In a Japanese experiment it was found that businesses that made an effort to clean their fronts and the streets around it had higher sales than when it didn't clean up. Furthermore, the effect was even bigger if they could be seen doing it: in other words, do your cleaning at times people are passing by and see you doing it! https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c48efa1559c99661104b4f17eca83b3fbe4dcf5f241a95b05637c792a9416248.file
"Why not have underground parking lots?" "Yeah, but for trains." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/73c81eee2f3d9154946bd1ec4073403278dc2e940e34059766d2ec65b67cc516.file
Vienna and Tokyo! https://hell.twtr.plus/media/677514675aace18b399dfeee0e188dfc719054e9be344631e1f782ea841d1221.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/fef3e27ef10f3a564a8a3486ad5abec186db72d212d300a4c1f13ad38e66557e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c29ea91a75ee9ef037ce57487b2b1414d17bc2da7e168d2672ff46469f2ed44b.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9029ee09133a9871ce73eafe35f2f2d608461c95c41e35ac3717d382e7c52f25.file
Oh to be around when future archaeologists dig this up, right below a thick and seriously toxic ash layer. What head-scratching, what confusion! https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2dbc9700dc0179b732e138ea52f4e8b829dcc8993885c7bb940c73ff8260ad35.file
Starting in 1944 until ca. 1960, the Finnish government sponsored/published nine different free designs of urban or rural homesteads that could be built by anyone without special tools or skills, "Rintamamiestalo" (Frontline soldier's house). Tens of thousands were built all over the country by veterans and some of the many homeless after the wars (more than one in ten Finns). The construction was either solid log (where timber was available or could be reused from moved or ruined homes) or more common frame houses with walls that were either hollow or most often filled with sawdust as insulation. Simple materials and excellent natural moisture control and heating from the central chimney meant these houses has aged well and remain popular today and in good shape). Rectangular lots were provided by cities and homes were placed close to the street with the long backyards to be used for food gardens and later auxiliary buildings like saunas and wash rooms. Sawdust insulation is safe and clean and easily reused/recycled and the material is cheap and easily available. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a5ed5bd151fa3d0cd94642c4e090aff7c1efe6d47739afd56b35e861495eca3d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9e172bfc49b79c56b3ce124486261430514a52cb0a4e9c290971d6e59cf2bf16.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/045c282e89a8d7c2fbc4c237615e02a517aa73aac0538920546f3c2a6f145958.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c4a74aaabc25344bdf2880de78ba8caf78fab3c7307df4fc14335f98d6ff0176.file
“A free voice, however gloomy, is always liberating. Liberating voices are not soothing voices. They don't simply invite us to wait for the future as one waits for a train. The future is something to be overcome. We don't endure the future, we create it.” — Georges Bernanos https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0bbb5aaa4d5fb64149f4baecd908bcd712d2db3a8a551f15bd0a0c0b24920d6b.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7db5a4bbc9d21357c44ef01f484254162715742a9f8e49ffb0a9d9e103f698d5.file
RT @SCP_Hughes@twitter.com: I used to think of ancient polychromy as the classic example of the relativity of human taste - beautiful to them, hideous to us. @RalphStefanWeir's article has convinced me that this is untrue, that the weird-looking reconstructions are borderline cheeky trolling by the experts, and that painted ancient statues would probably have been as beautiful to us as the rest of antique art is. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cc4c6d16169ef513d5d2d4ff56a88a1e7229ef9ffdeb327393010d7a5929de12.file