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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Probably for the best. Search on youtube for tofu dreg construction.

You can see people digging out load bearing columns with their fingers, pulling door frames off the wall with minimal effort, bending and cracking rebar steel with one hand.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So, personal story:

I was at their biggest glory internet company almost a decade ago, they had a brand new huge campus that sprawled over acres, and in hindsight its clear they just tried to copy Google.

Roof constantly leaked (buckets everywhere), holes in the floor of all things, walls crumbling. They'd moved in 1-2 years earlier and it was considered a point of Chinese national pride. No a/c either, which was brutal in the summers.

They need to stop building before more people get hurt.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like the train station that was recently flooded because they didn't build any proper drainage

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

This same building had literally millions of dollars of servers lying around the floors, the whole thing was surreal.

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