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1. Chineseman 🟥 #nobot (iamal_pharius@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:26:31 JST Chineseman 🟥 #nobot
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   • d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:26:29 JST d

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     @IsraelDelendaEst @Paultron @IAMAL_PHARIUS often, old infrastructure is being loaded well beyond its design load
     
     they used fat safety factors and modern engineers just say "oh we don't need that big a safety factor" and recertify the structure for a larger load
     
     that works okay right up until it doesn't
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   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:26:30 JST Paultron-3030

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     @IAMAL_PHARIUS going to any major city is a series of dice throws for whether the unmaintained 120 year old infrastructure with a designed lifespan of 80 years does not decide that today's the day
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   • IsraelDelendaEst (israeldelendaest@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:26:30 JST IsraelDelendaEst

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     @Paultron @IAMAL_PHARIUS 120 year old infrastructure was built to last forever, they did not fuck around cutting corners.
     Problem is maintenance doesn't turn a profit, and the line must go up.
     Take the Forth Bridge for instance. It had a maintenance schedule that worked just fine, then somebody decided they could save money...
     >The bridge was costing British Rail £1 million a year to maintain (in 1995), and they announced that the schedule of painting would be interrupted to save money, and the following year, upon privatisation, Railtrack took over.[100] A £40 million package of works commenced in 1998, and in 2002 the responsibility of the bridge was passed to Network Rail.[100]
     
     Work started in 2002 to repaint the bridge fully for the first time in its history, in a £130 million contract awarded to Balfour Beatty.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:31:54 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @deprecated_ii @IsraelDelendaEst @Paultron @IAMAL_PHARIUS White men fueled by coffee and nicotine, armed with slide rules and smarts, created machines to last the rest of their lives. Now those have been inherited by their children who wonder if they can push them to go 2 or 3 lifetimes instead.

     I do notice that the whole SLEP talk thing seems to have subsided. Wonder if it’s on the outs, and they’d rather just buy new F15s and use the dying fleets as an excuse for more 35’s. I still believe a lot of their GWOT flights were meant to prematurely age the fleet to strongarm congress into giving them more F35s to begin with

   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 07:32:36 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     @deprecated_ii @IAMAL_PHARIUS @IsraelDelendaEst @Paultron computer hardware design is the same way, thermal limits went from "we shouldn't hit these" to "its okay your CPU is running 90 all the time" and next thing you know cpu burnouts happen now.
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