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how you can keep 13[.5] tonnes of an incredibly dense object in an apartment

Gold’s density is 19320 kg/m³

13500 kg / 19320 kg/m³ = 0.6988 m³

Rounding up to 1 m³ since gold bars don’t stack perfectly.

So basically a closet can store it all. And people like this tend not to give a shit about or even be aware of silly things like “safety” or “structural load” so I wouldn’t be surprised if the building’s fucked from this.

Edit: Actually I got curious so let’s calculate some more.

According to this website, concrete can have a compressive strength of anywhere from 5 MPa to 60 MPa. I don’t know what they make apartments out of but let’s go middle of the road and say 30 MPa, which is the first category where you need a design mix (mix, let cure, and test, presumably) and not a hard and fast ratio.

Assuming the gold is stacked at 1m by 1m by 1m (so it has a 1 m² base).

An online converter tells me that 13500 kg is 132389.802 N, or 0.1324 MN. Pa is N per m² so it would be 0.1324 MPa, a small fraction of the concrete’s rated load by my non-physicist non-engineer guess.

Obviously most of the load of the concrete is taken up by the building itself, so I don’t know how much load in the apartment it can tolerate, and this also assumes the gold pile is resting directly on a vertical beam and not on a horizontal beam without anything underneath. But from the looks of it (again, not an engineer), it wouldn’t be nearly enough to immediately collapse the building, just eat away at the safety margins and reduce the building’s lifespan.

Good thing we’re making the planet warmer so the absolute horrors nature cooks up where it’s warm can expand their range.

Feeding this piece of shit is a further theft of public resources.

Also, with that much diverted money I guarantee you he contributed to someone’s death either through his corruption directly or through depriving them of public resources they deserved. And murder should always get the death penalty, no exceptions.

I mean this is probably a lot faster than closing and opening books, and that matters if you have to juggle many books as a professional scribe or researcher. It’s the same reason proper professional software looks like a mess of buttons and panels on the main window instead of “neatly organising” them behind submenus and popups. And why as a power user I despise that paradigm of UI design being labeled as “outdated” or “unintuitive.” It’s hard to learn when first using the software yes, but once you learn it you can be extremely productive.

I don’t use make I use msbuild /s

I do that sometimes, but because it’s one of those shitty intersections that has separate call buttons for parallel crossings. Where, for example, if the east-west car traffic is stopped and the north crosswalk call button was pressed first and the south button was pressed too late into the process, it will give the pedestrian signal for only the north crosswalk, not the south one, even though the cross traffic is stopped for both. It will make you wait an entire cycle before it lets you cross. This happens all the time because if you want to cross diagonally, what do you instinctively do? You press both call buttons at your starting corner because you’re not sure which direction will clear first. But that screws you over on your second crossing because the other parallel side, the one you’re no longer on, now gets priority. I watch for protected right/left signals and if there aren’t any, I cross anyway because the traffic is fucking stopped and the lights are being stupid.

Not recommending other people do this because obviously it’s risky. The protected signals can come on after you’ve started crossing, and in general drivers might be looking at the pedestrian signal instead of actually scanning for people. But if it’s an intersection I’m familiar with, it’s not super busy, and I’m in a rush, I’ll foolishly take the risk.

I’m thinking of making an entire rant on /c/fuckcars about the shitty crosswalks of the Vancouver BC area and how they go out of their way to inconvenience pedestrians if people are interested.

Truly an insult to Soviet Union Socialism to compare this to it.

Any of the classic Disney animated movies. First movie is a ripoff of classic fairy tales so most of the heavy lifting writing wise was done for them, the instant Disney has to write the whole thing is when it goes to shit. If it’s “Disney presents [insert fairy tale here] 2” you know it’ll suck.

Why does Ollama only have a cloud version?

Better for security too. A game is a full program and can do basically anything on your computer. I don’t even trust games from legit sources to run on my main OS. So if you pirate a game at the very least run it in a VM.

Would be more useful than what it actually contains.

China is one of the oldest civilisations and has so much history and culture to offer. You can be born and raised in China and still not have seen it all.

Which is particularly ironic when they go HURR DURR .ml HURR DURR TANKIE AUTHORITARIAN HURR DURR OPPOSING OPINIONS NOT ALLOWED.

Other than the tankie part what do you do differently?

Drug delivery pigeons are still cooler /s

If a military force acting under government orders board a vessel it is never piracy. It is an act of war.

(Directed at the BBC who absolutely does not seem to realise)

God forbid you expect supposed “journalists” working for a massive news outlet to use precise terms. If they can’t communicate a concept as simple as discovery vs classification of an animal accurately you expect them to communicate actual news accurately?

That’s not discovery. That’s classification. Huge difference, it was already well known to exist, classification just describes what it is, puts it into a category, and create subcategories within the group.

People knew about gravity long before physicists did the mathematics requred to model it.

Or as a biology example, was the dog, cat, horse, sheep, or cow only discovered when they were classified by biologists in like, what? The 1700s?

Can’t believe it took until we invented writing to discover the sun exists.

People can run it to verify? That’s how open source models work.