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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that’s not important right now.


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  • Landfills actually seem to be endorsed by civil engineers to some degree (while also acknowledging that genuine Reuse, Recycle, or Combustion of products would be better)

    GRADY (Practical Engineering) has videos on this. Here is one

    I can’t really remember what i learned from this video though - it might be entirely about the effort it takes to protect the surrounding soil from leeching (chemicals and plastic want to go into the soil and mess it up!). So the sole engineering benefit of landfill might be that it literally fills in places where soil was “mined” to be used as gardening and construction materials.


  • You’re right, its all stuff i would express through voice and action when explaining it in person.

    Basically i just mean active dunning-kruger effect; there are people i talk to who will interrupt my discussions (regardless of topic) to interject some “fun fact” or demonstrate that they know at-least-as-much-as-me about the topic; so if i was talking about a historical event in a foreign country, e/g poland, they’ll interject or say at the end of my piece “and poland is next to france, right?”

    But this makes it sound like it’s just a geographically curious person seeking tutelage. I also experience people doing this to boastfully show off that they know some science concept, “mansplain” it to everyone around, but usually explain it really badly and it really irks me because i’d seem like a fusspot for correcting them and explaining it properly, they’ll probably go. *“Uh, that doesn’t sound any different to how I explained it! haha.” *

    The liectenstein equivalent of this would be:

    • “Liectenstein - that’s next to Hungary, right?”
    • “No it’s actually between switzerland and austria”
    • “…and Austria used to be unified with Hungary, so I’m right.”

    at risk of sounding too bitchy, the people i have experienced this the most with are my sibling when we meet with our mom, and in my ex-friend-group from 2 years ago.