I am under contract for a 3-years old house in Colorado. The inspector has pointed to the efflorescence and external degradation around the house. This is usually on the sides where the top of the foundation is in touch with soil and stone.

The pictures and the video tell pretty much all the story:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Th77K4qrkMVPbAfT7

One point I found interesting is: When you put away the stones and dig an inch, the underneath surface is smooth, which means there were no degradation, below the surface.

I was advised to clean and seal these areas. The inspector(whom I found myself, not via the agents) overall was very helpful and explaining every bit of problems. For this specific matter, he said he is concerned but also told me that this is definitely not a deal breaker, and this is a good house to buy. However I am concerned about a more crucial problem. The inspector also suspected improper concrete specs.

Any advise? Many thanks

Edit: the picture reddit shows is simply a random picture from the google photos album. There are more pictures in the album, which shows crumbling as well. That is more concerning for me.

Did the understand the effects of freeze/thaw or corrosion on concrete? (or any other damaging substances)

As a side question, how did they prep the concrete? Was it precast and moved to the site or was it mixed on location?

Is it not cost effective? Can't plastic be shredded into itty bitty pieces and mixed into materials like asphalt or concrete. Seems like a two bird one stone solution. Use plastic to expand your material supply and simultaneously reduce the space taken up by empty plastic containers. Would plastics degrade the construction materials over time?

For context on me I usually don't care about recycling, it was just a stray idea watching a youtube vid about recycling.

When Formula 1 was started back in 1950 there were essentially two rules: your engine needed to be naturally aspirated and under 2,5 litres in size. The safety equipment boiled down to the gentle suggestion of a leather helmet and whatever wild courage you could scrape together on the day. No seat belts, though.

In 2020 the mountains of safety regulations and improvement ensured the survival of French driver Romain Grosjean in a crash that many thought would cost the driver his life. Even though his car was ripped in two, his head got pushed through a barrier and the whole thing went up in flames, he survived with basically only burns on his hands. He started driving again less than a year later.

How did we get from A to B? A lot of dead drivers, one Flying Scot, a very persistent Professor of Neurology and a 7-kilo piece of titanium, but let’s untangle it.

But first off, a warning: I will be discussing quite graphic deaths and accidents, though not in detail. You should proceed with caution, depending on your comfort level. Any linked crashes are not shown to be exploitative, but to show the frankly quite horrid happenings in the history of the sport and also to contrast it with the safety standards we see nowadays.

And a major, major thank you to /u/trailrunninggirl for proofreading this post and giving some super helpful suggestions!!

What exactly is Formula 1?

Formula 1 is the highest level of single-seater car racing worldwide. Sanctioned by the Fédération International de l’Automobile (FIA), currently owned and run by Liberty Media, the sport hosts however many teams want to try their hand at building the best racing car in the world. It’s an engineering competition as much as a driving competition, with the teams constantly trying to figure out new wacky ways to make the cars drive better or quicker. A season is organized into a number of “Grand Prix” events, three-day spectacles that usually feature free practises, qualifying and a race that lasts about 1 and a half hours. A team features two drivers, with all of them competing for both the driver's and the constructors' championships.

Names you might know are Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren and Williams on the team side and Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Ayrton Senna or Fernando Alonso (previous

I understand the curing process and how concrete actually gains strength over time but what about taking it to the extreme? Will it eventually become a solid rock or something in a million years?

Where is David Miscavige’s Wife?

Scientology is one of the most controversial ‘religions’ in the world. This is due in part because of their high-profile celebrity connections, their strange genesis (from the wicked imaginings of a Science Fiction writer — L. Ron Hubbard), their history of ‘shunning’ those that they deem suppressive to the belief system and the reputation of being an expensive religion for their disciples.

Scientology gained a lot of notoriety within their short fifty-year history with films based on their lure (Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master), documentaries about the inner workings of their organisation (Going Clear by Lawrence Wright) and some of the most famous people in the world propping up their public image or former members that are ‘exposing’ the truth behind the religion (actress Leah Remini’s more recent defection).

From their less than humble origins to their status as an official religion in the USA (according to the IRS), and outlawing the religion in countries such as Germany and France — Scientology has been shrouded in mystery, dodgy press and the church has arguably been damaging to many of their celebrities’ reputations (Tom Cruise’s image has certainly taken a hit).

But one mystery that has somewhat been swept under the rug is the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige, wife of the COB (Chairman of the Board) David Miscavige.

