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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by cucumber3732842 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:48AM (#49466754)
And most of this "well obviously nobody should build anywhere where there will be serious destruction every couple generations" type sentiment ultimately just to funnels wealth and power to whoever took that good land previously.
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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by pmontra on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:35AM (#49508450)
If there is serious distruction every couple of generations it happens either to you or to your children. So, do you really want to build our buy there? If it happened to your parents there is no you.

Every five or ten generations, different risk.

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