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Wind stress? Don't be silly. When has wind stress ever been a problem for a suspension bridge?
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3279/
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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we might as well fire the regulatory committee, we haven't had issues with collapsing bridges in 50 years!
You got upper management written all over you, thank you for your shareholder value generation talents.
31 people went to jail for a bridge collapsed in Italy in 2018, they were sentenced last month: https://www.dezeen.com/2026/07/17/ponte-morandi-bridge-collapse-sentence/