#Man-Made Disasters

[frc-ambaradan]

9th October 1963 - The Vajont Dam disaster

The dam of the Vajont river, straddling over the italian regions of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto, is one of the tallest dams in the world standing at 262m of height. It was initially conceived in the '20s but eventually built only much later from 1957 to 1960 against the will of the communities below and the opinions of many geologists.

The Vajont Dam in 1960.

The deep gorge of the Vajont river is in fact a known geologically unstable area with a long history of landslides and sorrounded by mountains with poor structural integrity. Despite all the warnings and repeated signs of instability and after many unfavorable forecasts based on simulations, the dam's basin was filled beyond security level.

In the night of 9th October 1963 a ginormous landslide 2km wide made of 260 millions m3 of rocks and dirt fell from Mount Toc speeding down at over 100km/h.

Almost the entire side of the mountain came down to completely fill the basin, generating a seismic shock and a megatsunami. A wave 250m tall leapt over the dam and 50 millions m3 of water rushed into the valley below devasting everything in its path with a display of energy equatable to twice the nuclear blast of Hiroshima and originating an impact crater 60m deep and 80m wide.

The dam and its basin after the landslide.

The towns of Longarone, Pirago, Rivalta, Villanova and Faè, in the Piave Valley below, were totally obliterated.

Almost 2000 people were killed, many of them have never been identified. And 1300 more have never been found.

The towns of Pirago and Longarone after the disaster.

The dam's site manager, engineer Mario Pancini, overcome by guilt took his own life two months later. After much debate over the predictability of the tragedy only two people, project engineer Alberico Biadene and Francesco Sensidoni of the Department of Public Works, were found guilty and sentenced, respectively, to 5 years and 3 years and 8 months in prison.

In 2000 Montedison (who in the meantime had acquired electric society SADE, owner of the dam), ENEL (italian multinational and public manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas), and the Italian State were ordered to jointly compensate the town of Longarone for 55.645.758.500 lire (about 28 millions euros).

The Vajont Dam today

The Vajont Dam disaster was declared by the UN one of the worst man-made disasters in history.

What's really flabbergasting is that the dam survived the catastrophe almost completely unscated and it's still considered today a masterpiece of engineering.

A masterpiece built in the wrong place and a perennial warning against human kind's greed and delusion of omnipotence.

President Mattarella on the dam's walkway in occasion of the tragedy's 60th anniversary (9th October 2023).

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Greece finds no more survivors of migrant boat disaster with hundreds missing

[sillyhunches]

The Parachute of Peace

War is as unavoidable as falling to the ground once you’ve leaped from a cliff. Gravity will yank you down to your destiny, just like a bungee cord without the bounce. Nevertheless, you had the choice not to leap and subject yourself to the oppression of gravity. Or, you know, just use a parachute.

Even though we don’t want wars, they still happen. It’s like when you accidentally binge-watch an entire season of a show in one night - you didn’t mean to do it, but it happened anyway. The most disheartening aspect is not the outbreak of wars, but rather the pervasive belief that war is the sole and necessary means of resolving conflicts between nations. We yearn for peace, yet we prepare for war. It’s like going on a diet and then eating an entire cake - it just doesn’t make sense.

Unlike popular revolutions and uprisings, wars are initiated by those in power to protect and maintain their interests. The burden of fighting in these conflicts often falls on the less privileged members of society. To make war more acceptable, it is often portrayed in a heroic and romantic light to justify its actions. It’s like putting a bow tie on a cactus or lipstick on a pig. 

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[theangrycorpsman]

Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Planning: How to Be Ready When Disaster Strikes

Disasters can happen at any time, and being prepared can make all the difference in the world. Whether it’s a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake, or a man-made emergency like a terrorist attack, it’s essential to have a plan in place to ensure your safety and that of your loved ones. In this blog post, we’ll cover the basics of disaster preparedness and emergency planning, so you can…

[loneranger0369]

Slavery was?

Slavery still IS the Backbone of America's entire Economy!!

Enslaving every country is America's Goal.

Now everyone in America is enslaved by the American Government.

Who has the guts to protest the Ohio Train Derailment?

Who has the Balls to protest the fire in Chicago Heights?

Who dares to protest against the fire in Florida?

Bitch-ass Biden bombed the Nordstream pipeline, leading to Pollution beyond Repair. Who gave the old Cunt the Authority to do that? 'Sanctions against Russia are not enough and now we need to fuck up the Nature too!' ??

Wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and much more.

Ukraine-Russia situation is also mostly due to America's Thirst for Power!!

America is the ONLY COUNTRY of the NATO group, that profits from the Ukraine-Russia situation!

Terrible loss of life.

America's only Motto - Find, enslave, exploit, then destroy!

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-fae

[kimaisalloren]

Redraw of my favorite chapter art. Except I wanted a creepy vibe and to make it look like inkwash. Original here owo: 👇

[qkmlh]

Still ducking hilarious to me that Zoro & Sanji began their beef because they thought the other was misogynistic and it came to a head of no return when Zoro felt his title of ‘Luffy’s specialest boi’ threatened by Sanji’s comment

[urghblergh]

I recently started watching DS9 and to no one's surprise became obsessed with these two idiots. 🫠

[reminiscentsoftomorrow]

I think one of the funnier parts of replaying Bendy and the Ink Machine after I finished Bendy and the Dark Revival (I did them out of order this time for some reason) is that Henry is soooooo done with everything.

