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Danann posted:recalling that boat poster who thinks that fascism will result in the us training weights being lifted and unleashing the war command economy when if anything it'll just succumb to the same political-economic ills because both sides of the aisle have the same assumptions about how the economy works Lmao how'd full war economy work for the fascists last time
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Hatebag posted:the sf oakland bridge? like four different companies hosed up with the anchor rod installations and installed them in a way they'd be subject to corrosion. also a lot of welding issues. that bridge is probably going to collapse in an earthquake in a few years don't worry, they can just blame it on the Chinese steel that was used!
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double nine posted:Give the bridge building contract to Elon Musk imo. I would love to see how his "engineers" disrupt traditional bridge building methods
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GlassEye-Boy posted:don't worry, they can just blame it on the Chinese steel that was used! well it was partially the fault of the chinese and korean companies that did the welding. i think i also remember people complaining about the chinese steel for that one because it was rusting immediately as it didn't have the proper coating on it
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I would love to see how his "engineers" disrupt traditional bridge building methods
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Hatebag posted:the sf oakland bridge? like four different companies hosed up with the anchor rod installations and installed them in a way they'd be subject to corrosion. also a lot of welding issues. that bridge is probably going to collapse in an earthquake in a few years Hatebag posted:they were fined $34 million out of the $2 billion project cost. truly horrific Yeah that's the one; I wasn't 100% sure what the resolution was, but I'm glad the companies didn't suffer too much.
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Hatebag posted:well it was partially the fault of the chinese and korean companies that did the welding. i think i also remember people complaining about the chinese steel for that one because it was rusting immediately as it didn't have the proper coating on it Nobody wants to do quality inspection anymore.
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Hatebag posted:well it was partially the fault of the chinese and korean companies that did the welding. i think i also remember people complaining about the chinese steel for that one because it was rusting immediately as it didn't have the proper coating on it Good to know once again, its chinas fault.
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Ted Wassanasong posted:Good to know once again, its chinas fault. yep, evil china ruined our beautiful lowest bidder bridge
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The peace proposals (1940-1941) given by the Nazis were pretty interesting as well. They pretty much demanded pre-war borders plus Poland/Luxembourg/Alsace-Lorraine in exchange for British neutrality. It wasn't that onerous an offer. That said, almost certainly would still have influence in those countries after they left. The Vichy would have inherent France and probably stayed fairly compliant. Denmark had already worked out a dependent relationship with Berlin, and Belgium and the Netherlands would likely have as well. In addition, the Italians would have still demanded some parts of Yugoslavia (which would probably stay broken up) with Greece possibly returning to a relatively more neutral position. Hungary, Romania, and Italy would have remained German allies and Slovakia, a puppet. Basically, the Germans would pull back its troops to focus completely on a war on the Soviet Union, with most of Europe a series of satellites and puppet regimes. The issue isn't that the British had that much of a problem with the Germans focusing on the Soviets from that point, but they knew they couldn't control the Germans any longer, even there was a cabinet crisis because Halifax was still pushing to take the deal. Dunkirk was around this period and almost certainly went the way it did because the Germans didn't want negotiations to break down on their part.
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https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921quote:Fascinating article on AUKUS by Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. Lol at this entirely predictable series of events in Australia.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921 pounded in the butt down under by the embodied personification of an imperial suzerain masquerading as a three-state security pact by chuck tingle
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921 The US will lose WW3 but Australia will lose it first.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921 lol owned. Goddamn that's just embarrassing.
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921
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Have you considered the elites of Australia don't consider themselves a sovereign nation state and happy to become a sub-unit of the the USA? Just a company that majorly-owned by the US conglomerate, but still has its own CEO and PR dept and ad dept so the bosses can still have fancy titles on their business cards.
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StashAugustine posted:Lmao how'd full war economy work for the fascists last time they were too right wing to actually go to a full war/command economy until it was too late and they were in deep, deep poo poo https://adamtooze.com/the-wages-of-destruction/ good read
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mila kunis posted:they were too right wing to actually go to a full war/command economy until it was too late and they were in deep, deep poo poo That is exactly what I was thinking of down to the same book, yeah
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772472565585563921  well that's just embarrassing, how'd you let me do that to you
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stephenthinkpad posted:Have you considered the elites of Australia don't consider themselves a sovereign nation state and happy to become a sub-unit of the the USA? The mining executives could just as easily continue selling bauxite and copper to China without the US imposing its foreign policy on them.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The mining executives could just as easily continue selling bauxite and copper to China without the US imposing its foreign policy on them. yeah but then they wouldnt be able to keep hitting the sweet sweet us mic propaganda crack pipe e: like i think everyone, particularly you australians who may or may not exist in this thread, should just sit down and huff a deep breath of how deeply, completely duped your elites are by the US. you have a lower political status in relationship to your suzerain than saudi arabia has much less the US's favored psychotic murderchild, israel. they sold your strategic weapons capability for magic beans. this isnt "being on the wrong side of history" its being used as a crumple zone by the wrong side of history. The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 00:14 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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The Oldest Man posted:yeah but then they wouldnt be able to keep hitting the sweet sweet us mic propaganda crack pipe Oh naur!
