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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: TeakHouseThailand
Date: April 15, 2025, 7:42 pm
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4 Bedroom Teak House 10 minutes from Kad Farang
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m2KJ_cOBUrU&pp=ygUcVGhhaWxhbmQgdHJhZGl0aW9uYWwgaG91c2luZw%3D%3D
I really like this house, what do you guys think? I’m almost
certain the country I finally want to settle in is Thailand. I
would love to build a house like this and then live in it until
I die.
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 15, 2025, 8:55 pm
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"I really like this house, what do you guys think?""
Are you prepared to live peacefully alongside mosquitoes? They
will fly right in from the surrounding green habitat. See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg26458/#msg26458
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: ThisTrain
Date: April 16, 2025, 3:08 am
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> "I really like this house, what do you guys think?""
>
> Are you prepared to live peacefully alongside mosquitoes? They
will fly right in from the surrounding green habitat. See also:
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I am! I leave all insects alone at this point, and help them
when I see them in a bad situation, unbiased from bees being my
primary concern. Guilty still of a slight nudge and manipulation
of insects occasionally, and I have still managed to kill some
by mistake. I continue to work on this problem in hope of
becoming perfect in this regard.
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: ThisTrain
Date: April 16, 2025, 3:16 am
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I'm far from perfect 90sRF, once I realized my mother was not
going to beat cancer I started drinking heavily to delay the
inevitable pain, with the drink comes mental, spiritual, and
physical sloppiness, as you know. In that sloppiness I resorted
to dining out because I was not in the right state of mind to
cook really, and this lead me back to eating meat. As of late I
have been cutting back on drinking, and I have a plan to get
back to my non-meat diet. I feel like absolute shit lately
because of this.
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: ThisTrain
Date: April 16, 2025, 3:25 am
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From personal experience, I do think pain changes when you delay
it. Perhaps this is something worth discussing at some point?
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: HikariDude
Date: April 16, 2025, 4:34 am
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As for what you said about demolishing Western architecture, you
meant that the ones having no interest in demolishing Western
architectures is a sign of colonization?
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 16, 2025, 7:07 pm
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"I continue to work on this problem"
What I mean is that I myself would probably dislike having to
deal with mosquitoes every day, therefore if I were choosing a
house in that type of climate, I would prefer one further away
from green surroundings.
"As for what you said about demolishing Western architecture,
you meant that the ones having no interest in demolishing
Western architectures is a sign of colonization?"
Yes, if they are from a country that had no Western architecture
prior to the colonial era.
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: NeverColonized
Date: April 17, 2025, 12:21 am
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"What I mean is that I myself would probably dislike having to
deal with mosquitoes every day, therefore if I were choosing a
house in that type of climate, I would prefer one further away
from green surroundings."
I was thinking about something closer to the ocean on Koh Samui,
hopefully there are less of them near the ocean. I guess we'll
see. If it gets too bad mosquito wise I'm sure some of the local
remedies will work:
"Wear light colors such as white, beige, or light gray. Avoid
using perfume, powerfully scented deodorant, after-shave, or
body lotion..."
I do most of that these days anyway, perhaps why insects seem to
leave me alone for the most part? Lately, I've wondered if the
entire insect population is on a major decline, I do not seem to
come in contact with them as much as I used to...
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 6, 2025, 9:22 pm
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I've wanted to bring this up a long time ago but never got round
to it:
HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1jerc2n/using_bamboo_as_scaffolding_instead_of_metal/
Western inferiority:
HTML https://humanfocus.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Scaffolding-Parts.jpg
Non-Western superiority:
HTML https://www.ovalpartnership.com/images/insights/key/c37d26d52c10fbd0.jpg
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> I've been to several asian countries, bamboo is often used for
scaffolding. It is actually pretty strong and cheap. There is
sooo much bamboo in that part of the world and it grows really
fast.
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> I’ve seen a lot of it in Vietnam and China
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> Hong Kong has a long history in using bamboo scaffolding.
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> They've done it in Japan for decades...
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> It’s used a lot in India as well.
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> Theyre extremely common in south asia. So common that ive
never once seen metal scaffolding being used here
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> I've seen both in my country but bamboo is more prevalent
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> You guys have metal scaffolding???? It's always bamboo in my
country.
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> And no 280#, beer-bellied, mason walking around up there.
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> forging steel requires fossil fuels
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> Almost nothing is worse than mining, and then you have to
process and smith it too.
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> Metal gets so heavy so quickly.
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> metal gets extremely hot in the sun + its heavy to carry.
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> Bamboo seems to be a southeast asian way of scaffolding and as
long as it has structural integrity it eliminates 2 of the most
annoying things about the job.
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> Bamboo does disambelling, storing and reusing better than
metal.
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> They work. They're cheap. They are easy to handle/replace.
They are lighter and faster to setup.
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> They also flex, which is good during typhoon or earthquakes.
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> They also don’t snap when they break.
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> They don’t rust in the humid climate as well
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> Amazing stuff, it's biodegradable, flexible so it's less
likely to be blown down and it grows for free so never a
shortage
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> [quote]How do they prevent it from being a huge fire hazard,
is it treated somehow?
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it's pretty fire resistant. We use it to cook lemang and several
other dish. Also, children make air canon out of it.[/quote]
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> Cheap, abundant, natural, reusable.
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> Useful in hot countries where the heat and the resulting metal
expansion can cause issues .
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> Bamboo has a higher strength to weight ratio than steel.
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> Also, they been doing this long before steel scaffolding were
a thing.
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> Bamboo scaffold are cheap af when compared to metal scaffold
here (we are talking like 10x the cost)
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Re: Decolonized Housing
DIR By: acc9
Date: September 20, 2025, 2:05 am
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HTML https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1952369478299026410
Nature's nest in Gweilin, China
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