“It’s frustrating to see Musk take a genuinely interesting idea—applying reaction control jets to automotive handling—but then push it to its most showy and useless application. No one wants a car that can hop around, uselessly, for very short jumps.”

I’m thinking what we have is a couple of short pieces of square tube welded to the main hoop above the road with flanges welded to those short pieces. Then the sign bolts onto those flanges. The tubes are necessary to give clearance below the flanges for putting nuts on the bolts.

I’m more concerned about how the footing plates pulled away for the box section it was bolted to. Were those plates welded to the box section? Because the fasteners look intact.

The sign and the gantry it’s mounted on are less than a year old, as that section of freeway has recently been widened. The news report was saying the authorities did not know why it failed, but it was immediately obvious to anyone watching the news footage that the small struts with the square mounting plate you can…

COTD

My favorite was hole fitment week. Talking about tight or loose shaft fitments.

It’s Australia, gravity brings things up, not down.

It’s why in first world countries signs are attached like this:

Road workers aren’t yet exactly sure what caused the sign to fall

Wait until people find out that the post office sends all the letters to Santa to ISIS instead.

So the takeaway here is the only thing more obnoxious then Pewdiepie is his fans? Got it.

They also know the law. They have literally 0 excuse.

I still think police and politicians should face multipliers on their convictions, because they are in positions of power and we have no choice but to trust them. So if a crime normally carriers a 5 years sentence for a normal, powerless citizen, for a police officer or politician, it should get multiplied by 2.

People are OK though. I did claims in Philly once.... now there is a city that a) sucks physically and b) has terrible people.

1st Gear:

They’re closing 4 American plants too, you disingenuous twit.

Well that Escaladed quickly

this is a great time to reflect on just how easy it will be for ~2500 people to “just find another job” all at once.

I thought this comment said “I hope his asshole burns” and honestly I do. Forever.