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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why can’t we just make it an even 256?

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      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s zero indexed

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh cry me a river! I get it! Ukrainian humor prevails! Take that putin!

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  • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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