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TIL there's a solar powered pink refrigerator in the Namib Desert (africaviewfacts.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.world

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

TLDR for me?

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 111 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Imagine stumbling upon a fully operational pink refrigerator, stocked with cold beverages, nestled incongruously in the heart of this arid wilderness. It's not a hallucination or a mirage—it's a deliberate and whimsical creation by the Namibia Tourism Board, designed to surprise and delight weary adventurers.

Those two sentences pretty much cover it.

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[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why can't the world have more of this and less of... everything else that's going on right now? 😕

I don't really have a point, it's just sad that humans have the capacity to do such cool, fun, creative things, and instead we're burning the world down so computers can churn out garbage and blowing each other up because we're different from each other.

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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Why can't the world have more of this and less of... everything else that's going on right now?

Because if it doesn’t generate shareholder value, corps are not interested.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Green power drives shareholder value, and most places where fossil fuel wins economically it is largely due to government subsidies

If there was no shareholder value in green power, we wouldn't have any substantial green power. Yet the rise in green power over the last few years is absolutely mind boggling (and very under reported)

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Because people with whimsy are always poor.

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

I just saw an amazing concert at a venue built and paid for by the local government of a nearby town. You can only get tickets through the venue (no Ticketmaster), parking is free, prices are reasonable and it is an absolutely beautiful venue that artists want to perform in.

This is in a very red state (and very red town) in the US. There's still some good stuff out there if you look away from the horror show that's our federal government.

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[–] otterpop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the world! Even if it's something small you could help things be better.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Very doomer mindset. You're not going to see the fantastic things you seek in the media very often, doom and rage drives engagement. Cool, creative and green things are all around us. Change what you consume, change your mindset, and you will see

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

TLDR: Theres a solar powered pink refredgerator in the Nambian Desert.

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[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Cold drinks await

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca [S] 7 points 1 year ago

The government put the fridge there to attract tourists.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Ye

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