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You mean like this one in Surfside [1]? I wouldn't live there either. "Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass". [1] https://www.nbc

You mean like this one in Surfside [1]? I wouldn't live there either. "Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass". [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cause-miami-condo-collapse-unclear-experts-say-barrier-islands-present-n1272316 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cause-miami-condo-colla...

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Bit of a hot take. While there are some buildings in the US where substandard construction are going to catch up to the building and the owners, shoddy construction is endemic in China (or buildings are left unfinished and eventually need to be retired before completion). https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+construction+quality https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+construction+quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn3bp/china-demolition-building-kunming https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn3bp/china-demolition-buil...
- masterof0 5y ago
  > While there are some buildings in the US where substandard construction are going to catch up to the building and the owners. LOL sources? Has anyone being sent to jail because of the collapse of Surfside? or the bridge at FIU in 2016? How do you know that the same doesn't happen in China, or any other countries?
mint2 5y ago
>” Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass" Is that misplaced nationalistic defensiveness? you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks surf side isn’t a scandal. One scandal doesn’t make it impossible or hypocritical to call out other scandals.
- masterof0 5y ago
  It doesn't makes it impossible but it makes it morally wrong. You can't go around criticizing people and then do worst. You are just biased. And that's what I'm calling out. Also is not only Surfside, this is one that I remember as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...), obviously no one went to jail for that. I live in Miami, I know first hand the pain of the people in this community, but hey, I'm probably just some chinese asset pointing out facts over here.
  - mint2 5y ago
    That logic doesn’t follow. If one nation ever has an issue it’s suddenly immoral for them to call out that issue elsewhere ? I mean given how painful surfside, I’d much rather people speak up on the danger of shoddy construction so in a few decades there aren’t surfsides occurring in China or Guam or Canada or Florida. But I guess making loud noises about bad construction is immoral.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

Bit of a hot take. While there are some buildings in the US where substandard construction are going to catch up to the building and the owners, shoddy construction is endemic in China (or buildings are left unfinished and eventually need to be retired before completion). https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+construction+quality https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+construction+quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn3bp/china-demolition-building-kunming https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn3bp/china-demolition-buil...

masterof0 5y ago
> While there are some buildings in the US where substandard construction are going to catch up to the building and the owners. LOL sources? Has anyone being sent to jail because of the collapse of Surfside? or the bridge at FIU in 2016? How do you know that the same doesn't happen in China, or any other countries?

mint2 5y ago

>” Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass" Is that misplaced nationalistic defensiveness? you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks surf side isn’t a scandal. One scandal doesn’t make it impossible or hypocritical to call out other scandals.

masterof0 5y ago
It doesn't makes it impossible but it makes it morally wrong. You can't go around criticizing people and then do worst. You are just biased. And that's what I'm calling out. Also is not only Surfside, this is one that I remember as well (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...), obviously no one went to jail for that. I live in Miami, I know first hand the pain of the people in this community, but hey, I'm probably just some chinese asset pointing out facts over here.
- mint2 5y ago
  That logic doesn’t follow. If one nation ever has an issue it’s suddenly immoral for them to call out that issue elsewhere ? I mean given how painful surfside, I’d much rather people speak up on the danger of shoddy construction so in a few decades there aren’t surfsides occurring in China or Guam or Canada or Florida. But I guess making loud noises about bad construction is immoral.