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Gork@sopuli.xyz to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 24 days ago

Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid?

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Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid?

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Gork@sopuli.xyz to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 24 days ago
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    We’re trying!

    • countrypunk@slrpnk.net
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      I regret to inform you that it has become a specific cabbage patch.

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        That’s where all those dang kids come from!

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      I somehow misread garbage as cabbage for this.

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        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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          pictures you can hear

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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        Um……

        https://lemmy.ca/post/48509021

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          That’s me

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      In about ten years, they’ll be able to connect all three with a land bridge made out of plastic garbage

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    It’s for a parking lot, isn’t it?

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      A construction plan of epic proportions. They’re calling it a freeway.

      Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.

      I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off. Off and on. All day, all night. Soon where the Pacific once was will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food, tire salons, automobile dealerships, and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see! My god… It’ll be beautiful.

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      And a couple malls, yeah

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    They could literally task a SINGLE Dutch person and this shit would be poldered by yesterday

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      that’s a new verb for me. my favorite timer is a Polder so i always just used it as a proper noun. thanks for using fun language

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      Yeah see someone said there were still a few Dutch people bobbing about Greenland. Figure maybe one of them could do it

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    Am American. Can confirm, we are very stupid, which means we’ll probably try this.

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    It would create new spots in the house and Senate. Changing the whole dynamic of political. So it’ll never happen and if it does… It’ll just be a territory like Puerto Rico or Washington DC.

    Can’t have folks having representation

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    Here’s why. The Kansai International Airport filled about 180k cubic km of land for about $15b. Given the shape is about 8m square km, and an average seafloor depth of about 3km, this project would cost about $1500 trillion dollars. That’s slightly under half of the new ICE budget and would not be approved by Congress.

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      deleted by creator

      • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yea with those kind of dollars we should be kicking out more immigrants who jaywalked.

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    This project is underway. What do you think all that ocean plastic is for?

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      fun

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    Please take down this post. It will give the current administration ideas. First term he just drew outside the lines and this is exactly that.

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    Yes, but that’s not the reason why

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    Somebody get this to Trump’s desk! Let’s make it happen, people!

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      Sharpie it up!!

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    Good idea!

    Hey, Canada, we need all your dirt.

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      They’re already sending Jordan Peterson, that’s quite a bit.

      Oops, sorry, misread that as “shit”.

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    This is not a stupid idea if you think about it for long enough.

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      Been thinking for an hour, when does it get better? Do I need drugs for this?

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        If you keep them thinking about it for a good 80 years more (presidential age) it won’t matter so much until it finally doesn’t forever.

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      i know someone who can get us a great deal on dirt

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    They can call it New Flevoland

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      No, Trump would auction off naming rights to corporations.

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    take it down one degree of absurdity and you just have Bojack Horseman

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    If you want trump to do, here’s what you’ll need to do:

    Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.

    The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico’s west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He’d absolutely be on board for this.

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