I get similar things on Facebook too. The problem is, my Facebook profile clearly stated that I'm an asexual female, but the recommendation engine obviously didn't pick that up...
Tall buildings (> 40 floors) are one of the safer places to be in an earthquake.
1) They're engineered.
2) They're already designed for side loads from wind.
3) Their fundamental frequency is well lower than the peak of the earthquake spectrum, so they don't amplify the motion. Good rule of thumb is that period = floors/10, so fo a 50 story building you're looking at a 5 second period. Earthquakes have most of their energy in ~1 second period waves. So effectively, the base wiggles and the top just floats along.
The place to be terrified is in a 6-10 story unreinforced masonry apartment building.
Before clicking into the actual article, I wondered (just from the title alone) if bloomberg suddenly started to cover shadowsocks or something.... lol
After the presidential election in Taiwan earlier this month, many important political figures (current president, next president, opposition leaders, A LOT OF parliament members...) suddenly got on Threads and started posting there actively. Their followers naturally also followed them there.
As for the reason... I still don't understand why lol
This reminded me of a late-1990s Taiwanese RPG by DOMO Studio called "Tun Town" (I'm not sure if it was translated into English...), in which the main plot was a fictional town drilling too much into a volcano to tap energy eventually caused it to erupt.
> In the early 21st century, the progress of human civilization was accelerated by ground-breaking discoveries in mining technology, allowing the extraction of magma energy for a new low-cost, all-encompassing energy source.
Ah, the classic tale of digging too greedily and too deep. Whether it’s Gorillaz' shadowy figures or Middle-Earth's dwarves, everyone seems to forget that volcanoes and precious jewels come with a hot-tempered landlord.
That's also Dwarf Fortress. In DF magma is actually desirable for gameplay (Magma Forge! Magma Smelter! Weaponized magma!) but there are still things that make you think twice before digging too deep.
In the city I'm aspiring to buy a house (a.k.a. somewhere near Tokyo), you only need to put the down payment if the construction hasn't finished yet. There will be no mortgage until after the house is ready.
I kind of think this may be a slightly better model in terms of homebuyer protection... (May not sound good for the developer though)
When a flat I‘ve bought in Germany was constructed, the payment to the developer happened „Zug-um-Zug“, that is, they received a total of like 7 payments as the development reached certain milestones.
Had to take the whole mortgage up front in one go, though.
In the USA, you obtain short term high interest financing until the home is completed, then you spin that into a mortgage. Most people buy almost completed new homes from developers, however, which means the developer takes that initial loan/risk.
My sister once taught me a small trick to calm myself down when I was anxious but had no idea what I was anxious about: Count down from a random 3-digit number, subtracting 7 at each count. (e.g. 794, 787, 780, 773, ...) Do it until I drift away and lose track, unable to continue.
It works. I guess it's kind of in that "takes just enough brainpower" league. This takes more brain power than simply counting down though, and I'm not sure if this actually helps one falling asleep...
Another technique I derived from this is to do a countdown in the foreign language I was learning. Several years ago it was in English, and right now it's in Japanese. It also takes more brain power than counting down in my mother tongue, with the additional benefit of getting a little bit of practice. Killing two birds with one stone I guess :p
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