Please don’t eat the smelly cake, I want you to be happy

You joke but um… yes. Don’t look at LinkedIn. the Architecture/Engineering/Construction industry is deeply fucked

Brooklyn Bridge was built to carry rail, and I believe it did so for several years, though it doesn’t anymore

Uh there’s a bridge in Brooklyn that has something to say about that “first”

It’s double decked (in that there’s a public walkway above the roadway) It’s also suspension and cable stayed, because suspension bridges at the time were having stiffness problems, so the Roeblings added a cable stay system overlapping the suspension system.

Ok I didn’t watch this but why does Deafula bear an uncanny resemblance to another deaf character, Riva (Howie Seago) from Star Trek TNG S2E5 “loud as a whisper”

Every accusation a confession of course. We knew they used Palestinian children as human shields (which is worse, of course) but here they are doing exactly what they accused Hamas of doing.

I also wonder if this sort of thing is what stopped Israel from going further in the 12 day war. Iran claimed they had uncovered secrets, but blowing up a super secret base is proof.

fixed your link

that’s very frustrating. Not even having the balls to go as far as they’re legally allowed to.

I’m confused; the tracker still shows them well inside international waters. Did Italy leave prematurely, or is there a problem with the tracker, or is the border not where I think it is?

It does seem like this is extremely poorly suited for the kind of wars the US generally fights - ie against guerillas. Squad will drive up to the edge of the ‘combat zone’ which they’ve predicted or defined, and either be attacked on the road or return from a suspiciously easy victory to find no more vehicle. I can see it working better for a peer conflict exactly as a jeep is used, but it seems like even in a peer conflict the combat zones are going to be fuzzy and these will be attacked by special forces or by UAVs while they’re in ‘safe’ areas. With those two applications off the table, the only one left is butchering unarmed civilians - the open top leaves a lot of room for small arms fire from all 8 passengers in any direction. All that said I have no idea how wars are actually fought…

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You’re never too old to dress like a toddler. I make and wear short shorts with boats on them.

Lib content warning: There’s a segment about why we got into Vietnam - smol bean president of South Vietnam was being overrun by communist hordes and asked us pretty please would we just destroy the jungle so he could win?

The video is great though.

Link is broken - I think you need ‘https://www/.’ prepended, otherwise it prepends the hexbear URL to this post

Thank you for your valiant effort

Please Binmaster, I have been looking for a 40cm x 40cm bin or tote for ages, and cannot find one for sale in the US. Do you know of one? they all seem to be rectangular.

In Canada (and other non US places)

No you’re right. I suspect that if these figures are both true, the average number of times a garment is worn and the average number of garments a person buys are not really comparable due to their methodology. Also, is 24 the gross number of garments purchased, or the net? if people buy much more than 24 and then return them (and they’re not resold), the 7 wears figure becomes more believable.

You’re missing that the hypothetical clothes wearer has already bought 24 items from each of the previous several years and only regularly wears a small percentage of all those pieces.

Also, it’s the average number of wears for a garment, rather than the average number of times a person wears a garment. Plenty of garments are never worn, while most people will wear each garment at least once.

I have seen figures as low as 1 wear. Loads of fast fashion clothing is bought and quickly returned (wrong size, changed their mind, etc), and these often cannot (by policy) be sold again so go to the landfill.