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Flying Squid to Political Memes@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

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  • @Rolando@lemmy.world
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    That’s disgusting. Why aren’t there any ads on the cliff walls?

    • @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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      29•1 year ago

      I’ll never understand why we don’t advertise using the surface of the moon.

      • CopHater69
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        Most types of radiation including light exhibit the inverse square law so thankfully it’s too unfeasible at the moment.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

      • Nightwatch Admin
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        5•1 year ago

        Reminds me of “Z comme Zorglub”, by André Franquin, 1961: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/e7/b2/02e7b2230b42d997e331f2717b3e11f8.jpg

      • @Rolando@lemmy.world
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        4•1 year ago

        This is suggested in a couple different classic science fiction stories:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_to_the_Moon (“Watch this Space”)

        • @Klear@sh.itjust.works
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          3•1 year ago

          Don’t forget this one:

          https://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/Pi-in-the-Sky

      • kase
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        1•1 year ago

        Because the moon doesn’t exist, obvs. (/s)

      • @Coasting0942@reddthat.com
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        1•1 year ago

        The moon? How come our phones don’t have a sponsorship image when they turn on?

  • @phorq@lemmy.ml
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    50•1 year ago

    Let’s pave paradise and put up a Walmart parking lot!

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      17•1 year ago

      Oh man, just imagine: everyone living in those skyscrapers could work at that Walmart!

      • @Fixbeat@lemmy.ml
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        deleted by creator

        • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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          4•1 year ago

          No one is promising those skyscrapers are in anyway nice to live in.

          Company Canyon goes $$$$

      • WashedOver
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        3•1 year ago

        OMG do you mean a 15 minute city!?!? How dare they focus us to live in such a place. They are bound to make us stop rolling coal with our trucks while they are at it! Freedum!

  • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    47•1 year ago

    Being the U.S, there’s basically zero chance that it would be high-rises. Instead, there would be McMansions. Also a lot more parking lots

    • @Rolando@lemmy.world
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      7•1 year ago

      The McMansions are on the cliffs above. The high-rises are for the workers.

      • @TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world
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        6•1 year ago

        McMansions are for workers. That’s how they got their name. Big like mansions, but built as cheap as possible so that they’re (relatively) affordable… Until they start falling apart in 15 years.

    • @Gladaed@feddit.de
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      3•1 year ago

      This looks like low-mid density. So much roads/wasted space and like 10 high rites do not make a high density neighborhood.

    • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      No, real estate moguls have learned that apartments and high-rise condos and hotels are more profitable than single family homes.

      • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        3•1 year ago

        Sure, when zoning codes allow for them.

        So you know, essentially never.

        • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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          If they rezone a national park to residential it will definitely be highrise MDU.

          Edit more space efficient for the NIMGC tree huggers

          • @SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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            1•1 year ago

            Why do you say that? We destroy plenty of nature and it almost always ends up single family home suburban sprawl.

            • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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              Continuous grade of square footage is one factor, the suburb would have trouble with sprawl and boulder ingress

              • @SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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                1•1 year ago

                Yes, car centric suburbs have tons of problems but when has that ever stopped us? We build them in literal flood plains, and along cramped mudslide prone mountains. I’ve never heard of an empty piece of land in the middle of nowhere being zoned for high density residential in the US.

                • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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                  1•1 year ago

                  I figured the sides of the canyon would get in the way of profitability

  • @Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    31•1 year ago

    All those people in the towers just work at the giant Walmart, which is now the attraction.

  • @AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    I mean fuck it, we’ve already exterminated entire biomes of species who dared to exist where we wanted strip malls, what’s another pretty geological formation?

    We might be the worst neighbor in the entire universe, because we handily win that title on Earth.

  • BigDaddySlim
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    23•1 year ago

    Nowhere to park here 😡

  • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    20•1 year ago

    Must be from California, loves to build on flood plain instead of high ground.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    20•1 year ago

    There’s actually a settlement down there already, they have to get their mail delivered by pack mule from the top of the canyon’s post office

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      10•1 year ago

      But this has a massive Walmart!

    • The Pantser
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      What’s the Amazon deliver time?

      • SuperDuper
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        11•1 year ago

        They just throw it down the side of the cliff

    • @ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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      5•1 year ago

      Sounds like a perfect place to test drone delivery

    • @Igloojoe@lemm.ee
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      4•1 year ago

      The mail is all junk mail! Extended warranty on my mule??

    • @RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      3•1 year ago

      They should get a giant slide. Mail slide!

    • @3ntranced@lemmy.world
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      1•1 year ago

      I’d think a zip line would be a much more efficient method of getting mail down. Then again it could just be a case of “well the mules already go down each day so they might as well carry mail”.

  • @Shyfer@ttrpg.network
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    15•1 year ago

    I threw up in my mouth a little

  • @rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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    14•1 year ago

    Seriously though. We Europeans joke about the US a lot, but one thing I’ll always envy/admire is your National Parks. You have to protect those at all costs.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      4•1 year ago

      If Trump gets back in, they’ll all be leased for oil development.

  • @Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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    13•1 year ago

    Okay that is not the Grand Canyon. The is the Vermilion Cliffs which is just up river from the Grand Canyon NP.

  • @IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee
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    12•1 year ago

    I know this is just a joke, but having at least an “alpine” or “mountain” coaster down to the bottom could save many lives.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      A big zipline

    • @Rolando@lemmy.world
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      They have/had that in Pittsburgh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inclines_in_Pittsburgh

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A) It’s a National Park and you wouldn’t be able to have a city esp with a Walmart on a National Park.

    B) Like 90% of Arizona is untouched wilderness and undeveloped. Why would you want to develop at the bottom of the GC when you could develop literally anywhere else in the state? The cost of transporting construction materials, given that there aren’t any roads from the surface to the bottom, not to mention logistics for people living and working in the Canyon, would be astronomical.

    • @Something_Complex@lemmy.world
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      8•1 year ago

      Not to mention that if it rains it becomes a big swimming pool

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa
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      Yeah but ‘Canyon Condos’ is a great name, sooo… /j

    • @bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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      4•1 year ago

      You want to be the big swinging dick in the penthouse that has a view barely above the top of the canyon obviously

    • @Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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      4•1 year ago

      The canyon prevents Shai Hulud from attacking the city.

  • @vsh@lemm.ee
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    11•1 year ago

    Lol this is actually what I did in cities skylines.

    I built Walmart, upscaled it like x10 times, built 10k square feet of parking around it and made one big ass 40 lane road that’s directly connecting it to every district. Then I made it the only commercial building in the city with 100k employees. Holy hell!

    • unalivejoy
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      You created the Costco from Idiocracy.

      • Dr. Coomer
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        6•1 year ago

        Is this what hell is?

        • @Catalog0904@lemmy.sdf.org
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          https://youtu.be/sdNmOOq6T8Y

      • @Tiefa@lemmy.world
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        Welcome to Costco. I love you.

  • @NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
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    Flash floods?

    • oce 🐆
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      Seasonal amusement park you say?

      • @Rolando@lemmy.world
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        Sounds like an excuse to raise their rents.

    • @XTornado@lemmy.ml
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      7•1 year ago

      But think of how cool it would look during the flash food.

      • @NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
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        Road-level parking should probably be addressed. That picture requires some touches.

        But seriously, one could plan some nifty town, resisting flash floods, perhaps even utilizing them.

        It might look gloriously out of this world. Only some bodies floating by might ruin it. Tourist campers upstream somewhere… Animal carcasses… Eh. Some filter, perhaps. A big mesh somewhere?

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