Baltimore is the 30th largest city in the US. I was just reading this as an acknowlegement of the city’s size.

There were tugs that guided the ship out into the main channel then pulled away as they thought they were no longer needed. When the ship made a distress call they raced back but couldn't reach the ship in time.

Good lord, grow up, you fucking infant. It’s a second tier bridge based on its capacity and traffic volumes and its overall role in the highway network in the region. Baltimore is a third tier city by any measure in terms of population, real estate market, sports, whatever the fuck you want to use.

Part of the toxicity of the MAGA crowd is the default assumption that anyone with a non-European surname must have questionable legal status, where there’s no evidence that any of the people in question have any less right to live and work in America than Melania and her parents.

Hindsight is incredibly cheap, unfortunately. While that’s an interesting thought, the reality is that this situation, if written into a fiction novel, would probably be rejected by an editor or publisher as being “too unbelievable”, especially if the plot had it as a deliberate act of sabotage. Just like 911 - I…

The “they took our jobs” crowd will say it should have been legal US residents doing the work, but I dont see a whole lot of them wanting these god awful jobs. We run on immigrants being willing to do the jobs the rest of us dont want, and for the good or bad, being willing to do it for less pay than we would be…

I hope the readers here take note of the surnames and ancestry of the road workers who lost their lives here. Almost a year ago to the day (March 23, 2023) 6 workers were killed on another part of the 695 beltway when a car crashed through a work zone, and most of those workers were also from central America,…

The conspiracy theories floating around that this was purposeful are wild. A ship purposely knocked down a second-tier bridge in a third-tier city at 1:30 at night by faking a power failure. The rot is real.

“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street."

Makes sense that “god” wants to involve himself in ones day to day trivial life decisions. “God” can’t stop all the mass shootings, but he’ll interject himself into your life and give one direction on which retirement home to purchase. Craziness amplified.

Man, I always hate when he decides to hide the car keys!

all that “it was meant to be”, “gods’ plan” “everything happens for a reason” “preordained” garbage makes me want to vomit. Religious programming will destroy us all. 

Every single conspiracy wacko I have ever met has been incapable of handling uncertainty, chance, bad luck, chaos and randomness. They are such control freaks that they cannot handle that bad shit just happens. Effing small minded cowards. 

As I was staring out at the bridge collapse from my office in the Inner Harbor this morning I was wondering how long it would take the Right wing morons at Fox and elsewhere to blame this on one of their hobby horses. Didn’t take long.

I wish I was shameless enough to con rubes like this. Damn my grandma for installing me with a rudimentary sense of self respect and keeping me poor at the same time.

It’s clearly people gunning to get a Tik-Tok ASAP of the bridge collapse from up close.

The only video that’s worth a damn.

I’m sure Tesla will do a very, very, very good, thorough job of adequately explaining the limitations of their $12,000 FSD package to new buyers.

This is what I said in another article. Everyone is convinced these are good investments. I am not. How much are they giving Phil Mickelson to suck ass at golf on the CW channel?

The absolutely rotten Saudis (“Yes, we supplied most of the 9/11 hijackers. Murdering journalists on foreign soil, chopping them up, and getting away with impunity is our thing.”) sinking even more billions into that white elephant of a company is at least something dragging down those scum.