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The GLCM is a giant organic self-supporting matrix grown to specific shapes, sizes and strengths for its various uses. Soft tissues are rinsed out of the matrix upon maturity, which becomes stiff yet minimally flexible. The GLCM can be grown onsite in many climates with enough advance notice. About 3
years.
If grown for a residence in a form like a gigantic cubic watermelon, openings, voids, and channels are carved into the interior for rooms and hallways, while surfacing is done to the exterior, either traditionally faced or entirely shrink-wrapped in an insulating solar skin.
The GLCM is the perfect marine feature to encourage reef building and create an ideal fish habitat. Smaller ones make epic jungle gyms.
https://www.msnbc.c...ion-camp-rcna216874
[xenzag, Jul 06 2025]
It's not about WHAT, it's about WHO.
https://www.youtube...watch?v=Vj9IxVlLRl0
[doctorremulac3, Jul 06 2025]
Barack's Belsen
https://www.aljazee...-has-done-it-before
[doctorremulac3, Jul 06 2025]
There are political debate sites for people who obsess about politics.
https://opentodebate.org/
I don't, but glad this is out there for those who do. [doctorremulac3, Jul 06 2025]
Luffa / loofa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa
for Voice [Loris, Jul 07 2025]
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That's the housing shortage solved - (and no need to get all of the migrant labourers out of Alligator Auschwitz to build it - if you happen to live in the colony that's gone totally cuckoo) - approved [+] |
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Wait… what if xenzag’s right? What if Donald Trump actually IS the center of the universe? |
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But it’s okay for him to insult my country? |
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He erases that I’ll erase mine how’s that? |
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If you don’t like flame wars, might call out the person starting them. |
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If any country builds a concentration camp, then I'm going to call it out. You should agree with me. Along with UK forces, the United States was involved in the liberation of places like Belson and Auschwitz concentration camps. By every definition of the term, this hideous new wire cage prison in Florida is a concentration camp, and the majority of those disappeared to it are ordinary people who had jobs, families and settled lives. Construction sites throughout the USA lie empty - as many of the workers are now held in cages - hence the comment. You can call this a flame war if you want, but the rest of the entire world now calls this place Alligator Auschwitz. Check for yourself. |
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Since I am in the position to delete any, or all, of the posts on this posting, I have decided to leave every one. |
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Some may see these opposing positions as unnecessary bumph in our playground of ideas. It gets in the way of the fun, doesn’t it? That’s just the way it acts in real life. |
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I’m not a neutral arbiter in this ‘dispute.’ I can’t really see an argument here. If masked men are picking people up off the street, out of courtrooms, and from their beds using force of arms, I’m at a loss to see how this advances the rule of law. And who is winning here? Please tell me the eventual vision that energizes the actions. Does it elevate our ideals or reduce anxiety? To conflate disrespect for a country with disagreement with a policy seems like jumping the logic necessary to indict. Just sayin.’ |
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Don’t call me a name because you will be surprised at the breadth and depth of my attitudes. I may agree with you more than you are comfortable with, but the depravity in caging children is so far from what any of us want that we might slow down and show a bit of humanity while we eat our lettuce and strawberries and drop off our mother’s caregiver for her daily shift. |
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As anybody on this site who knows me is aware, nobody loves a good debate more than me, but xenzag, how many times have you started a debate with me, lost, and then left or threatened to leave forever, going home and taking your toys with you? I think you're back after #4 now. |
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So you wanna keep this up? Express your distain for my country, start a debate, flame war, whatever you want to call it, and for whatever reason just to do your crybully routine and act like a victim and run away? |
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What's in it for me? You're not going to change your mind, I can comment on this situation by pointing out that Obama, who was known as the Deporter-In-Chief, deported 5.3 million over eight years far exceeding Trump’s 2 million in his first term, and the famous pictures of children in cages were from the Obama era, but but you'd just get mad and throw a tantrum. |
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But it's not even about differences of opinion, debate or the free exchange of ideas, it's about one single thing with you: Donald Trump, the center of your world. 250 posts about Donald Trump from you last time I counted. If somebody were to make every post about Ludwig Von Beethoven it would get tiresome and if it started to block out other ideas, that's when I'd get pissed. These are are some of them, not counting the countless times you've hijacked an unrelated post and made it about the center of your world: |
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Donald Trump Bluebottle Factory Head
Donald Trump Clay Pigeons
Donald Trump Comb-over Windfarm
Donald Trump Sand Dune
Donald Trumpometer
Trumopoly
Trump On A Ramp
Trump On The Run
Trumpfume
Truumple.go
Ask The Donald
Travelling In The Head Of Donald Trump
