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[Josquius]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

[HVC]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

Well I hope they mixed mortar, since you don't use concrete to build brick walls. Plus it's cheaper so if they can't afford a mixer like you're assuming they'd save a bundle using the right material.

[Josquius]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

Well I hope they mixed mortar, since you don't use concrete to build brick walls. Plus it's cheaper so if they can't afford a mixer like you're assuming they'd save a bundle using the right material.

Pre mixed mortar is a fair bit more expensive than mixing seperate bags of sand and cement to make concrete.
I assumed she did it as I do when I have to do some small scale work and just did it by hand with a shovel. Back breaking work.

[HVC]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

Well I hope they mixed mortar, since you don't use concrete to build brick walls. Plus it's cheaper so if they can't afford a mixer like you're assuming they'd save a bundle using the right material.

Pre mixed mortar is a fair bit more expensive than mixing seperate bags of sand and cement to make concrete.
I assumed she did it as I do when I have to do some small scale work and just did it by hand with a shovel. Back breaking work.

Sand and cement IS mortar. Concrete is sand cement and gravel/aggregate. Source: my two years as an apprentice tiling and masonry. Trust me, lugging bricks around sucks way more.

And building house hand mixing mortar would be very dumb. If you can afford bricks, cement, and sand you can afford a cement mixer. New one is a few hundred bucks. Renting is cheaper still.

*edit* actually probably closer to just over a year. As a porkchop it's almost a right of passage to go into construction with my Portuguese brethren   . Sucks so bad I went back to school to be an accountant. Though construction makes good money everyone is broken by the time they're in their 40s unless they're smart enough to become foremen.

[Tamas]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

They probably had, on loan from friends or family if nothing else.
 

[Razgovory]

Loading mortar into a mixer is easier then lugging around bricks

A mixer?
Mortar?
Its not impossible but reading the story I doubt they had these luxuries.

It's Ukraine not bronze age Urartu.

[Syt]

First post in 7.5 hours on languish!   

Sorry, been busy.

[Syt]

The AfD nominated their leading candidate for the Europe elections, Maximilian Krah:



Now, as a kid/teen in the 90s this name brings back memories. A cartoon series, Alfred J. Quack, based on a Dutch kids' book, had a character named "Kra", a crow antagonist who has an arc where he founds the National Crows Party and installs himself as dictator of the country (it was a bit trippy to watch this, it's basically like doing a care bears arc where a drug cartel takes over their home for a while - this comparison (well, simile, actually?) included for Jacob ).





(If you think this is on the nose, the character is named "Dolf" in the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak)

[Syt]

Considering Vienna keeps getting voted most livable city AND unfriendliest city this tracks.

[Hamilcar]

LK-99! We are making rocks float!

[Hamilcar]

Thread of Russian trans anime cat girl making rocks float https://twitter.com/iris_igb/status/1685265405386878977?s=61

[Tamas]

After a long search I think I am settling on an Austrian brand of dark-roasted coffee beans.

[Barrister]

LK-99! We are making rocks float!

So I have been following the story on twitter (Sorry, not calling it "X") - do you have any thoughts on it Hami?

[Syt]

After a long search I think I am settling on an Austrian brand of dark-roasted coffee beans.

Brand name, pls.

[Hamilcar]

LK-99! We are making rocks float!

So I have been following the story on twitter (Sorry, not calling it "X") - do you have any thoughts on it Hami?

I'm cautiously optimistic that we have unlocked a whole new part of the tech tree.