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Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Crimea is a peninsula.

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are 257 rivers and major streams on the Crimean peninsula.

    Each of them are Crimean and therefore qualify for use in the mockery of any tech giant of my choosing via extremely bad puns.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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).

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      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨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:

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      • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.🤣

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s a penis ula for?

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      OK, I was really hoping someone would make this opening.

      The paper in Port Angeles, Wash., is the Peninsula Daily News. They ran a special section decades ago with some … unfortunate folios. The whole thing ran with Penisnula Daily News.

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      • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        LOL, that’s hilarious!

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Google Books

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah… I had read that and forgotten. Thank you!

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah but you see every youtube user granted full rights for google to do whatever they want with their videos by uploading them, it’s all totally legit of course!

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And because of entities like Google, legal and ethical rarely intersect.

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