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The US couped an Australian government via the Governor General, which is something they wouldn't do to their more valuable middle eastern allies.
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yellowcar posted:the anglosphere needs to be humbled and destroyed neoliberalism is doing that right now, don't be in a rush
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The Oldest Man posted:yeah but then they wouldnt be able to keep hitting the sweet sweet us mic propaganda crack pipe Me a European: Hahah, how dumb of them
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm bothered by how quickly people, even those ostensibly not rightists, are accepting the idea that this was not a preventable incident. the only two opinions on this that are within the realm of acceptable public discourse currently are "this was a preventable incident because it was caused by foreigners somehow and getting rid of them would have prevented it" and "this could not possibly have been avoided because things have never been better so catastrophic accidents are just something that inevitably happen sometimes"
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https://twitter.com/rArmyReddit/status/1772712168992964726 Lol e: led me to this quote:Montana National Guard leadership is aware of a Montana Army National Guard recruiting poster that appears to show members of the World War II German Army in the background. This poster does not represent our history or values and has been removed from further distribution. We sincerely apologize for this serious mistake. Officer Sandvich has issued a correction as of 01:51 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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I mean you can build concrete dolphins around the bridge to stop ships from hitting it, they do it all the time I don't think there's a lot of bridges out there that are rated to handle a container ship ramming into them but it's still a pretty preventable thing
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Unfortunately I am no longer able to jeer at Australia for aukus as NZ is looking to get into pillar twoGlassEye-Boy posted:don't worry, they can just blame it on the Chinese steel that was used! The chinesium? gradenko_2000 posted:Also, because the collapse has never materialized, people have shifted over to demanding that the Three Gorges gets nuked instead Or Taiwan using some significant portion of their 50 applicable missiles on it
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https://twitter.com/TheBlackHorse65/status/1772641237712904371quote:I've been asked by a few mutuals to do an assessment of the economic impact of this accident. Below is a thread of the many dimensions to that analysis. baltimore boat accident added a whole afhganistan's worth of damages at once
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1772613524981711283?t=kk1NJJCeIiD8pB-hiwm-dA&s=19 just claim ukrainian heritage and he'll get off scott free
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Flournival Dixon posted:I mean you can build concrete dolphins around the bridge to stop ships from hitting it, they do it all the time Can a concrete dolphin stop a fully loaded panamax? That's a stupid amount of force. Outside of that working the real preventable thing in this situation is whatever mechanical problem caused the ship to lose power and also prevented the backup generator from kicking in and staying on. These ships are typically run for as low as of a cost as possible with the bare minimum maintenance to pass safety codes that aren't as stringent as they should be.
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Yeah I kinda assumed when I heard about this that these ships are probably all running on shoestring maintenance and pretty far from anything that would be able to guarantee safety. I think the systems of multiple dolphins they put around major bridges can do a lot to stop even a big ship if they build them properly and they put enough of them in but I'm not an engineer. I think the Baltimore bridge only had a couple tiny ones that didn't do much for anything sizeable.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1772613524981711283?t=kk1NJJCeIiD8pB-hiwm-dA&s=19 It keeps happening lmao
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/CombatCavScout/status/1772613524981711283?t=kk1NJJCeIiD8pB-hiwm-dA&s=19 Why does the National Guard need a special forces team?
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Weka posted:
Yeah Taiwanese news outlets used to run "Three Gorge Dam will collapse soon" or "can be easily attacked" news story once a year. From what I understand, 3GD is a gravity dam, its shape is way harder to damage than the other types of dam (like that one in Egypt). Also China has anti air battery station in 3GD.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I'm bothered by how quickly people, even those ostensibly not rightists, are accepting the idea that this was not a preventable incident. This is why I think covid is important to remember when it comes to WW3. Because people will just repeat what MSNBC says about how a few eastern seaboard cities are just the cost of doing business
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