I’m laic.

What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.

No it wasn’t and it never did.

The constitution itself allows for a very small group of individuals to control the entire country, from the first moment it was written.

It was never truly reviewed to allow a proper redistribution of voting power throughout all the states and it still allows for indirect election of the most powerful state figure, where it should instead by directly elected by popular vote.

The gerrymandering, the filibusting, two chambers system, common law system, etc.

The american government was never created to be a proper one; it was an emulation of the english system but even more botched.

The document itself should have been thrown in the trash and a new one written, the moment the civil war broke. And again it should had been trashed when the market crash happened.

There is only so much an ammendement can do.

Imagine if any country could manage itself, by thinking ahead and admiting bad actors could arise, thus preparing in advance for it.

I understand your take but it is not really hard to grab the basic mechanics and make a thriving city in any game.

The basic mechanics are universal.

What throws off the managing part is “enemies”, “natural disasters” and other excitment mechanics.

A managed economy could happen and would be highly efficient, especially because running a nation is a collective endeavour. Individuals fail but groups have memory.

A national supermarket chain has its own foundation and sometimes runs fund rallies for it, which they collect through their store front.

What I stated comes from an explanation I was once given by an accountant. It works (or worked, hopefully) like that here, Portugal.

I don’t doubt your word. I paraphrased the explanation an accountant in my country (Portugal) gave me. It may work differently in other places and I sincerely hope so.

That one.

I wasn’t going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.

According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.

a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign

This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.

As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.

b) You donate. But now it’s their money.

Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.

That money is held within the company’s vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.

It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).

c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you

Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.

This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.

Want to do something good?

Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don’t hand over money.

I took it as a good humoured take ad I answered it in the same fashion.

I could, in fact, draw the entire thing on paper. Technical drawing was taugh to me in school and I took quite well to it; I still like to draw today but more as an artistic expression.

Although I wouldn’t consider what I make as artistic under any light.

But my original still holds. Yes, I could. But I would have to make everything from scratch every single time we wanted to try an idea.

Not really practical.

I’m going to look into LibreCAD and FreeCAD. Seem to be the most promising solutions.

I could but it would be a hassle to draw from scratch an entire blueprint every time some idea came to us to improve the space. Hence, the digital option.

They don’t. :) First place I asked. The house is so old it still falls under a exemption to have blueprints deposited at the municipality. In fact, it wasn’t even built with blueprints.

I understand your concern and advice.

My house was built using a logic that only the outter walls, which are stone on the ground floor and cement block on the top floor, are load bearing.

These will not be touched, besides removing and replacing old mortars.

On the inside, all the walls are for show, made of wood I want to reclaim and a couple that were built in clay bricks but that have no load bearing capability nor structural role.

Drawing the blueprints as the house exists today will serve to have a birds eye view of the house to work on, even with professionals, if the need arises in the future.

This sort of house is not considered interesting for professionals in my area; the structure is too simple and can not accomodate that many changes. And because I’m not rebuilding but just renewing, no projects, licenses or consultancy is required. This makes this kind of job not very appealing.

And thank you for reminding me that electrical and water plants are a thing, aswell.

I don’t think the creators of the Sims designed the game with that in mind but if works, it is not stupid.

Unusual solution but I can see it working! Most definetely.

But I do require some degree of accuracy on what I intend to do, so FreeCAD is lining up be the best solution, taking from the answer I’m getting.

The house is old and drawing an as much as humanly possible accurate blueprint would be a plus. And I do have some very weird angles in it.

A native GNOME solution. Wasn’t expecting that one.

I respect Blender very much but I’m also aware it requires a very deep dive to manage to use at minimum. So, as much as I can, I’ll avoid it.

That could be an option. I need/want to put blueprints on digital format to facilitate editing in order to plan renovations. I could do all the work by hand on paper but it would be an hassle every time a change or idea needed to be tried out on the floor plan.

Learning and using it don’t are barriers.

I could draw the blueprints by hand, on paper, but doing it in a digital format will make it easier to edit, review, etc.

I’ll check FreeCAD.

For all the obvious reasons, I’d like to keep my house blueprints off the public domain.

Toyed a bit with Sketchup before Google got their claws on it. Abandoned it after it happened.

I think it became a browser based solution at some point?