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Video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland (CW: Likely deaths involved) (fxtwitter.com)
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My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

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[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

another w for buttigeige

[-] Deadend@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

I feel sick looking at that.

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

I saw a post about this less than an hour after it happened.

Infrastructure decay in the US has been something to be concerned about for awhile, but when I first saw it my first reaction was from a new kind of horror that will only get worse:

My first thought was that it was AI. The post I saw was written in a way that felt like AI bros excited about their new toy, what it could do, trying to bring the horrors it creates to relevancy by creating a fake news story.

And after all that, it actually is a real tragedy where real people died.

This plus drama about contrapoints and philosophy tube have filled my Twitter feed with the seemingly ever increasing presence of chuds, who seem to be of a new breed lately on social media, much more aggressive towards all leftists on there then I remember.

Anyway, it's hell world

[-] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Sorry but what would lead you to believe this Is AI?

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

The context of social media feeds, this has been more of a problem on Instagram, there's a 50/50 an image that initially looks interesting is AI or real but on a page that thinks any buildings made before the 20th century were built by aliens.

That and catastrophic engineering failures are commonly rendered enough that a leap to AI seems reasonable. And the poster basically accompanied the video with saying "poggers"

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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

If it were me I would simply not build a bridge that has no safety precautions against getting rammed by container ships, but I am built different.

[-] Site_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

I dunno if there's anyrhinf you can do to protect a bridge from that

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Putting some dolphins in place might be a start

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[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

I think modern bridges have artificial islands below the water that larger ships will run into, although I don't think those would have done anything against a loaded 300 meter ship like that.

[-] Grandpa_garbagio@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Port of Baltimore being sorta closed down seems like a bit of an issue for the treat machine no? Anyone have any idea what the knock on effects of this might look like?

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[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

At the very least, it doesn't sound like there were very many vehicles on the bridge. Imagine if this happened during rush hour.

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

it's typical burger dreg construction

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Always anchor your bridge supports to huge chunks of solid concrete, folks

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

But that's expensive

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