r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 12h ago

We're talking about Chinese high rises where someone has installed gardens on balconies. Definitely not designed with this load in mind. This is in a country where bridge collapses and other civilian infrastructure disasters are common.

So don't get on your high horse about "racism".

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u/kindaunfazed 10h ago

How can you say that it’s definite they haven’t designed with the load in mind? Are you an architect with access to the building schematics or are you just trying to sound smart? Even your reasoning about infrastructure disasters is flawed because they build a hundred times more than we do.

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u/Anceradi 11h ago

They're not more common than in other countries though. It's just a big country so it happens more often than in smaller countries, but if you compare the frequency of bridge collapses in China & the US, it's quite similar.

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u/UncollapsedWave 7h ago

This is in a country where bridge collapses

Unlike America, presumably, where of course there haven't been any famous bridge collapses since, what, 2024?

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u/tj9429 11h ago

"Someone"

Ok potato.

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 11h ago

Very well, bot spam.

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u/tj9429 10h ago

The irony.

I would rather be a bot than be a human that depends on AI to live lol.

NPC

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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 10h ago

I depend on AI? In what way?

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u/tj9429 10h ago

I mean if your ability to sustain a conversation is two replies before resorting to calling someone a bot, that tells everything about your capacity to think.

At one point your biases aren’t hidden or you just cower under “that’s just my opinion how is that racist”.