After reading through the comments it could also be related to climate change but what first came to mind was the american housing crisis. Some people seem to think that the housing crisis could be solved by having more room for houses while, how I understand it, it is actually not a problem of available living space but a problem of affordable living space.
A simple map of population density across the US should clearly show that lebensraum is not the problem indeed. It's more a question of places that are both desirable for the opportunities they offer, while being affordable.
Drive through a few underpopulated towns and tell me that there's no place for more people in America. Empty downtowns, empty houses, empty factories... There might be economic reasons why people don't want to or can't live in these places, but the one thing we absolutely have enough of in this country is space.
It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is as crazy as it sounds, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on metal frames. He based the technique off of how coral plateaus accrete. There's a fascinating video essay on its attempted construction and failure on YouTube.
::: spoiler Coles notes ending reveal
The plan was pretty half baked and perhaps a bit of a venture capital cash grab attempt, and it turns out that nations also don't much like the idea of independent micronations popping up near their adjacent sea areas. The video is still very worth a watch if it sounds interesting!
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Boston is a crazy example of this. Original Boston is so insanely different than what's currently there. It's like 75% of the damn city used to be ocean lol
I know there are a lot of complete morons out there, but this has to be someone fucking around, right? A little old school trolling just looking for a reaction. Right?
especially what with our big beautiful moon, a ring system at an orbit high enough to not immediately endanger any craft we send up would be destabilized into an unrecognizable state very quickly.... which would send a good bit of its debris down into dangerous altitudes close to earth x_x;
maybe what we need to do is turn luna into a ring system...?
Fun fact, Appalachian has some of the world's oldest mountains, older than the atlantic ocean, the Scottish Highlands are part of the Appalachian range.
Hold on y’all, we -justyoulistenhere- get a buncha bulldozers and push thems dirt into the water, just like Ja-apan did right? And get this! Then there’s MORE AMERICA!
As a Dutch I don't understand this joke
After reading through the comments it could also be related to climate change but what first came to mind was the american housing crisis. Some people seem to think that the housing crisis could be solved by having more room for houses while, how I understand it, it is actually not a problem of available living space but a problem of affordable living space.
A simple map of population density across the US should clearly show that lebensraum is not the problem indeed. It's more a question of places that are both desirable for the opportunities they offer, while being affordable.
Is this a loanword?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
Wikipedia is free, and just a click away.
By far the best website in the world for over 20 years now, I hope it never dies or enshittifies.
I mean, it's alright
I'm swiss german and Lebensraum is a word, which is why i asked. Who knew there's some nazi concept associated with it.
Thanks for the link!
I don't think it's a loanword as such, hence my italicising it. I was using it as a reference to the nazi.
Yup, learned of that after.
Ask your german friend about the logistics and they'll probably already have a slideshow ready to explain it.
If you're lucky they might have an extra about their vacation to Spain!
Looks like everyone is missing your joke.
The joke is that we have more land to the north so we don’t have to. We can just invade Canada before we start with polders
I thought you already did that in June 2072?
As an American I'm baffled also
Drive through a few underpopulated towns and tell me that there's no place for more people in America. Empty downtowns, empty houses, empty factories... There might be economic reasons why people don't want to or can't live in these places, but the one thing we absolutely have enough of in this country is space.
we get the dirt from the Moon
the Moon dirt will be even closer to the ocean when it's under it instead of over it, so the tides will work even better
By God, it's foolproof!
Couple Dutch engineers will get that sorted for you no problem.
Definitely, they could just drain it like they drained where I live.
Maybe this was why Trump wanted to buy Greenland lol
Or https://what-if.xkcd.com/160/
It's actually not quite as crazy as it sounds. OK, it is as crazy as it sounds, but hear me out. Some inventor (Wolf Hilbertz) tried to build an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea through electrical mineral deposition on metal frames. He based the technique off of how coral plateaus accrete. There's a fascinating video essay on its attempted construction and failure on YouTube.
::: spoiler Coles notes ending reveal The plan was pretty half baked and perhaps a bit of a venture capital cash grab attempt, and it turns out that nations also don't much like the idea of independent micronations popping up near their adjacent sea areas. The video is still very worth a watch if it sounds interesting! :::
Edit: YT link is fixed. Thanks!
You could also destroy mountains and use the rubble to expand the coast.
It's really fucking stupid, but it would technically work.
Technically you could dig a huge hole, that would work too lol
Wouldn’t there be a lot of displaced water that needs to go somewhere?
It seems you put the Wikipedia link twice
Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up!
Basically every coastal city in the US has significantly added to their land by doing exactly this (obviously far less…)
Boston is a crazy example of this. Original Boston is so insanely different than what's currently there. It's like 75% of the damn city used to be ocean lol
Biggest stopper is we dont have trillions of tons of sand and the oil money to move it, Dubai
So you're saying Dubai will pay for it
No im saying Dubai does stuff like that because they have all the sand and enough oil money
Why school bus? Is there a deeper joke here than just sinking a school bus? English is not my primary language...
Ok, thanks. My thought process was like "Is land also another word for student?"
This is white people twitter, our jokes aren't that funny or creative, unfortunately.
Imagine giving Elon Musk money so you could tell that joke.
I know there are a lot of complete morons out there, but this has to be someone fucking around, right? A little old school trolling just looking for a reaction. Right?
Who knows anymore.
Reverse Turing Test + Dead Internet. If your comment is stupid enough to be mistaken for a bot, are you really human?
Interestingly, lack of land.
Do we really need all these mountains?
We will as the sea levels rise. Displacing more water will also NOT help...
We will just put salt on the water so it dries up
No, no, you don't understand. It's not displacing, it's replacing. Less water, more land.
Ah yes, the alchemical art of literally transmuting H2O into SiO2 that everyone knows.
Put the spare water into orbit, where it'll freeze and give us rings like Saturn!
Omg let's do that anyway
kepler syndrome go brrrrrrrrrrr :3
especially what with our big beautiful moon, a ring system at an orbit high enough to not immediately endanger any craft we send up would be destabilized into an unrecognizable state very quickly.... which would send a good bit of its debris down into dangerous altitudes close to earth x_x;
maybe what we need to do is turn luna into a ring system...?
Just put it where the mountains used to be in a mountain shaped container.
Easy.
Just trigger an ice age. Sea levels will drop. Plus think of all the extra ice you can live on.
Did I hear nuclear winter??
Can I put that extra ice in my drink?
No, but you can put the extra ice on top of the ice that is your drink. You’re in an ice age, after all.
Superman. Superman's stopping us. The deadbeat dad version.
Clearly never been to Boston
I mean of we just blew up the Appalachia's that oughta get us the materials required
Gonna have to put the water somewhere though, I vote right onto Texas because fuck Texas.
Fun fact, Appalachian has some of the world's oldest mountains, older than the atlantic ocean, the Scottish Highlands are part of the Appalachian range.
Kinda funny considering how it was mostly scots who ended up settling the mountains during colonization.
I mean, we probably could, but it'd be immensely expensive and also why?
Random adult gets on local school bus in the morning. Ends up in jail.
It would work better on the west coast, tbh. Ecological disaster, aside from practicality issues.
Hold on y’all, we -justyoulistenhere- get a buncha bulldozers and push thems dirt into the water, just like Ja-apan did right? And get this! Then there’s MORE AMERICA!
Half of it would be The South, though.
As in, it the South would literally have to rise?
Funny you should say that... they're the ones that sent me here.
Is that you?
Sell these houses to who, Terraman?
Only issue is pussy ass environmentalists fuck the fish get the l00tz