"Svend" (svend)
04/22/2020 at 23:09 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
04/22/2020 at 23:09 • Filed to: None | 3
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America if you thought your roads and infrastructure was in need of repair, check out this video.
20 badly damaged bridges and 200 illegal tunnels (don’t comply with European standards).
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Svend
04/22/2020 at 23:27 |
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The planet’s going to hell in
a hand basket.
NKato
> Svend
04/22/2020 at 23:28 |
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Nearly every Western nation is in a situation like this due to corruption and graft. It’s not a good look.
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NKato
> Svend
04/22/2020 at 23:28 |
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Nearly every Western nation is in a situation like this due to corruption and graft. It’s not a good look.
CB
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/22/2020 at 23:30 |
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To be pedantic, it's "in a hand basket".
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> CB
04/22/2020 at 23:32 |
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I know. Otto Corr ect doesn’t
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CB
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/22/2020 at 23:38 |
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My favourite is when autocorrect goes “oh, since you typed this second word, we’ll change your first word!”
This is why I'm not worried about a robot uprising.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> CB
04/22/2020 at 23:43 |
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That’s one of probably many things we ought to be worrying about. Soon, nefarious actors will begin f***ing with us by disabling the Internet, or whatever.
Nick Has an Exocet
> NKato
04/22/2020 at 23:47 |
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I really think you should consider moving to a non-western country, then maybe rephrase that comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#2012%E2%80%932019
ranwhenparked
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/22/2020 at 23:50 |
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“Going?" Entirely too charitable, we're already there.
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ranwhenparked
> Svend
04/22/2020 at 23:52 |
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What do you expect? Since when has Italy been known for robust, long-lasting concrete structures?
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Svend
> NKato
04/23/2020 at 00:01 |
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I don’t think every western nation is in a situation like this, a few maybe and some way more than others. C ertain areas are more prone to it than others .
In my area alone, when ever there has been really heavy rain fall or floods, all the bridges large or small, road or rail bridges get inspected for damage. I’m not saying were great in the U.K. by a long way.
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NKato
> Nick Has an Exocet
04/23/2020 at 00:26 |
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How about Japan ?
wafflesnfalafel
> Svend
04/23/2020 at 00:54 |
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yeah - same deal up here.... https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/west-seattle-bridge-was-on-a-road-to-collapse-engineers-reports-show/
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Svend
04/23/2020 at 00:55 |
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Only 20? There are 136 bridges in the Baton Rouge area which received a poor rating. https://bridgereports.com/la/east-baton-rouge/exhibit/
I once built a map for the area which showed all of the school bus routes along with the bridge conditions. There wasn’t a route that didn’t cross a bridge with a poor rating.
fintail
> NKato
04/23/2020 at 01:02 |
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German infrastructure makes this area look like the 19th century, and we have it better than many.
Low tax, low amenity, that’s what the drones want. You gotta pay for nice things and have a society that values them.
duurtlang
> fintail
04/23/2020 at 06:26 |
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The German infrastructure is crumbling as well. Badly. Maybe not as bad as elsewhere, but still.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Svend
04/23/2020 at 08:09 |
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Pretty scary....I thin
k most of the bridges in my area are fine, they seem to receive work often enough, but some of the roads are terrible...potholes and the like...
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Svend
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
04/23/2020 at 09:04 |
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Were not getting as many potholes in the plastic roads as we did in regular asphalt ones. We were the first city in the U.K. to mix some recycled plastic in with the asphalt and it seems to be paying off. It's passed all the weather and braking tests but also seems to be much quieter to drive on.
Milky
> Svend
04/23/2020 at 09:24 |
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You cant even see through it yet, still got a few good years to go.
Detroit - Windsor, ambassador bridge
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Svend
> Milky
04/23/2020 at 10:06 |
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Bloody hell.
Though to be fair, you don’t need to see through it before something drastic happens.
Genoa
and the last couple of weeks in Albiano Magra, Tuscanny.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Svend
04/23/2020 at 10:40 |
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Huh, that’s cool! I don’t think they do anything like that here, but they should!
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Nick Has an Exocet
> NKato
04/23/2020 at 11:26 |
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How big of a ladder did you need to pick that cherry?
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fintail
> duurtlang
04/23/2020 at 12:47 |
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I am sure it is everywhere thanks to a certain generation who came of age when everything was freshly built, and refuse to pay it forward.
I suspect even my relatively first world (relative to much of Murka) state is like Beirut 1985 compared to Germany, however.
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duurtlang
> fintail
04/23/2020 at 13:04 |
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Ah yes, the generation that were babies when everything started to boom. Let us not name them the locust generation, as they might get offended.
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fintail
> duurtlang
04/23/2020 at 13:36 |
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But they’ve given us so much.
Here’s Seattle’s latest infrasructure nightmare, a large bridge on one of the most major commuting arterials failing decades before slated replacement:
Add this to a stupendously expensive light rail project exacerbated by prior generations refusing federal funding for a system ~45 years ago (the same types who now bitch and moan the loudest about the expense as they don’t want to pay taxes on the now-fantastically expensive property they bought for nothing back when regular working people could do so), and I suspect nobody in first world Europe is envious.
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NKato
> Nick Has an Exocet
04/23/2020 at 14:10 |
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I just needed an ax.
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duurtlang
> fintail
04/23/2020 at 15:05 |
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Having proper infrastructure for different types of transportation (on foot, on a bicycle, in a car and public transportation) is something I regard as a form of freedom. It is odd to me you only have 1 out of 4 in the US, and (as a society) are fine with that utter lack of choice.
“I suspect nobody in first world Europe is envious.”
That is correct.
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fintail
> duurtlang
04/23/2020 at 16:41 |
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Hey I have the freedom to risk my life on foot or on a bike due to lack of enforcement , commute 2 hours each way if I want “affordable” housing, or deal with a beleaguered bus network or a small light rail system (the former not a real option if I want “affordable” housing) that might be finished by the time I retire. Choices! Freedom!