Forget the technical BS of this moron, lets focus on the gofundme nonsense.
So I pay into this gofundme thing and that makes me partial owner of that bridge, just like the others who participated. In what fantasy world do you live if you think that bridge will not be blocked for all others who did not participate? Will the people out of the kindness of their hearts allow others to cross that bridge?
If you believe that this bridge will not cause people to throw hissyfits and consider it private then I have a bridge to sell you 😂Well normally investors would want tolls, to, ya know, profit off the investment
No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn’t be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape
Huh? That sounds like what? Gov–
Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME
I live near the projects (no judgement, I had my stint in the pjs) and there’s a dude who lives there who flies a “don’t tread on me” flag. Guess he doesn’t mind treading so long as it’s paying his rent though. 🤔
He recently upgraded it to the “thinly veiled let’s overthrow the gubmint insurrection 1776” flag. It makes me want to drop a note in his mailbox asking who will pay his rent if he overthrows the govt?
Yeah but he’s just a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire, the rest of these welfare queens are out here collecting rent and sitting around all day. They don’t need the money like he does. As soon as he gets a job, he’ll hustle that first billion in no time.
Hmm maybe everyone should be responsible for their OWN bridge, just so it’s not socialist.
That’s a bridge too far.
Model train set?
Three day special bridge rebuilding operation
Bold words
Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they’re talking about and are about to grift people
That’s a great instinct to have in the current landscape, but keep in mind the rise of machine learning is happening. And there are a few really cool and good use-cases for it. So it might be a hindrance to yourself to automatically throw out anything to do with “AI”, you might find something cool to use it for.
For instance, as a hobbyist graphic designer, I use a local instance of Stable Diffusion these days instead of Photoshop to make quick photo edits, saving me hours of manually masking out objects and filling in the blanks.
It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.
“facts”
Probably spelled “faks” in their mind
Fax
Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.
And is that huge 3D printer in the room with us now?
To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.
Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.
We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then
So our proposal is we prefab a bunch of metal pieces and assemble them on-site?
As opposed to our current method where we carve bridges out of a big block of metal?
Hahahaha absolutely. :D The difference is, that they come from a 3D printer and that’s cool.
Seriously, how we make bridges now with giant CNC machines is so inefficient! And all these people saying we should print lots of blocks to put together are totally forgetting about Legos, we all just need to donate our old Legos to Baltimore and let kids from anywhere come volunteer to build it. Free bridge and free child labour! Everyone wins
Well no, you put a conveyor belt in front of all the 3d printers, and when each part is done, it’s dumped onto the conveyor belt, which leads all the pieces to an AI powered robot arm which assembles the bridge.
Yeah, I guess you could just run the conveyor belt and arm all the way to where the bridge needs to go.
All problems can be reduced to Factorio.
Where’s the train? Why is there no train in the solution?
The bridge is science to unlock the train, of course.
Maybe, we could just print off rectangular prism-shaped modules, around the right size to fit in a hand, and then assemble them on site. We could even make them out of ordinary clay and fire them for strength. I wonder why nobody has thought of that. /s
3D printing has it’s place, but more conventional methods have theirs too. If you are counting on a lot of human labour anyway you might as well not reinvent the wheel.
OP said use AI, not humans… /s
I find it difficult to believe that breaking down steel to be 3d printed into large structures for a bridge is faster or more energy efficient than casting the parts instead.
casting the parts
Steel beams get extruded and rolled, or… 3D printed with a large custom-shaped hot end! 🤯
Unfortunately it’ll take 10 years to build the printer.
And even then, the filament needed at this scale will take another several years, and a few days for shipping.
Also, it doesn’t do well in sunlight or high humidity for prolonged periods of time, so we’ll need maybe 20 to 30 years to work out a solution for that problem.
I can only assume they’re trying to talk about concrete 3D printing, but oh boy is that not ready for anything which needs strength.
How weak are we talking? All I’ve seen is the press releases.
Well as far as I know, it’s impossible to 3D print concrete with rebar and that should tell you enough about its strength.
Yeah, but how much worse than normal unreinforced concrete? (Which is actually fine if you aren’t worried about tension)
Oh it should be roughly equivalent. But really, what besides a slab can you build without worrying about tension?
Just cut up the model into a million smaller parts and post them on thingiverse so everyone on that site that already has a 3d printer can print one out and mail it to baltimore. EZ
It is right below your feet
You better start believing in huge 3D printers
…you’re in one!
If the AI can design and build a bridge in two days, the AI should also be able to secure the finances in a day!
Just ask the AI how to turn $1 into $100M with high frequency trading!
Rule #1
Never get high on your own supply
Rule #2
See Rule 1
He should have it nearly built by now then.
Why have taxes when the government can just use GoFundMe for everything?
Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.
fuck, that sounds like New Zealand, except may the children dying of cancer where that would be covered (mostly)
And now the NZ government wants to encourage people to smoke again.
Don’t forget politicians. Millionaires or Billionaires asking for money from the general population to fund the campaign so they can get the job.
Fundraise your essentials services
Ha ha ha. I think fundraising is the only income less reliable than usage fees.
Is this an elaborate Easter joke?
You can’t tell, unfortunately.
Poe’s law.
The art of trolling
Somehow, and I know this is a strange thing to say, but I’m not buying it.
You technophobic
Good thing 3D prints aren’t weak in at least one axis… wait…
