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[Map] The Netherlands in 1300 vs 1900-2000 (dormi.zone)
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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Normal people: the sea is nice.

Dutch people: it's free real estate!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Hardly free, these were very expensive projects both in financial terms as well as human cost.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's a meme, don't take it literally

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

How safe is it?

Like, if war were suddenly to break out could 10% of the country be flooded with a few torpedoes?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe... I'm sure it wouldn't be great if the big dykes got blown up, but barring any insane events like this one I feel very safe, they measure all this stuff very precisely, there is actually a separate government that only deals with water management.

this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
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