TIL: Today I Learned

[Kyriakos]

Says a person living in a place that has to import oil.

Norway has its own oil, surely. Without it the country wouldn't exist, while now it is very rich

 

[Bootstoots]

Says a person living in a place that has to import oil.

Snoreway hasn't pumped out everything under the North Sea yet.

California shouldn't be allowed to secede until they start calling it Califrexit. Calexit clearly doesn't sound as good, and those people are supposed to be better at naming things.

 

[Lohrenswald]

water is always important and always will be. It's not the same for petroleum

 

[Takhisis]

Says a person living in a place that has to import oil.

They have plenty of it, thanks to Denmark, actually.

 

[Cutlass]

California has a legal claim on most of the Colorado River's flow. They waste most of it, sure. But they ain't gonna die of thirst.

 

[Zkribbler]

They waste most of it, sure.

What? On things like agriculture? LA has been in drought mode for years: low-flo shower heads & toilets; xero-scaping; the most unique idea I heard was people painting their dead lawns green.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What? On things like agriculture? LA has been in drought mode for years: low-flo shower heads & toilets; xero-caping; the most unique idea I heard was people painting their dead lawns green.

So they've filled in all those outdoor swimming pools?

 

[Zkribbler]

So they've filled in all those outdoor swimming pools?

Many are empty.
More have been razed. along with their single-family dwellings, to make room for multi-story apartment/condo complexes.

 

[Cutlass]

What? On things like agriculture? LA has been in drought mode for years: low-flo shower heads & toilets; xero-scaping; the most unique idea I heard was people painting their dead lawns green.

The laws are weird. But what it amounts to is that contracted water rights are locked in. But only locked in so long as the water is actually used. So farmers that have locked in water rights have to use that water, whether they need it or not. If they don't, they lose the rights to use it in the future.

 

[Hrothbern]

TIL that this hotel exists
Azura not high in mountains but on the coast of Turkey and the robe is a bit different

 

[Kyriakos]

^The definition of kitch.

 

[Traitorfish]

^The definition of kitch.

That might be too kind. Kitsch is tasteless, yes, but it also represents a sort of naive sincerity; that building strikes me as an absolutely cynical appeal to its prospective clientele's bad taste.

That, or it was build by Elder Scrolls fans given an irresponsibly expansive budget.

 

[Broken_Erika]

What's with the Giant Sanitary Pad above the door?

 

[Traitorfish]

It's an abstract representation of Stretch Armstrong.

 

[Broken_Erika]

The position of that one streetlight is most um.......unfortunate. At least from this angle......

 

[Snerk]

By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!!

 

[Arakhor]

I am wondering if those really are statues of the Goddess of Dawn and Dusk outside and how that doesn't run afoul of IP usage.

 

[Mouthwash]

TIL there was a Sith Lord called 'Darth Millennial' in the Expanded Universe.

 

[Broken_Erika]

There should have been one called "Darth Cynicus"

 

[Takhisis]

I am wondering if those really are statues of the Goddess of Dawn and Dusk outside and how that doesn't run afoul of IP usage.

Yet another thing the Turks have stolen from the Greeks, you mean?