1w ago

Eight beavers in the Czech Republic did some public service.

This was earlier this year. Link:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic

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Nice beavers.
OK, so how about spending that money in a water treatment plant, so the beavers don't live in "dirty" water and make things better downstream?
How did they do this with no profit motive?
- And no teams meetings?!
  
  without ai assistance‽
- Clearly these beavers don't know the Rules of Acquisition.
- They used Jira
That image doesn't appear in the linked article. In fact, a simple image search suggests that the image is of a beaver dam in British Columbia and the picture demonstrates the ability of beaver dams to block/filter sediments out of water after a heavy rain. Why do people feel the need to make shit up when the real story is cool enough?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKRW3j5Tmtf/
- It was probably just the first result on the image search of "beaver dam aerial shot."
I live in NW Ohio qnd have thought about how beneficial it would be for the state to revert a few hundred acres along the Maumee river back into a wetland. It would reduce loads if the algal blooms that devastae Lake Erie. Some natural wetlands and beavers would mitigate ao much of that, but the farmers around here are completely opposed to any such ideas
- We are the extinction event
- 💰
Those beavers just stole our jobs!
- They took our jobs!
  
  Der terk er jerbs!
Leave it to beavers
Beavers: It's what we do. Now clean up that dirty water!
- I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that's the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.
  
  If you think about it, it would make no sense for a beaver to clean water. After they build the dam, it creates a body of water that they swim in. They spend their time on that side of the dam. That would be the "dirty" side. If a beaver dam cleans water, it's purely coincidental.
I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
- The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
  But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
- Not sure about the specifics in this particular case, but here are common things that contribute to poor river water quality:
  Impermeable surfaces in human-built environments, which cause water to flow more quickly and therefore erode river banks (dams and retaining ponds help slow down water flows)
  Residential and agricultural fertilizer/manure runoff, increases nutrients in water that cause microbes to grow faster
  Tiling agricultural fields, which releases more of the above
  Untreated human sewage
  Improper dumping of industrial chemicals, or breach of containment due to upstream flooding
  Runoff from abandoned mines
  
  ~~We don't need other people to ask chatgpt for us~~
- The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
  Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
Beavers are awesome
Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money...
Beavers: Fine, we'll do it ourselves!
- Humans: Put their trust in a beaver dam, and find out the hard way why regulations and bureaucracy exist.
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
I get that they're trying to be clever or whatever with this headline, but it just comes off as more low-key "government can't work" propaganda.
- Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
  I mean, the dam is self-repairing.
  
  The dam is also environmentally friendly - beavers have been building dams in the area for 30 million years, the ecosystems are evolved to live with beaver dams.
  
  So you would be willing to build a home in a flood zone that is protected by nothing but a "dam" built by beavers?
  The structures may share a name, but believe it or not, humans have innovated quite a bit to say the fucking least...
- Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn't need safety features because a sane person doesn't expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.
  Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.
  
  Look at the comments in this thread. From a literal engineer... It's fucking dumb
Timberborn update looks sweet
Aw hell yeah, fellow beavers
Nice beaver.
Beaver: "Pay up!"
These beavers need to be deported for taking local jobs for no pay. There were six of them so that sounds like a gang to me.
- Fortunately they were not in the US.
Gerhard Schwab, beaver manager
Incredible job title. 🙃
We don't talk about the incident.
- Bober, kurwa!
And now wait for some applejack to ruin it all.
- don't forget the poor beaver space program
- What does that mean? My searches are coming up empty...
  
  its from a movie called Hundreds of Beaver
https://archive.ph/L0lgw
Quick! somebody tell RCE

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