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Building implosion

In the controlled demolition industry, building implosion is the strategic placing of explosive material and timing of its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings. Despite its terminology, building implosion also includes the controlled demolition of other structures, like bridges, smokestacks, towers, and tunnels. This is typically done to save time and money of what would otherwise be an extensive demolition process with construction equipment, as well as to reduce construction workers exposure to infrastructure that is in severe disrepair.

Building implosion, which reduces to seconds a process which could take months or years to achieve by other methods, typically occurs in urban areas[citation needed] and often involves large landmark structures.

The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer. This had been stated of the destruction of 1515 Tower in West Palm Beach, Florida. "What happens is, you use explosive materials in critical structural connections to allow gravity to bring it down.

The term "implosion" was coined by my grandmother back in, I guess, the '60s. It's a more descriptive way to explain what we do than "explosion". There are a series of small explosions, but the building itself isn't erupting outward. It's actually being pulled in on top of itself. What we're really doing is removing specific support columns within the structure and then cajoling the building in one direction or another, or straight down.

  • β€ŠStacy Loizeaux, NOVA, December 1996

Building implosion techniques do not rely on the difference between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports; therefore, the building can no longer withstand gravity loads and will fail under its own weight

Numerous small explosives, strategically placed within the structure, are used to catalyze the collapse. Nitroglycerin, dynamite, or other explosives are used to shatter reinforced concrete supports. Linear shaped charges are used to sever steel supports. These explosives are progressively detonated on supports throughout the structure. Then, explosives on the lower floors initiate the controlled collapse.

A simple structure like a chimney can be prepared for demolition in less than a day. Larger or more complex structures can take up to six months of preparation to remove internal walls and wrap columns with fabric and fencing before firing the explosives.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

NEW FIRE EMBLEM GAME

iTS IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS 3 HOUSES

sacrificing Kirk was 100% worth it

https://hexbear.net/post/6121401

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 64 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 58 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

it's 9/11

Charlie Kirk got publicly owned

a whole 1 week sober and i got some SSRIs in me for about a week now

shit sucks but today's alright i guess

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[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 54 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

don’t let this charlie kirk stuff distract you from remembering that time ted cruz liked milf porn in twitter in 9/11

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

β€œOh I feel bad for his kids”

Bro don’t you think they might be better off growing up without a fascist propagandist as a father? Their mother might meet a really nice guy

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago

She married and had kids with a neo Nazi so I have concerns about her tastes tbh

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Plus they are def young enough that they aren't really going to have any real attachment to Charlie Murked. Like one is a newborn and the other is barely 1?

Nah. Anyone saying that also has the brainrot that children can only be "properly" raised by bio parents only.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I go to sleep with the comforter pulled up exactly the right amount. sleepi

I wake up sweating.

Family member turned up the thermostat two degrees after I went to bed maddened

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 40 points 3 weeks ago

I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

It appears that he's had a stroke. these photos are from today during a 9/11 memorial

I feel very confident saying that they AI generated that video of trump announcing charlie kirk's death, if he indeed did have a stroke

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Speculation is that it isn’t actually AI generated, but they stitched together for a bunch of partially β€œgood” takes. But maybe there was some doctoring up of his face too? lol it’s wild how it’s been almost a decade since the US had a president that wasn’t clearly demented and dying

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If I could bury my head in the sand and pretend he isn't a despicable war and financial criminal, Obama is superficially so many leaps and bounds ahead of almost the entire last century. It's almost funny how hilariously and obviously depraved all the others are, with Obama you at least have to have a bit of object permanence and know where Pakistan or Libya are on a map.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Charlie Kirk hasn’t tweeted about 9/11 at all today does he hate America

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[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Happy 11th to all you beautiful haters and losers

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Soc dem media is really dropping the ball today. I see Jacobin and Lever (Sirota's outfit) mourning about Kirk getting air-holed as an impetus for reaction. This shit should be treated with no more concern than the weather. "The movement" is neither set back, or advanced by spontaneous events like this. It isn't "adventurism" to celebrate the death of an evil person, and it isn't "prudent" to mourn the deterioration of bourgeois political norms. This shit is a consequence of the detrriorating conditions we live in, not a driver of those conditions. It is going to continue no matter how we feel about it.

Who are these articles for? Is a would-be assassin going to be convinced to abandon their plans by a Jacobin article? Are we supposed to expect the disorganized masses to just sit down and take it while the right ramps up the genocide, social murder, and disintegration of civil and social institutions? There are hundreds of millions of proletarians. Not all of them are going to sit and wait for "the party" to materialize and guide them. That's just how it is. That is the reality of the circumstances we must struggle in.

