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2025 Dec 26: Engineer Everything (user Engineer.Everything-i5g) on YT: Shall I go still deeper? #engineering #Minecraft #tunnel #mining #constr...
2025 Dec 26: Engineer Everything (user Engineer.Everything-i5g) on YT: Shall I go still deeper? #engineering #Minecraft #tunnel #mining #constr...
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Date: 2025-12-31 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-12-31 06:06 pm (UTC)I have found a few references which assert these were originally on tiktok and have been moved to Youtube, implying a fair bit of chronological lag; it makes me wonder what the current state of the project might be.
I also really want to know that the stone blocks are for.
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Date: 2026-01-01 01:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-01-01 02:06 am (UTC)They are very much not the size of block you build an actual historical castle sort of edifice out of. I am sure she knows that. So I remain curious what she means by "castle" in this instance.
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Date: 2025-12-31 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-01-01 01:23 am (UTC)It's the most astounding combination of "knowing what one is doing" and "just winging it" I have ever encountered.
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Date: 2026-01-01 11:27 am (UTC)... I don't feel so bad now to pipe up with: this is bringing to mind stories I heard third-hand a handful of years ago about someone, possibly also a lady, who was engaging in extensive tunnelling under her own house. The reason I heard about it was that she was constantly posting tiktoks about it, showing off her progress, but was extremely secretive about exactly where she lived. Eventually someone deduced it/clued in and it came out that her tunnelling was not only EXTREMELY without permits, it was actively dangerous/structurally unsound and she'd been tunneling so hard she was under her neightbors' properties too, extremely without their permission. (She'd been actively lying to them to maintain whatever fiction explained away her earthmoving or the noises or somesuch, iirc.)
The sense I got was that random citizens deciding to tunnel on their own property for fun is a thing that just... happens, more often than you'd think, but most of the people engaging it absolutely do not have the structural engineering skills to do it safely. So apparently it's the weirdest and more-literal-than-usual game of whack-a-mole for whatever local body is in charge of keeping people from swiss cheesing their neighborhood until a tunnel collapse kills someone. Sometimes the governing body even succeeds.
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Date: 2026-01-01 11:36 am (UTC)All of which is to say that if someone posts on the public internet about tunnelling under their house but freely admits that they would need to talk to an actual civil engineer to do the engineering math for them, I do not actually trust that they know what they're doing. I trust they think they know what they're doing. Unfortunately those are different things.
Wish I knew what it was about digging in the dirt that seems to completely consume some people, though. It's a fascinating madness.
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Date: 2026-01-02 04:05 am (UTC)I can't figure out what is going on.
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Date: 2026-01-02 09:54 am (UTC)Whatever it is, it sounds fascinating. I hope she keeps posting videos. Ideally until your questions have all been answered! (And if they DO all end up answered, I'd love another post about it.)
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Date: 2026-01-02 09:50 am (UTC)Unrelated to your post, sorry, but I stumbled into this essay by someone I don't know and it made me think of you. :) I apologize if you're actually entirely up to date on this corner of science and don't find a non-specialist's thoughts interesting! However, I did like the step-by-step walkthrough discussing why the bogus statistics are so bogus, and the insights into the history (& subsequent abandonment) of "twins reared apart" studies.
(Again, I have no idea who this author is– extended linkstumbles will do that– and it this essay isn't worth the photons to show it on your screen, my apologizes!)
https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
To quote my friend after reading it, "I am curious why he felt the need to be quite so prudent in a lot of those assertions, but I do appreciate that simply presenting the relevant data turns into a pretty solid dunk post purely on its own merits."