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runcibility:

Transcript: “This might sound like a hot take, but I feel like the Internet’s obsession with uniqueness is causing legitimate brain rot in some people.

There’s no reason why something like mental illness, for example, should be turned into this commodity where you like, get internet points or social currency by being different.

It’s like, by trying to break the stigma, we’ve just come full circle, where now nobody knows what the hell any of these words actually mean.

So when you explain what a panic attack is, people are like "Oh, like that’s like actually really scary.” & “Not something I just experienced when I couldn’t get Taylor Swift tickets”.

And I know this is going to piss some people off so just brace yourself, but I see it the most in fellow white people - Especially people that are like upper-middle-class.

Look, I’m just gonna say it: whiteness gives us access to everything but oppression. That’s the one thing we can’t colonize. So what do we do? We turn oppression into social currency - Because we know if there’s one thing we can do, it’s make money off of something that doesn’t belong to us.

And before the people that grew up on a cul-de-sac start to get offended in my comments, actually listen to what I’m saying: Don’t intentionally misconstrue it because you want to be oppressed. Just be happy and lucky you aren’t.“

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laszlocravenworth:

i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy

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steve doesn’t realize that he and eddie are dating because he used to have really weirdly intense sleepovers with tommy and now he and robin share clothes and a brain cell so when he and eddie sit on each others laps he’s just like “yeah this is how normal friends work :)”

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qprstobin:

I want a Steve who genuinely doesn’t want to play DnD because it’s just not his thing! He enjoys watching and thinks some of it seems fun, but just isn’t interested in the time commitment, or the math, or various other parts of it.

HOWEVER he does demand, like a child when they find out someone is writing a book, to be put in every single campaign as a random npc. He doesn’t want to sit down for hours roleplaying, but he does want that seductress in the tavern to have good hair and be named Stevana.

And this isn’t like, something the others don’t know about, it’s very obvious who it is each campaign. Sometimes Eddie even convinces Steve to do the voice for the character if it’s a fun one and Steve isn’t at work. Steve enjoys how much it both amuses and gets on various Hellfire members nerves, especially because his characters are always… Pretty out there.

Gareth and Jeff tend to be amused by Steve’s characters, unless they are actively getting in their way and even then Jeff at least normally just finds them hilarious. Freak continues to want to study Steve like a bug. A crowd favorite for the CC members but a point of annoyance for the Party was the character that Steve pitched that was infatuated with that quest’s main villain and would appear randomly just to say something really suggestive about the big bad, inconvenience them somehow even in a really minor way, and then dip. They were definitely supposed to be rescuing Stefano at one point but he was basically kidnapping himself at several points. Dustin is perpetually annoyed because Steve won’t play with them for real, but he WILL play a random bimbo that starts them on a quest and enjoys flirting with the older members characters.

(Will and Lucas are… Maybe a little disappointed he’s never flirted with their characters but also, Steve would never do that lol.)

Eddie is fine with it, he thinks this is a great compromise. He gets that Steve doesn’t want to do hours long storytelling sessions, but this way he still gets to enjoy time with Steve doing one of his favorite things - creating characters and writing the most annoying stories possible. He loves that Steve is participating in even just a small way, and honestly only having him participate for a little bit at a time is better for Eddie’s ability to stay on task anyway. He knows Steve wouldn’t have fun being a player but he also knows Steve loves being a problem.

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vampiremuney:

“i wasn’t very careful with it” … yeah you could say that

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schizophrenwitch:

surely this is a good idea that doesn’t have the capacity to end real fuckin badly

Bridges aren’t supposed to have weight restrictions on them. That is, they don’t come with weight restrictions on them when they’re new. So a bridge with a weight restriction on it is a sign that something has gone wrong and the bridge does not meet current standards.

The maximum weight that a vehicle is allowed to carry on the Interstate System per federal law is 80,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (with a max of 20,000 pounds per axle). That’s 40 tons. That limit applies to every inch of pavement, not just the bridges. Since this is a known cap, a new Interstate bridge will be designed to accommodate an 80,000 lb GVW load on it. You could say the bridge’s weight limit is 80,000 lb/40 tons but that doesn’t really have much meaning, because a load higher than that would be illegal to transport on public roads anyway, and the road leading up to the bridge has the same weight restriction. (In practice, the bridge doubtlessly will be designed to have a little bit of let to it just in case some idiot tries to squeak by a few hundred extra pounds.)

Now, note that that law applies to the Interstate System only, because the federal government only has a governing interest in the Interstate System (and other roads that together make up something called the National Highway System) because they partially fund it. Most long-distance roads are owned and funded by the states. The states could theoretically set lower standard weight limits and/or design bridges with lower weight limits…but in practice they don’t.

One, because all of that 80,000 lb GVW traffic on the Interstate system has to go somewhere when it exits the system.

Two, because a group called the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO, who are best known for picking the road numbers) maintains a catalog of standard components for making bridges that meet Interstate System requirements. Engineers are expensive on a per-hour basis, so if you can direct your engineer to use standard components and make a standard bridge, that’s a lot cheaper than having them design a bridge from scratch to go over the creek in Nowheresville. As a result, most new bridges meet Interstate standards and have an 80,000 lb GVW rating even if they aren’t on the Interstate system. (This is also why all new bridges kind of look the same, but we’re not worried about how boring the bridges are for the sake of this post.)

So a bridge only has an explicit weight limit if it has been damaged in some way (through failure to properly maintain it usually) or because it predates the application of Interstate System standards and the standard AASHTO bridges.

Older bridges often have other problems in addition to the weight limits: many older designs are what we call “fracture critical”, which means that if one component of the bridge fails the whole thing collapses. Modern bridge designs have redundancy designed into them so that if one beam fails the other beams will carry the load until the damaged beam can be replaced. Older bridges also often don’t meet other standards, like height (16 ft clearance) and width (12 ft per lane plus 14 ft for shoulders) requirements.

Biden isn’t advocating eliminating weight limits and letting it be a laissez-faire free-for-all where trucks can just go wherever they want. He’s advocating for replacing bridges that carry weight limits with new ones that don’t have them.

wow i got absolutely schooled thank you for all this this is really informative. i have learned so much

This is a great explanation of what the fuck Biden was talking about in his tweet. because I will freely admit that I also went “…….wtf?????” when I read it. So thank you.

Today I learned about civil engineering.

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gauntletqueen:

badsciencejokes:

Love the puns from Pun Hub

Allow me to add my favorite

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