Disaster "Mass casualty incident" declared after Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses

No article yet as this just happened, but could be big. One of the largest bridges in the world according to Wikipedia.


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There's one thing about the bridge who aged like milk.
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That's not at all what Sobotka is talking about during that scene. He doesn't even mention the bridge and the character wouldn't say that anyway, since he is actually very aware of the precarity of his position as a blue-collar. Half of his whole thing is that he sees the end coming for his world and is fighting like hell to expand the port and save the jobs of the dockers who are threatened by technological advancement, even greasing paws in the process.
 
The shipping guide youtuber said the IS navy has no naval engineers and it had been outsourced to a private company.

So it may take time, as the ships of private contractors aren't kept standby all around the US ports.
 
I wonder how they will go about clearing it so they can reopen the channel fully? Presumably they will have to chop up the spans and move them, and parts are above and parts below the water. It’ll be interesting seeing how they approach it. Just chop it up and haul it out the way then chop it up smaller and take it out? What kind of kit is needed to do that kind of metalwork under water? Presumably a big payday for the commercial divers.
It looks like the central span (the only bit they need to clear to get shipping in) stayed in 2 big bits: I suspect there's nothing local, but there's probably kit in the gulf for rig work that can handle it in big bits.
If they need to chop it up and lift it girder by girder its going to be months.
 
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It looks like the central span (the only bit they need to clear to get shipping in) stayed in 2 big bits: I suspect there's nothing local, but there's probably kit in the gulf for rig work that can handle it in big bits.
If they need to chop it up and lift it girder by girder its going to be months.
Not girder by girder but chop into sections maybe? That will be interesting to watch , I wonder what kind of heavy lifting kit they will bring in, and if there’s anything capable of hauling huge sections of it out, and how big the bits they can actually move are…
 
Don't know wtf is causing Josh's recent mental spiral, shouldn't he be riding high with the money he was able to raise to fight bullshitters trying to destroy us and the net in general? Is there something else I missed?
ain't hard to understand
you need decay for the bad shit to die and for the new to take hold
like current AAA game companies and hollywood titles dying because the rot is so overwhelming they cannot do anything good
which makes people seek new shit, flood with money and praise smaller game companies that make great games like helldivers and movies like godzilla zero

you can't forge a golden age with rotting hands, so get new blood in that actually have the ability to make great stuff
 
It's pretty hypocritical the Republicans are calling the Baltimorgue mayor DEI mayor given there's nothing Republicans love more than putting random black people in high positions.
People keep saying DEI mayor, but I dont think the Democrats could put a white guy in Baltimore as mayor even if they wanted. They havnt elected a white guy since 1999, they keep electing felons like Dixon or grifters like Scott.

Good luck with that.

Congress will need to approve of the $1 Billion or so for the reconstruction. All the Republicans need to do is include a clause that the bridge has to have the same name.
Its also not the major civil rights incident for Baltimore, it will be the Freddie Gray memorial bridge.
 
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First reports were that over 20 vehicles fell into the water. It turned out later that they closed the bridge on time and all the vehicles already on the bridge cleared it.
I know. I'm just mocking the fact that media outlets are still calling it that despite death toll being on the level of an average car crash.
 
TBF from my understanding it saying "Availability" meant he's not currently being the captain of any ship for them atm. The Dali was just the last one he happened to be on last.
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So in theory he'd been off the ship by then.

(posted the archive thing earlier too, but yeah it mostly got ignored for the above reason.)

Probably just removed to try to prevent people harassing some guy that's not been on the ship in months.
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See, whenever I hear anyone complain about safety and inspection regs, I'm gonna point to incidents like this and remind these mental deficients that
Not ALL safety regulations are built the same though. But I understand how you mean. Problem is this is a foreign ship, which probably has no safety standards, especially from fucking india.
crew has an extremely good motivation for not mindlessly throwing wrenches into their engine system; their lives are in danger if the boat sinks.
You can motivate a monkey to try fixing a computer with a gun to its head, but this doesn't magically give the monkey intellect to fix the computer. Same goes for officers you mentioned, all the motivation in the world doesn't mean shit if you lack the intellect.
Shame. Shame. Shame everyone who has blamed DEI. Let MSNBC instruct you on the proper way to think.
Really hate how they always say "jewish space lasers" to refer to direct energy weapons. Literally nobody, even on here, have I seen refer to them as "jewish space lasers". Is this them admitting that jews are behind direct energy weapons?
 
they keep electing felons like Dixon or grifters like Scott.
Seems like the black people in Baltimore dun get they representation just fine

Really hate how they always say "jewish space lasers" to refer to direct energy weapons. Literally nobody, even on here, have I seen refer to them as "jewish space lasers". Is this them admitting that jews are behind direct energy weapons?
Marjorie Taylor Green said something about Jewish space lasers once, now they constantly bring it up because it's funny and makes righ-wingers look ridiculous and stupid.
 
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