Jun 13, 2026, 4:48 AM@mattblaze although to be fair part of me has been wondering if these cats have never heard of a scissor lift before...
- Jun 13, 2026, 4:48 AM
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Matt BlazemattblazeJun 13, 2026, 4:50 AM@me I was wondering that, too. Maybe too high up? Or not stable enough for the tools they're using?
- Jun 13, 2026, 4:58 AM
@mattblaze assuming those are 6-foot scaffolding sections the floor right in front of the row of text they're supposed to remove is at 36 feet. That's well within reach for a scissor lift. Even if those letters are heavy, they could bring a cherry-picker in to stabilize and remove the letters as they're removed. They used a similar setup to install the unwanted text.
I can't help but believe the scaffold approach is a way of stalling.
Maria Langermlanger@mastodon.worldJun 13, 2026, 1:16 PM@me @LabSpokane @mattblaze It is definitely to stall.
pdiff1pdiff1@mastodon.sdf.orgJun 13, 2026, 5:08 AM@me @mattblaze Scissor lifts are, by design, very heavy. Perhaps it was decided to use something lighter to avoid damaging the floor material.
- Jun 13, 2026, 5:11 AM
@pdiff1 @mattblaze IIRC they used a boom lift and cherry picker for the install.
- pdiff1pdiff1@mastodon.sdf.orgJun 13, 2026, 5:30 AM
@me @mattblaze Yes, I saw that. It was a unthought through rush job, like all things Trump. I’m just suggesting that they may now realize a different approach is more appropriate. They may also need scaffolding for more extensive repairs where the dipshit fucked up the marble walls. Just speculating. You may be right. 🤷🏽♂️
- Jun 13, 2026, 5:56 AM
@pdiff1 @mattblaze the degree to which they are ever-so-methodically draping the site suggests a lot of things that have little to nothing to do with proper site preparation and everything to do with comms people running the show.