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  • Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall, sparking social media controversy and investigation by local government officials.
  • Yuntai tourism park operators admit to using a pipe to enhance waterfall flow during dry season to maintain visitor satisfaction.
  • Social media users express mixed reactions, with some understanding the situation while others criticize the artificial enhancement of natural landscapes.
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Gotta be a lot of wasted energy pumping that water up, too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Its just spring water, bro. That shit never runs out."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What about when summer comes? You can’t have spring water then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah! And don't even get me started on Fall water

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

It's okay, it's hydro powered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It’s not wasted energy. The water now has potential energy from its height.

smh

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

inb4 tankies say that China is super based for doing this somehow

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (22 children)

The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You gotta block hexbear and .ml

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I haven't yet I like to argue with them I know I can't win cos winning an argument requires the opposition is intelligent enough to apply logic but its still entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

A lot of the communities I frequent have "no tankies allowed" listed clearly in the rules. It's not that all of lemmy likes them it's just that we haven't decided to purge them, yet, given the ideology of a decentralized network of federated content feeds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

On the flipside, the American exceptionalism on the Lemmys is par for the course...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.

But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Poe's law tells me this is a real comment from a real tankie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

............... what the hell is a tankie?

(no, I haven't been here long, how could you tell?)

Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Welcome to Lemmy.

Tap for some copy-pasta from wikipediaTankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.
More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]

You'll also see them around here commonly blaming anything negative on "capitalism" as well (while ignoring the fact that pure capitalism doesn't exist since the economy of almost every country is really a mix of capitalism and socialism).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Hyper-authoritarian leftist, usually hard-line CCP supporter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Maybe in China they understand sarcasm.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So I think the important thing here is how this waterfall is being explained to visitors. If it's open information that the waterfall only flows naturally in certain months and is artifical in others and people still want to see it when it's artificial that's fine. However it seems this is being sold as a natural waterfall when it's artifical part of year which is the problem.

Bases on thr park's comments, it seems the move to make it artifical part of the year stems from their lack of openness that it only flows naturally part of the year. In comparison, Yosemite National Park (US) has a whole web page explaining when the waterfalls flow and the peak months to see them. https://www.yosemite.com/yosemite-waterfalls-spring/?amp=1 In my opinion, his park should be more open about the natural flow months so visitors can choose when to visit.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

Typical “Made in China” quality.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I don't think it's an issue of what they've done. I'm sure everyone makes a change to such tourist attractions to aid tourism or nature.

What's weird is that they lie about it. Anyone else would have issued a news article, even a local one, saying the rivers are dry and this is what we have done to save tourism/nature etc etc.

These fucks blatantly hide the truth because it makes it look like everything is perfect. And they do a fine job of it. This country is one one of the finest built bullshit producing machine and it won't change until someone at the top decides to have a change of heart.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

It’s dry season, let’s dump more water to enhance visitor satisfaction.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is the most Chinese shit ever

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

China is doing a bit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

China? Dishonest? Say it ain’t so!!!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Yes! This is what this sub is for

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I've found the article here, gone in, and immediately forgot that it wasn't the onion as it didn't sound like something remotely true. Then I was immediately confused about how they'd made the satire look so real, with even fake-pipe photos. That's been a confusing 5 minutes...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

sparking...investigation by local government officials

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