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Birdie (verified) @canadabirdie Here are some things engineers don't say: - "Well, who really knows if the bridge is going to fall down? It's sort of unfalsifiable, isn't it?" - "Yeah, engineers differ in our opinion about whether the bridge will fall down, but I choose to be an optimist!" - "Look someone's gonna build the bridge eventually anyway. What would a few more months of engineering really buy us?" 10:42 PM · Sep 16, 2026 · 5,744 Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Tweet by @canadabirdie listing three things engineers supposedly never say about a bridge (unfalsifiability, 'I choose to be an optimist', 'someone will build it anyway'). The post does not name its target; the framing reads as an analogy to safety/risk debates.