Related note: a lot of salvaged brick is stolen. Old rust belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc. have so many abandoned brick buildings. People set fire to the building to collapse the wooden supports, and when the mortar holding the bricks together is heated by the fire, the pressure of the hose from responding firefighters helps flake it off and clean the brick. Then people show up a few days later, grab all of the undamaged bricks from the rubble, and sell it to unscrupulous distributors who flip it for a premium on new developments looking for that expensive aged brick look.
Idibiks Oiho
Submitted 2 months ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Glad someone’s getting a portion of that property’s value back to circulating in the economy if there are so many abandoned buildings. Like fungus eating fallen trees, returning nutrients to the soil.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, if you think it’s better to strip old buildings of value to make wealthy brick buyers happy instead of repurposing those old buildings for the public good of underserved communities.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They’re intentionally setting the buildings on fire to achieve that though. That’s seriously dangerous.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Dude, they are committing arson…
Firefighters and other people have died in fires from abandoned buildings.
Arson is never okay, it’s dangerous and can kill people
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
TIL burnt-down-then-scrapped-for-pennies-by-the-poor brick buildings are the stone-washed jeans of the architectural world.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Not sure if trolling or exploiting the terminally stupid.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
OR is stupid
spudsrus@aussie.zone 1 month ago
amotio@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ibidikis is my new username.
Feddinat0r@feddit.org 2 months ago
Username does not check out
amotio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I lied.
dxc@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But if you do the b and d like that they don’t look like a penis
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Sikibidi?
amotio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s what I got for being lazy, utterly unusable.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When your SO is walking around the house in an immodest state of dress
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Xande@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Oh… as rare like the 710 liquid in your car… or the notorious SnSV and DY Laptops…
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 month ago
Forbidden PEZ
guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I still remember z3d
WereCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anyone else prefers Lenovo over dy?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
“Normal bricks cost 6 but these are 9”
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
little known fact, ohio used to be spelled oiho backwards before it was ratified as a state in 1953.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would use an OIHO brick
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Reading ‘Idibiks’ slammed my brain into a PTKFGS wormhole all of a sudden.
KiWilly@lemmy.myserv.one 1 month ago
Guys hi, just looking for some support share, a Fantasy Adventure Story, for all ages and just some entertain with some storyes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVIvQ1wsgg - maybe you are curious
Korne127@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What a lucky guy. Like him, who found a rare W in an M&Ms package:
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone gets nice stuff except me. My M&Ms are showing the error code E.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Mine says 3, gotta blame lackluster QA.
No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 1 month ago
Mine are all expiring on the third, but it doesn’t say which month
KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
No, he found a misplaced one intended for the Russian market, their famous Щ&Щи
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 month ago
* Duo staring threateningly around the corner *
No, that’s a japanese yama 山 👀