David Miscavige is the current leader of the church and has the designation of “Chairman of the Board” as well as “Captain of the Sea Org.” The Sea-Org was a literal Navy originally commanded by Hubbard himself which sailed the high-seas in the name of Scientology.

David Miscavige is a close personal friend to Tom Cruise. David was an original deputy to the late founder L. Ron Hubbard and had been working in the upper hierarchy of the Church since he was a teenager. David’s rise to the top of the church has been meteoric. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania (where he maintains a thick Philly accent) to COB for Scientology. Although David’s reign as head of the church has seen the religion unquestionably rise and rise, and despite the numerous controversies Miscavige has been linked to (beatings, imprisonment, bullying, vulgar behaviour towards underlings) — the real hot question that remains unanswered as far Mr. Miscavige is concerned is — where is Shelly Miscavige — the leader’s wife.

Shelly Miscavige

**Shelly was last seen publicly in August 2007 (some reports state 20

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

This covid period really got me thinking.

While I’m staying at home, looking at the price of hdbs going way up, trying to wfh through all the renovation noises and 2nd hand cigarette smoke from my neighbour upstairs.

Looking at this never ending covid with its successor strains. The prospect of mask wearing and eternal booster jabs.

The prospect of climate change with its downstream effects of rising sea levels, increased daily average temperatures, food and water disruptions.

The continual degradation of the natural environment for the purpose of building more concrete urban areas.

The rising cost of living and stagnating pay combined with increasing competition with global workers.

High stress in the education system learning things that are almost never applied in the working world. No time for childhood, after cramming in tuition, supplementary lessons, remedial, CCA, enrichment classes.

National service and 10 years of reservist (which will most certainly be increased in the coming years).

What’s the point of birthing and raising a kid in Singapore to go through all this shit?

If the 2022 regulations work as intended and following is easier, can the following idea work to make DRS a strategic tool for drivers and teams ?

Each driver is given 200 seconds of DRS availability. They can use it whichever part of the circuit (restrictions can be made to some specific areas of track for safety) and irrespective of the gap to the car in front.

Someone will argue that if all have similar DRS availability then no one gets a benefit, but this is misleading. Drivers/Teams can use this strategically for managing their race / overtakes. The time when Drivers / Teams utilise DRS will keep strategy teams as well as drivers on toes at all time as they will have to ensure they make it last for the entire race and not use it only as a reactionary tool.

Some scenarios where this could add a strategic aspect :

• Cars can use it to catch up their contenders - say after a car is overcut, one car is using a two stop strategy as compared to a single stop strategy (i know it is not a perfect example, but you can get an idea what I mean)

• Make overtake difficult - say if Bottas wanted to hold Max at bay

• Drivers can preserve it and use it for fastest lap of the race towards the end

• Use in case of tracks where track position is important - Eg Monaco, France, Spain etc.

• Teams can monitor which cars have how much deployment left and tell drivers to push or back off accordingly

• Drivers will need to be alert and use DRS to defend a position if someone is chasing them. If a Merc is following a McL, it may decide not to deploy DRS and try overtake naturally with a view to save the DRS time. McL on the other hand can think of using DRS to defend if it makes sense to retain position in the overall race condition.

• Limited availability helps to avoid DRS train as after the 200 seconds are up, one cant use DRS. A driver in sandwiched in can opt not to deploy DRS, try defending normally or lose positions with a view to attack at a later point of time.

Any concrete reasons why this will not work (technically or race reasons) ? The current DRS system is too overpowered and the leading car is a sitting duck for overtakes, whereas this element will give some dynamic options for teams, making it even more interesting for viewers. For the ones who want to say it is not real racing - F1 already does use artificial props such as tyre degradation to spice up the races. Any thoughts ?

Do your worst!

Summary

The Dash DAO treasury, while revolutionary, is also highly inefficient and at times ineffective. This is the result of an immature treasury proposal process that needs improvement. There are 3 additional steps that must be added to the treasury proposal process to improve its functionality. The first step is structured sense making around problems that need addressing. The second step is expert think-tanks conducting research and crafting recommendations. The third step is the incentivization of talent acquisition. With these relatively straight forward improvements the network’s treasury proposal system will become much more coherent, efficient, and powerful.

Intro

First off, Dash has a lot of things that makes it a compelling project. The elegance of the hybrid network solution to solve problems other blockchains are still struggling with keeps me interested. The other thing that keeps me here is the DAO treasury system. It is revolutionary and has the potential to change how so many organizations around the world operate.

There are current strengths of the DAO treasury system and also many weaknesses. If we hope to elevate the network, we need to address these weaknesses.

