TheCriticalMember @ TheCriticalMember @aussie.zone

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It's time to overthrow the entire capitalist system. Come on somebody, be a leader. I'm too old!

Haha, saw the headline and came to argue something along those lines. It's our only hope at this point.

It's a very pretty confirmation of how fucked I already knew I am.

What an amazing headline. Why would the oligarchs fix the water system when the sellers of bottled water will pay them not to?

If you're going to link an article that requires a subscription or login, you should at least provide a summary.

3 times as fast as 100? I don't know what you're expecting here. It's 83.3 metres per second, if that helps. Your friend must have a nice car, there's not many that can go that fast, and even fewer that can do it and still handle predictably.

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.

Can't have people keeping the truth if you're planning to rewrite history.

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! 👍

Well, I'm sure that as soon as trump realizes this is contrary to the law he will immediately rescind the statement. The republicans are, after all, the party of law and order.

In what way is he your boyfriend? He doesn't sound like he is. Poly is really hard, and it's full of shitty people who use it as a justification for being shitty. Sounds like you need to do a whole bunch of work on yourself right now, and it doesn't really sound like either of your "partners" are good for you.