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Written by 65dBnoise on 2025-02-05 at 16:14

[#]Biden and the #USArmy tried to build a dock in #Gaza, and wasted $230 million for a PR stunt to just see themselves humiliated by their own incompetency. The dock was an embarrassing failure:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/23/they-miscalculated-gazas-floating-aid-pier-failing-to-deliver-in-rough-seas

Now Trump's #US want's to build a series of his "extremely successful" casinos there? And with the help of the same US Army?

What could possibly go wrong? 🤣

(If you don't want the sticky embarrassment of Trump's actions, you've got to do something about it.)

[#]USpol #Palestine

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Written by Pierre Massé on 2025-02-05 at 16:23

@65dBnoise *$230 million, not billion

let's be factual in our dunking, at least

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Written by 65dBnoise on 2025-02-05 at 16:24

@pierrotechnique

Oops! Fixed it, thanks!

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Written by Niels Nielsen, geographer on 2025-02-05 at 17:25

@65dBnoise This seemed pretty wild, but in reality not that bad. It's millions, not billions.

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Written by 65dBnoise on 2025-02-05 at 18:29

@nichni

Yes, I've already fixed that typo.

Seeing it as an engineer, it was a embarrassing fiasco. People build removable or fixed docks by the thousands every year in the Mediterranean. Many use meteorological data provided by US government agencies. For US Army engineers to fail in such a project (it operated intermittently for just 20 days), it should be humiliating. Am I overestimating their competency?

Here's what Wikipedia has on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_floating_pier#Damage_and_repair

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Written by Niels Nielsen, geographer on 2025-02-05 at 18:32

@65dBnoise Very useful Wikipedia entry!

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