DAO Treasury Strengths

The strength of the DAO is that it makes the Dash project very difficult to kill off. This means despite how many bridges get burned, community leaders get black-bagged, and funds gets wasted the DAO treasury will continue to chug along. The resilience of the DAO system is far and away its strongest feature. Additional compelling elements of the DAO treasury is that participation is pseudoanonymous and accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world provided they can afford the proposal fee or a MasterNode.

The affordability of these two gatekeeping attributes (proposal fees and Masternodes) are often brought discussed. We ran a successful campaign earlier this year to make the proposal fee relatively more reasonable by lowering it to 1 Dash. There is endless debate about making MasterNodes more affordable. I have my opinions on that, but I think the theoretical impact on the quality of the governance system is way overstated, so I will say no more on that here.

As the oldest operation DAO, the network has learned a lot through trial and error. In this way certain norms have formed that have helped guide the behavior of MasterNode Operators and Proposal Owners. One seemingly small but actually foundational example of this is viewing funded

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

We are close to your location, your shuttle will arrive soon.

It was just him, a large metallic briefcase, and his luxury spinner in the dead of night.

They had told him to wait at this exact location, with a timeframe precise to a second.

A timeframe that dictated the shuttle to appear in 43 seconds, to the dot.

He took one final glance at the image hidden inside the medallion he wore. “Soon” he calmly whispered, “Soon…”

He’d thrown billions at every organization who had promised him a solution, scoured every planet of every system of the cluster, even ventured out to a handful of Xeno civilizations to see if they had an elixir for his predicament.

It never worked, every game-changing startup, every overpromising alien salesman, always to end in tragic failure, yet his desperation only increased with every successive failure, his drive piercing every dark corner of the cluster that his fortune could permit.

And it all led him to this, to the boogeymen.

He was not one to argue, for all the enigmatic messaging and cryptic information that the alien organization seemed so fond of, what they showed seemed lightyears ahead of anything he’d seen throughout his search.

Sure he was dealing with the boogeymen of the cluster, yet he’d dealt with far more insidious characters inside parliaments and offices than what he’d conversed with the mysterious beings.

He’d already deposited a hefty sum, not of money but one of goods. Exotic plants, animals, genetic data, cultural artefacts, the list could go on and on. Collectively it had already cost him a moon’s worth, yet it made sense. Why would an advanced alien organization want fiat money when priceless artefacts and near-extinct species were up on the discussion table?

The cost was set to only increase as they furthered neared completion of their work, yet that was acceptable, for it would once again bring meaning and purpose back to his now dull life.

He gazed at his platinum lined watch, precisely 43 seconds had just passed.

We have arrived

The alien shuttle seemingly emerged from the air itself, its matte black exterior revealing itself as the shuttle silently decelerated to a halt, only to hover a dozen meters before where he stood.

It reminded him of the cloaking technology his R&D department was working on for the military, though this version was the real tangible thing, unlike the never-ending sinkhole his project had become.

As it sat suspended above the ground a set of stairs

It really does, I swear!

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The air was climate controlled, fully filtered, and nearly canned. Not one molecule or atom was spared multiple filtration systems before it moved to the more secure levels deep beneath the earth. The air had a dry chill to it, one that seemed to seep through clothing and into the skin, setting into the muscle and fat beneath. The climate control kept the internal thermostat at 68F, supposedly comfortable to the occupants of the high security facility.

The man hated it.

He hated secure facilities like this. Constructed under the Atlas Missile Silo program, funded by FEMA's eternally black budgets, and so far off the books that no whisper of their existence reached those who were not cleared to know about them.

He viewed the nearly three hundred million dollars spent on it in the 1950's as an indulgence of a bygone era, despite the fact the facility was completed a little over a decade ago. Blasted out with dynamite, carved out by jackhammers, built by men he considered almost an alien species, the type of men who took such jobs and never spoke of them, merely cashed their paycheck and moved onto the next paycheck without regards to favors, possible hush money, or how it could benefit them beyond that meager paycheck.

The walls this far down were brushed metal, stencils here and there with strange acronyms that he didn't bother trying to understand.

He wasn't here to decipher strange glyphs on steel walls.

He was here to see the Queen of the facility.

A woman who's work was so closely guarded that her name was not redacted, it was never written down anywhere. She was referred to only as "Dark Queen", a nickname given to her by someone from within the labyrinth of government secret project administration.

