Morrrning
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I wish to be that bear
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bless those dog bags
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NO
NO
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so these are the plans for UC Santa Barbara's new college dorm and it's hilariously awful and I'm reading reviews of it
so these are the plans for UC Santa Barbara's new college dorm and it's hilariously awful and I'm reading reviews of it
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Because half these dorms don't have windows and there's a proposed 4500 students in there with two exits
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hahahha
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"My God, it looks like something Albert Speer would design for some Reich ministry in Berlin."
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oh god it's worse
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"an 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms."
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sauce
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yikes
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every time I think about that building, I die a little more inside
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"The idea was conceived by 97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect Charles Munger, who donated $200 million toward the project with the condition that his blueprints be followed exactly. "
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haha what a piece of shit
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"a proposed 4500 students in there with two exits" yeah this definitely isn't a disaster waiting to happen
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eat the rich and make charles munger the first course
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"As for concerns about lack of direct natural light caused by the lack of windows, all individual rooms would have either conventional or virtual windows. “All virtual windows will have a fully programmed circadian rhythm control system to substantially reflect the lighting levels and color temperature of natural daylight,” according to the statement"
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some medical humor for you
some medical humor for you
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oh shit guys nevermind we don't get to see the santa barbara coast, we're good with virtual windows
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: bwahahaha
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I'm doing safety reports today so this is good practice
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Oh no they're calling it Dormzilla
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"Designer and backer Charlie Munger also rebuffed intense criticism leveled at him by architects across the country, calling detractors “idiots” and claiming in an interview with Architectural Record this week that those who actually study his models “go ape-shit for them.” "
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fff you piece of shit, Charlie
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"The drawbacks of living in a 10-foot-by-7-foot space without a window would be offset by an attraction to the dorm’s large rec rooms and study halls as well as on-site amenities, such as a market, bakery, and fitness center, Munger told the magazine, explaining, “It’s all about the happiness of the students. We want to keep the suicide rate low.” "
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YEAH THAT MIGHT BE GOOD
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Tangentially relevant, this is week 3 of me working in an emergency department's safety area for the first time ever, and I have been told multiple times that long stays for suicidal patients in the ED sucks because of (among many things), A LACK OF WINDOWS
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"Munger, Berkshire Hathaway’s billionaire vice chair who is partially blind and has described architecture as “a kind of hobby,” said he simply doesn’t see the problem with windowless single-occupancy bedrooms."
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sir
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sir
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"“It’s quite endurable, especially with good ventilation,” the 97-year-old insisted. “Nobody minds going into a basement restroom and peeing because there’s no window.” "
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I feel like there's a big difference between a restroom and a dorm room, buddy
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"Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic for The New Yorker, called the plans “a grotesque, sick joke — a jail masquerading as a dormitory.” "
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Ffff yeah well
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I feel like this dude is playing real life Sims
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"Young was especially disgusted by Munger’s deflection that critics are simply preoccupied with his wealth. “It’s disingenuous,” he said. “No, people aren’t mad because you’re rich. People are mad because you’re forcing a design down their throats they don’t agree with, and you’re not willing to budge.”"
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FFFF so he has a building he built already with the same windowless bullshit in UMichigan for the grad students there and CNN did a thing on it after the UCSB stuff came to pass
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"Public policy graduate student Luiza Macedo didn't see the sun for a full week when she had to isolate in her room at Munger Residence due to a Covid-19 scare. "
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"That was probably the low point of my experience here. It was being stuck in my room," Macedo said. "A lot of people are incredulous that this was even a thing before all these articles came out about UCSB...like, how is this legal? How are they doing this to us?"
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Many students use sun lamps or night lights to create an artificial sense of daytime -- students told CNN Business it's almost impossible to get by without one.
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sauce
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In regards to the architect quitting the board over this:
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""When an ignorant man leaves, I regard it as a plus not a minus," Munger said about the consulting architect in an interview with CNN Business Monday. "He's just plain wrong.""
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jfc
jfc
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That building design is horrid
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I kind of really love this in a weird way??
I kind of really love this in a weird way??
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what a fucking trippy house
what a fucking trippy house
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jesus
jesus
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link because oh my god there's almost a hundred pics of this place
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i unironically love the trippy house
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though i'd do away with the wall-to-wall carpeting
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also kind of love this, but in a shameful way
also kind of love this, but in a shameful way
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but my GOD the colorful house with the weirdly-placed indoor pools, give it to me
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the fucking chandelier I love it
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the outside looks like a conference center, though; do not like
the outside looks like a conference center, though; do not like
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my god though who the fuck autoplays music on their REAL ESTATE WEBSITE
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that is the biggest sin
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this Munger dude is a Dark avatar
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We want to keep the suicide rate low??
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I mean maybe this is unrealistic but what about. You know, maybe a goal of zero....how about zero suicide???
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Also I don’t know if endurable should be the leading adjective of a person’s home
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Hahaha yeah for fucking real