this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 34 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 20 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 16 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).

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

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.

[–] 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