Can't have people keeping the truth if you're planning to rewrite history.
TheCriticalMember
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IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia) Bridge Guide. I'm a bridge engineer. That "proper care and maintenance" line is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Sure, you can make timber last that long, but it's maintenance-intensive.
Trouble is, wood has a much shorter design life and needs a lot more maintenance than concrete. Concrete bridges have a design life of 100 years, while timber will likely need significant refurbishment within 20-40, not to mention constant inspections every year with testboring at 2 year intervals (per AustRoads) and they're often more expensive to build nowadays with the price of timber.
So yeah, they can look cool, but there are far better things to spend our money on.
The law is now whatever trump says it is.
Oh man, I really thought hegseth was a great guy before this!
Every business and country that kneels before trump just empowers him and encourages his worst impulses. They all know it, yet they keep doing it. That's why we're fucked. We're in the beginning of the end of a pretty decent run of mostly civilised society.
They won't even need to do that now that they've got drones and robot dogs with machine guns on their backs. A war between robots and people wouldn't be like it is in the movies, the robots won't miss.
That's why they no longer care about maintaining the economy. It's about controlling resources now.
Both the article and the summary forgot to mention HOW he was forced to scale anything back. I assume it's a court order? If that's the case, it remains to be seen whether it has any effect.
They'll make protesting illegal before it changes their minds. Hope you're all planning for that.
Cool and normal! 👍
Whaaaaat? No way! Things like this normally never happen when you take a bunch of untrained morons off the street and give them police like powers.