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Re: Decolonized Housing
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2021, 10:47:08 pm »
Here is a private conversation I had with Zea_mays (italicized) about the inferiority of Western engineering:

Interestingly, a lot of times in rural areas, people will inherit an old (Western architectural style) house, but put up a mobile home/trailer on the property to live in instead, since they can't afford the upkeep on the house, further demonstrating the inferiority of Western design.

Definitely. Don't even get me started about the engineering stupidity of radiators, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiator_(heating)

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The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli in 1855, a Kingdom of Prussia-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg.[2][3]









You need metal pipes installed into every room in the house (going through floors/ceilings and walls), so that you can't heat one room without also to an extent heating all the rooms along the path of the pipe to the room you actually want to heat, and you are forced to heat the entire room instead of just where you are sitting, and when you're not using it for a while you have to drain the entire system, and even when you don't need heating you still need to fill and drain the system periodically to keep it functional, and there are a host of things that can go wrong such as air bubbles trapped between two bodies of water that you can't get rid of, etc.. But instead of realizing the whole thing is a bad idea, Westerners react by adding even more **** to the system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiator_reflector

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_screw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydronic_balancing

when a simple hot water bottle avoids all these issues in the first place, wastes minimal energy/water/production materials, and LOOKS FRIENDLIER too!



Yet in Western eyes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_warmer

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Advantages
The first advantage of this radiator is the aesthetic value that can help to enrich rooms with a touch of style.

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No, the only advantage of radiators is that they can be used to BANG WESTERNERS' HEADS AGAINST.

Meanwhile, what do Westerners do with hot water bottles?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_water_bottle_blowing

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Hot water bottle blowing is the deliberate inflation of a hot-water bottle by blowing. Air is breathed into the bottle until it stretches beyond its capacity and consequently explodes. It is a challenging feat of strength which is included in the Guinness World Records.



**** barbarians.....)

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And when there is a single centrally-controlled radiator boiler for an entire apartment complex or school building, it often gets so hot people have to OPEN THE WINDOWS IN THE WINTER just to achieve a tolerable temperature...

But rightists will still be like: "Why aren't you thanking us every day for gifting you with modernity?"

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Radiator lowers indoor humidity, which may contribute to hair loss, however, a humidifier can be used to increase the humidity.[6]

So again, just keep adding **** to compensate for the problems caused by the earlier ****.....

Also, on a related subject, chimneys need to be in the interior of the house, or else so much heat is wasted. Look at the image below, heat on three sides of the fireplace is being wasted by radiating to the outside, rather than inside!



Another absurdity is that by the fireplace generating a convection current upwards, the hot air fleeing through the chimney inevitably draws in cold air from outside. So a fireplace actually makes most of the house colder.  And the Western response, once again, is to add even more **** to compensate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draught_excluder