@peterproctor
@leahmcelrath
Cheap+nutritious food success stories thought history:
Beans & Rice, sustains millions of people daily in Asia & Latin America for hundreds of years
Miso & Rice -sustained samurai on the march and in combat during hundreds of years of civil war in Japan.
Mac & Cheese, sustained
@Jason_R_Burt
On December 9, 1943, Gavin was promoted to brigadier general and became the assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.[24] Being only 36 years old at the time, he was one of the youngest Army officers to become a general in World War II.
-wikipedia
@Alphafox78
Lemon Fresh Glade sprayed over cigarette smoke and Swanson Hungry Man TV dinners served on a folding tray at the sofa.
FWIW, I think we literally had this exact carpet, with an entire wall of 12x12 mirror tiles. Class of '84
@Empty_America
1. Japan makes fire trucks that fit narrow streets for over 60 years.
2. non combustible construction is well documented
3. most home fires are kitchen fires, solution already exists, range hood fire suppression.
@JohnJBlatchford
1896 Adler and Louis Sullivan, Chicago Architect, as Chicago emerged from the Great Fire of 1871.
This is the Guarantee Building (prudential)
Considered a masterwork and studied by probably every architecture student in America for last 80 years.
Frank Lloyd Wright Apprenticed
@Culture_Crit
Our children's story time, entire series gets read over an over, for a decade.... so far.
Related Tangent:
In the Narnia Series "The Last Battle", written late in CS Lewis's life, (after many adult level theological books also written by him, and much wisdom he gained over a
@engineers_feed
Eff prioritizing career.
Its western civilization, Hard to fall much below safe food, heated home w/flush toilets.
Instead prioritize every possible moment to do your damm best with your kids.
They will only be little a little while.
Days are long the years are SHORT.
Love the
@nka979
@MilHistNow
Treaty of Paris was 1783.
Pennsylvania abolished slavery 3 years prior in 1780.
then most Northern states followed & abolished by 1804.
then in 1865 all slaves were freed
MEANWHILE in Africa slavery continued until well into 20th century.
& the 1ST American slave owner was BLACK
@LarkinWilder
Nope
Thermal transfer though steel is huge.needs insulation. Properly insulated would reduce interior of each unit to 7'-4" wide and w/o high cube containers,even less vertical. . Not doing that is a recipe for dew point condensation leading to mold. Indoor air health hazards.
@WeaponsVault
(honestly did not know the SIG
#4
cam in .308! wow!)
But I've chosen both the POF P308 piton AR10
AND the modernized version of 2. the FAL, as the DSA SA-58- "OSW" and "Improved Carbine."
Battle proven, and updated for modern optics, suppressor. etc.
But
@Mrgunsngear
original FG 42!- $241,000.00 auction sold price!
Makes me SOOO Mad that NONE of my ancestors brought ANY back from WWII and kept them in the attic for us grandkids to find!
@Lead_Flinger
We always advise our clients NO ONE should even be able to knock on your door.
Stand off distance.
Fence and gate with "no trespassing" posted per local law.
very sorry for apartment dwellers that its not possible.
For homes; if not able to fence/gate
@OfficerbenTOPO
1. just because someone's banging to let them in claims to be the police, means they are the police.
2. Right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean shit if any person can be shot and killed by police for just having a firearm at their side.
3. 100% the cop was wearing handgun
@MarkWalters_
I do passivehaus, but i would NOT take the project to tear this down.
So many ways to make this livable and efficient and preserve the history.
Would even discuss that possibility pro bono to help them see another way. feel free to reach out.
@JacobMo59916314
Back when I was an infantryman & later infantry LT; it was drilled into us, NEVER to be more than arms reach of your weapon; unless you stack arms & post guards.
We dug fighting positions w/ e-tools w/ rifle cross slung across our back. total PITA to shovel a deep hole, w/ a
@Empty_America
Japan.
Take your shoes off indoors. Cleanest and longest lived people in the world.
American rural homes have had a "mud room" for 100 years to remove boots, many w/ a laundry as well, dirty overalls straight in, no wearing farming or construction clothes on the furniture
@PicturesFoIder
Oliveti's Restaurant, Des Plaines, Illinois (NW Chicago Suburb) now closed.
The lunch clientele...if you know, you know.
now just memories.
@GreenBeretTradr
@GessnerJosh
I've trained with US Navy SEALs while US Army Infantry LT.