On either side of him were his body guards. CIA agents of known reliability, who knew who granted favors and approved budgets. He had waived the military escort that had been offered when he had landed and the helicopter had been withdrawn into the facility.

He understood the soldiers as much as he understood the men who had carved out and assembled the facility.

The agents, those he understood.

The door he stopped at was heavy, inches thick, a heavy blast door that belon

As an agnostic, I try to keep an open mind, but fuck man, that's got to be one of the most psychologically manipulative things about the damned religion, right up there along with hellfire.

Seriously. If religion is the only thing stopping you from committing atrocities then it says a helluva lot about you as a person.

The mind is so malleable, isn't it? Whether or not you agree with me, you simply cannot deny that beliefs are powerful; they can lead to deep delusion or confidence, as well as depression and paranoia or peace and comfort. The beliefs we hold can be very personal to us, and for some of us they're all the evidence we need.

I do NOT hate Christianity like the majority of /r/atheism because I will NEVER fault anyone for wanting to believe in a better world, or a better life after death. And I will absolutely never insult, demean nor degrade anyone who holds those beliefs.

It becomes a problem when psychologically manipulative bullshit being tossed around like what I mentioned begins to cause damage to those who spread it and to the people unfortunate enough to believe it. Hellfire, original sin... There is no concrete, factual, tangible evidence, so it may or may not be true, but in my opinion, any God or being that lets you suffer for an eternity isn't deserving of worship, let alone acknowledgement.

For a long time I've teetered between identifying as Christian and as agnostic, but today I've decided to solidify and align my thinking with that as an agnostic. Open-minded yet skeptical, and questioning but respectful.

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

I’ve been thinking about trauma lately. Turns out there’s a thing called “trauma theory” where artsy types overanalyse their books with an eye towards how trauma informs the story. One of them said that trauma “reorients the consciousness”.

I didn’t know what she meant. Or, I didn’t understand it yet. Stop it. It doesn’t matter what happened to me, but the more I thought about it the more I understood. There was a world before it, and a world after. When I looked down dark alleys, I didn’t see dark. I saw him and it and her. Different aspects watching me. Has my consciousness been reoriented?

Does that mean everyone has a different type of consciousness? Do different traumas breed different consciousnesses? How differently do we really all see the world?

Trauma reorients the consciousness. It buzzes around my head like a malignant fly. Trauma reorients the consciousness. The words degenerated into syllables, into sounds, into nothingness. Trauma orients the consciousness.

Does that mean it could be reoriented again? Trauma can save.

I started small.

It’s not a good idea to go out at night. Not where I live. I put my wallet in my hand, put on little more than a T-shirt and walked back alleys until I was mugged. The guy punched me across the back of the head, threw me into a brick wall, and took the money. He left the wallet. I sat on the icy concrete and reobserved the world. It was much the same as before. The experiment had yielded an important insight: There are degrees of trauma.

I wondered whether reorienting trauma relied on other people, or whether I could change things myself. I took two swigs of vodka, walked into my bathroom, and slammed my face against the sink until I knocked myself out. When I woke up with a nose blocked with blood and a few loose teeth the world looked much the same.

I needed to go bigger.

I wondered whether violence was the only path. Violence is what changed me, but other acts of violence didn’t have the same effect. What if the source of reorienting trauma is primarily psychological?

I sold my home. I lived out on the street for weeks. I degraded myself. I still had my phone, but I was firm on my rules. It wasn’t to be used unless the experiment needed modification. However, no amount of rough living amounted to a sufficient trauma. I could barely think and I had entered a state of heightened mania, but still the trauma would not come.

Sitting in an alley and watching a woman get robbed by one of my coho

This is your 15-minute Wednesday briefing in 3787 words.

##Armenian soldiers destroyed an Azeri position on January 11 | Casualties | OSCE statement | Aliyev about OSCE

OSCE urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to deescalate and engage in a meaningful dialogue over the Karabakh issue.

The statement comes amid Azerbaijan's border attack on Tuesday. Armenia lost three soldiers and two were wounded. Azeri media reported the death of at least one soldier.

Military expert Karen Hovhannisyan: the enemy sustained big losses. I'm just curious how they will present their human losses now. They can hide the armored vehicle and equipment losses, but I'm curious what they will do regarding deaths. Will they claim the soldiers died on a landmine? //

 

The clashes took place within Armenian territories where Azerbaijan had illegally encroached in May 2021. Immediately after the January 11 clashes, videos were circulated showing a burning position. Video 1 and Video 2. Armenian soldiers filmed the ammunition explosion.

