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'Forgotten' water harvesting system transforms 'barren wasteland' into thriving farmland (www.upworthy.com)
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Just a few years ago, the Sahel region at the northern edge of Senegal was a "barren wasteland" where nothing had grown for 40 years. But the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and local villagers teamed up to regreen the area, bringing back agriculture, improving the economy of the people who live there, and preventing the climate migration that desertification ultimately leads to.

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[–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh no... tracks. In the barren wasteland. Where the whole point is creating divots for water.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    You got a well-written, thoughtful and meaningful comment, and you mined it for one nitpick to sarcastically attack as if it was the whole point.

    Pearls before swine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's dissembling nonsense on every level. The first sentence doesn't even parse. Half the comment is irrelevant self-congratulatory wank about trees and electronics. There's about fifteen contiguous words that matter, at all, and they're buried in the middle of three half-wrong sentences.

    The scale of this "pilot" wasn't one fucking hole. It's acres of them. A single backhoe would still be busy for weeks.

    I only picked one nit because it highlights the failure to recognize what matters, here. Tracks are not a negative. There's no grass being torn up, like the nimble woodsman here seems to be picturing. It's barren wasteland.

    That picked nit, by the way, was a concise and impersonal rebuke of only that point. When I want to attack someone I am not fucking subtle. But thanks for dragging this all out, with your performative eye-rolling that contributes nothing but unpleasant disdain.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All three of the "sentences" in your reply don't fucking parse if you want to be goddamn garmmar nazi about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's fragmentary delivery of one sentence which you plainly understood just fine.

    Actual hypocrisy would be you mining a wide-ranging rebuke for that failed riposte.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It wasn't hypocrisy, I was demonstrating a lack of respect for anything you had to say, just like you did. Doesn't feel good, does it?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That's still hypocrisy, dipshit. And projection.

    You don't get to condescend to me after getting the detail you barged in to sneer about, and then doing the exact thing you were sneering about.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hypocrisy means a lack of self-reflection, and I am perfectly able to reflect on the fact that I was deliberately disrespecting you, and I think it was a fine thing to do actually.

    You took a meaningful, thoughtful reply and dismissed it with a nitpick that, by the way, completely missed the point.

    Your response to my critique was pure toxicity, just laden with contempt for me and the other commenter. The fact you started with a grammatical complaint shows how utterly shallow and vapid your replies are.

    You're an asshole, and I have no trouble talking to you like an asshole. However, I won't let you waste any more of my time, so this is the last thing I'll say to you. Feel free to shock me by not being an asshole in your final reply.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Hypocrisy means double standards, you tone-policing projection addict.

    You called me swine.

    You called me swine for a polite jibe about dirt.

    Fuck entirely off with your high-horse posturing, after barging in to deliver that baseless feigned offense. Which I met, by the way, with a blunt version of the detailed response you fucking wanted. A courtesy you seem incapable of meeting in kind. Because of course, you, the protagonist of reality, get to declare me persona non grata, but god forbid anyone else consider a comment rambling and irrelevant. It was so detailed! About trees, for some reason, and gyms, and electronics?

    Oh no I'm sorry, that previous sentence wasn't rigidly diagram-friendly, which is what you think "parse" means. No. It means, I still have no idea why that guy mentioned his gym. That part, which I only touched on because you pushed me to address it, fuckface, was not even the nit initially picked.

    I am treating you as an equal. I hold you to your own standards. You are found sorely lacking. Worst of all for the inevitable 'see I knew it' response, as if anything short of groveling apology wouldn't be dismissed as such.

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