If a "lone wolf" can torpedo the movement, then so can an "agent provocateur," and if that's all it takes, then you aren't taking the situation seriously at all.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In all seriousness, it's one of the most impressively competent assassinations in living memory. Long range, one shot, sniping him in exactly the right place to bleed out within moments, a clean getaway (so far), and it happened exactly as he was talking about gun violence? If it was in a book I'd call too unrealistic.

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 34 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Holy fuck, y'all. My mom has gone off the deep end. The last time I was keeping in contact with her was over 10 years ago and at that time her politics were pretty much classic "legalize it" hippy lady. Now she's full-on praising ICE in her texts, like fully unprompted. Seriously, imagine a stereotype of an older lady whose brain has been completely melted by fascist facebook propaganda - that's what I'm reading now. I haven't liked my mom since I was a kid, but this is disturbing. It feels like I'm talking to a husk that's been imprinted with right-wing talking points.

To me, it blatantly conveys how effective all that research the U.S. government put into brainwashing actually was.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So the old guy just happened to be carrying a pellet gun and was unrelated to the shooting, so the actual shooter got away? Absolute cinema

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago

Like this shit is gonna make me a conspiracy guy. There just happened to be an old white guy, least likely demographic to get shot by cops, in the crowd with a fake gun. Cops spend hours interrogating him before letting him go. Meanwhile the actual shooter snipes Kirk from like 200 yards in the neck, killing him instantly. You couldn't write up a better false flag if you tried

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm calling it now (although probably others have too) the way they have covered Charlie Kirk everywhere, constantly, and as opposed to the school shooting that happened that very same day will lead to more assassinations.

Potential shooters will see UnitedHealth CEO's death and Kirk's and realize they will get far more bang for their buck killing these figures than some random kids and people.

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[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

Liberals when political violence is directed to those who want to kill brown children instead brown children

boowomp

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think i nailed the interview!

success

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

im flying my penis at half mast today

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This years 9/11 party will again be 9/11-themed

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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Girlies is this the funniest assassination of all time?

  1. Jezebel pays Etsy Witches to curse Kirk
  2. Kirk sits inside a tent that says "Prove me wrong", gets immediately proven wrong
  3. The comedic timing of getting domed by a white boy immediately after blaming black people for gun violence
  4. Some bald asshole having to say "If you're reading this, you're gay LMAO" on a live TV press conference
  5. Trump can't be bothered to record a 10-second eulogy for his very good friend, posts an AI slop eulogy instead
  6. Trump immediately forgets about the murder on the next day and starts flexing about the beautiful trucks and new ballroom when asked about Kirk
  7. The assassin is an apolitical cracker with zero rizz, which ensures that this will be forgotten by Monday and that Nothing Ever Happens
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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Libs are smooth-brained organisms who think that every horrible thing you did in life is forgiven if you die in tragic circumstances. By that logic, Hitler is a saint since he tragically died at a young age by suicide. "I don't agree with his politics but we should send thoughts and prayers to Hitler" timmy-pray shut the fuck up

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My team sniper

vs

The enemy team sniper

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm already so tired of hearing about this fascist fuck. There are much more important things going on than that dead motherfucker. I might have to take a break from the internet, because this shit is making me go insane.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Charlie Kirk being 31 is doing my head in. I've known so many people who have struggled to find work/stability, and he was just handed those things by virtue of finding the right people to suck up to and being handed money

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[–] Buptendo@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A joke for you guys:

What was Kirks favorite snack?

Gushers

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[–] PurrLure@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Omg my workplace just sent a mass email about the flag being at half mass until Sunday due to Charlie Kirk. We don't do shit with the flag when a school shooting happens btw.

Ewwwwwww they even included the Trump statement about it. clark-kent-stare

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

my sibling has lost their goddamn mind. we are both in our 40s, they are a year older.

my parents bought this person a house in the city they want to live in. they currently live with my parents in a giant mcmansion with landscaping and cleaning services in a gated community across the country. to be clear, i never lived in that house. i grew up in something more modest, but once i moved out suddenly the family became like really fancy people who i understand less and less every year. my sibling drives a hybrid given to them by my parents. they have lived there for 10+ years, never contributing to any utilities or anything. they went to grad school during that cush situation and when they got out, they got a job making more than me even though i also had a grad degree and a decade's experience. so they make bank, and they spend it on sweet vacations, and have 3 months off every year.

i was always told i needed to self reliant and shoo'd away in my mid 20s. i changed careers, left the state, started at social network zero, and ended up learning a lot of skills associated with being handy, because i couldn't afford to pay people to fix my cheap broken shit. and sometimes that's the only work i could find, was being able to move things and do basic construction. after living in illegal housing and wandering the earth like some kind of broke bozo, i ultimately finished my bachelor's, then worked and got an employer to cover my grad school tuition so long as i worked full time, saved up to buy a tiny little home, and then ended up getting a job where my sibling wants to live.

