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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Who said that? I said the third world has a different safety culture (ie largely absent.)
Are you associating the first world with white people? Bit racist, your bias is showing. What about Japan?
Fwiw I don't think the "third worlders" have a poor safety culture because they're being lazy and negligent, I think their planes and boats are in crappy condition because it's the best they can get their hands on, and transportation is a necessity.

Everyone in this thread is shitting on Indians (and apparently the Mexicans fixing potholes on the bridge who died during this accident.) Yet you're focused on calling me a racist for observing that those present are separate the world into two halves: the white-coded, firstworld one where nobody ever fucks up (which they liketo think they live in), and the shitty thirdworld nonwhite one, where everyone is retarded and incompetent (but they still produce the vast majority of our manufactured stuff, so it's a selective incompetence.)

Unfortunately, I live in a place that’s been recently plagued by Indians, which makes me confident that this happened because the ship was manned by Indians.
"I am mad at the Indians in my town, therefore this tragic accident must be the fault of Indians." ?_? lukewarm IQs up in here...
 
Fwiw I don't think the "third worlders" have a poor safety culture because they're being lazy and negligent, I think their planes and boats are in crappy condition because it's the best they can get their hands on, and transportation is a necessity.

Everyone in this thread is shitting on Indians (and apparently the Mexicans fixing potholes on the bridge who died during this accident.) Yet you're focused on calling me a racist for observing that those present are separate the world into two halves: the white-coded, firstworld one where nobody ever fucks up (which they liketo think they live in), and the shitty thirdworld nonwhite one, where everyone is retarded and incompetent (but they still produce the vast majority of our manufactured stuff, so it's a selective incompetence.)


"I am mad at the Indians in my town, therefore this tragic accident must be the fault of Indians." ?_? lukewarm IQs up in here...
It’s called a humorous shit post you stupid, fat cunt. But yes, I’ve had first hand experience witnessing how they operate in all facets, therefore I am aware of their incompetency and corruption. It’s not even about race, it’s about culture and class. Rich, educated Indians don’t need to leave India because they live like kings, and yet many of them still do because of how corrupt and criminal that country is, even when they’re taking part in it. ETA: and if the majority of a major metropolitan city is angry about the influx of Indians, it’s clearly for a reason far beyond baseless racism. And now that I’ve read your idiotic reply, it’s even funnier because you’re basically saying the same thing we are while calling us racist. And incase you haven’t noticed, everything that’s been manufactured in those countries has been garbage and defective at best for decades now, is that a coincidence? There is a reason people prefer to buy things made in North America and Europe, with the exception of Japan.
 
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Everyone in this thread is shitting on Indians (and apparently the Mexicans fixing potholes on the bridge who died during this accident.)
I don’t believe I’ve done either. It’s tragic that lives were lost, and very brave of the guy who who halted the traffic to offer to go and warn them (and as others have pointed out, that particular chap is very likely black) which would have resulted in him dying too. Guy is a hero imo. Quick thinking and correct response prevented much worse loss of life.
My point is that the third world has a terrible safety culture. The third world isn’t brilliant academics kept down by magical soil genies tied to the land, whatever nonsense Jared diamond spouts, it’s the cultures that inhabit it.
 
but they still produce the vast majority of our manufactured stuff, so it's a selective incompetence
Some time ago, my favorite camera brand moved a bunch of production out of Japan. There were two tiers of the new production stuff, though they came from the same factory:
  1. Made in [hole] with QA people they rotated in from Japan.
  2. Made in [same hole] with local QA.
1 was good stuff, appreciated by all but the pickiest snob. 2 was utter trash. It's all down to cracking the whip right.
 
There a comments tab on both pages, here's a screenshot from one:

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Basically an open comments section is going to have people saying shit like that cause they don't understand what the details were. It really does make sense to remove the guy to keep him from being harassed even if he wasn't the guy driving.

Tell me you have a confirmation bias without recognizing you have one.
Seriously. have you not heard of the Costa Concordia? El Faro? The Titanic? The Edmund Fitzgerald? There are plenty of shipwrecks with perfectly white guys at the helm, and the fault for those accidents is not attributed to the race of the sailors.

Spoken like somebody that's never really dealt with this type of shit, lol I bet you're a curry burner.

Fwiw I don't think the "third worlders" have a poor safety culture because they're being lazy and negligent, I think their planes and boats are in crappy condition because it's the best they can get their hands on, and transportation is a necessity.

You've literally never been to a third world country and seen how easy it is to bribe somebody (and for how insanely cheap) for about anything from the sounds of it.
 
You've literally never been to a third world country and seen how easy it is to bribe somebody (and for how insanely cheap) for about anything from the sounds of it.
Furthermore, how it's literally impossible to do things 'the right way' in such countries, because you're gonna just have to bribe anyway.
 
I'm seriously impressed by the Farms' collective faith in the existence of a black person who would willingly go near a body of water, much less the ocean, and who is able and willing to hold down a job.
It's Baltimore and a $200k+/yr job. You fully expect it to be a black person.

After looking into it more there were 2 pilots on board who acted quickly, did their job, told the captain and crew WTF to do, then shut down the bridge by radioing in. This shows competency and foresight in their job duties, ergo, not a black person.
 
Fwiw I don't think the "third worlders" have a poor safety culture because they're being lazy and negligent, I think their planes and boats are in crappy condition because it's the best they can get their hands on, and transportation is a necessity.
Literally the whole reason why they're poor third worlders is because they lack the ability to improve their lives. When they see the boats and planes in America (usually) working fine without crashing, they just assume there is magic dirt and not that diligent care must be taken. They lack the capacity to fully understand how important it is to do things correctly, and even if one does there's still systematic corruption that prevents them from improving themselves.

I recall a story about a guy in the poorest part of Africa who scrimped and saved to make a solar oven and cook bread to sell and better his life with a steady income, only for his family to come in and eat all his bread leaving him with nothing, so he gave up and never tried again.
 
Newer CVRs (the audio part) keep working even if the entire airplane shits down; the FDR will also record but may have nothing to record if the entire plane electrical is off.
They've really allowed lithium batteries in airplanes permanently in the recorders? Why not soak them in gasoline while they're at it?
 
They've really allowed lithium batteries in airplanes permanently in the recorders? Why not soak them in gasoline while they're at it?
According to wikipedo:

" With the reduced power requirements of solid-state recorders, it is now practical to incorporate a battery in the units, so that recording can continue until flight termination, even if the aircraft electrical system fails."

Whether that's a lithium battery or something more basic (I assume basic bitch) who knows. They already had a battery to power the locator beacon.

Remember the Dreamliner kept having some battery burst into flame - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Boeing_787_Dreamliner_grounding
 
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