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Trump's addition to the White House is estimated to take $500m and 3 years to build. That's just an addition and that's with 2025 modern technology available. Of course since it's the White House, I'm sure there's a lot of logistical issues and other considerations but it's just an addition and Trump has billionaires backing the project.

Still, there are thousands of buildings all over the world as good of quality and MANY significantly better quality and larger than the White House. Some of these buildings supposedly had 1-3 year build times. Meanwhile, of buildings we know today that are of similar (or better quality) being constructed, we have one that started in the late 1800s and is still being constructed today (Sagrada Família)...

I used to dismiss a lot of the Tartaria stuff because most of it focused on the "free energy" stuff which I felt was a little far-fetched and too "utopian fantasy"-like but something about this old architecture doesn't seem to add up to me. It reminds me a lot like the moon landing. "We just lost the technology" aka we just confirmed how romans did concrete a decade ago.

Did guys in the 1800s really just pop out buildings of similar or better quality than the White house like it was no big deal? Then today, to get something build on a similar scale we need billionaires backing the project. What gives? I don't know if I buy the "it's too expensive" (now but it wasn't back then?) or "no one likes the style" (yet everyone is amazed by it). You'd think a place like Dubai with all its money and expensive "new-style" buildings would have thrown up at least one grand "old-style" building but they didn't even put up one. No pillars just glass boxes.

Something isn't adding up for me here. What are your guys' thoughts?
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BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
12 hours ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror ) 2 children
Back in the 1800s, all of the engineers and construction workers would have been White men. Even without considering if free energy is real or not, we've lost insane amounts of productivity by allowing women and minorities into our workplaces.

Of course, this also applies to nasa, they no longer have the right stuff. They didn't lose the technology, they lost the old German rocket scientists who made the technology work. And they would have gone far beyond Apollo if allowed, look into Project Orion and nuclear pulse propulsion.
disoriented on scored.co
11 hours ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 4 children
This is all true, but add to that the fact that older construction required specialized work that required tradesmen and craftsmen who did nothing but that all of their lives. We no longer use the same kinds of building materials or use the same kind of ornamentation. This is a shame because older buildings were made to be beautiful, and this loss is intentional. It began with the Bauhaus school, which wikijewdia describes as follows:

>The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function.

It's the reason why communists built shitty identical buildings to house workers. It's ugly, fragile, and intended to fall apart after a few decades. Tom Wolfe wrote very critically about modern architecture in his book "From Bauhaus to Our House". It's worth a read.
ApexVeritas on scored.co
11 hours ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 1 child
With regard to certain trades, it's also because fathers would pass on their trade, expertise, and wisdom to their sons. We no longer do that, because "classism is evil", and we've lost massive amounts of expertise, wisdom, and knowledge that was built upon generations.
BlippiIsAPedo on scored.co
7 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
Amen brother
BeefyBelisarius on scored.co
10 hours ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Yeah, we lost a lot when we lost guilds. Probably intentionally.
MEGAMAGAULTRA on scored.co
8 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Plus when you realize that great architecture inspires men to be great, you also realize why everything has to be shitty.

Plus even think about the 90s, we built custom themed buildings (think like pizza hut). Now everything is a grey box because devs say it sells better. Meaning we don't even build things for the current tenant, company, whatever, we build things for whoever comes after, never the present person
newuser8 on scored.co
2 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
I just ordered the book. Thanks
BlippiIsAPedo on scored.co
7 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
This. I can count on White men to do their job. I cant count on minorities or women to do it. If I am distracted 70% of my day dealing with nons then the reaches of my productivity drop
genesisSOC on scored.co
13 hours ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
Tartaria, Atlantis, mud floods, and more. Good luck finding any solid info. on them though, jews love to destroy and revise history.
steele2 on scored.co
11 hours ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
We can no longer afford to make beautiful buildings because:

* our ((( usury central banking grift ))) consumes 1/3 of our tax dollars in interest fees

* ((( jew central bank inflation )))

* Greater Israel forever wars caused by our Epstein extorted and AIPAC bribed Congress

* The enormous expense of our ((( Military Industrial Complex ))) which make weapons of profit rather than effective weapons of war.

