- Hiker finds pipe feeding China’s tallest waterfall, sparking social media controversy and investigation by local government officials.
- Yuntai tourism park operators admit to using a pipe to enhance waterfall flow during dry season to maintain visitor satisfaction.
- Social media users express mixed reactions, with some understanding the situation while others criticize the artificial enhancement of natural landscapes.
a lot of waterfalls redirect water with pipes, its especially useful on dry season.
I don’t see a problem.
right? now i wanna go see the high up waterpipe.
Typical “Made in China” quality.
Gotta be a lot of wasted energy pumping that water up, too.
“Its just spring water, bro. That shit never runs out.”
What about when summer comes? You can’t have spring water then
Yeah! And don’t even get me started on Fall water
It’s okay, it’s hydro powered.
It’s not wasted energy. The water now has potential energy from its height.
smh
China is doing a bit
It’s dry season, let’s dump more water to enhance visitor satisfaction.
It’s like when they were spraying the trees with green paint.
Yeah, this is the most Chinese shit ever
inb4 tankies say that China is super based for doing this somehow
I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.
But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.
Maybe in China they understand sarcasm.
Dude based on the comments I translate from Chinese on youtube shorts, they’re definitely smarter over there. It’s kind of alarming.
That’s an interesting metric.
Poe’s law tells me this is a real comment from a real tankie
… what the hell is a tankie?
(no, I haven’t been here long, how could you tell?)
Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?
Welcome to Lemmy.
Tap for some copy-pasta from wikipedia
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.
More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]You’ll also see them around here commonly blaming anything negative on “capitalism” as well (while ignoring the fact that pure capitalism doesn’t exist since the economy of almost every country is really a mix of capitalism and socialism).
Hyper-authoritarian leftist, usually hard-line CCP supporter.
Ive seen the same thing at waterfalls in state parks. Its probably super common around the world by now.
Edit: Logging back in to Lemmy like Dang thats a lot of mad neoliberals confusing an inconvenient fact for defense of the CCP.
Yeah. I’m trying to think of a tourist attraction with a small waterfall, that doesn’t do this.
The park staff is typically pretty open about it.
Small waterfalls are seasonal, and tourists are, well differently seasonal.
But that’s nothing that a little cheap plumbing can’t fix.
Its not like there’s a garden hose at the other end lol. That would be more of a scandal but for real I was just at one last weekend and when I hiked to the top there was a road and a gutter system.
The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.
you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.
You gotta block hexbear and .ml
I haven’t yet I like to argue with them I know I can’t win cos winning an argument requires the opposition is intelligent enough to apply logic but its still entertaining.
The site is founded by Communists, it’s not odd at all.
If you’re a communist you can’t like China
China is a Communist state…
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is democratic.
The United States of America are states.
Wait…
China isn’t Communist enough for you?
By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.
China isn’t communist. China is a capitalist dictatorship with one man at the top, a few people taking decisions and raking in all the profits and everyone else wage slaving away. Tell me what it reminds you
A lot of the communities I frequent have “no tankies allowed” listed clearly in the rules. It’s not that all of lemmy likes them it’s just that we haven’t decided to purge them, yet, given the ideology of a decentralized network of federated content feeds.
On the flipside, the American exceptionalism on the Lemmys is par for the course…
sparking…investigation by local government officials
Yes! This is what this sub is for
And we just use a dam to control flow rate instead… https://www.niagaraparks.com/visit-niagara-parks/plan-your-visit/niagara-falls-geology-facts-figures/
China? Dishonest? Say it ain’t so!!!
I’ve found the article here, gone in, and immediately forgot that it wasn’t the onion as it didn’t sound like something remotely true. Then I was immediately confused about how they’d made the satire look so real, with even fake-pipe photos. That’s been a confusing 5 minutes…
I don’t know anything about this particular waterfall but the existence of a pipe doesn’t mean anything nefarious here. It definitely doesn’t have to mean water was pumped up there unnaturally. It could be that a short segment of pipe was used to keep a river flowing under a segment of rock to control flooding or erosion. I’m not saying that’s what it is but on its face this is a non story without context or evidence of water being pumped.
You don’t even need to read the article to know the pipe is supplying the waterfall.
It definitely doesn’t have to mean water was pumped up there unnaturally.
If you had read the article before posting, you would have learned that it was pumped there unnaturally.
Holy cow, even looking at the picture … I spent so much time trying to figure out what the bright yellow thing was that I entirely missed the top of the fall being completely dry
