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This building is so perfectly at the Dyatlov threshold it will never be demolished. So much money has been invested, a brutal court battle, PR disaster for the city government, but despite all that it’s so nearly close to be salvageable that we will keep seeing this same story for another 10 or 20 years before someone realizes it should have been demolished in the 2010s.

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What is the Dyatlov threshold?

I think it is a reference to the Chernobyl mini-series, where the Dyatlov character responds to the news of the level of radioactive contamination as "Not great, not terrible", unaware that their measuring equipment is actually maxed out, hiding the true scale of the problem.

The Chernobyl mini-series is highly recommended. It is a classic example of how arrogance and stupidity are closely related. (Where stupidity is defines as knowing the correct thing to do, but ignoring the facts or available infomation.)

Just keep in mind that it portrays a lot of the characters in a cartoonish way.

Isn't the series very dramatized and quite inaccurate compared to the actual history?

If anyone watches a TV show with the assumption that they are getting an accurate view of history, then I wish them luck in life, since they will probably need it.

That particular series was presented with very heavy emphasis on how "accurate" it was to real events, though, and many, many people thought it a documentary.

Documentary or not, the photos credits ran at the end of the last episode cannot be denied.

Tell that to the people who were displaced because of the accident, which of course, is proven truth. The last part of your statement is petty, based on ignorance of how life itself is extremely difficult to report after the fact when facts are so easily denied.

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