* Skyrocketing social program costs because jews have held open the gates of America to the entire world of inbred niggers.

SmallestShil on scored.co
14 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
This guy made a pretty on point video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWYxrowovts
greenspotbikes on scored.co
9 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
The costs went from $200M at inception to $500M, today, in a year's time. It wouldn't surprise me if the final costs top $1B.

Most of the major donations have come from jewish donors and most of the companies that have been hired are also jewish.

There are probably a lot of pay-to-play schemes, tax loopholes, and grifting involved. A fine testament to what America has become. It should be named the Baalroom.

I don't understand why it has to be attached to the White House. A stand alone National Ballroom would probably see more use.
SnakePlisken1776 on scored.co
11 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Look at an old Victorian house, the materials alone would cost several times more than buying a house of equivalent size filled with modern amenities. Then look how ornate it is, even if you can find a few people who can do the work they cost several times more than a bunch of Mexicans and kids. Those old Victorians usually have a turret (the round room at the front that goes all the way up. Those have curved glass, last I checked 10+ years ago only one company in the us still makes curved glass and it costs many times more than flat glass. Part of the quality comes from the fact that it was all made without power tools every piece was cut with a hand saw and every nail driven with a hammer. That will multiply the time and therefore the cost. In short our minds can hardly comprehend the real inflation numbers.
newuser8 on scored.co
1 hour ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
That's right. The Mexicans being their illegal offspring with them to work and their quality sucks
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RamboDrivesALambo on scored.co
12 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Modern building techniques are easier and cheaper than older techniques. Old buildings are made of lots on stone newer ones are wood and stucco.
Erase99 on scored.co
12 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Because there was a war between bean-counters and artisans over several decades that took place across many industries. The bean-counters won and now everything is done on a cost/benefit analysis. The primary goal is "how can we increase market capital?" or "How can we make more money for our shareholders?" not "How can we make something beautiful or better?"
devotech2 on scored.co
10 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
This is a pretty American issue. Of course, Europeans also have flimsy modern construction, but there are so many extremely old buildings already in Europe that there is little necessity (in comparison) to build anything new. Especially not residential property. Nobody here lives in a building that was produced any time recently. In spain however there are a decent number of people that live in franco-era "commie blocks" (this wasn't a soviet only phenomenon), but these are made out of concrete and rebar. They aren't going anywhere any time soon. They are ugly flats, but they are strong and durable.

Now, as for when and why. American building quality started going downhill after ww2. Construction companies realized that it was easier and cheaper to build houses out of cheap lumber (not good lumber, but rather just wood composites) than it was to build them out of bricks, stones, and hardwood. It's even cheaper to just build a brand new house out of bullshit, should the previous house be destroyed for whatever reason, than it is to just build one out of stone and bricks. The baby boom, coupled with large amounts of unused land, hastened the building of suburbs constructed with shit-quality houses and mcmansions. By todays standards (in america) the baby-boom era houses are actually *high* quality constructions, but at the time they were the original manufactured houses and the worst quality buildings yet seen in the country. It got worse from there.

Now this is coupled with the following: the further streamlining of the process, the accessibility of even cheaper and even worse materials, the utterly outrageous price of a house vs what it costs to make it, and the fact that investors and speculators who have enough money will buy them anyways for that outrageous price. Regardless of how fast the house will end up falling apart, a massive profit will be gained from these enshittified houses anyways.

There is exactly 0 impetus for construction companies and realtors to shift to making higher quality, more expensive to produce houses, when they can rack up the price of a cheap piece of a shit to an absolutely ridiculous number and then sell off the house to Blackrock anyways. Having a house that falls apart also puts money into the hands of insurance companies, so there's that as well.

Furthermore, I consider that Israel must be destroyed
Uberen on scored.co
5 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
The ballroom includes a massive underground facility and extensive security features.

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