And I've had them on my security consulting teams for years.
After being in awe of them in my younger years. The veneer has worn thin.
1. Extreme fitness and Extreme Esprit De Corps. top notch athletes HIGHLY
@bibaherman97
@William_E_Wolfe
do that, but also sunset property tax on a family's principal residence.
Japan depreciates property tax to land only over 35 years.
@iluminatibot
I was JUST approved for my Hawaii architect license. Hopefully going there myself in the next month to see what we can do to get people back into homes.
@FranMooMoo
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly;
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious
@jonathanrawles
Study Shirakawa Go.
I am greatly remiss in not providing your father a written narrative on this secluded Alpine Village in Japan, following a week there during Covid.
One thing Feudal Japan will do differently is cluster homes closer together then allot land as a contiguous
@JohnJohngildea
@Mrgunsngear
Simply remarkable, even after all the rebuttal to this post, he has not taken it down in shame.
Thats commitment there folks,
Commitment to being the boot on your neck that is.
@ItsChrisOnX
@gunsnrosesgirl3
I too was expecting all the screed they were sitting on to collapse and careen down the hill with them all and the boulder all getting mixed together in a bumpy ride to the faraway kingdom of FAFO.
@CcibChris
The king called up his jet fighters
He said, "You better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way"
As soon as the Shareef was chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare
Soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet
@WeaponsVault
Whoop Ass BRRRRRT caliber.
comments worth as much as the video
ohh volume UP! Rockin.
The F4 Phantom which made this M61 20mm gatling famous is STILL in use in some nations. Japan, just retired there's in 2022
@WeaponOutfitter
Oregon, Samson was a 108 lb coon hound- black lab mix we got at the human society as an 80lb pup.
He was a giant puppy with our family, dopey lazy slob all day long, except if anyone he did not like approached our fence line and 100% territorial guard dog all night.
At first the
@Molson_Hart
Same is true of my past 5 years in Japan, but even upon arrival; I was just blown away in 2018 to see how much better the infrastructure of this country was then; even remote rural where we compare to rural or urban America.
And the last 5 years have only widened the gap.
No one
@CyclingOrange
@yitgordon
We are in Japan, I have NEVER seen a diesel kei.
Would love that, but No.
You have to go the next size up from kei (658cc)
Then you can get a diesel w/4x4, cab over+crew cab. but thats a 2.0 - 3.0 liter not Kei.
"goonet" where I source my Japan vehicles
@OfficerbenTOPO
Note:
We now have case law presented in community notes; yet Officer Ben has still not taken this post down.
Worse;
How many thousands upon thousands of officers think exactly like him?
@bosalem1_
B. !
and just a little older too!
the goat the the GOAT!
This should be my client meetings car.
With a stick-shift, an underhood blower whine and Flowmasters.
@HeatherIsUnsane
Closed IMHO.
We live in coastal/high rain area.
Possibility of vehicle flotation w/ closed windows.
We keep both of these kinds of glass breakers in our cars, with the smaller ones carabiner-ed to the front head rest supports; where the kids can reach them if they survive and
@contractorkeith
100% agree.
Never work for an attorney.
Also; Never let a client attorney modify your standard contract language.
The client who haggles the most up front will be the most demanding the entire project. After +350 contracts over 22 years, We walk away from such people; ESPECIALLY
@WarPath2pt0
WTF, she could damm well transition to her phone!
W/O working on clearing the weapon or staying in the fight?
WTF was she doing? screams "Emergency!"
Calling 911 for instructions on clearing an FTF?
1. Probable Limp-wristed a Glock. (common cause of stove pipe)
2. Thus; stove
@joebldenpress
most architects and builders have no clue what makes a survivable bunker.
I've toured them, I've reviewed the designs.
Most are fatal for the occupants in a real emergency.
They'll either be out early or DIP.
@JohnWalako
@Jason_R_Burt
Epic Quote!
“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
@BangSwitch5000
Privateer Ships with +48 cannon.
Thats what "Shall Not Be Infringed" means folks.
$105k minigun is epic cool.
but I'd Pepsi challenge that against 24 broadside 8 or 12 POUNDERS for pucker thy ass factor any day.
You're not getting behind a concrete wall
@il0venostalgia
He'll always be John Winger:
"We're all very different people. We're not Watusi, we're not Spartans, we're Americans. With a capital "A", huh? And you know what that means? Do you? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the