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@devinmorrison11 @moondustan @stevemouzon @wrathofgnon That's not really where the higher cost is coming from. Sometimes the higher design life results in a stronger concrete grade being used, but that's chump change in the grand scheme of the project. The cost blow outs are mainly due to bureaucracy

@philthyphil83 @moondustan @stevemouzon @wrathofgnon Yeah and that's how you get a rail network that's billions over the original budget and been shrunk from country wide to a regional line lol

Reinforced concrete is fragile because it is self-defeating: the host material (concrete) is a really heavy sponge, delivering water right to the reinforcing that supposedly makes it strong, but water rusts steel. This bridge endured for less than a decade.

@moondustan @stevemouzon @wrathofgnon Not sure where you are based, but in the UK we are generally required to build infrastructure to a 100 year design life. On some current infrastructure projects (like the high speed rail line being built now) it's a 120 year design life requirement

@stevemouzon @wrathofgnon Average life of a reinforced concrete structure is 30-50 years is designed correctly. You’ve provided no evidence that that bridge is deficient because it’s concrete. It was most likely damaged by some type of impact and/or was not designed/spec’d correctly for it’s environment

@FelsJeff @C_S_Skeptic Seems normal for a private company to pursue profitability first before spending billions on exploration. Can't see how any private company would manage to do it the other way around

@C_S_Skeptic Despite his talk, spacex isn't in the exploration business. They haven't done shit in that regard. They've made sending shit into low earth orbit cheaper for their own profit. That's fine...but Musks a fraud when it comes to his stated goals.

So, here's something that needs to happen as soon as the IPO is closed - NASA needs to sue SpaceX for non-delivery on their Artemis III contract. Why? SpaceX literally has not built a SINGLE vehicle of their lunar lander tech map. Nothing. No HLS, no tanker, no depot variant. This cannot be allowed to continue - especially since the Artemis V provider, Blue Origin, has already tested out their pathfinder vehicle AND flight tested their Moon rocket New Glenn twice. The image in this photo will never, ever, become reality. Either investment in this garbage rocket is a sunk cost fallacy and endless money pit with no payout available at any point in the future. Fuck Starship, fuck Musk, and let's get going with the serious work that needs to be completed for Artemis III and onwards.

@MurrayHillGuy1 This was me when I was younger. Now I'm useless for like 2-3 days after a big night

I have a friend who’s never been hungover in his life but drinks like a 22-year-old on spring break basically every weekend. He Ran the United Half after 14 drinks the night before 8:30 mile pace so he’s not a fat piece of shit Has put up 20+ drinks in a night and wakes up like nothing happened. He’s been like this since college. Is this elite genetics or is his body just saving up one catastrophic hangover when he’s like 40? (He’s 29 right now) SOS anyone seen this before?

@Andrew_Smales @eda2026 US gallons are smaller than UK gallons. US gallons are 3.785 litres. At £1.55 per litre (the price I paid today in UK) that's £5.87 or $7.80 USD for a US gallon

@eda2026 Yum! Gas in the UK is £8 a gallon ($10.60)!

Today I went to the store and bought 17lb of ground beef for $77. Here’s how I did it: I chose the cheapest whole brisket at $4.46 per lb and asked the store butcher to grind it. It took him 5 minutes, and he even packed it into 4 separate packs. I thanked him and left with perfect, fresh ground beef from one cow. One pound of this cost me less than a gallon of gas in my area.😘

@ToddRStokes @CompletedStreet You're right, except for the cheap part. The trains certainly aren't cheap the moment you take a train outside of London - often far cheaper to fly between cities than take the train

Fun fact: The new Elizabeth line in London moved more people in 2025 than Highway 401, the busiest freeway in North America.

@queencuntessa @freemaowtf Agreed. Parmi it is

@freemaowtf It’s short for chicken parmigiana so it’s parmi. Anyone who says Parma needs the electric chair.

i have just found out that while australians have been debating for years on if it’s called a parma or parmi the fucking brit’s have been calling it a parmo and i think we just need to put our differences aside to shame this

@AdrianWarlock @innanet_man @freemaowtf Or instead of slippery, they say slippy. & chips are crisps & tomato sauce is ketchup like the yanks Absolute barbarians!!

