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MachineFab812

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  • China: New bridge collapses in just months after opening

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  • They generally base such things on the likelihood of finding issues in a given timeframe.

    Pretending that's lower so soon after construction "if only it were built properly" is backwards and wrong. In-depth inspections are more common and necessary in the weeks, months, years closer to initial construction, and their findings identify issues that need checked as time goes on.

    You don't check more often and thoroughly because you did a shit job at construction, in fact avoiding/faking inspections is one of the CHIEF hallmarks of shody work and corruption.

    You see, that's when people die ... but please, do go-on harping on this nothing-burger to re-enforce pre-concieved notions about "the yellow menace", or whatever other epithet you'll pretend bothers you as much as your reasoning baffles me this week.

  • China: New bridge collapses in just months after opening

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  • Feels unlikely that it would happen within months(much more than that, since the start of construction) of a massive construction effort that involved forcefully and repeatedly vibrating large masses to settle and compact the road surfaces, adding tonnes of concrete, and letting heavy vehicles pass through at-speed on a slope that never saw such traffic before?

    Ya don't say? By your logic, the regular inspections that caught the cracks would have been absolutely unnecessary.

  • China: New bridge collapses in just months after opening

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  • What went wrong, with an entire mountain you say?

  • China: New bridge collapses in just months after opening

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  • So ... um ... I've never seen a bridge survive a mountain falling onto it. Have you? Did they build the mountain too, or am I missing something else?

    Honestly, a lot more of the bridge survived than I would have expected, and oh yeah, they saw this coming; It closed days before.

  • Thailand says ceasefire with Cambodia brokered by Trump on hold after landmine kills troops

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  • If Trump watched any anime to go along with his obsession with "simple solutions", he could have suggested a clause that specifies such issues be settled with regular fighting tournaments in large near-border cities.

    We already knew he was no man-of-(ANY)culture, but still, what a waste. I guess having to constantly play negotiation mascot for "settled" issues at least keeps him from having more time to be an even worse person.

  • Israel passes first reading of bill proposing death penalty for people it deems terrorists

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  • Hell isn't in their Bible. You'll need to do better than their god. Otoh, I don't expect to be lonely enough in Hell to want their company.

  • What is COP30 and why does it matter?

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  • Does the word "distraction" appear even once in this article? I feel like I should bet money on No.

  • California Governor Newsom plays climate warrior, compromiser and coy candidate

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  • I held my nose and voted for Harriss. I guess Newsom smells slightly less of cop, but he has worse baggage versus trans people, immigrants, the homeless, and fucking-solar-panels-of-all-things("Climate Warrior"? REALLY!?), for starters.

    I guess I could tolerate him as a lame-duck while we wait for the last of the old-guard and their boomer lackeys to die-off, as was my hope for Kamala. Been almost 30-years since I locked-in on the idea that individual states will have to step-up if anything resembling modern human civilization, let alone Human Rights, are to survive.

    Of course, the way the human rights fights are going, modern civilization looks debatable as an asset or liability. Gimme Solar Punk, damn-it.

  • How do you define yourselves politically to others?

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  • "Whatever you think of me, the truth is almost certainly worse" ... Can you tell I dislike the very concept of trust?

  • A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics

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  • GOOD.

  • NSFW

    American milf

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  • By 50, she should-have been a grandma - she would probably be the first to tell you that if she were real. Maybe your smoking fetish skews your age perceptions, but obsessed as you are with calling them "mature"(most of your gens are actually too young for this label as its commonly used), or "ageless", your aversion to/"ignorance-of" GILF is just ridiculous.

  • skillz

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  • My dad taught me this game when I was 7; One of the first times I had ever even met him, let-alone got to stay with him a few days by-myself. On my next trip or so, he had forgotten the game entirely, was dis-interested, and I never met anyone else who knew it before I taught them.

  • NSFW

    American milf

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  • Was "GILF" somehow getting you more downvotes? Because mis-labeling these as MILF's is gonna make me start downvoting you too, for dishonesty. I was one of the few upvoting any of your stuff.

    You should have been fine with getting to post it with minimal pushback: popularity was never going to happen.

  • Clock, but its ORDER BY Hour DESC

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  • Thanks, I hate it. I hate it BECAUSE I get it, to be clear. F'ing digits ...

  • Trump’s anti-climate agenda is making it more expensive to own a car

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  • GOOD. This is the year I buy an eBike anyways.

  • Europe jumps on the train

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  • Your take on the top pic is absurd and contrary to both the caption and what we can see. In your world, keeping shoes on is a crime, AND taking them off is a crime, regardless of context? Really

    You here to boast about the moral/olfactory/hygeine superiority of chopping one's own feet off? Do you have the slightest idea of the difficulties involved in cleaning/maintaining the interface between a stump and a prosthetic? ... or would you eagerly condemn an amputee for taking their prosthetic off or keeping it on in public as well? Get bent.

  • Pumpkins - Litterbox Comics

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  • Up-voted for that last panel, but the rot is on-theme for the holiday.

  • how do you even come up with such a statement?

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  • More like staying in character, vs one who refuses to blame the Brittish. Cheerio!!

  • how do you even come up with such a statement?

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  • By all means, blame me all you want, at least I'm not British.