It’s okay, neither does the Chinese government

While Tucci didn’t elaborate on this particular form of bad-faith acting...

It really does, pretty much the exact kind of place to have for charging stops, stop, wander, micturate, ingest, all while your car chugs down electrons on a fast charger, get enough range for another two hours or so on the freeway. Would do wonders for road trip anxiety in more rural areas.

The irony is that a buc-ees makes an even better argument as an EV charging station

The fact that this all went down on the first day of the month reenforces the “Musk isn’t paying his bills” theory. Had this all happened in the middle of the month, or if Elon had given everyone a heads up a couple days beforehand, like it was a planned outage, I might give him some credit.

Exactly. Metal doesn’t spontaneously sheer like that. Someone had to be ignoring clear signs of stress for some time. 

The fact that routine ‘daily’ inspections missed damage this catastrophic — and by all accounts, for over a week — would mean that *NONE* of the rides in the park are safe. Because their ‘inspections’ aren’t worth shit. And both the owners of the park *AND* the inspection staff need to be brought up on charges of…

“As part of our comprehensive safety protocols, all rides, including Fury 325, undergo daily inspections to ensure their proper functioning and structural integrity.”

You’re right. The force being exerted by the roller coaster cars on the track is outward. This would put welds holding the diagonal and vertical supports together into tension, not compression. It’s essentially pulling the weld apart, very very slowly

Seriously? Fuuuuuck that. If that’s true, I’m boycotting that shit.

Given maintenance teams are supposed to visually inspect the track on coasters every day before giving the goahead to operate and the crack was visibly forming at least a week before it was caught, you've got to wonder what the Hell they were looking at during those track walks.

I think that the problems that Elon and his sycophants were having with twitter - fear of liberal thought control and “canceling” of the right wing, were not actually the problems twitter was having- revenue and long term user growth- and that “solving” the former was in fact disastrous for the latter. 

If they keep going to this park, it probably won’t even need to be for that long.

I wonder if that’s an engineering error in addition to the structural failure? Thanks to the action shot you can see how that part is probably getting stressed in ways not intended.

I still maintain my original belief, that he bought the app to wrestle control over a large platform of people online, is responding to fawning bigots and autocrats by turning it into a safe space for him, is trying to leverage it for power by doing things like “trying” to launch Ron DeSantis’ campaign, and is doing…

Of course we know he has lied entirely about the reasoning, since what he did is not how you solve those things.

He signed TWO HUNDRED new laws today. Banning abortion after six weeks (women WILL die), muzzling teachers, dictating care doctors can provide...

Ironically, Ron Desantis’ poll numbers being such a drag makes him illegal in Florida!

Things like this are why DeSantis’s poll numbers are cratering. It’s become obvious that he has no principles and his governing approach is simply catering to whatever culture-war meme is getting the most current traction. To get a piece of legislation like this out of the current FL legislature with bipartisan…

Why help your constituents when you can keep stoking destructive culture wars?