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It's annoying how the rhetorical "one third of Pakistan underwater" has been repeated as fact even though a quick glance at a topological map shows that to be i
by concordDance 4y ago
It's annoying how the rhetorical "one third of Pakistan underwater" has been repeated as fact even though a quick glance at a topological map shows that to be impossible for values of "underwater" that mean "comes up to your ankles at least".
- refurb 4y agoNever let eyeballs you grab during a crisis go to waste (not see an ad).
- EdwardDiego 4y agoHow is that impossible according to topology? Maybe there's some context like "1/3rd of the bits where people live is underwater". Like, my country is roughly the same size as Germany. But the relevant context is "but 90% of our landmass is hills or mountains, so only 10% of our land is actually inhabited" So yeah, 1/3 of what...