I couldn't give a toss about Brad Pitt, but I think dragging his name through the mud here is probably a little harsh. He's an actor, not an architect. He hired someone else to do this. The fact that he hired someone who failed is a pretty flimsy reason to attack him with statements like 'They believed in Brad Pitt. They believed in the dream he sold them'.
I very much doubt Brad himself had any kind of inkling that these buildings were going to be disastrous in the location they were in.
But the architects would've known, assuming they weren't diversity scholarships.
Exactly what I was going to say. Unless he failed to hire an architect, or fired one for telling him the design wasn't suitable for New Orleans' weather, it's not his fault that he delegated the task to a trained professional who should have seen this coming.
If you want to help people.. then help them. Don't use tragedy as an excuse to shove your backwards ideas of "sustainability" into everything.
'Sustainability,' by the way, for these people means.. "you keep paying all the taxes and doing all the work, and I keep doing nothing. I would like to sustain that, so you're going to have to make do with less.. because I won't."
You really need to pay attention to the weather in the spring and fall to keep your house from becoming a sauna. When the humidity breaks you need to open windows to get the steam out, or run the AC. Then when you run the AC you can't shut it off and leave it because the system is full of moisture and will mold up the ducting, you should really switch directly to heat, then you can turn it off.
Not sure I blame Pitt for this, reusing CA house designs in other climates has been an issue for decades. Toll brothers did that a lot and screwed people over in northern climates.
The ecosystem in Louisiana as a whole is a lot more complicated than most people give it credit. Heck you have to keep a damn spotless house because the slightest bit of food missed will have an army of roaches moved in by morning. You can only have open windows at certain times of the day because of the Bug Spray Truck going by every night, and often certain hours will have heavier swarms of bugs beating at your screen trying to get in.
And lord help you if there is too much rain this year, the foundation under your house might get too muddy and slightly sink. Meaning now the minor elevation difference causes your house to violently shake.
Half the world's problems could likely be solved if the Jews/Pakis just....stopped living there too. But they stay, to the detriment of us all.
In all seriousness though its mostly inertia, you get used to it to the point where you don't even recognize how much effort it takes. Its just life. Especially for those who don't have the brain to have a lot of career options, like the trawlers who make up a huge part of the economy and the field only exists there. And since America loves seafood, someone has to live there to catch it.
I am always amazed at how these people think they are being benevolent saviors by taking advantage of the poor and victimized while injecting their cali bullshit and politics into the situation, and then doing surprised Pikachu faces when it blows up.
I couldn't give a toss about Brad Pitt, but I think dragging his name through the mud here is probably a little harsh. He's an actor, not an architect. He hired someone else to do this. The fact that he hired someone who failed is a pretty flimsy reason to attack him with statements like 'They believed in Brad Pitt. They believed in the dream he sold them'.
I very much doubt Brad himself had any kind of inkling that these buildings were going to be disastrous in the location they were in. But the architects would've known, assuming they weren't diversity scholarships.
Exactly what I was going to say. Unless he failed to hire an architect, or fired one for telling him the design wasn't suitable for New Orleans' weather, it's not his fault that he delegated the task to a trained professional who should have seen this coming.
If you want to help people.. then help them. Don't use tragedy as an excuse to shove your backwards ideas of "sustainability" into everything.
'Sustainability,' by the way, for these people means.. "you keep paying all the taxes and doing all the work, and I keep doing nothing. I would like to sustain that, so you're going to have to make do with less.. because I won't."
I am guessing 'sustainable' meant recyclable construction materials and solar panels on the roof.
Which I'm sure would have all been fine if the architects knew what they were doing.
Moisture management in the south is no joke.
You really need to pay attention to the weather in the spring and fall to keep your house from becoming a sauna. When the humidity breaks you need to open windows to get the steam out, or run the AC. Then when you run the AC you can't shut it off and leave it because the system is full of moisture and will mold up the ducting, you should really switch directly to heat, then you can turn it off.
Not sure I blame Pitt for this, reusing CA house designs in other climates has been an issue for decades. Toll brothers did that a lot and screwed people over in northern climates.
The ecosystem in Louisiana as a whole is a lot more complicated than most people give it credit. Heck you have to keep a damn spotless house because the slightest bit of food missed will have an army of roaches moved in by morning. You can only have open windows at certain times of the day because of the Bug Spray Truck going by every night, and often certain hours will have heavier swarms of bugs beating at your screen trying to get in.
And lord help you if there is too much rain this year, the foundation under your house might get too muddy and slightly sink. Meaning now the minor elevation difference causes your house to violently shake.
Have people considered...not living in a swamp?
Half the world's problems could likely be solved if the Jews/Pakis just....stopped living there too. But they stay, to the detriment of us all.
In all seriousness though its mostly inertia, you get used to it to the point where you don't even recognize how much effort it takes. Its just life. Especially for those who don't have the brain to have a lot of career options, like the trawlers who make up a huge part of the economy and the field only exists there. And since America loves seafood, someone has to live there to catch it.
Somewhat O/T, but the "crawfish guy" on YouTube shorts is hilarious and effective. I don't even really like them, and he made me want some.
Well, I mean a lot of 'em moved to Texas...
Also don't set inside temp below outside dew point if you can help it.
I am always amazed at how these people think they are being benevolent saviors by taking advantage of the poor and victimized while injecting their cali bullshit and politics into the situation, and then doing surprised Pikachu faces when it blows up.
most people are supremely self-centered barely functioning idiots. Actors aren't known for their intelligence of wisdom.
"I love the smell of human tragedy in the morning. Time for a tax write-off and free acting lessons. Book the ticket!"
Fun fact: sustainable means "it grows" or "it decays" or ... "it rots".
This is related to the subscrption model:
Grandpa Nurgle has entered the chat?
He needs an apu-pepe makeover...
This will be repeated a million times over the next decade due to climate hysteria.
Instead of old engineers we will be forced to build houses to appease the doom goblins of the world