Sorry Europeans, I can’t hear you over my HVAC system with abundant domestic methane reserves.
I wonder what it’s like not living in an air filtered, 70° F environment?
I prefer 70° C
So you have chosen…death
I don’t use windows. I prefer linux
In a world without borders and walls there is no need for windows and gates.
Try not to talk about Linux on Lemmy challenge (impossible): failed.
Imagine not having screens in your windows.
This post was made by the flying insects gang.
I’m in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They’re also not that special. I prefer the regular windows
I was starting to wonder if Europe didn’t have insects, because the hotels I’ve stayed in (in Europe) that had them didn’t have screens for them.
We have civilized insects, they respect our privacy and don’t enter unless they must.
I have these windows in Moscow, Russia since recently (had old windows with separate wooden frames with thick glass made somewhere about 70s, they looked nice though) and like that I can the the sill as a table with laptop and tea and some stuff now, and tilt it instead of moving the laptop aside.
Ah yes, the good old Russian anti-defenestration windows. I assume you have the FSB-mandated variant that is capable of both tilting and swinging, for… ease of access?
I asked a builder why this was, and he said that the lateral forces created by a slightly tilted window has just enough force to rip the entire side of a house clean off due to houses having the structural integrity of wet newspaper, which is the preferred construction method in the States
US people, dry your newspapers before building your houses!
can’t tell if this is a troll or not. youre telling me people outside the states think we live in wet newspaper?
Hitting a wall and having any chance of the wall breaking isn’t really a thing outside the US. Everyone elsewhere notices that a lot in movies and videos. It’s not uncommon for children outside America to ask adults why Americans have paper walls. People being mad and punching a wall and putting a fist-sized hole in it, falling and breaking the wall or throwing anything and the thing getting stuck in the wall. In most of the world it’s you or the thing hitting the wall that’ll break, not the wall itself.
The wall isn’t the structural integrity part of the house. And that’s for interior walls. You’re getting your opinions from the questions that children ask in other countries?
Well not wet newspaper exactly but I heard you have walls so thin the neighbours can hear your cell division
Lol! Imagine thinking this is true.
Lol imagine reading this as a true statement. Fiction books must fuck you right up 😂
Can you please explain to me exactly why and how it was objectively obvious that OP’s comment was meant to be taken as some kind of joke or satire?
Because if you can’t, I have to think that you are little more than an arbitrarily condescending piece of shit.
Ok, I’ll walk you through it. I am OP btw
I believe the basic structure is called a “bait and switch”, a fairly common writing trick
I asked a builder why this was, and he said that the lateral forces created by a slightly tilted window
This is the “bait” bit. It sounds like a real comment so far
has just enough force to rip the entire side of a house clean off
This is the part where, if you didn’t have the reading comprehension of a six month old duck, you’d start to realise that, perhaps this wasn’t a serious comment. There’s no way a slightly tilted window is ripping the entire side of a house off, surely? That’s the “switch”
due to houses having the structural integrity of wet newspaper,
This line is pretty much only there as a setup to the next line. Houses, I’m sorry to inform you, do not have the structural integrity of wet newspaper. That would be as dangerous as it is impractical
which is the preferred construction method in the States
This bit, unsurprisingly, isn’t exactly true either
I hope, now that I’ve broken the comment into its constituant parts, that you’re rolling on the floor, clutching your aching ribs and laughing tears of joy.
Explaining jokes always makes them far funnier
In this case it’s true, I am laughing more at this than the actual joke (which I also laughed at). This back and forth was the setup and the explanation is the punchline.
It’s preferred because it’s cheap.
Nobody wants to pay a stone mason to put brick on the exterior of their homes. They used timber for a long time, but now all the new houses I’ve seen use the metal studs, which sounds great on paper until you realize it’s basically sheet metal stamped into a U kind of shape that’s the same size as a 2x4. It’s enough to hold up the drywall and maybe some pictures/paintings on the wall plus the occasional wall-mounted TV, but give it a couple hundred pounds of weight and it’s going to crumple into itself like aluminum foil.
Honestly, most of the strength in the wall is now because of the drywall. The “studs” just keep them from falling over.
Not saying timber was all that much better, but it could at least support someone standing on the top plate of a wall without folding in on itself.
Can I get my house built from concrete board instead?
