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Happy 9/11 for all those who celebrate!! - Novo General Megathread for the 11th-14th of September 2025
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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.
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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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The r/conservative post about Charlie Kirk's assassination appears to have 41 poop emoji reddit gold stickers on it. Am I seeing that right?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1ndpwgh/rest_in_peace_charlie_kirk/
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Markets are up today. Fiscal conservatives you know what has to be done.
This years 9/11 party will again be 9/11-themed
Me and my partner going as the towers, baby dressed up as a plane
"Soooo, when's the second plane gonna hit?~"
my culture is not your costume
Limp Bizkit did 9/11
O werd?
they did it all for the nookie
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" 
shut the fuck up
I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.
Ooooh I just realized: Matt Walsh could be the next one.
Anyways happy 11/9
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.
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.
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
βOh I feel bad for his kidsβ
Bro donβt you think they might be better off growing up without a fascist propagandist as a father? Their mother might meet a really nice guy
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.
One just turned three and the other is one, I believe
definitely better off
child sa, abortion
βcharlie kirk is a fatherπ₯Ίβ he said that heβd make his 9 year old daughter give birth if she wasremovedd. thatβs not a father.
https://xcancel.com/nevergettingliv/status/1965977637496492348#m
She married and had kids with a neo Nazi so I have concerns about her tastes tbh
Probably got nice life insurance payout 
donβt let this charlie kirk stuff distract you from remembering that time ted cruz liked milf porn in twitter in 9/11
Whom amongst us
im flying my penis at half mast today
You can't let the terrorists win.
Not to be a lib, but Iβm somewhat relieved the centre-left won in Norway recently. Just good to know one country is less enthusiastic about jumping on the fascism bandwagon than the others.
Its surprising sometimes who will defend the sanctity of "free speech"
Free speech but for sedition
It's good to see this place happy again 
I think we needed the good news. There's a lot of bad shit out there so it's nice that we can enjoy a new gender neutral bathroom being created.
Workshopping a bit idea. Free to a good home:
"The backlash to the political violence that's coming for the democrats is regrettable. My thoughts and prayers go out to them."
It needs:
-separation of the left from the democrats
-irreverence about CK
-apathy about violence to dems
It has:
-acknowledges the apathy towards gun violence
-acknowledges the threats chuds are making (e.g. the dam meme where Charlie Kirk was the dam standing between uhoh and whoever)
I think it has the potential to leave some people pooper-peeved + everyone loves a good duck season/rabbit season
I just noticed the live Charlie Kirk reaction in the post image
more like dead reaction
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. 
You should request it next time there's a school shooting tomorrow.
If we lowered the flag every time there was a school shooting, we would never be able to raise them.
I'd say they're probably chuds, but hell, they're more likely to be libs
maybe this is a hot take, but i think charlie kirk was most analogous to julius streicher, the nazi that started der sturmer.
I think the one from breitbart is streicher, you know, the one that looks like a bag of shit and pus (can't remember the name honestly)
more literally, i agree with you. but TPUSA and their associated media presence especially with influencing younger people, i think, puts kirk directly in that line of "chief propagandist"
Can anyone unpack the jokes from that picture please?
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