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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • You are correct. The bending changes the microscopic crystal structure in the steel and would be a weak point. You’d have to completely redo the heat treatment to get it back to normal and at that point you’re essentially scrapping the bridge and using new steel, which is exactly what they’re gonna do because they’re not idiots like Musk






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    7 months ago

    It comes from Latin iactare meaning “to cast”. Over time the c was dropped as French evolved and the i shifted to a y consonant and we get yeter. Once it was borrowed into English it further changed as the -er was dropped and short e became a long ee following the great vowel shift.

    I am lying but most of those bits are facts and I’m actually describing the etymology of jet. Also the proto Indo European ye is hilariously uncanny.