America - The Official Thread
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He didn't even have to do that. If he'd just done nothing and let Twitter keep running as it was that would have worked fine. But he's Elon Musk: Super Jenius and he had to jump in and show these professionals who have been working on Twitter for years how to do it better in a field that he's woefully unqualified to even have an opinion on.
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Unsurprisingly Trump's Twitter account is back, it will be interesting to see if he actually uses it though considering he is basically the draw of Truth Social. Maybe we'll get lucky and Elon will kill 2 terrible social media platforms in 1 swing!
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Hmm, I wonder what Tesla news Musk is hoping that this distracts everyone from...
Tesla recalls over 320,000 U.S. vehicles over rear light issue
The news follows the company’s recall on Friday of nearly 30,000 Model X cars in the United States over an issue that may cause the front passenger air bag to deploy incorrectly.
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Well, at least that's one thing that Donald Trump doesn't know more than anybody about...
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In other news, Biden is officially an old man now.
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Oh Donald Trump knows more about lots of things than anyone. This was in 2019, so I imagine the list is bigger now:
Everything Trump says he knows "more about than anybody"
From ISIS to taxes, lawsuits and social media, Trump claims he's an expert on quite an array of topics.
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He also posted earlier, in response to his poll about reinstating Trump, "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" (the voice of the people is the word of god).
Unfortunately the full quote - in a letter to Charlemagne - is: "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." ("one should not listen to those people who say the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is very close to madness").
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I don't get that. I'm sure many people back in the 20's and 30's thought the new Deco buildings were ruining the NYC skyline. What makes NYC fascinating is the mix of architectural styles in immediate proximity. This super thin building is certainly very striking looking. However, there's definitely a price to be paid in expanding vertical coverage in terms of ever diminishing light at street level.
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Never been to NYC but I've wanted to my whole life. Walking around central London today it was quite noticeable how overbearing alot of the buildings are, despite most of them being under 100m in height. The International Style is a bit bland but has a vintage feel to it since buildings such as the Seagram Building are fairly old now, but I'm completely over the obsession in the past few decades of shining, all-glass facades.
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I'd argue 111 W57 is actually pretty dang deco, at least as deco as you can get in contemporary construction & materials. The facade is all terracotta with some nice subtlety and the kind of glam detail you got with deco. Another thing it shares with deco - prodigiously expensive to build and made to look it.
With its slenderness ratio, the floor plate is pretty much dominated by the core. Luckily NYC doesn't need to deal with seismic...this would basically be a 1400' tower of solid reinforced concrete in San Francisco.
It's a pretty controversial project in architect circles, but I happen to think it's quite nice. It's hard enough to build anything this tall, let alone something with some real design in it.
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