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[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They protect me from all those Pretenders

[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This dam will stand, Everlong.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope the Foos don't ever Breakout.

[–] z3k3lon@lemmy.studio 4 points 1 year ago

If the dam breaks those villagers are gonna have to learn to fly.

[–] aja@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Better Learn to Fly though, just in case

[–] smigao@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You have my monkey wrench

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they did all of this while being a bunch of plankton inside a dead girl

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes it takes a bunch of real aquatic microorganisms to be best girl

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

Is it bad if I actually liked the original form more?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They built a dam for no other reason than to block the river so they could build a city in the river bed.

That's 1000iq city planning

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Weeellll tek-nik-uh-lee they might have built a town along the banks of a small river, dammed the valley blocking the river, and then filled in the old riverbed. But either way yeah those guys are dumb for staying there.

[–] Pinklink@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I pity the Foo

[–] Blastoid5000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This meme template is gold. I haven't seen it before.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My first thought was why would you put a town at the bottom of a dam like that? And then I remembered that I grew up in a small town under a dam. That dam was on a fault line.

'Cause the town came first. Town was built on the original river, which was later dammed for power/water reservoir for said town.

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yikes!

I admire the city planners’ confidence (or ignorance).

[–] Cheez@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know lives are at stake, but this entire thing reads like something from a mockumentary.

I really hope the city management and the citizens act before it is too late. Is moving out the only option?

P.S. I wonder what the real estate rates are at that place.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the Onion, a joke news site.

Yikes. I did not notice that. It did not help that the piped link directly opened the video in full screen.

Thanks for bringing my attention to the fact. :-)

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People always said that the dam could support double the most severe earthquake that the fault could produce, but who knows how true that is.

Exactly. No matter how good or bad the odds are, that statement isn’t instilling confidence.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

At least Saruman was smart enough to just live in a big old tower incease it ever were to break.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

Nope, not that one.

[–] Zyansheep@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I am so confused..

[–] ExaptationStation@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wanna swim in the watershed

[–] ghoscht@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

It's a high bar

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