JaMikeyMike

@jasonc_nc Fire fire run run!!! But don't use that stairway please!

Ok class, let’s discuss today’s firefighting “requirement” that’s kind of made up - The attack stair. Specifically how it’s used as a reasonable-sounding argument against single stair buildings while ignoring 1) it’s not a rule at all and 2) makes assumptions that run counter to reality and even actual code. The general framing against small (let’s emphasize that point - small. Like 3-6 units per floor vs 50) single stair buildings is the lack of a 2nd stair means firefighters have no dedicated attack stair and will have to navigate people exiting while also mounting a response. First let’s talk about time to exit and total occupancy. In fire safety emphasis is placed on early warning and speed of exit. The more people already out of the building before a fire spreads or the fire department arrives, the better for everyone. A two-stair building is deemed safe with up to a 250’ max distance to the closest stairway, and up to 50’ of travel in a dead end corridor (Meaning you can be trapped in the dead end if the closest stair is compromised), with an occupancy limit of 500 people. Per floor. Meanwhile the general distance for a single stair building ranges from “step out and you’re at the stairwell landing” to 25’, with actual occupancy of ~12-30 people per floor. Which of these scenarios is more likely to allow people to exit before firefighters arrive if there is a fire in one of the units? Remember - the “safe”building allows up to 10x the travel distance to a stairway and ~16x the occupancy load. Likewise which is easier and faster for firefighters to clear, floor by floor? Now on to the “attack stair” requirement. Neither ICC/IBC, NFPA or any other code contains a provision granting firefighters the authority to prevent or redirect occupants from using a specific stairwell during an evacuation. During an actual emergency the goal is evacuation and no code or fire response tactics include redirecting people to an exit up to 250’ further away in a smoke filled corridor. If half the occupants are using the “attack stair” firefighters will be navigating that reality no matter what. Just with a lot more people to fight uphill against. In fact the IAFC & IAFF’s own literature on this topic acknowledges the contradiction, noting the options are to delay suppression to allow evacuation to be completed, to conduct rescue via ladders, or to ask occupants to shelter in place. The same options presented in the smaller single stair scenario - just with fewer units and fewer people, plus shorter evacuation distances. Bottom Line: The “attack stair” concept is a firefighting tactic (not a rule!) that assumes an emergency in which all occupants are either evacuated or have been told to shelter in place - which would be the case in either scenario. Functionally there is no difference, but in truth the risk and the response demands placed on a local fire department in the two scenarios is much different - with the “unsafe” building actually being the easier of the two.

@valleyofthena @xwanyex Home school kids play with other kids do activities and even fieldteips like everyone else.

@xwanyex Really really being left out of the equation here is the fact that humans are social animals and theat we evolved to live in community. Kids have a right to be around other kids and not isolated.

I know a fair number of homeschooling families and while I can't really know for sure, it does look to me like some of them are doing very little actual instruction. My thesis is just that it barely matters and their lives aren't going to be meaningfully worse for this. High-achieving strivers are aghast at the proposition, but I think it's true.

This is what drives me nuts about walkability etc… it basically determines nothing. My old JR. High has protected bike lanes and no one bikes. When I was a kid we hiked on major streets to get there

@rossiadam As long as you don't have to sleep There

Picnic by the river or a campfire dinner is better than a meal in the finest restaurant (imho).

@the_transit_guy Best thing to come out of covid

12 people eating dinner = 1 parked car

@CompletedStreet If urbanists weren't so uppity they would get more support. People love Los Angeles and cars and driving. They also like walkability within neighborhoods -which honestly LA does really well. You can have both, but not in a way that destroys what people like about LA

If it were walkable and managed properly, Southern California would be the best place on earth.

@RUUUDOLPH @Romazehari Yup.

@JaMikeyMike @Romazehari I've never felt offended about a man not wanting kids because I don't want them either.

Why do men get personally offended when women say they don’t want kids?

@zhiheather @xwanyex Lol, you'd be wrong. Also misses the point even in that case the wife has stronger preferences. Though she does have to give I to then more because she works full time

@JaMikeyMike @xwanyex I doubt he's involved in a debate with his wife over whether he does enough.

We have to have all these dumb perennial debates about childcare and housework, because nobody wants to say the obvious thing, which is that, yeah, women do more of those things because they care more about it, they want it more, they have stronger preferences around it, and they’re better suited to it. It’s their domain. There’s no mystery.

@zhiheather @xwanyex Yes women and men often have different opinions on what constitutes good child care and women generally have stronger preferences towards it lol… kinda the point. My brother is a stay at home dad with a special needs kid and would even agree with this.

@JaMikeyMike @xwanyex He listed childcare as things women care about so men don't do them. 🤷‍♀️ I can see saying that about chores, but your own kids? Surely men are better than that. Well, most. Hopefully.

@zhiheather @xwanyex The funny part is this is your conclusion

@xwanyex "Men don't care enough to raise their own kids properly" is certainly a take. 🤔

@xwanyex It's funny to me because it gets to one of the core differences between men and women and for some reason is this really hard pill to swallow. Same reason men get yelled at for over organizing the garage and office.

@molzer People who don't pay for maintinence have a tendency to break the water line and not tell anyone.

If you own or develop apartments and don’t put a fridge that produces ice in all your units, you are a bad person & I hope you have a horrible Tuesday!

@TheLastFarm Learn logistics

A reminder that we produce enough food for 1.5x the Earth’s population. Capitalism prevents hungry people from eating it

@dimden I love Tokyo and this street looks Insanely ugly

i think not having cars parked literally everywhere is like 75% of the reason why Tokyo (and probably japan in general) looks so nice

@zapatas_mom I think Greenwich village and Beverly hills are pretty nice. This Tokyo street looks very ugly

The nicest neighborhoods in USA don’t have cars parked on the sidewalk.

@MeghanEMurphy I think its sexy when my girlfriend plays video games. It's a lot more involved than twitter

Literally just had this conversation with a friend yesterday. Sorry, but gaming is always going to be a juvenile, unmasculine, lame hobby/activity. All it says to me is that you have no problem wasting your life. Are you a teenager or a man?

@hollowearthterf Wait till you learn about twitter

Spending hours of your day to achieve fake accomplishments inside a game rather than spending that time to accomplish things in the real world with actual value is understandably going to give women the ick

@ianpauldukes Mark to mark wealth is not hoarding. In fact the wealth doesn't exist until someone is willing or forced to by the mark.

You can't hoard $10 trillion for yourself without taking it away from everyone else. He's telling the world he plans to impoverish us all. Real supervillain shit.

Making lord of the Jedi with “okay, spielberg” AI filmmaking suite tiktok.com/t/ZP8p8YfFn/

@jasonc_nc I always tell my workers I'll root for them if they start their own company. And if they find a better company to work for I'll support them! Strangely my turn over is basically zero.

Hi. Business owner here. Noncompetes are trash. They are not free markets, they are not pro capitalism. They are an attempt to take someone’s prior labor on your behalf and make it a lead weight against their own future work. T R A S H