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MagicMoonlight ◴[17 Jan 25 06:12 UTC] No.42734580[source]▶

What are we betting that the Americans rebuild in wood again? It seems like they never learn. We had a single city fire like this 500 years ago and since then we haven’t… because we built the city back in brick instead of wood.

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1. ezequiel-garzon ◴[17 Jan 25 06:39 UTC] No.42734741[source]▶

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Where 500 years ago?

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2. lionkor ◴[17 Jan 25 07:56 UTC] No.42735102[source]▶

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Europe, a lot of cities went though a few large fires and then went "facepalm oh!!! maybe we should try stone!"

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