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- grafician5
"Boeing whistleblower found dead in US"
- Safe to say won't ever step foot into a Boeing plane ever?grafician
- Possibly shot 5 times in the back, and two times in the head. Just to make sure he went through it.********
- It’s worse. He was roller-skating near industrial sized windows and fell into a burrito laced with cyanidefuturefood
- HAL90015
Moment bridge collapses in Baltimore after c4rg0 ship collision
- many people missing. You can see the cars falling into the waterHAL9001
- Also possiblly many Construction workers who were working on the bridge at the time.Ramanisky2
- JeezozPhanLo
- this is terribleHAL9001
- The news says sonar has picked up multiple vehicles in the water and there's an active search and rescue ongoing. Also: holy shit.garbage
- lol c4rg0pango
- 40 degree water I believeRamanisky2
- This is not the first time that ship runs into a bridge.palimpsest
- Damn.********
- just the tipsted
- hackedsted
- ^the ship lost power twice. the power is controlled by computers, no? therefore, could be h4xcherub
- Ramanisky25
- 30M vehicles a year, and it took five years to build. Traffic's going to be fun in Baltimore for a while...Nairn
- That bridge looked fragile as fuck.milfhunter
- Captain was on his phone probably :-PHAL9001
- i can't believe how easily it fell to bits. So horrible.Ianbolton
- Boeing making ships now?Gnash
- @Gnash you mean: Boeing making bridges now?milfhunter
- That ship is a repeat offender.palimpsest
- milfhunter with the victim blaming.palimpsest
- @palm It goes both ways. Shitty old infrastructure and shitty shipment.milfhunter
- What was the bridge wearing and why was it "open" at night?palimpsest
- @milfhunter
Very shitty people on both sides.palimpsest - What was the bridge doing in the middle of the water in the first place? And why didn't it move out the way?palimpsest
- The bridge was shit, but those container ships are terrifying. Once I was on a ferry back into town, container ship stalled and was floating into our path.garbage
- I was taking a nap in my car, and woke up to full sirens as the captain was pulling whatever the ferry equivalent of an e-brake is.garbage
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- Holy shit. The lights come on and you can see the exhaust of full reverse way too late.garbage
- Did 'Harbour Control' (I don't know) stop traffic when they realised something was amiss, or was it just a coincidental quiet period for vehicles?Nairn
- lol shitheads are already pinning it on DEI and WOKE!
https://twitter.com/…face_melter - JFC. Next they'll retcon Exxon Valdez into a Democratic scheme to "Make Alaska Black Again".garbage
- Biden presidency in one photo.Milan
- now we know how easy it is to crash a ship, just bring the captains kid on the board and let him play with the power button.sted
- https://youtu.be/OnI…prophetone
- flol @ paliContinuity
- I'm guessing shipping's fucked there too, right? Nothing can come in or out until that mess is dealt with.
Fucking critical infrastructure, eh?Nairn - 'i can't believe how easily it fell to bits'
you'd fall to bits if you were hit by 120,000 tons. bridges aren't designed to eat that kind of momentum.face_melter - lol. Peeps thinking the bridge was at fault here. The engineering of these things is remarkable, taking out 1 of the 2 supports is what brought it downGnash
- @Nairn I can bridge nerd on this. I live pretty much on the water, in between a few drawbridges and the second-most popular suicide bridge in the world. Fun!garbage
- This on was a continuous truss, and it's essentially a budget bridge used for shipping lanes and port entrances.garbage
- Sometimes they don't have bridge tenders, can't tell if this one had one or not.garbage
- Everybody knows bridges don't collapse from "legitimate crashes".palimpsest
- Everybody knows about Tampa Bay boat bridge collapse in 1980... they should anyway if making blanket statements for everybodyprophetone
- is this like an accidental 9/11, or Flight 9525 wherein every cunt globally is going to want lock down big ass ships in their domain?Nairn
- This happened a couple of weeks back in Turkey https://www.youtube.… It's a great wat to fuck over a country's logistics...Nairn
- Oh nothing about it was legit. Seriously might turn out to be a drunk crew or some severe mechanical malfunction.garbage
- I think it was last year we had one crash into one of the most obnoxious tourists locations.garbage
- ISIS-K claimed responsibilityMilan
- Yall trying to defend the infrastructure of the USA is hilarious. We all know its in a downfall.milfhunter
- https://fredblog.stl…milfhunter
- Public investment in U.S. infrastructure as a share of GDP has fallen by more than 40 percent since the 1960s, according to the world economic forum.milfhunter
- More than 45,000 U.S. bridges and 1 in 5 miles of roads are in poor condition, per the American Society of Civil Engineersmilfhunter
- someone calculated the force of impact, its around 3 million kilojoules of force, its like a localized lvl 3 earthquake, no bridge can stand thatfeel
- Only one could. Trusty 11 Foot 8.garbage
- sarahfailin0
^ does this mean my amazon package isn't going to arrive on time?