@innanet_man @freemaowtf They're even worse than that. Instead of: "Have Chinese for dinner" They say shit like: "Have a Chinese"

@harrisondubay I don't want any shared space with my neighbours. No shared walls, no shared driveways etc. I can live with a shared fence, but nothing else

Why are Anglos obsessed with houses that don’t touch. What is the anorexia alley achieving

@milesdeutscher Brother take a break. Go outside and get some sun. There's more to life than spending all day on AI

I've been using Claude non-stop for the past year. I literally cannot live without these features. Do these 8 things, and you're already ahead of 99% of Claude users: • Custom Skills - easiest way to automate repetitive workflows (writing, grammar checks, research formatting, etc.) • Custom Plug-ins - the best way to literally automate entire roles - go to Cowork and set these up asap • Connectors - if you're not giving Claude access to your tools (Gmail, Calendar, Design tools, etc.) - you're leaving MASSIVE productivity on the table • Projects - take <10 minutes to organize your Claude • Stars - take <5 minutes to star the chats you use often (Skill chats) • Memory - every few weeks, go through your memory settings to reduce hallucinations • Extended Thinking - most people forget this exists • Claude in Chrome - most people have no clue this exists - Claude Chrome extension that enables Claude to live in your browser Everyone should set these features up ASAP.

@Tradermayne @abetrade My bro has coeliac. He drinks clear spirits like vodka & also some specialty gluten free beers. Apparently some of the modern gluten free beers are half decent these days he reckons, compared to the shitty ones that used to be available

@abetrade Vodka on gluten free ice

My doctor suggested I try gluten free for 90 days. Might be the worst thing I’ve ever had to do. Gluten is in everything? My entire search history is whether or not XYZ contains gluten.

@notthreadguy Send bitlord out to investigate like he did with covid 😂

we need someone boots down at the strait to tell us if ships are actually going through like wtf

@SalsaTekila There's probably a god, but likely not the one which anyone believes in. Something created the universe - it could have been anything like an advanced species, a computer etc. I highly doubt that whoever created it is especially interested in humans or the things we do though

@milesdeutscher Nah. Sam is desperate for cash. I think it's higjly likely he accepted their terms for the money

This is f*cking wild. The Pentagon just blacklisted Anthropic, labelling them a "national security risk". Trump called them “leftwing nut jobs", making a “DISASTROUS MISTAKE.” Just hours later, Sam Altman announced OpenAI had struck a deal to replace them. The crazy part is OpenAI’s deal has the exact same terms Anthropic was just punished for... Here’s the full timeline: • July 2025: Anthropic signs ~$200M Pentagon contract. First AI cleared onto classified networks. • Jan 2026: Defense Secretary demands models be usable for all lawful military purposes. • Anthropic agrees broadly - but sets 2 red lines (No mass surveillance of Americans, no autonomous weapons without human oversight). • Pentagon argues those guardrails could limit wartime response. • Anthropic calls that “patently false.” • Ultimatum: comply by Friday or lose access. • CEO Dario Amodei refuses. • Public attacks from Pentagon officials. • Elon Musk piles on. • Hundreds of AI employees back Anthropic. • Even Sam Altman says OpenAI shares similar red lines. • Feb 2026: Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic. • The Department of Defence labels Anthropic as a "national security supply chain risk". • Trump calls them “leftwing nut jobs”. • Anthropic announces it will sue. • Sam Altman announces the Pentagon has agreed to OpenAI’s terms for classified work So unless I'm missing something.. They called the guardrails “woke” and dangerous. Then struck a deal with OpenAI, which says it has the same red lines?