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So do you want to debate this thing with me and turn this into the political site of your dreams? If so, are you willing to man up and not run away crying if the debate you started doesn't turn out the way you like? |
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That's a yes or no question. |
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And here's my main problem with having only one subject: I find the world to be a complicated place, with challenging questions we all have to face, massive amounts of information to assess to determine the way into the future. You don't, for you it's simple. Get rid of one man and anybody who might agree with him on some stuff and all our other problems will just POOF! disappear. It's not debate, it's this mono subject that quashes all other inquiry. Hate them, insult them, degrade them and it'll all work out. Compare him to Hitler who killed 6 million Jews despite him being behind the Abraham Accords as well as brokering the Israel / Iran ceasefire and supporting peace talks on other conflicts, like the one that ended the 31 year old Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo war on June 27, 2025. |
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You don't want to talk about WHAT, only WHO. |
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Me: How do we power the future? Can we expand proven technologies like 4th generation nuclear power especially in this age of AI where server farms are going to need more energy than entire cities? |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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Me: I think that hard working people in the service industries should be able to keep their tips without being taxed, they work hard enough. |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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Me: I didn't even know that you get taxed on Social Security after paying for it all your life, that's insane! I support this being at least reduced. |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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Me: Reducing the tax on overtime is a direct help to hard working hourly wage earners, nothing says lower or middle class more than overtime work, something that the upper classes who are on salary don't even think about. |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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Me: I'm sick of getting involved in Europe's love of never ending military industrial complex money generating warfare and losing American lives when they're just going to do it again in a couple of decades. WW1, the war to end all wars that directly led to WW2 and the global communist genocides of over tenth of a billion human being worldwide, now Russia at it again and us having to bail out Europe because they can't defend their own shit without us, the country many of you hate. I'll root for you and sell you arms, but no more foreign wars, you're on your own Europe. |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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Me: So how about looking forward to a better future? AI needs to be adapted to education, there should be free degrees in all subjects paid for by the taxpayers that take the youth debt-bomb based education system out of the hands of the university systems and give it to the people. AA degrees, Bachelor and even post graduate degrees need to be made available to the people through this amazing new technology. It won't be free, server farms use a lot of electricity but it's a lot cheaper than massive castles with elites in robes that have tenure whether they do a good job or not. |
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You: ORANGE MAN BAAHAAHAAD! |
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But again, what's in it for me? I completely support this site being about the free exchange of ideas, you don't. You want it to be about one single subject all the time: Donald Trump. Then you want to be able to spew your hate for my beloved country without me responding and victory being determined by one of us having to leave. Can't stand the heat, stop starting flamewars, but if you start 'em, man up and follow through. |
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So which one of the subjects that I brought up would you like to debate? See link for my view on the deportation debate, and if we're going to go there, tell me, why do you support children in cages when Obama does it? |
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Or any of the other subjects, you choose. |
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I'd like to hear from the HBers who have experience in creating living buildings--Earthships, solariums, green roof, hemp bricks, mushroom bricks/insulation, mossy brick walls, shade gardens. |
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Camp Teacup is, in part, a 120-year-old cabin, to which is attached a 1970's great room with side rooms, followed by a 1990's 'granny flat' without a dividing door (yet). The whole thing is up on concrete block pilings, sided/roofed in a pattern of steel no longer made. |
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It's a contest to see what forces of Nature break it down best, this fertile growth-medium of an abode. Ants and snow-load are currently winning in their respective seasons. |
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Ideally, repairs will include materials that work with the four-season environment and withstand climate disruptions. Camp Teacup hereby volunteers to have parts replaced by Load-bearing Loofah™. |
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//So...back to the idea...// |
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Thank you, Sergeant. I’m sure there will be homeowner-sized kit that could be used to bolster the remaining structural parts. Kind of like that expanding urethane foam insulation but a whole lot slower. |
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You can say anything but please be concise. This filibuster shit is not on. I’m tempted to rescind my ban on deletion. If you can’t say it short and/or smart and/or funny, don’t bother. (2 out of three ain’t bad.) |
