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political scientist, jew, chaös muppet, gemini. please, for the love of god, do the readings. she/they/eepy absolutely-not💙☁️
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Joined April 2019
if a couple more people join us over there, we can do grand rounds together
doing rounds [checking in on all my online friends in their little enclosures making sure they've got enough activities and enrichment and snacks and sippycups and such, noting their hyperfocus of the day and charting it aganst previous days, monitoring emoji and lmao use, et c.].
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hi! former naval engineer here! no bridge is designed to take a laden container ship *under its own power* just fuckin' piledriving main supports intersecting the bridge body. the material you want that does this is called land. no material is eating 116,851 tons moving at 6 kts!.
this is not a fun iteration of Big Boat Stuck Day. take it back.
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@DiscussingFilm a key and peele sketch where peter dinklage is asking for the studio to do the bare minimum on disability representation, and the script doctor is coming back with 'ok what if we had a girlboss dwarf named twerky'.
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@showmetheyamz also the incubation period isn't the same as the symptomatic or infectious period, they're just saying words.
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one way to think about this is as a kinetic energy problem but i invite you to consider it as a momentum problem instead, because holy fuck nothing on earth is going to generate the sort of impulse over the space of several feet. even if you shut the engines off.
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modern bridge building is a nightmare because you cannot know what the true load of a bridge is. it changes, by a lot. due to literally everything. time of day. tide. current. weather. loading. speed of loading. wind direction. bridge frequency because it's a standing wave.
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so we try to build the same bridges that we know work well. and slap a cozy safety factor on them. but the truth is that a bridge is only as strong as its weakest piece, we get lazy with safety factors, and nobody fixes things until there's bodies in the harbor. [this is Bad].
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imagine you are holding hands with your friends in a line and you are making fun little wave shapes with your arms. you have to do this. now the worst thing ever. being hit by a truck at like 60 miles an hour. so you're obviously having a bad day. but what about your friends?.
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engineer [cheerfully]: what you need here are some bollards!.marine engineer [reloading shotgun]: the standing wave won't let me die.e: yikes! is that a ritual circle to invoke dark gods?.m: bitch you know that is an approved method for calculating safety factors. we're both pe's.
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in numerous scenarios your arms have become detached from your body and have subsequently struck or even thrown your friends. all that energy from being hit is going places. it's gross! but that's how physics works. you may wiggle and/or spinny but you cannot just stop.
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@APStylebook ap, out here: burying the real story: that you can skip a space after a comma if you add an extra one back in later.
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@CaptainCanucks8 @UweBollocks i love internet dudes who scream that things are FAKE FAKE YOU'RE A FAKER because it was like the first family guy joke and it's nostalgic for me; but also because i like laughing at grown adults who are proud of their technical improficiency.
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@acabstudios narrator: in the early hours of independence day, 2021, a group of confederate insurgents are routed after resistance by local elements -under the command of general gritty- deters them from their objective [presumably to stop the liberty bell from teaching critical race theory].
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i don't think intentions meaningfully alter the physics of the collision. they are practically massless and aboard ship they're still part of its inertial frame. we design systems to limits. nothing is everythingproof all the time.
@carpethefish you do understand that there is zero indication that this collision was caused on purpose, right?.
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if twitter would stop crashing i could say more but this looks like a correctly-shaped answer. everyone congratulate this nerd for doing math and knowing stuff. we love to see it!.
@CWirostek @carpethefish The force required to stop a container ship in 6 feet is ~ 0.5(1E8 kg)(3m/s)^2/(2m) = 200 million newtons (aka 400 jet engines worth). That ain’t going to do it, kid.
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private equity groups are inherently incapable of running any business for any period of time and should be prevented from managing any corporate entity as a class.
🚨#BREAKING: Red Lobster, the largest U.S. seafood restaurant chain known for its seafood and famous cheesy biscuits are getting ready to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as next week after suddenly closing dozens of restaurants.
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@girldrawsghosts imagine dying and discovering that your worst quality is that you're nancy reagan
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@TheRealJQuinten @ZackBornstein @MELANIATRUMP @JustinTrudeau why would you watermark your ai art query results, literally nobody ever anywhere is going to use it.
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@NickTagliaferro you're laughing. houston is building the large hitler collider and you're laughing.
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sorry i broke my own thread.
@Drakshal when you are bridging a multimile strait with deep water you can afford to build out. baltimore harbor is –to use a technical term– shallow as fuck. people need that space for actual maneuvering. it's a harbor. it gets crowded. dali's draft was ~38 ft.
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We're uncancelling things Netflix has cancelled. I'll start: Santa Clarita Diet.
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i have been doing a physics lite thread if you even care (scroll up for a surprise).
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can i tell you a secret? .most forces are irresistible. momentum can be deferred but the reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.
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a car weighs 2 tons we should probably keep them off the bridge too huh
I’m not an engineer so I will retract my take if it’s wrong. It just seems wildly negligent to me to have 2 ton ships crossing under a public-use interstate bridge than CAN completely collapse it? I grew up in Houston hearing about collisions in the ship channel but not collapse.
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tell you what, i'll consider your experience valid if you can tell me the impulse required to stop the ship in 3 feet. there's enough information in the thread to boe that, but feel free to incorporate a tide table into your calculations. show all work.
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folks can we get a ruling on whether voluntarily taking the bridge instead of the tunnel is ableist, actually? i haven't seen that take yet and i think we might be able to get ahead of it before it becomes Discourse.
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@molly0xFFF please tell me they opened a gmail account an hour ago and named it legal department.
