People should remember shit like this next time they can’t be adult enough to just sit in traffic without flipping the fuck out.

Close. Going by the video and model they show of the bridge, it was not complete. It lacked the second shorter span, the cable support tower between them, and the staying cables meant to hold up the spans in tension.

Compare the accident scene to this model:

This isn’t any more funny just because you posted it on multiple comments.

I have a feeling this will be one of those cases future engineers learn about in class.

People: read the links in the story before you pass judgment. If you want a quick overview...

Exactly, it’s comical that this is an option at all.

Of course. It’s the way of the cat.

I love sleeping in bed with pets! My current kitty will occasionally sleep in the bed with me and my husband, but she goes through phases (one week it will be in bed, the next on a nightstand, etc.)

I have a chair right next to my bed. (I put it there for my older cat for ease of getting off and on my higher than normal bed) 

You ask this as if we have a choice in the matter. If my cats want on the bed, they come on the bed. If they want off the bed, they jump off the bed. If they want to be fed, they stand on my head until I wake up. My opinions don’t matter.

Remember when poor Jack was lost in the river crossing? Why the hell did Pa make him swim instead of popping him in the wagon to float across??

no deaths in the Little House books

I adored these books as a kid and they’re still a comfort read for me, but I agree that they’re a totally different read as an adult. For instance, Pa is clearly Laura’s hero but he’s also kind of an asshole to uproot his family constantly and put them in precarious situations (notably the move to Indian Territory).…

Yeah, the part where Laura watches the Indian tribe being driven off their land and fixates on the Indian baby with black “button eyes” and wants to kidnap it really freaked me out when I reread it. Also, in Little House, the family is illegally settling on Indian land and gets evicted by the army. WTF?? As a kid,…

I have a friend like this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her stay single for longer than two weeks at a stretch. We’ve been friends for 24 years (since we were 14) and she’s probably been single a grand total of four months in that time. The main result of her inability to stay single is that she convinces herself that…

American Idol.

Meaning “You don’t match my preconceived notions of what X should be, so I’m going to attack you for not matching my own stereotypes.”

But DNA doesn’t matter.

Not to say that Elizabeth Warren has any native heritage to find, but I’m surprised so many people seem to have so much faith in these DNA tests. People treat the most like they’re solid science, but they’re barely more trustworthy than your horoscope. You can get different results depending on which company you…

“But they look white” is the weakest argument I’ve heard against an indigenous person’s heritage. Good lord.