SpraynardKruger
It had to do with memory and storage limitations on computers back then. It didn’t make sense to store two extra digits for the date when that space could be used for other data. It affected pretty much every system made before a certain date. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
Just coming from a civil engineering/construction perspective, the straight lines are probably more about alignment. In these kinds of buildings (and considering US zoning laws that require a certain amount of parking), sometimes the alignment is critical to ensuring the building, parking, and drive-through fit. Straight lines are easy to measure, draw, and check in the field. Not to mention the actual way these 3D printing concrete machines work. The ones I’ve seen online are on some kind of track, and these ones are no different. From the looks of it, they’re kind of set up like those cranes you see at shipyards: https://youtube.com/shorts/igQ9G_Brkl8
I remember being confused after being handed some wooden disposable spoons at a local screening about 7 years ago. The person handing them out explained it to me, and suddenly I started noticing how obvious the spoons were. I think I had watched the movie a handful of times before, but never really paid attention to the backgrounds unless it was one of the outdoors scenes that were obviously filmed on a soundstage.
True, but even some of the counterexamples have counterexamples of their past behavior. Concussions are complex brain injuries that can be (and often are) personality altering. Organized sports leagues, including MMA, will go to great lengths to make sure the transgressions of their star athletes are swept under the rug.
I read the comment from !SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social and thought,
“Yeah, I’d believe that the Venn diagram of POS people that get into sex trafficking and POS people that want to be ICE agents has a pretty large overlap.”
ICE is a black hole. People go in and disappear, until months later ICE representatives inform the next of kin they died in custody. But I feel like the amount of human rights violations that get reported by ICE pales in comparison to the ones that get swept under the rug. Especially now, with Trump’s 2nd coming. It could be bad, like the eurocentric world hasn’t seen in a long time.
I guess my hat is tinfoil colored.