And it makes sense, the man is like 53. He just is so unresponsive and it's hysterical to me for some reason. Ink monsters and a psychopathic angel? Eh, just par for the course.

The short amount of time you see him in Bendy the Dark Revival is great too, he's just sitting on his stool and this mutant ink lady with glowing eyes turns on the light to his little fucking exhibit and asks for directions.

This pathetic wet cat of a middle aged man just says that he's not really a GPS and when she doesn't stop trying to make conversation he sighs and turns around to get his own little swell of music just in time to drop a bomb on the player. And that's pretty much it, everything else is pretty much stuff we already learned, he makes a comment about him not being human (in a kinda dark way, actually), and good luck.

The last time you see this guy is him randomly assisting you in the grand finale, complete with a motivational line. How did he get there? Did he just break out, like you were doing this in the first game why'd you go all limp dick about it? He's just so blase about everything, I adore him.

[robo-dino-puppies]

dragon age 2 | anders

[fromkenari]

I know some of y'all are devastated about Buck and Tommy breaking up. Still, Tim, Oliver, and Lou have all been harping on it being "fresh and new" since they started talking about the season, which is why I have been holding off on throwing it all down for the ship because, yes, I DID want a place to talk about whatever was going on between them without getting bashed for it. It took me a WHILE to find that, and I don't plan to just leave those spaces because it ended.

Still, this relationship only existed for 13 episodes and was shown in less than half of those episodes. I didn't even understand why and how they were in a relationship until 8x05. I was prepared for that dinner to be their one- or two-month anniversary, not SIX, with the way Tim, Oliver, and Lou have played it in interviews, insisting they're still in the "honeymoon phase."

Six months is a long fucking time for a "honeymoon phase," which is why that reveal threw me so hard at the beginning of the episode. And for how long have we been saying Abby's ex was named Tommy since he showed up and kissed Buck? And then that's not even the reason they broke up. They had Josh give Buck a pep talk before they broke up. This episode was a shitshow, yes, but are you honestly really that surprised they had another Buck love interest do him dirty? And come to find out that Oliver wants Buck to get dirty?

I'm kind of pissed about how all of this went, yeah. Still, I can't imagine what it's like going through the character you've played for seven seasons being the goddamn scapegoat for the relationship-ending trauma nearly every single season, which makes the fans put your character on a pedestal and the one time you finally get to have your character screw up and cheat SINCE his life-changing relationship in season one, your character not only does not get to fall off the pedestal, it gets higher because he doesn't get a single bit of the blame from the fans. No, they're too busy trashing your character's love interests for what your character did to them, mainly because they're women.

Y'all can say, "Wow, that must be a breath of fresh air for Tracie to have Karen not be the unmoved, understanding wife and be petty for once," but say you're "betrayed" by Oliver wanting a piece of that same nuance for his character? I mean, unfollow and block him if you must, but fucking christ y'all, the man has to be tired of being the golden retriever. No wonder he fully leaped into this arc. Let him have some fun, and Buck get a little tarnished. He's made of solid gold. He's gonna still shine in the end.

No, I am not in any way condoning the biphobic implications of the shit Tommy said to him at the end. I can see why Lou didn't want it to end that way. It's an incredible disservice to the bisexual community, and I do take offense to that. But they can't erase that now. So fine. Let this new Buck break some hearts. There's nobody (except maybe Eddie) that can doom spiral like Buck can. He's going to be impulsive. and (for once) he's not looking for a relationship. And he even said in this episode, he kind of worshiped Tommy so as shitty as what Tommy said was, it's going to go to Buck's head and heart for sure.

The Daddy said "you're just gonna break my heart" to guy with Daddy Issues. Y'all keep calling Buck a brat. Maybe he is. And maybe we're about to see it on blast. That affection-starved man has never done anything half-measured in his life.

[purgatory-jar]

The face he made right after the kiss is everything I wanted from 2024 tbh.

As promised, I turned this drawing into a gif. I had a lot of fun staring for 2 hours at the original scene

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[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Immortal!Rangi AU: Lao Ge/Kyoshi/Rangi on the Ba Sing Se train after a mission:

Kyoshi/Rangi are questioning their life choices about teaming up with Lao Ge. Lao Ge won the race to the bottom of his latest soju bottle. Fox is vibbing.

They're working hard. but the world is hardly working ;w;

[disastress-i-guess]

The sillies.

[zimmbzon]

Yo, our boy has been manipulated by that man for 8 years. You can’t just pack that shit up overnight. Confidence is hard to find when you are face to face with the source of your insecurities. He absolutely did our other boy wrong. But it’s pretty telling that Dee becomes a compliant wet blanket of a man when Ter is around, and he’s a fiesty little bitch (affectionate) when he’s with Yak.