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[โ€“] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 42 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Somehow they included Great Salt Lake. It is a "great" "lake" ;)

But they left out Great Slave Lake, and Great Bear Lake because they don't know Canadian geography. ;)

[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Great Salt Lake

lol, i guess that must be why.

fwiw, regardless of its name or how great it is, it is not one of the Great Lakes ๐Ÿ˜‚

Not to mention the high likelyhood of it pulling a Salton sea remake in the next couple decades.

[โ€“] joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

To be fair, the Great Salt Lake isn't so great anymore.

[โ€“] Cipher22@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure a friend out that way mentioned "Lake" may be a generous title anymore.

[โ€“] Darorad@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, it's like 1/3 the size of used to be, and there's also toxic dust that'll give a bunch of cancer when the Republicans refuse to do anything about it in like 5 years.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drying-great-salt-lake-could-expose-millions-to-toxic-arsenic-laced-dust-180981439/