• GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    We really need to mark if Trump memes are real or made up. I hadn’t heard that he said this, but I can totally believe it. I just don’t have time to fact check every meme to know if I should be laughing or terrified that there’s a potential or former leader who believes stuff like this.

    Granted, both options are valid with Trump.

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        1 hour ago

        I kept scrolling in Lemmy, saw a post in politics talking about it, but thanks. I can’t say I’m surprised, but I’m amazed that people are willing to vote for someone so obviously stupid. I understand there’s a certain element of anti-intellectualism, but this is gradeschool knowledge we’re talking about.

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    14 hours ago

    This does make me wonder how expensive it’d be to set up a trans continental irrigation system, basically just moving surplus water in places like the southeast or northwest to drought locations like in california or the southwest to take the pressure off of local water resources.

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      8 hours ago

      As soon as the water has to travel just a little bit uphill, the continuous energy needed makes it unfeasable.

      And that’s not even taking leakage into account.

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      It’s pretty much impossible. Houston gets more rain than Seattle most years, but it’s nearly impossible to pump that water up 500ft and 500 miles west to ranches in Texas. A pipeline from the Great Lakes or South East would have to pump water through the Rockies. They can’t even build pil and gas pipelines to connect the West Coast to the rest of country, which is worth infinitly more per gallon than water.

      On top of that, we have has abysmal rainfall this summer along the Great Lakes. I live on a river that flows into Lake Erie’s western basin and i have never seen the river this low. There are stretches of the rover where i can walk bank to bank without getting my feet wet right now.

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        12 hours ago

        I’m so sick of this crap. I can’t even drive my TransAm any more. I’m gonna change the name on it to ManAm soon so sissies don’t complement me on my wokeness. Yuck.

  • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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    14 hours ago

    He’s a child playing pretend. Take this quote and imagine it’s from a 10 year old kid that then goes on to explain how their favorite superhero can breathe in space.

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    15 hours ago

    Florida just got a freaking shit ton of water from the hurricane.

    Why don’t they just pump it from there?

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    16 hours ago

    The depths of his stupidity and the continual display of his complete lack of knowledge or curiosity about how anything works or ever could work makes me so irritated with his immovable, enabling moronic “base”.