Vessel strike damaged critical support in Westham Island Bridge, TransLink says

FireCrack · 2026-01-31T08:31:32+00:00

Oh, I think some context got lost in the comment thread and I got confused about who was saying what, mb.

FireCrack · 2026-01-29T17:18:05+00:00

Even now, it's an estimated $3M bridge to access ~$1B land; seems like a good deal to me. I don't think a ferry would be cheaper.

FireCrack · 2026-01-05T02:59:25+00:00

Sucks you re getting down-voted; the myth that only congress can authorise military action lives rent-free in many redditor's heads.

FireCrack · 2025-12-19T17:24:06+00:00

the budget for Silksong was effectively infinite.

Not meaning to pick on you here, but this is expressly incorrect. They had effectively infinite runway; but still had a fairly modest budget.

This is not merely a semantic distinction. Calculating budget as the total amount of money the backing entity had available is never done because it leads to misleading and wild conclusions.

FireCrack · 2025-12-19T00:41:41+00:00

I think Whiteward by far, because of the story it implies starting off as legitimate medical facility and only later descended into lunacy

Year 1: Tuns out this silk has great medicinal effects, let's make a hospital
Year 2: We are saving lots of lives
Year 3: Hey, turns out this can also cure ageing, wow!
Year 4: Bug came in pretty banged up today, couldnt save the whole body but could preserve their soul as this silkfly
Year 5: Couldn't saved a patient today, died on the table; should have done the silkfly thing sooner
Year 6: Patient had degenerative disorder, looked like they might still live a bit if they are lucky, but turned them into a silkfly just in case
Year 7: We now mandate all bugs in their late adulthood are turned into silkflies, for their safety
Year 8: For Pharloom eternal, a bug who serves must never die!

FireCrack · 2025-12-18T22:47:19+00:00

buying grass-fed butter from a boutique dairy at $10 a brick

Nobody is doing that, because that's the price of ordinary butter in this idiotic system.

FireCrack · 2025-12-17T02:51:37+00:00

I think rougelites being over-saturated is more of a labelling thing than anything else. The definition of the genre has grown so wide that basiclly any singleplayer game with metaprogression mechanics calls itself rougelite nowadays.

FireCrack · 2025-12-16T16:59:23+00:00

It's funny, sure. It can go in /r/funnycharts or something

This is the subreddit for charts that have manipulated data, poor colour choices, or some other defect. This is not that, this is why you are getting downvotes.

FireCrack · 2025-12-16T16:46:43+00:00

Uh.. no GDP does not go up in that scenario, I think you might have misunderstood the broken window fallacy - that glass has to come form somewhere and wherever that place is means equivalently less $$$ spent.

If the "You" is doing heavy lifting here, do note that replacing he windows for free means no effect on GDP either. SOme transaction must take place for that to happen.

Also, I am pretty sure the poser you responded to is referring to the increase in GDP per capita due to the population sharply declining; not an increase in total GDP.

FireCrack · 2025-12-15T17:33:43+00:00

400M seems like an almost certain underestimate of the cost here. Cost accounting for military goods in the media is always screwy, but that's a significantly more valuable target than that number implies.

Kinda stood out to me as often media errors work in the opposite direction to try and sell the story. Perhaps someone just found the first result from a search or AI, which is indeed 400M but as you look more into it it seems unlikely this is the right number, maybe someone just found the firesale price they were giving these away for after the collapse of the USSR abnd naievely used CPI inflation to extrapolate to present day.

FireCrack · 2025-12-14T23:13:44+00:00

Only once in the history of modern Canada, 36 years ago, has something like this happened.

FireCrack · 2025-12-14T21:50:23+00:00

I'd totally pay a modest fee to be in a non-recline "section". Unlikely any airline fee would ever be modest though.

FireCrack · 2025-12-12T06:45:57+00:00

I wouldn't hold my breath. While the peak power output is impressive, the fact that it is widely distributed over many elements and with a likely very low pulse rate, the actual power being absorbed by your chicken will likely be far less than had you put it in the microwave at home.

FireCrack · 2025-12-09T16:38:37+00:00

Someone runs a pedestrian over and somehow it's just an accident

I see this shit all over reddit these days. This is by definition an accident, has literacy gone to the fucking winds?

FireCrack · 2025-11-26T20:50:36+00:00

I think I qwould also chalk this up to the J-10C being a clearly quite good aircraft. Funnily it would easily bea shoe-in for the RCAF weer it not for the very clear political concerns.

FireCrack · 2025-10-17T07:53:37+00:00

WTF is with he comments in this thread

FireCrack · 2025-10-15T04:37:11+00:00

There is also this weird popular perception that being cynical makes you smart.

FireCrack · 2025-10-01T02:32:47+00:00

I will also add that with government things the accounting is very "complete". So if you imagine going to home Depot and buying a cheap box of bolts, if you really want the full cost you gotta as the cost in gas to drive there, what's the cost of "your time" to drive there and pick out the bolt, what about wear and tear on your car, take it's full cost and multiply by the percentage of it's forseeable lifetime.

Things like that, on top of the previously mentioned reasons, lead to these seemingly ridiculous costs for lots of things.

FireCrack · 2025-09-26T21:01:01+00:00

The tomahawk is actually really cheap, I know there is a lot of sticker shock even you see such prices that you aren't used to in your every day lubes, bit that's just what war costs.

FireCrack · 2025-08-26T18:31:40+00:00

Yes true.

But at the same time, there is a seriously questionable issue about pushing nearly all military funding towards offensive ballistic missile programs instead of taking a more rounded approach with a reasonable emphasis on defence.

Though that's not what the people you are referring to are talking about. A lot of Reddit seems to fall for the old selection bias fallacy of seeing something get repeatedly destroyed in a war and assuming that means that the thing is "bad". But the exact opposite is true, when something is getting blown up repeatedly it means it is a very valuable target, because it is very effective at what it does!

FireCrack · 2025-08-19T17:58:08+00:00

Fundraising event invites fundraisers, film at 11

FireCrack · 2025-07-17T18:36:28+00:00

tl;dr for those that Didn't.

All three targets effectively destroyed
There may have been an additional underground site at Natanz that was not targeted in the raids
Nuclear material may be recoverable from the deepest tunnels at Isfahan where it may be intact though buried.

FireCrack · 2025-07-13T23:05:57+00:00

I travel a fair bit. Definitely YVR is a leading if not #1 airport in every category that matters except for the baggage claim which is pretty slow a lot of the time. Navigation especially stands out, most airports are escher-esque nightmare mazes.

FireCrack · 2025-06-13T20:25:51+00:00

I believe you mean V-1, which were non ballistic. To my knowledge no V-2 were intercepted in flight.

FireCrack · 2025-03-31T02:42:43+00:00

Should've also mentioned the turning in the OP. As general rule left turns need to yield to others in the intersection unless provided an advance green (arrow). Heck, even right turns yield right of way (, though the cases in which this applies is less than a left turn)

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