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Memorial Honors Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster

The Onion · 2.8M views · 2008-01-17 · 2:32

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Overview

An Onion News Network satirical segment about a memorial dedicated to the future victims of a dam that officials know will fail. It is a dark joke about known infrastructure risk and inaction.

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Invoked as a joke whenever a thread covers neglected infrastructure, failing dams, levees or foreseeable disasters.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2023

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slavik81 · 2023-03 · Joke / meme

> For decades it has been clear that the levee was vulnerable. [...] Despite the known dangers, needed repairs hadn’t been done. This reminds me a bit too much of the classic "Memorial Honors Victims of Imminent Dam Disaster" [VIDEO]

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wolfram74 · 2022-10 · Joke / meme

yeah, dam failures are pretty spectacular. Maybe we're collectively cooler with them because 1) they've been part of our accepted collateral damages list longer (hundreds of years) and 2) because we know better where the fall out will be we put more marginalized people there? I would be really interested in looking at property values or something like that for regions in suspected dam burst zones and neighborhoods that are just outside them. on topic onion sketch [VIDEO]

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bserge · 2021-10 · Joke / meme

Predicting it now, "Worst oil spill in the Red Sea" as no one does anything. Seriously, reading about it is like living in the world of this Onion video: [VIDEO] "This disaster will have been preventable. All of the warning signs are here, yet no one will have done anything about it." Indeed. Will be happy to be proven wrong.

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