• @[email protected]
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    601 year ago

    Like back in the day when the Romans would have the engineer stand underneath the bridge while it was tested.

      • 🧋 Teh C Peng Siu DaiB
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        171 year ago

        Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

        Drive a single 18-Wheeler (hundreds in a day, whatever) over any ancient road or bridge you’re thinking of and you’ll see how false this statement is.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Survivorship bias.

        All the shit they made that didn’t last fell apart in 20 years, so it’s not around anymore for us to gawk at.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      101 year ago

      That sounds interesting, I did a quick search and couldn’t find any good sources for it. Do you mind linking yours?

      • @dukk
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        101 year ago

        It’s actually a common misconception. Here’s a good article which debunks that. TLDR there’s no true historical evidence that this ever happened.