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Okay, let's talk about other things besides Donald Trump occasionally. |
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And not insult each other's countries. |
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Have a pool of substance x that is attracted to substance y so much it will crawl up onto substance y and harden. Like water and a paper towel. Place your frame over the pool and dip it in a little. |
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[+] for the idea by the way. |
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Find the densest available shrubbery in terms of weight of wood per square meter, prune it as it grows into walls, and once done spray on some foam. |
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Doc you say there are 250 posts from me about the person who's name can never be used here again to keep you from exploding in a cloud of orange foam. I count ten ideas I have posted, out of a total of 1,702 others. That equals 0.58% of my total ideas posted. |
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Meanwhile, I am not cowed by you. You flatter yourself as to your capacity to bully me. I stopped posting before because I considered the HB to have been contaminated by right wing extremist views and no longer wanted my postings to be seen in that context. I resumed again because a large number of other HB posters emailed me in agreement but also asked me to return. When any apologist for the type of rotten abuse of human rights I see in the USA now disagrees with me, I take it as a compliment and an affirmation that I have stood up to fascism. It's a type of civic duty, and for me an affirmation of my humanity. |
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The bully is the one who starts it. Then screaming, crying, name calling, and not addressing a single point I made, like your support of putting children in cages under Obama. Easier than having an adult conversation I guess. Calling "fascist" instead of discussing actual issues is the earmark of today's ACTUAL fascist. Eliminate discourse, stop discussion, try to silence dissenting opinion, attack anybody who questions the narrative and does anything besides barking cult approved slogans. THAT'S fascism. |
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But hey, drama addicted haters gonna hate. |
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//Doc you say there are 250 posts from me about the person who's name can never be used here again to keep you from exploding in a cloud of orange foam. I count ten ideas I have posted, out of a total of 1,702 others.// |
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I remembered there being more, so I checked.
Probably xenzag, you crtl-F searched for "Trump" in your ideas list, and missed Trumopoly and Truumple.go.
Also, "Ask The Donald", and possibly more I also didn't spot. So a little more than you thought: 0.76%, at least. |
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But doc didn't say 'ideas', he said 'posts'. If you do a plain search for "xenzag trump", you do indeed get 250 hits. This overcounts - because it's merely where xenzag posted something and Trump was also mentioned. But it also undercounts, because it only counts each idea once, and also sometimes you mention him without using his surname. Or tangentially, e.g. by referring to his policies, as on this very idea. |
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When it comes down to it, though, I'm not sure all the arguing between us on this subject is actually worth it. It would be nice to talk about halfbaked inventions themselves again. |
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How do you get the GLCMs to grow so big, minoradjustments? |
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//It would be nice to talk about halfbaked inventions themselves again.// |
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Wait... what? Talk about something OTHER than Donald Trump constantly? Is that even possible? |
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Damn it! I don't care how crazy that sounds, I'm willing to give it a shot! |
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We don't even know what the glcm is made of. Size depends entirely on that. |
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The GLCM is the interior structure, the stiff bits, of a gigantic vegetable that has been cajoled and forced to perform tricks through the use of genetic modification, physical manipulation, and fertilizer. The stiff bits start out as cellulose but are encased, per Voice’s intuition, by nano-graphite crawling up the lattice from the pool of magnetically-activated goo trucked in for the finale of the GLCM growth cycle. |
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It’s cool when we do it at night. |
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'Rinse out', and yet the idea mentions that the GLCM could be edible so use the rinsed-out material for food, or if not, for fertiliser or even fuel, so + |
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Loofas are apparently edible at an early stage. |
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If you're growing them for structural reasons (or to make a scrubby brush thing for the bath) it goes beyond that, though, and eventually the flesh rots away to leave a slightly flexible fibrous mesh. |
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According to the wikipedia page and a link there, there's an organisation using the leftovers from scrubber production as an ingredient in construction panels already. |
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Yo, this is no ingredient, like paprika. You can’t live in paprika. |
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[bhumphreys]!!! The ‘rinsed’ squishy parts settle into the building site and prepare the soil for planting. |
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