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[–] Steve@startrek.website 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The answer to a question in the title is always NO.

But at least the grass will be green when we die.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 2 points 13 hours ago

The answer is yes, but all the water will be delivered over the course of 1 or 2 days every few years.

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink,
The oceans rise, the glaciers die, the Earth begins to sink.
The skies grow dark, the rivers fade, the wells run dry with fear.
The cost of greed, the toll of need, grows heavier each year.

The forests fall, the deserts spread, the air turns thick and gray.
The cries of life once teeming here grow fainter by the day.
A thousand streams that once ran pure now choke on plastic’s tide,
And those who thirst, who seek relief, find emptiness worldwide.

The crops refuse to bear their fruit, the soil turns to sand,
And yet we drill, and yet we burn, and plunder every land.
The balance tips, the warning signs grow louder to ignore,
But still we waste, we hesitate, and ravage evermore.

Oh, can’t you see, the world must change before it is too late?
The fragile web that binds us all bends under mounting weight.

We must unite, we must repair, and tread with lighter care,
For water, water everywhere must soon flow free and fair.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

And yet? 😶

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Potable is the missing word

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

OP means morons are moving to Florida which to say MAGA folks are migrating there.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nope, and your home could soon be uninsurable.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

Better buy insurance now then. That way, when the time comes, they can deny your claim because of natural disasters.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Why exactly are people moving to the cesspool?

I get that people hate snow but hurricanes are less fun. While not bleak, the job market seems mid at best, perhaps even volatile.

[–] Breve@pawb.social 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Cheap land, conservative values, and low taxes: the siren call for ancient fixed income retirees everywhere.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for pointing out my missing quotes! I also mistyped "land" instead of "land that will be useless to future generations". 🫠

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 15 hours ago

Oh, I read it as "land that will be useful as SCUBA tour sites for future generations of carnival barkers & the like", but it's a very similar spelling, so that's on me.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Avoiding taxes is going to bite them in other ways. It's not the cheap retiree paradise it used to be. Housing is skyrocketing, FL has some of the highest health care costs, insurance for auto and particularly home are getting incredibly expensive, the housing prices climbing mean property taxes are getting more expensive, and we haven't even got to the rising temperatures, sea levels and worse storms.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

capital formations have been relocating south for a bit now and bringing their cheap labor demands. there's a Who Makes Cents pod on the phenomenon and it's impact on US internal migration / interview with a book author. pretty sure it was released in 2024. I can look it up if anyone is interested.

I think anybody who is able should be swimming in the opposite direction as hard as they can, but capital has a gravitational pull that can uproot people and move them against their impulses.

there are also a big chunk rich, older morons from the northeast corridor who think "me get big house in sunshine" and go no further. they need maids and egg salad sandwiches and new sliding glass doors and pill dispensers and butt wipers.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Morons, the coastline continues to disappear to the growing oceans, insuring property is becoming more and more impossible without handing over huge amounts of cash and even then many major insurers don’t operate in FL anymore.

[–] fishabel@discuss.online 6 points 17 hours ago

Shhhh let them go

[–] dogerwaul@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

why the hell would anyone willingly live in Florida

[–] Garibaldee@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

No insurance, no future, and cultural identity via propaganda? Sounds like just the spot.