• @Rayspekt
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    325 months ago

    Panama Canal is the biggest NIMBY project ever

    • @Serinus
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      235 months ago

      Because it was built at the thinnest part of the content and used existing lakes?

      Pretty sure Omaha would have loved an East\West canal across the continent.

        • @Serinus
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          85 months ago

          But it was done, which is kind of the opposite of NIMBY. Also it’s not a project that could go anywhere, except that no one wants it.

          Closing Guantanamo was a NIMBY thing because, while everyone agrees it should happen, no one wanted the detainees in their backyard. (As ridiculous as that is.)

          • @Rayspekt
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            -15 months ago

            The Panama canal was a US NIMBY project I’d argue. Give us the canal but without impacting our territory.

            • @Cypher
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              45 months ago

              Your comment is actually insane.

              There is no way the US would not have preferred the canal to be in their backyard.

            • @AngryCommieKender
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              5 months ago

              We didn’t maintain administration of the canal for just over a century for no reason. We would have put that shit in the Rio Grande, if we could have. Unfortunately that river runs dry for several months a year.

              Especially since that particular area of the world is some of the least developed.