Gyprock

Even though, in the capitalist system, I made money, I don't really believe in it. I still believe, as I did in high school, in some form of communism. A society that primarily worries about money is a dysfunctional society. All people need is decent health care, decent housing, decent transportation, decent education, decent food, decent whatever, etc. We don't need extravagance. Where I live, a house typically costs a million dollars or more. Why does it cost so much, here on grey-pavement parking-lot wasteland, the Flat Mountain, Lulu Island? The houses aren't even reinforced concrete structures as in Asia, but flimsy gyprock, wood, etc. Lulu Island isn't as if a suburb of Barcelona or something posh and cultural. Why do we have to worry about money?

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Some high quality white or variously tinted fine-grained gyprocks, usually referred to as alabaster, were used as interior facing stones and for small statues and carved decorative objects found in Egyptian pyramids

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The world distribution of gyprock outcrops and the solubility of gypsum restrict the extensive occurrence of gypsic soils to the dry regions

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Cinder blocks were more durable, however, and soon gypsum was redirected for “gyprock” drywall, a wallboard...

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