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I would want to first investigate how it happened and take care of the victims and their families. Then I would start planning the shiny new thing.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Already roughly 75 edits since the collapse.
What impressed me was that it looks like openstreetmap shows the bridge as down already. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/39.2144/-76.5279
Makes sense, you want anyone following GPS to divert from the scene ASAP. Caching-wise, I see the updated bridge at zoom 15+ but the old intact bridge at zoom ≤14.
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#74Was anyone driving across? I didn't notice car headlights on the bridge, but... edit: The guardian clip says vehicles were on the bridge.
I'm reading here on local news there were multiple construction vehicles on the bridge when it collapsed.
You can see the construction vehicles on the bridge on te right of the container ship, they are standing still and are running flashing lights. And they go down into the river ...
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Together we'll build the greatest bridge in the history of the world.
I'll be the first president to do it in that time period.
We'll build the bridge, we'll complete the bridge, and then we'll say: "let's do more", and we'll do a lot more.
There has never been anything like it, this great bridge of ours.
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I would want to first investigate how it happened and take care of the victims and their families. Then I would start planning the shiny new thing.
You're not qualified to run for president if you can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/presidents/gerald-r-ford-...
>Lyndon B Johnson is often reported to have said of Ford that “He can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” What he did say was “He can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.” The US media deliberately misrepresented the remark in the interests of decency.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk_and_chew_gum_at_the_same...
>walk and chew gum at the same time (third-person singular simple present walks and chews gum at the same time, present participle walking and chewing gum at the same time, simple past and past participle walked and chewed gum at the same time)
>(idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) To do two normally trivial tasks at the same time; to exhibit basic competence or task-management skills.
>Usage notes: Used in negative phrases to indicate incompetence, e.g. "He couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time."
>1978, United States Federal Trade Commission, Statutes and Court Decisions, Federal Trade Commission: The philosophy communicated to T.E.C. salesmen was to enroll any person who could "walk and chew gum at the same time".
Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvxZgCryUE
Ford on the Phone:
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would want to first investigate how it happened and take care of the victims and their families. Then I would start planning the shiny new thing.
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As long as people are still in the water, I would be reluctant to use it for political gains, but you do you.
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#80Oh, this makes me feel bad for Baltimore. Only bad news seem to come out of this town. Its reputation -- both domestically and internationally -- is mostly informed by The Wire, Freddie Gray/BLM, a dysfunctional city government, the 2019 ransomeware attack, the spoiled batch of J&J Covid vaccine... and now this. It's a real shame. It's a good place.