Broken: Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed

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    Let us let the guy who has fucked up manufacturing his own cars, made the cybertruck, makes space ships that blow up, and somehow broke a dumpsterfire social media site fix this bridge. What could possibly go wrong? Also while we are at it why don'e we just make a sleepy joe/Orange droolius combination ticket with RFK as secretary of state.

    How has america actually won against Russia? How insanely mentally fucked is russian leadership that they are worse off than the US? Can Canadia just invade us already and save us from the monkeys running our nukes?
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    And maybe people should just stop ordering so much crap.
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    As a mail carrier... This.
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    But if I stop ordering so much crap, what will I do with all my free time on the weekend when I return half the crap I ordered?
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    https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112238948609812916
    Cyberattack, coincidence, or decaying global infrastructure? I’d really like to know how often ships lose power, particularly some minutes after departure, which is presumably harder on the ship than any other time.
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    I’ll add in the systemic destruction of regulatory regimes as a possible culprit.

    I wonder how many ship inspectors we have today versus say and then compare that to the amount of ship traffic between those two time periods.

    I have a feeling the number of inspectors hasn’t kept pace even if it hasn’t shrunk in absolute numbers (a legit possibility).
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    The Well, There's Your Problem folks do a breakdown on the history of the bridge and how it fell down.

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    Changed thread title for accuracy.

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