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Gotcha.

Hold up. What if..... the serial killer cannibalized the rapist? I mean, now they're technically the same person and you can still have your sick and twisted fantasies.

Why would you teabag a rapist? He’s just going to bite your balls off and then you’ll be ball-less with a rapist chained up in your front yard. I mean it’s a small victory, but still.

Cool

I thought it happened to you.

Do you have the box and foam for that tv still? You're almost doing as much work to box it yourself so that it doesn't get damaged as you would by renting a U-Haul for a day or so and strapping it to the side with a blanket and some Home Depot ratchet straps. (FWIW, I have extensive experience moving musical instruments.)

No, it's not unfortunate. Striking a clearly marked and previously announced humanitarian aid convoy, even by accident, is a war crime. It falls under reckless intent at the very least. However, it appears things are worse than that: analysts are suggesting they were precision strikes on the convoy.

We haven't used a mover in years, and the last time we did they only moved furniture. The best advice I can give is to have the movers move things like furniture and appliances, and move everything else like dishes, electronics, valuables, breakable items and clothing yourself. If need be, I suggest renting a small (16') box truck for your smaller items because its a hell of a lot easier and faster moving boxes on a dolly with a lift gate.

I don't like having a beard, so I don't value it at all.

Holy shit, that's what I had for brunch too. Wait, I was talking about the strawberries and pancakes and bacon.....

That sounds like it might have been part of the settlement that was reached in '22 and cleared of challenges by the SCOTUS last April, but, it's a little weird that Treasury would be holding on to money that's already been paid toward a loan. Sounds like it was a really complicated settlement.

In 1984, tsar4 saw things…

The only thing I beat to a pulp is my dick, because these hands are for loving.

Motoring. It's motoring a boat.

And that's all before the time he threw a kettle ball at his son's strength and conditoning coach's head.....

Is it a bandwidth issue?

I guess it makes sense the VP would have to be crazier than the President, but damn.

I’m 8 miles away from one of those.

Was your uncle boning French chicks in 1984?

You know... in hindsight, the Puffy's "Jr. Mafia" might have had an entirely different meaning.

Pursuing and dismantling Hamas is not achieved through razing Gaza. In fact, bombing indiscriminately does precisely the opposite.

They do. Any pier strike is going to lead to the bridge becoming unfixable, but engineers can build bridges that can resist total collapse... for the right price. First off the best bridge for the application is a suspension bridge: it can handle the distance (the Golden Gate Bridge is longer), and it ha supports that are massive and easier to defend against should there be a ship strike. In my neck of the woods, we have a suspension bridge that's fifteen years older than the Key Bridge that spans the entrance to the Port of Los Angeles and is tall enough to not only handle cargo ships but cruise liners. Because it's a suspension bridge, both towers are on land and away from the channel. It was also $211 million in 2024 value for a 1,500 foot bridge (while the Key Bridge was $580 million in 2024 value for an 8,500 foot bridge). Building a steel truss bridge with safety features that will prevent total collapse will add to that cost and and also make the bridge less navigable since it would involve more support piers and limit the bridge clearance. Those two factors would weigh on any decision and lead city and state leaders who control the purse to choose to take the risk of mass casualties against making a critical roadway connection unaffordable.

Well, that's kind of my point. I'm not an engineer, but I spend my day looking at structural drawings and explaining to my clients why it costs the equivalent of a Lamborghini to install a panelized roof system. Steel truss support systems were antiquated by decades by the time the Key Bridge was first installed because failures similar to this one were becoming more frequent in turn-of-the-twentieth century truss bridges (from age, not from ship strikes). Unlike (for example) a suspension bridge, a steel truss structure disperses the roadbed load down through the support pedestals instead of up to an overhead structural member attached to towers. When one of those pedestal supports is damaged, all of the potential energy from the structure travels down into the missing support, pulling the structure apart. In this particular case, the design flaw is specifically in how the sections of bridge was connected to each other: there are no breakaway components that allow one portion of the bridge to fully collapse while allowing those supported by the unaffected support remain standing. You can see it's a design flaw because, in looking at bridge before the collapse, there are no obvious break points anywhere across that entire span and the two support pedestals are not sufficient to hold all the weight of the section above each by themselves. You'll likely never see a new steel truss bridge of this size ever built again, but you can still see smaller truss structures being built for railroad crossings and pedestrian bridges. All of those structures have smaller spans / more midspans and the pedestals are in-line with the horizontal spans as opposed to be suspended above by steel wings. As such, if one pedestal is damaged, the sections it supports will pull away from adajacent pedestals leaving portions of the bridge standing. This isn't to suggest that the bridge was built shoddily or that the design was glaringly negligent given the knowledge at the time (i.e. not up to code). Like you said, the bridge acted exactly like any model would have predicted given the displacement of one of its supports. It was just a cheap design for the era and a catastrophic failure was part of the calculated risk of building a bypass artery (it's 3 digit interstate).

I’m convinced.