@im_goomba Yeah lol. Mine just stays set at 23C, 24 hours a day. Bills aren't that expensive. I ain't giving up comfort to say a tenner a month

While listening to a podcast yesterday, it got interrupted by a government sponsored ad explaining that you can save GBP 100 a year by turning your boiler down, tracking air drafts and turning radiators down in rooms you don't use. I don't know what surprises me most That a government would spend money on such a campaign or that people need to make such adjustments because 100 a year has an impact on their finance

@rickytheirish Take both sides on different accounts. If they screw over both sides, consult a lawyer I guess

This is why you simply cannot trust polymarket or ever believe in the army of sponsored shill posts people post about polymarket. Take a look at these pictures. In the last minute of markets, polymarket displays wrong data and confuses buyers (that or they make the live price or price to beat or both simply disappear) Shares are designed to always be balanced. They start at 50c each and the winning side goes to 1$ and the losing side goes to 0. In this case shares were 90c and 71c at the same time. They close the market as it being both up and then down. Then once the market is closed they go back and make the decision based on which side has the most orders & holders to liquidate and roll back the clock or advance it a few seconds. Total system inefficiencys one on top of the other. Either users are doing this with bots to exploit polymarkets barely functional site, or polymarket is behind this doing this to take users funds. This only happens in chainlink related oracle sourced markets and it happens every single day dozens and dozens of times. Users must understand how dangerous polymarket really is. If you add the dozens and dozens of other polymarket site "glitches" that reoccur daily and can happen at this exact time as well, users are faced with countless ways of losing their money that have nothing to do with being right or wrong. If you attempt to sell your position during any of the wide array of "glitches" you cannot. If you attempt to sell your position when the shares become inbalanced and are equal to above a dollar combined, you cannot. In all these instances your position could be in profit or at entry price or at minimal loss and you should have the right to exit your position if you see the site going haywire....you cannot, the "glitches" will hold you hostage and force you to hold it until it is worth 0. As much as i always try to give polymarket the benefit of the doubt.. There is always one thing that happens that makes it very hard to trust them, someone or something erases hundreds of comments in real time on polymarket every time this happens. Then if you come back later, in the comment section the latest messages are from 18 hours ago, or a day or 2 ago. I film my trading sessions and i have hours & hours of these comments appearing and then vanishing in real time. If polymarket is impartial to this activity, then why would they erase comments every time it happens? (This is not a random occurence, it happens dozens of times a day, every single day) How to avoid this? - avoid 5 min or 15 min markets or anything using a chainlink oracle as price reference. - avoid polymarket alltogether i guess. It truely astounds me that polymarket could get away with this, let alone even exist still today.

@Christophe27323 @JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll Down obviously. But that would be the same for literally anything, not just tech. I'm not making this up, it's fairly standard knowledge. A quick Google or AI search will likely tell you the same

@philthyphil83 @JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll Think about it like this. If you didn't need any knowledge or experience, and could hit a button and instantly finish the app exactly how you want it, would SWE salaries go up or down?

i am a trained software engineer with an ml grad degree & i ask this question with genuine sincerity. if you’re a software engineer right now, how do you feel about your future?

@Christophe27323 @JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll Generally, tech has high profit margins because once you've built something you can sell it at scale with relatively small ongoing costs. High profit margin industries consistently have higher wages. It's not due to barrier to entry, although that may form a small part of it

@philthyphil83 @JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll But the profit margins are the symptom not the cause. It's the interplay of supply and demand. Supply is affected by barrier to entry

@frameworkbuilt @milesdeutscher I've not used it for drawings yet - I will try that. I do run contracts, specs, ground investigation reports etc through it to summarise key points and find info quickly. But the overall impact on my role & the projects I manage is negligible

@philthyphil83 @milesdeutscher It's had impact, just not where the hype is focused. AI reading drawings and specs to answer questions in seconds? That's here now. Robots laying bricks autonomously? Still a conference demo. The useful stuff is boring. The flashy stuff is a decade away.

With how fast AI is moving, I seriously don't know how anyone could commit to a 4-year university degree. My businesses have been turned upside down in the last 2 weeks alone. You're going to bet that in 4 years the world stays the same?

@Christophe27323 @JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll It's not barrier to entry, it's the profit margins of your industry. I'd say the barrier to entry is higher for civil engineers, mechanical engineers etc than it is for software engineers. However those industries work on far lower profit margins, hence they are lower paid

@JelaniThompson_ @BKJester @signulll It's easy to start, extremely difficult to master, which is the point everyone's missing. Back in the 90s, web developers made almost nothing. As soon as complexity came about with smart phones, the wages sky rocketed. The barrier to entry is what creates the value.