My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

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  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    No bridge is going to be designed to take a direct hit from a container ship. This is a multi level failure of the ship and the tugs.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I would think that bridges should have redundancy such that taking out a single support doesn’t cause total failure. Idk I’m not an entomologist

    • Egon [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      Most bridges have safety precautions to avoid a head on collision however.

      • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        ???? you're treatposting in response to a container ship hitting a bridge & causing its collapse. world's best communist stalin-approval

          • nohaybanda [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Bruh, did someone switch out your theory reading list for iseksai web novels or some shit? What world are you on?

          • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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            3 months ago

            looks like we've got the Big Communism Builder Himself right here. bask in His glory, He will awash the masses in communism and they will give thanks to Him

      • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        This is the kind of take that people point to when they say, "America bad is no substitute for an actual analysis"

      • Egon [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        Apart from treat discourse being a weird response to this, waterways are the most efficient way to move treats massive distances, so this doesn't even make sense.