Binro the Heretic  - 2024-03-26
Shipping companies keep making these ships bigger and bigger and put as little money into maintaining them and manning them as they can get away with. It's all to keep profits up.
Six people are still unaccounted for. There was a work crew repairing potholes on the bridge, all guest workers from Central America, hired because it was good for keeping profits up.
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Mister Yuck - 2024-03-27 They managed to get traffic on the
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Mister Yuck - 2024-03-27 They managed to get traffic stopped but they didn't get the work crew off the bridge. Nobody gives a shit about workers, "guest" workers triply so.
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radiosquido - 2024-03-28 Don't forget the people who were responsible for the bridge.
A civil engineer once told me, "Look, 99.9% of engineering is not about achieving new and amazing feats of technology. Take bridges. The Romans built bridges that have been in continuous use for over two thousand years. What modern engineers do is not design the best bridges the world has ever seen. What they do is figure out how to build bridges as utterly cheaply as possible while passing regulatory inspection."
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Cena_mark - 2024-03-30 That Roman stuff is rubbish. Romans couldn't build a 1000 ft span. Their bridges couldn't handle a 1000 ft ship ramming into it. Their roads would be destroyed by 18-wheelers. Don't base your understanding of engineering on boomer facebook memes.
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Juice Eggs McKenna - 2024-03-26
Crit hit
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Yellow Lantern - 2024-03-26
Submission/username synergy
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ashtar. - 2024-03-27
The last few years have really been big for shipping disasters. Not something I would predicted.
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