I wish I could have a stone masonry building. My friend’s family used to own a hotel built by a stone mason. He invited us out to watch the company who bought it try to demolish it. Apparently they weren’t expecting proper brick and mortar to be so strong.
Yep, and a lot of modern brickwork isn’t designed to be structural, so many of the components used are basically poor substitutes for the “real deal” so to speak.
Stonework can be the strongest part of the building, or just little more than a facade.
In a nearby town, the second story brickwork of a building came off of the structure and fell into the sidewalk and road. I don’t believe anyone was hurt, but the point is, sometimes, the brickwork is little more than just a wall. Other times, it’s basically keeping the building upright. In that case, the building didn’t go anywhere after losing the brickwork.
I’m sure in your example, the brickwork was providing the primary support structure for the building, and it was built far better than what fell off of the building in my example.
Imagine not having AC like much of Europe
Imagine not having enough insulation to need an AC.
Lol have fun cooking with global warming bro
opens 2 windows each on seperate sides of the house/apartment
Doesn’t work as well when it’s 115° outside like much of the US
It would be quite scary to see our lakes boiling
115° in moron units, not Celsius.
He says, while being the cause of global warming with 24/7 AC.
Lol what a tool. If I have 100% renewable energy at my house how’s that contributing?
Energy is only a part of the equation.
“Much of the existing cooling equipment uses hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases, and use a lot of energy, making them a double burden for climate change. Even with the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons required by the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, business as usual means emissions from refrigeration and air conditioning are expected to double by 2030 and triple by 2050, rising from 7 per cent of global GHG emissions today. Right now, the more we cool, the more we heat the planet. If we are serious about reversing current trends, we cannot go about cooling our planet with a business-as-usual approach.”
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-conditioners-fuel-climate-crisis-can-nature-help
Sometimes you just don’t need it
Especially if the house is old, made with stones!
Yes, temperature difference inside to out is amazing with solid masonry and ceiling insulation. No AC required.
Jokes on you, my windows make a light breeze when shut!
Should’ve installed linux 🤷
I’d settle for socialized healthcare
How dare you. Just for one second think of someone other than yourself. How do you think the pharmaceutical companies are gonna feel about that? Or their poor shareholders? Pfizer’s CEO only made $33 million last year. How the hell do you expect him to feed his kids when he’s not making that much because your precious healthcare system ate into his meager earnings. The medical corporations are barely scraping by!!
Oh the windows came as part of the deal.
No they didn’t. I’m in Canada and we have socialized healthcare and I didn’t get any damn tilting Windows.
I’ve been lied to!
Canada is like Europe with a couple wildcard American features baked in
I work in a hotel.
One day, a family comes to the reception to tell me that their window is broken, asking me to change their room. I ask if I can take a look.
It turns out, they didn’t know the existence of tilt & turn windows and were scared that the window was going to fall down lol
People act like you can’t just order these kinds of windows in the US. It’s not the default, but you can just ask about them if you know about them.
If you’re in a position to replace your windows.
If you want to really confuse Americans show them European showers. Imagine a shower with fixed pressure only…
Edit: I see people are confused. I meant that typical shower in US doesn’t have adjustable pressure:
That’s not true at all. The ignorance in this thread is absolutely astonishing. It’s like you went to the US once, spent a week in Florida and now somehow think you’re an expert in American homebuilding techniques and practices. WTF?
It absolutely is true. I have a PHD in early XXI century north American showering practices and I know for a fact that 65% of showers in the North East and 66% of showers in the rest of the US look like this, thus, making it a typical American shower. I will admit that there is a debate within my field of research as to how public and hotel showers should be counted but most experts agree with my position that what should be taken into consideration are the shower units, not the number of uses they get per year.
Unfortunately windows in the UK generally cant tilt, likely since opening them wasn’t really meant to be common anyways (unfortunately climate change is making that more important)
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Imagine not having screens on the windows and letting every single bug in the nearby area take up residence inside and being okay with it cuz “it’s only a few months out of the year”.
🤢 it’s the fucking worst.
America is huge. We have areas with weather just like Europe and areas with weather nothing like Europe. One country but many weathers.
Europe is my favorite country
The country of “America” is also a favorite.
That doesn’t work well since America is the common name for the US, and we can the continent the US, Canada, and Mexico share North America
