Remember when redditors were stroking their dicks over the possibility of the three gorges dam in China breaking and killing thousands?

Gee I wonder if your average Chinese netizen is gloating over this happening to burgers?

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      It's all but guaranteed. We spent ages making things with tolerances that could, for instance, sustain a once in a century storm. Which makes sense and was a good idea at the time.

      What we did not do is make things that could be hit by such events consecutively year after year.

      In addition a lot of the maintenance (or god forbid upgrading) has been deferred for decades.

  • Parzivus [any]
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    2 months ago

    Multiple dam failures looking likely in NC. Doesn't take as much rain to cause flooding with the mountains over there. I've heard people saying there are entire houses floating down the Swannanoa River

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    2 months ago

    Gee I wonder if your average Chinese netizen is gloating over this happening to burgers?

    I hope so they deserve to gloat

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    I wonder if your average Chinese netizen is gloating over this happening to burgers?

    I'd expect them to say "I hope all the senators live along the river".