Gotta be a lot of wasted energy pumping that water up, too.
"Its just spring water, bro. That shit never runs out."
What about when summer comes? You can’t have spring water then
Yeah! And don't even get me started on Fall water
It's okay, it's hydro powered.
It’s not wasted energy. The water now has potential energy from its height.
smh
inb4 tankies say that China is super based for doing this somehow
The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.
You gotta block hexbear and .ml
I haven't yet I like to argue with them I know I can't win cos winning an argument requires the opposition is intelligent enough to apply logic but its still entertaining.
you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.
A lot of the communities I frequent have "no tankies allowed" listed clearly in the rules. It's not that all of lemmy likes them it's just that we haven't decided to purge them, yet, given the ideology of a decentralized network of federated content feeds.
On the flipside, the American exceptionalism on the Lemmys is par for the course...
I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.
But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.
Poe's law tells me this is a real comment from a real tankie
............... what the hell is a tankie?
(no, I haven't been here long, how could you tell?)
Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?
Welcome to Lemmy.
Tap for some copy-pasta from wikipedia
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.
More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]
You'll also see them around here commonly blaming anything negative on "capitalism" as well (while ignoring the fact that pure capitalism doesn't exist since the economy of almost every country is really a mix of capitalism and socialism).
Hyper-authoritarian leftist, usually hard-line CCP supporter.
So I think the important thing here is how this waterfall is being explained to visitors. If it's open information that the waterfall only flows naturally in certain months and is artifical in others and people still want to see it when it's artificial that's fine. However it seems this is being sold as a natural waterfall when it's artifical part of year which is the problem.
Bases on thr park's comments, it seems the move to make it artifical part of the year stems from their lack of openness that it only flows naturally part of the year. In comparison, Yosemite National Park (US) has a whole web page explaining when the waterfalls flow and the peak months to see them. https://www.yosemite.com/yosemite-waterfalls-spring/?amp=1 In my opinion, his park should be more open about the natural flow months so visitors can choose when to visit.
Typical “Made in China” quality.
I don't think it's an issue of what they've done. I'm sure everyone makes a change to such tourist attractions to aid tourism or nature.
What's weird is that they lie about it. Anyone else would have issued a news article, even a local one, saying the rivers are dry and this is what we have done to save tourism/nature etc etc.
These fucks blatantly hide the truth because it makes it look like everything is perfect. And they do a fine job of it. This country is one one of the finest built bullshit producing machine and it won't change until someone at the top decides to have a change of heart.
It’s dry season, let’s dump more water to enhance visitor satisfaction.
It's like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.
China is doing a bit
Yes! This is what this sub is for
I've found the article here, gone in, and immediately forgot that it wasn't the onion as it didn't sound like something remotely true. Then I was immediately confused about how they'd made the satire look so real, with even fake-pipe photos. That's been a confusing 5 minutes...
And we just use a dam to control flow rate instead… https://www.niagaraparks.com/visit-niagara-parks/plan-your-visit/niagara-falls-geology-facts-figures/
sparking...investigation by local government officials
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