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Infrastructure: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight · 16.3M views · 2015-03-02 · 21:14

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Overview

A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on America's crumbling infrastructure and why maintenance is neglected and underfunded. It mixes comedy with real examples such as aging bridges and dams.

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HN commenters link it when discussions turn to dam failures, bridge collapses, or the unglamorous work of maintenance.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2023

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Civil engineering & constructionMedia, journalism & propagandaSatire & parody
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infrastructurejohn oliverbridgesdamspublic funding

What people said

frik · 2017-03 · Recommendation

actually the imgur.com comments were very insightful one of several recommended videos about the topic, this one is quite funny even if it's very real: [VIDEO]

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jrockway · 2016-03 · Recommendation

John Oliver did a pretty good piece on infrastructure: [VIDEO] No politician gets to cut a ribbon with a giant pair of scissors when they fund routine maintenance. So why bother.

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moomin · 2023-08 · Reference

This reminds me of the episode of Last Week Tonight where John Oliver points out the problems America has on infrastructure maintenance: [VIDEO]

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