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From: De-Trois-Leaning <dtl@invalid.net>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.california,sci.environment,or.politics,seattle.politics,alt.politics.media
Subject: Re: OT: Go ahead, explain how this isn't gibberish
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:58:28 -0600
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider

Alan wrote:
> On 2024-09-20 17:26, citizen winston smith wrote:
>> On 9/20/2024 5:41 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-20 16:29, citizen winston smith wrote:
>>>> On 9/20/2024 4:40 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-09-20 15:36, citizen winston smith wrote:
>>>>>> On 9/20/2024 4:32 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2024-09-20 15:12, citizen winston smith wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 9/20/2024 3:58 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>>>>> For the record:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is no "very large faucet".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is currently no way that turning such a faucet could 
>>>>>>>>> divert water to California.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You must never have seen the Owens (dry) Lake or the film 
>>>>>>>> "Chinatown".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let it alone Alan, you know what happens to nosey kitty kats...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/XraW_dIy0rg
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-04-me-181-story.html 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn proposed a big solution Thursday 
>>>>>>>> to Los Angeles’ big water problem--digging aqueducts that would 
>>>>>>>> carry water to California from the Columbia River in the Pacific 
>>>>>>>> Northwest and the Snake River in Idaho.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But you agree that it doesn't exist now, right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, read the rest of the citations, clownshow.
>>>>> You're hiding.
>>>>
>>>> Nah, I'm researching and sharing:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2015/04/10/a-water-pipeline- 
>>>> from- oregon-to-california/
>>>>
>>>> https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article237605349.html
>>>>
>>>> https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-06-21/columbia-river- 
>>>> water- pipeline
>>>>
>>>> https://columbiainsight.org/for-drought-plagues-california-diverting- columbia-river-water-is-a-pipe-dream-for-now/ 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For decades, the Pacific Northwest has responded to and fended off 
>>>> efforts to divert its water, particularly from the Columbia River, 
>>>> to the Southwest, and particularly to California or Colorado.
>>>>
>>>> This has bee an ongoing pipeline to inanity for decades now.
>>>>
>>>>> THERE IS NO FAUCET.
>>>>
>>>> Metaphors not your speed, troll?
>>>
>>> It's not a metaphor.
>>>
>>> He said 
>>
>> Metaphor.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Literal.
> 
> He said there was a faucet...

And damned if there isn't!


> ...he described how long it took to open it...

A day.

> ...and exactly how big it was.

Yuge!