• Powderhorn
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    53 months ago

    How the fuck do you cram 257 rivers into a space that size? Like, we can’t even manage the Colorado (no, the other one … how we have one flowing through Austin escapes me).

    • @burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      43 months ago

      I don’t know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks… I can see it.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Crimea has a mountain range up south, really close to the sea, so it has a bunch of really short rivers. Chile is the same.

      That said the river from the “Crimea river” meme is the Salğır/Салгир:

    • ɔiƚoxɘup
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      13 months ago

      …and major streams. Don’t forget major streams!
      I don’t know shit though, I just pulled that from Wikipedia to support a really bad pun.🤣

      • Powderhorn
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        13 months ago

        I think “major streams” are more generally referred to as “rivers.”

        • ɔiƚoxɘup
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          13 months ago

          Maybe it’s a translation issue, we have

          • rivers
          • streams
          • creeks
          • Brooks and
          • runs

          Maybe they just have the 2 words so there’s information lost in translation?

          • Powderhorn
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            23 months ago

            That’s a wildly incomplete list. I guess if you’re out east, that might feel like a full list, but if you’ve ever lived somewhere with arroyos, you’ve never experienced brooks or runs. I mean, short of Mel Brooks and having diarrhea.

            There’s an old joke about growing up in Phoenix: That one does not associate rivers or bridges with water.