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@realDonaldTrump I hear he has a MAGA tattoo. Very curious. why do Trump supporters murder people at over 100,000 times the rate that Antifa has? Many people are saying that you're telling them to do it with your racism and hate filled words. Someone should investigate it.
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@Drakshal it is an infrastructure problem. but this would happen to a land bridge if a container ship plowed into it, too. if you don't want this to happen it has to be land, on the ground, with no bridging, where the literal earth can push back against the ship at every point.
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new visitors to my timeline don't know about bad girl jail but my friend is very good at solving mysteries. it's her special interest.
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there's lots of real answers. you could build a bigger tunnel. you could stop docking container ships at dundalk. you could require tugs. you could require more thorough propulsion system checks on start. you could build the bridge farther away. lots of real answers.
@carpethefish The only real solution would be to have a bigger bridge that somehow doesn’t need a support in the middle of the shopping lane, correct?.
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@APStylebook i'm not even going to go into the truly wacky double colon use here. neither example begins with an independent clause. and the ALLCAPS'S is truly unhinged.
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@jurassicpatek @vampiric_shirin your tweet could have been 'It was a good point, written poorly'.
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i think this is a strong new discourse topic but what if i told you that nearly every bridge in america built on land would be built on stolen land?.
@carpethefish @ItsMeChrissilee Next conspiracy: why dont we just build every bridge out of land.
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absolute warriors in the replies.
@CWirostek @deford_david @reeplcheep @carpethefish THE BOAT IS OVER 100000 TONS. HOW MANY IS A FEW CHANDLER?!?!?!?.
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the video at the top here is not the one I was looking at, you have to go back to the one like 5 hours down the page to see any flickering and it's obvious there's already impact at that point. Idk what they're seeing that's earlier
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@dogfanhan they're right actually. a neurotypical can't consent to sex with someone with adhd because neurotypicals don't have souls.
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yeah man fenders will not help actually. scroll up for proof!.
Notice how the Key Bridge had no fenders. This is why fenders are so important. The only type of protection in this case was the foundation itself, which was not big enough to alter to the course of the ship given the concave shape of the hull. Poor design. 1/2
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@kingstonwrites so many men are telling on themselves by saying that they did something slightly different and all i want is to necromance some bees and start up some sort of undead honey farm.
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55% of Democrats don't view climate change as a crisis. Do you?.
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liz bruenig had hoes.
This isn't true. No one in the pro-life movement has either wanted or worked hard for something like this to happen.
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@ZoeSchiffer returning the separation notice with a notarized copy of 'i will abide by the results of this poll' asserting that elon musk has no legal authority to terminate employment at twitter.
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@Drakshal when you are bridging a multimile strait with deep water you can afford to build out. baltimore harbor is –to use a technical term– shallow as fuck. people need that space for actual maneuvering. it's a harbor. it gets crowded. dali's draft was ~38 ft.
save money, save lives. install dolphins around your bridge piers.
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yes my implication? insinuation? is that sometimes the limiting constraint on how much stuff you can build is how much space you have to build stuff. in baltimore that space is needed for transiting. you can't gak it all up with dozens of 6-meter thick bollards.
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@SpeakerPelosi so you find out about it yesterday and led a relentless campaign for like 5 hours and then went on vacation. is that the correct order of events?.
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[besides the obvious] what makes this bridge different from those bridges? (scroll up for clues!)
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a good nautical rule of thumb is to always listen to the navigator because they are going to have to answer for any dumb risk taken underway. captains may survive, but the nav almost always gets sacked.
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@clapifyoulikeme "conveying your condolences to a coworker for the passing of a foreign dignitary is national origin discrimination" is not the employer flex i was expecting to read today.
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if i were joe biden, i would simply not lock immigrants of any age in any cage.
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400 jet engines or 22/3 apollos. you can choose your preferred representation. important to note that since we're seeing some gatekeeping, they have baltimore in bio, so it's okay for them to talk about it.
@carpethefish 106,005,000 kilograms at 3 m/s is an impulse of 318,015,000 Newton-seconds. For reference, the total impulse required to send Apollo 11 to orbit was 495,000,000 Newton-seconds. Bridges are not built to bounce rockets off of their supports. This is an accident and a tragedy.
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@GoodPoliticGuy this is so sloppy. everyone knows you're supposed to use the Tapper format, provided here as a guide.
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@_thesilence9 @AsheliAtkins Explain it like this: a Ph.D is like going pro but for learning instead of sportsball.
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@dcharleyquinn crime doesn't pay, therefore crime is nonprofit and you're eligible for loan forgiveness.
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@AngryBlackLady i just heard about this and did some quick googling were you aware that women have a long history of legalized oppression?.
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@BrigadeBh @scumbelievable what's your favorite woody allen movie the one where he creeps on a child or the one where he creeps on a different child.
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@poppy_haze yeah uh I'm not sure how to tell you this but you are not going to teach yourself to resist waterboarding by calmly pouring a pot of water on your face over the kitchen sink.
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@lionel_trolling i would suggest that almost all fascism from the beginning through the midgame is inherently normie fascism.
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@AITA_reddit "Hi my boyfriend is a semisentient amalgamation of red flags but I'm concerned that I might be inconveniencing him by existing" is a strong AITA theme.
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big bird no! .
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@TheFilmUpdates this is offensive to me not because of fatphobia which yes we can all aspire to do better on but specifically because linda tripp is not being portrayed as having her hair styled by angry weasels.
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@NickTagliaferro the way i read the interview the thing he didn't plan was the return to original formula biljana, sort of a key element in the saga.
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with trump removed from twitter, this is now a red panda stan account.
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