The burning position is the one that's 2.4km within Armenian territory. It's 5km from Verin Shorzha village.

The Armenian position, from which the soldiers filmed the video, is 230 meters away. It is safe to suggest that one of the Azeri positions within Armenia has now been destroyed, concluded CivilNet's fact-checkers.

QP MP Khachatryan: the clashes took place after Armenian soldiers began fortifying their positions with engineering work. Azeris attempted to stop them. Armenia responded. It led to the clashes. //

Reporter: did Armenia contact CSTO after Azerbaijan's January 11 border provocation?

Foreign Ministry: we keep our international partners informed regularly about border incidents. On January 11, the Armenian forces neutralized the Azeri provocations. //

##Azerbaijan throws a tantrum at OSCE, calls it obsolete

Aliyev does not want OSCE Minsk Group to engage in Karabakh negotiations. He repeated his claim that "the conflict is resolved", and that they don't need Minsk Group anymore, and that it's time for the co-chairs to "retire".

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1072724.html https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1072725.html https://factor.am/462664.html https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/229103 https://armenpress.a

They’re on standbi

MLK is honored and revered and rightly so as a civil rights icon and a human rights icon. However there are many who often times have a shallow reading of his life. Some down play the revolutionary nature of his social philosophy and just focus on him saying "I have a dream"(which is still important). MLK was a revolutionary Christian, nurtured in the black Church tradition that grew up on the stories and the teachings of the Exodus, the Hebrew prophets and Jesus in their calls for justice Here's a summation of his philosophy in quotes:

"When we refuse to suffer for righteousness and choose to follow the path of comfort rather than conviction we hear Jesus say 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven'. When in our spiritual pride we boast of having reached the peak of moral excellence Jesus warns 'The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you'. When we, through compassionless detachment and arrogant individualism fail to respond to the needs of the underprivileged, the Master says 'In as much as ye have done to the least of these, ye have don it unto me"(Gift of Love, Chp II, Transformed Non Conformist)

"There are those who are sufficiently softminded to believe in the superiority of the white race and the inferiority of the Negro race in spite of the toughminded research of anthropologists who reveal the falsity of such a notion. There are softminded persons who argue that racial segregation should be perpetuated because Negroes lag behind in academic, health and moral standards. They are not toughminded enough to realize that lagging standards are the result of segregation and discrimination. They do not recognise that it is rationally unsound and sociologically untenable to use the tragic efforts of segregation as an argument for its continuation. Too many politicians in the South recognize this disease of sofmindedness which engulfs their constituency. With insidious zeal, they make inflammatory statements and disseminate distortions and half-truths which arouse abnormal fears, morbid antipathies within the minds and the uneducated and underprivileged whites, leaving them so confused that they are led to acts of meanness and violence which no normal person commits. There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of so

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

BamBOO!

When Formula 1 was started back in 1950 there were essentially two rules: your engine needed to be naturally aspirated and under 2,5 litres in size. The safety equipment boiled down to the gentle suggestion of a leather helmet and whatever wild courage you could scrape together on the day. No seat belts, though.

In 2020 the mountains of safety regulations and improvement ensured the survival of French driver Romain Grosjean in a crash that many thought would cost the driver his life. Even though his car was ripped in two, his head got pushed through a barrier and the whole thing went up in flames, he survived with his mos severe injury being severe burns on his hands. He started driving again less than a year later.

How did we get from A to B? A lot of dead drivers, one Flying Scot, a very persistent Professor of Neurosurgery and a 7-kilo piece of titanium, but let’s untangle it.

If this entire thing seems familiar to some of you, it was posted over on /r/HobbyDrama two weeks ago and is now reposted here in a shiny updated, corrected and aimed at F1 fans version with an okay from the mods and the encouragement from some folks from over there.

But for this audience it might need another disclaimer: this is by no means an all-encompassing write-up on safety in Formula One, it’s more aimed at summarizing the basic developments and highlighting the progress made. So if y’all have more facts and figures, please drop them in the comments! Also, some quotes might seem familiar if you’ve seen The Killer Years, I’ll be posting a full list of sources in a comment tomorrow.

‘Everything goes’

Formula 1 developed out of the European Championship of Grand Prix motorsport racing in the 1920s and 1930s and started pretty much directly after the war ended, with the first races in 1947 and the first full World Championship taking place in 1950. It was quite the hodgepodge operation with no real understanding of the dangers of motorsport, and it showed.

If you had a barrier, it consisted of straw bales haphazardly placed at the side of the road. Drivers and constructors could ent

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.