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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?

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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This kinda stuff is going to happen more and more often, isn't it? kiryu-pain

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As climate change gets worse, yeah, I fear this is probably only the beginning.

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

The only way to fix this is to send more money to the entity.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month 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.