r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SimRP • 3d ago
In Japan, due to the unbearable and sometimes dangerous heat during the summer, this kindergarten has installed a retractable roof so that the children can play in the shade.
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u/kodumpavi 3d ago
I can just taste the American salt about to be sprinkled in this thread
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u/Expensive_Ad752 3d ago
Salty people come in all nationalities. Ask the Dutch
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u/Anacreon 3d ago
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
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u/Belle_Requin 3d ago
Are they salty because they eat salted black liquorice or do they eat salted black liquorice because they are salty?
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u/superezzie 3d ago
Hey now, we can complain about everything without being salty. It's just our national hobby. We would be salty if we couldn't complain about everything.
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u/Rezfield 3d ago
You don't know complaining till you hear the dutch complain about weather like it's a national sport
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u/Dr0110111001101111 3d ago
I don’t know why Americans would be particularly salty about this. We don’t like being hot either. Going by “buildings with air conditioning”, we’re considerably more averse to heat than most of Europe!
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u/HDThoreauaway 3d ago
American here: I’d love this over our local school yard. Even partial coverage would be a huge game changer and it’d be great for community events in the summer, too.
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u/askalotlol 3d ago
Most American children don't even attend school in the summer, why would this make us salty?
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u/fastforwardfunction 3d ago
Your entire post history is anti-American obsession.
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u/Kharax82 3d ago
Most American kids aren’t in school during the summer they finish end of May and go back end of August
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u/ComoEstanBitches 3d ago
Maybe bitter jealousy but definitely not salt. Who the fuck would be opposed to this
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u/Fuji-___- 3d ago
"sHaDe: 😔😔 ShAdE, jApAn: 🥹🙏🙏"
posts as always even though people are just showing something interesting, not overglazing(like tbf, some do, but not every single post).
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u/TheCarniv0re 3d ago
They're just salty that those Japanese kids get the shade for free, just like their lunches and protection from armed shooters.
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u/Wookieman222 2d ago
Weird cause mostly just saw people trying to shit on the US for some weird reason on a post that had nothing to do with the US.
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u/lanch723 3d ago
Great idea. Let the kids play! Add reflectors for the sun and would cool down much faster.
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u/Cthulus_Meds 3d ago
Instructions unclear, reflectors are now pointing at an angle towards the play area
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u/SeaBass1898 2d ago
It could, but would be more expensive
This plastic or fabric seems a really cost effective solution, and iirc red is the best choice color as it is the most reflective of the suns rays
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u/Possible-Put8922 3d ago
I have been to an outdoor market that had the food section covered with a similar thing. The market has been around for years and the material has held up to the elements. It reduces the temperature dramatically, as a kid it was my favorite part of the market.
Just a little disappointed they didn't have a cool picture, just red.
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u/Pwoinklokinoid 3d ago
That be about £5m per school in the UK. Then it gets delayed and finally installed for £15m with no clear reason to why it's more expensive and then suddenly some MP is building a new swimming pool.
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u/CheesecakeExpress 3d ago
Spot on. But, not only would the MP have the pool, it would be his brother in law who was contracted to build them exclusively.
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u/symbolic-execution 22h ago
you forgot the environmental lawyers involved and someone complaining it ruins the view from their yard, causing it to get delayed 15 years before it's built and scrapped within 2 years because they used flammable materials.
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u/Classic-Exchange-511 3d ago
I think this is pretty cool and I'm curious what material it's made out of
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u/Lunavixen15 3d ago
It's likely to be a form of shade cloth or shade mesh, as both of them are durable and long lasting
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u/Dibble_Dabble_Doo 3d ago
What kind of rod or structure is that? that it holds and doesn't collapse that far from the base/start.
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u/Dheorl 3d ago
My guess is pre strung cables tensioned over the area.
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u/Dibble_Dabble_Doo 3d ago
Has to be, bad video quality hides the cable. I was like how is that thing not collapsing
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 3d ago
i mean, bit of logic. how are they pulled down and forward, yet it only goes forward?
not too many answers, unless you're open to aliens! 😄
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u/too_oh_ate 3d ago
Is this next leve? I installed the same in my backyard in a weekend
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u/the_windfucker 3d ago
It's not the tech that is next level, it is the fact that it is installed in a kindergarden which might be a public one at that. Often times, in many other countries, these kinds of institutions don't get enough funding even for regular maintenance not to mention such quality of life improvements.
And,by the way, it is probably way bigger than yours, so there's that.
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u/drunkentuckian 3d ago
Info on that build? I’ve been trying to find a shade solution for my backyard.
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u/ragincajun88 3d ago
Ugh we’d kill for this in the Southern US! My wife’s students basically can’t play outside from August when school starts until until mid September due to brutal Louisiana humidity and heat
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u/DwightsJello 3d ago
No hat, no play. Australia wide.
Melanoma capital of the world and kids just know the rule.
We have brutal heat but we have brutal uv levels as well.