i am allowed to live in this empty house, so long as i pay all utilities, half the property taxes/insurance. i get to play unpaid general contractor for the constant comings and goings of multiple simultaneous renovations and am expected to find people to do these renovations using my personal connections, inspect their work and send photos, and generally orchestrate everything, including cutting these various people checks for overages because my sibling isn't really good at figuring out money, like writing checks, etc. so i have to find out when payments are due, get them to transfer the money to me with enough lead time so that i can cut live checks to pay people. it's like dealing with a child.

anyway, i was basically OK with this arrangement because hell at least i'm not paying rent. what i do pay to live here is remarkably less than a rental in the area would be, while i am meant to be finding a place up here to buy with the equity in my old place far away. not that i have the spare executive function for all that, with all this b.s. of working full time and being the caretaker for this place that is getting two bathrooms renovated, a major HVAC overhaul that required a big electrical panel upgrade. the house is +110 years old, which is significant in the US. i've fixed lots of little things out of my own pocket because who cares. i'm handy, it's not a big deal. i upgrade a faucet because now i can wash dishes easier, etc.

anyway, i get a message today saying that my cat scratched a soon to be installed bathroom vanity that has been sitting in the living room for a month and they want to replace it. $350. i look at it, doesn't look like a cat did it, but we're talking some of the grey painted particle board exterior is scuffed. maybe 2" x 1". totally the kind of thing that could be painted and never noticed. i gave that as my assessment but said i would pay for a new one if that's what they wanted. their response? "an apology is common in these situations."

i didn't blow my top in response, but holy fucking shit. OK, your majesty. i don't think my cat even did this shit, i think it was the kinda not exactly professional clowns sibling chose for the bathroom reno because they were like $20k cheaper. i think they probably bumped it against a wall and are doing some CYA about it, or maybe it happened in transit because yeah sometimes heavy shit shows up on my doorstep, and i'm expected to shimmy it into the house because they "saved" money by buying online and got "free shipping". so yeah, my cat scratched up some of the delivery box during that month, but if we're being real, i am like 99% sure a cat didn't do this "damage" to the vanity inside the box. it's a smooth surface scuff, not a scratch. but also, like this is a $12 touch up job on particle board, and you want me to pay for a whole new vanity?

anyway, i apologized for the damage but gave my honest assessment of what i could do to fix it while reiterating if sibling wanted me to buy a new one i would. but you're damn straight i am keeping the "old" one, touching it up, and selling it on the local marketplace, because this whole thing reads like the shady contractor trying to sell an entire vanity twice. also, i might tell sibling that when nephew actively scuffed the living shit out of the pristinely surfaced and stained table i personally built and finished over the course of weeks two years ago right in front of sibling, that i want sibling to pay for that and it costs exactly what a new vanity does, so we're even. and that $400 i saved sibling last week by catching some double billing between two contractors doing overlapping work and having them sort it out/adjust the invoices? that's mine now. and i will no longer be looking for those savings. and i want a 10% fee to continue being the general contractor, because our parents did put my name on the deed too so sibling can't legally pretend to be my landlord and evict me. all this "it's your house, i just live here" gentleman's agreement will be over.

like i know i'm in a sweetheart deal compared to most, but i just can't take sibling's precious b.s. about this. shit happens, things get scuffed, this is life. i don't live in a museum, i live in a house, and this place is not in great shape. lots of work needs doing, both functionally and just generally. the bathroom is the room where people shit and wash their asscracks. touch up paint, spackle, orbital sanders all exist to make things nice when life happens. you don't throw things away and insist on all new pristine because life happened to some little part and you don't treat people like they're your serfs, even though you've been playing lord of the manner for a decade having other people stock your fridge, clean your room, and mow your lawn for over 10 years.

anyway, sorry for the novel, but i'm heated. i feel like my family have become complete aliens in the last 20 years, and i find them generally unrelatable about shit like this, just so wasteful and precious about everything.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago
[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The entire fate of America is hanging on the question - is the shooter hot?

The reaction from normies will be drastically different depending on how hot/white is the shooter, like we saw with Luigi

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Matt sounding increasingly normal in each chapo appearance matt

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

lol every assassination and mass shooting is just trying to reverse engineer the politics of kids that had their brains ruined by posting on Discord all day.

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[–] notmyoldaccount@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I DID IT! I FUCKING DID IT! I JUST GOT THE HEAD WRESTLING COACH POSITION!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH

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[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The r/conservative Charlie Kirk mourning post appears to have 41 poop emoji reddit gold stickers on it. Am I seeing that right?

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