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Excellent information, I never heard this before. Thank you.

> > 1. Good people make good thing.

> 1. FUD

"Good people make good things" is 'fear, uncertainty, doubt'? Have you been huffing paint fumes again aspaceman? Try as you might, you'll never get to space that way; all you're doing is killing your braincells (which is probably why your head hurts!)

> "one of the worst things"

The set of "worst things about these disasters" includes a pile of corpses. Non-engineering members of the general public continuing to be non-engineers is not even remotely as bad as a pile of corpses. It isn't in this set.

> 20 years of pumping concrete is enough to know if it's significantly wrong.

No, that doesn't make sense to me. Concrete buildings are expected to last longer than 20 years, though not expected to last forever. If the shortcuts they take were cutting the expected lifetime of the structure in half, 20 years of experience would not be enough time to see those failures start to happen.

If the Hyatt walkway had been built as it was designed, I'm sure it would have worked fine. But was it realistic to build it as designed? The design called for something like 12 meters (12m is my estimate from it needing to span the 2nd to 4th floor) of continuously threaded rod. Is cutting 12 meters of continuous thread on one rod a realistic design? This is a real question, I don't know the answer but this seems suspect to me. Wikipedia says the reason the construction company changed the design is because they would have to screw the bolts past several meters of thread per rod and they thought such long sections of threading would be subject to damage during construction.

Obviously their "solution" was lethal. But the original presumably safe design seems impractical at best.

Instead of being passive aggressive with this psuedo-scoratic bullshit, why don't you just say outright what you mean? You're talking about covid.

A global pandemic is a shitty excuse for these hyper-local phenomena. It's not covid; it's the voting public of San Francisco (and two or three other west coast cities) and the disastrous politicians they elect.

Because anybody with sense prefers eating food to popping pills.

Wishful thinking.

Lmao are you serious? Source is 15 years of buying drugs. The illegal drug dealers only took cash, and now that buying drugs is legal, the legal dealers only take cash too. They have an ATM in their shop, but that's because they only take cash.

I guess you never buy drugs IRL, if you really want a source for "drug dealers only take cash". What's next, wanting a source for "water is wet"?

> Also, did you just forget we were (and we are) in a pandemic that started a year ago, forcing almost every person in lockdown?

Guess who stayed open the entire time? The drug dealers. They were excluded from lockdowns due to ostensibly being essential businesses who sold "medicine". And guess what, the entire time they have only accepted cash.

When I was a teenager on the swim team in the early 00s, the school had to ban 'deck changing' [changing into or out of your swimsuit in view of the public] because, in a game of one-up[wo]manship, it became overtly sexual with towels falling "by accident." The sort of prudishness described above surprises me.