Comment on days of future past

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And transportation

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• WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not really. Most of these old canals were only a couple yards/meters wide and dried up 100 years ago.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ahh that sucks, we have quite a few of ours still

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  • SparroHawc@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If they’re only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

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    • WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The barges were just a little less than a few meters wide. The manpower to build a 100km long canal that is 2.5-3 meters wide is substantially less than what it takes to dig one 8 meters wide in the era before steam shovels.

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But are they only 3 feet deep? /s

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      not enough attention is being paid to the drunken stumble into the canal that drowned someone! /s

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• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The Internet has ruined me because I can’t read the word “watersports” without thinking of the fetish anymore.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well I am sure some canals are next to dogging sites

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Right, that’s what the canals are useful for, what did you think they meant?

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  • cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ruined?

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    • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Gooned*

      from the Olde English “guined” —an easy mix-up

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