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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

Dumbass hicks are in every country.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same two guys were just at Sycamore Gap in England, what a weird coincidence to get the same assignment twice!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there's not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now there's even less of the original wall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it's already the Ship of Theseus and always was.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

The Huns: finally!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is it now 'The Pretty Good Walls of China'?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

'the adequate wall of China"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Given that you can now drive a truck through, I’d say it’s no longer adequate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ya I like that but you missed 'walls' plural.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The lesser wall of China.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Contractors are the fucking worst...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Education could've done something here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Only the CCP is allowed to destroy China's cultural heritage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Two workers near the Great Wall go missing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t help but wonder that literally sounds like what happened the first episode of Attack on Titan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? It was the Collosal Titan that destroyed the wall, wasn't it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just what they tell you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure if you're joking, but someday in 2030, when they finish airing, I'll rewatch the complete series.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

This just reminded me I was waiting for this argh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The invasion of Russia begins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shitty, but it also looks like that section of wall is just earthwork. Maybe a professional will chime in and say there's something valuable about it, but given that it's already mostly gone from erosion, I'm not sure if anything was actually lost here.