- thumb_screws0
Canva buys affinity
https://arstechnica.com/informat…
- PonyBoy5
‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Script Is Written, Says Shooter McGavin Actor: Adam Sandler ‘Showed Me the First Draft...So It’s in the Works. Fans Demand It’
Sadly... no Chubbs of course :(
- neverscared0
Unprecedented GPS jamming attack affects 1600 aircraft over Europe
A 63-hour-long marathon of GPS jamming attacks disrupted global satellite navigation systems for hundreds of aircraft flying through the Baltic region – and Russia is thought to be responsible- kinda old news, they are doing this for a long time:
https://twitter.com/…sted - wrong link. this is right one:
https://twitter.com/…sted
- kinda old news, they are doing this for a long time:
- pango2
https://www.reuters.com/world/as…
"Taiwan hit by strongest quake in 25 years, four deaths reported"
"TAIPEI, April 3 (Reuters) - A 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, the strongest tremor to hit the island in at least 25 years, killing four people, injuring dozens and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.
Taiwan's government said four people had died in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien near where the epicentre was, with more than 50 injured.
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At least 26 buildings have collapsed, more than half in Hualien, though in one of the worst damaged ones 22 people were rescued with only one missing, the fire department said.
Taiwan television stations showed footage of buildings at precarious angles in Hualien, where the quake struck just offshore around 8am (0000GMT) as people were going to work and school.
The quake had a depth of 15.5km (9.6 miles), according to Taiwan's Central Weather Administration."
- only 4people died. all things considered, they're doing pretty good.pango
- i was just watching the videos.
there is no sign of panic, people are surprisingly patient.sted - it's just monday I'd betpango
- https://twitter.com/…sted
- weeeeepango
- https://news.sky.com…Miesfan
- death toll is up to 7 now.pango
- imbecile4
Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor
Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
Japanese citizens will all have the same family name in 500 years’ time unless married couples are permitted to use separate surnames, a new study has suggested as part of a campaign to update a civil code dating back to the late 1800s.
The study, led by Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor of economy at Tohoku University, projected that if Japan continues to insist that couples select a single surname, every single Japanese person will be known as “Sato-san” by 2531.
- Depressing thought but is it kind of optimistic that earth will be habitable in 2531?mort_
- impossibrunbq
- Imagine marriage existing as a concept of a union between two people ... in 2531nb
- Japanese folk barely seem to enjoy relationships as it is.PhanLo
- I see no rationale backing this up. Makes no sense.monospaced
- The last name is 1.5% of population. And because it increased a tiny bit, he’s saying it could take over. uhhhjmonospaced
- dbloc1
I can smell it through the monitor
https://abc7.com/7-tons-of-trash…
- neverscared5
Instagram ads in UK promoting ‘butt lifts’ in Turkey as part of holidays in potential breach of rules
Watchdog warns cosmetic surgery providers abroad as analysis reveals thousands of Facebook adverts
- neverscared0
An espionage scandal rocks Austria, laying bare alleged Russian spying operations across Europe
VIENNA — Austria faces its biggest espionage scandal in decades as the arrest of a former intelligence officer brings to light evidence of extensive Russian infiltration, lax official oversight and behavior worthy of a spy novel.
Egisto Ott was arrested March 29. The 86-page arrest warrant, obtained by The Associated Press, alleges among other things that he handed over cellphone data of former high-ranking Austrian officials to Russian intelligence, helped plot a burglary at a prominent journalist’s apartment, and wrote up “suggestions for improvement” after a Russian-ordered killing in Germany.
- of course the right wing party in austria made a putin friendship aggreement deal in 2017 ...neverscared
- imbecile4
80 Percent of Global CO2 Emissions Come From Just 57 Companies, Report Shows
Many of these companies increased their fossil fuel production after the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016
- They made it feel like it was totally my fault. I used a plastic straw 3 years ago.bulletfactory
- It's Called Capitalism Baby!utopian
- so 100% of our consumer goods come from Just 57 companiesuan
- imbecile0
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.
- Continuity3
"Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’"
- yuekit0
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in trophy hunting row
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
The African leader argued that conservation efforts have led to an explosion in the number of elephants and that hunting is an important means to keep them in check. Botswana banned trophy hunting in 2014 but lifted the restrictions in 2019 under pressure from local communities. The country now issues annual hunting quotas.
Herds of elephants were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Masisi told the German paper.
“It is very easy to sit in Berlin and have an opinion about our affairs in Botswana. We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world,” he said.
Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”.
“This is not a joke,” said Masisi, whose country has seen its elephant population grow to some 130,000.
- Do any countries or elephant researchers have a clear idea of what the elephant population should actually be?utopian
