TIL!
…i also had no idea aluminised tetrapacks were recyclable; always figured composite materials were dead-end landfill fodder…
(the changeover wasn't entirely in the sixties, though: as a kid, we used to peel cartons open and scrape off the wax for craft projects clear into the early eighties, never realised the packaging had changed prior to the advent of plastic screw-tops)
...typically they're coated with food-grade wax...
...when i turned thirty, i was a grownup, and people started treating me like one: grownups are f*cking old and their lives are over...
beep-beep-beep-beep! beep. beep.
...i tie back my hair or tuck it behind my ears when i eat...
...i need a really good bag for about eighty chessex-style dice: any better-suited options out there than the crown royal standard?..
...you don't win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992...
...every time you link to xitter, elon drowns a puppy...
...architect here: we design protected areas of refuge where mobilty-impared occupants can shelter in place until emergency services arrive to evacuate them from the facility...
...you'll often see areas of refuge identified near elevator lobbies and equipped with hardened callboxes for emergency communication, or marked on the evacuation plan if they're in a remote location...sometimes areas of refuge are pretty subtle if you don't know to look for them: we design protected firewalls, structure, and building systems integrated into the facility so the biggest tells are usually callboxes, magnetic door hold-opens, or tracks for automatic fire curtains...
...when renovating older facilities, we do the best we can to modernise life safety within the limitations of existing infrastructure, but the general rule of thumb is that as long as you've improved upon what ~~originally~~ previously existed, you've satisfied your obligation even if it's not at parity with new construction...
(it's not uncommon for old facilities to have gone through a dozen or more life-safety modernisations since the advent of modern building codes, just palimpsested one-over-the-other as standards progressed)
...no longer afford?..man, the last proper vacation i took was in nineteen-ninety-mother-f*cking-eight...
Pew! Pew! Pew!
...sleeve of saltines and a block of grated cheddar were my go-to lunch as a kid; no regrets...
(these days i'm more into triscuits and cheddar slices, the pricey aged cheeses rather than big orange store-brand bricks)