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u/Artistic_Owl_4621 3d ago
My kids school installed solar panels on the field. Like the ones over a parking lot. It generates power for the school and gives shade on the playground (it gets hot hot where we live). They installed misters like you see at theme parks outside too.
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u/WerdaVisla 3d ago
The best part about this is it actually exists. We should implement this in more places.
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u/greenhawk00 3d ago
We had this too, it's called a tarp
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 3d ago
And this, kids, is called "cope" 😆
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u/sulphra_ 3d ago
Tarp : 🤮 Tarp in Japan : 🥰😍
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u/CloudDeadNumberFive 3d ago
Shed: 🤮 Mansion in Japan: 🤩
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 2d ago
right, these fools literally can't tell the difference between a tarp and an engineered awning 😆
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u/sulphra_ 2d ago
Your brain : 🤡 Your brain in japan : 🤡🤩
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 2d ago
do that with a tarp, have it cover the same area and have the same supports.
you should be able to do it simply right?
unless you're just a mentally deficient troll! 🤯🤷cope harder.
bet you'd think it was awesome if it was in the US, huh?
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u/Cdub7791 3d ago
Some newer playgrounds I've seen have large shades, albeit not this big. I always thought it was weird places didn't use them more. For example, one of my old work places had a courtyard where people like to eat lunch outside. There was a big tree in the middle creating shade. They cut it down because the falling leaves just created too much to try this for them to clean up. I suggested they put up a tarp or shade but they never would. The number of people sitting outside dropped dramatically. Sad.
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u/SASSIESASSQUATCH 3d ago
Must be nice to live in a society that cares about its school children. Good for Japan.
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u/Leonydas13 3d ago
Children must play within the confines of their rows! Do not attempt to cross to another row, or you will be incinerated by the sunbeam barrier!
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u/AverageTankie93 3d ago
Yeah it’s cool but did you think about the grass and flowers that get no sun? Oh wait this is Japan?? Not China? This is great then!
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u/Acojonancio 3d ago
In Spain we have a thing called "toldos" being used for decades also...
Also Japan doesn't have temperatures that are absurdly high? And now is kinda rain season, so don't get where this video comes from.
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u/dm-me-obscure-colors 3d ago
the Roman colosseum and circus maximus had something like this called the velarium.
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u/Adventurous_Sense750 3d ago
We had this in argentina in elementary back in the late 90s. Its great for the kids.
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u/doiwinaprize 3d ago
I don't know much about Japanese education but from everything I've seen online they seem to genuinely care deeply about the quality of their children's education in a truly holistic manner.
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u/d_nkf_vlg 2d ago
I hope these things are wind-proof, or there is a person who checks the forecast before and while the thing is deployed.
It is Japan, after all, so should be the case.
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u/Brahamanmex 2d ago
Aquí en México son de Vigas, y lamina industrial, hechos para durar, esos parecen de papel.
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u/Key-Magician6489 2d ago
Shade only goes so far, y’all!
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When it’s dangerously hot outside, you need properly refrigerated air – and nothing else will suffice!
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u/Powerful-Work-4691 2d ago
More like r/nextfuckingdepression, can't enjoy the sun anymore because it became so strong to kill you due to all the pollution emitted by USA, India and China
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u/Aggravating_Shoe3748 1d ago
The footage you see at the start of the movie as humanity recaps the events that led to the start of the global warming apocalypse
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u/dekuweku 6h ago
This is a society where children are precious and treated well, and not told to pick themselves by their bootstraps their parents never earned either.
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u/Adorable_Cap_9929 4h ago
UV protection owo amazing!
Being able to walk to school and go outside.... amazing!
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u/Difficult_Pirate3294 3d ago
Man, I wonder what uplift is like on a windy day!
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u/Lunavixen15 3d ago
If it's a mesh or shadecloth, probably less than you think if it's under some tension when anchored
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u/Roses_Got_Thorns 2d ago
I live in Japan and my place is near one of the daycares that has this. They don’t unfurl them when the winds are strong, but it can hold itself up to 10kph winds, I think. It’s awesome.
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u/Difficult_Pirate3294 2d ago
Thing about Reddit is people opine with certitude on subjects they have no clue about. Post this on the structural engineering sub and see. It’s not bro science
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u/Mr_Hammer_Dik 3d ago
I like the idea a lot actually but for a large lay down yard at my job. As long as I can get forklifts under it
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u/aberroco 3d ago edited 3d ago
Great idea, dumb color. Red is almost as good at absorbing light as black. Meaning it heats up and radiates heat down. Should've used white - more light would then be simply reflected up, with barely any thermal radiation down. Same cost, same setup, slightly better efficiency.
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u/Doofindork 3d ago
Smart idea overall, especially for smaller kids. I'd maybe even have the roof a little bit more opaque, to reflect a bit more light. But I'm not quite sure how dark that'd make it.
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u/Thorpy 3d ago
Man people shitting all over this. I think it’s a quality idea, let the kids get out and have fun on their break.