That would indeed make sense. But what doesn’t is why somebody built this in what was uninhabited marshland at the time, and why they built a seemingly totally-unrelated cool storage box on top of it.

Yeah but if it was a cistern, why did whoever built it build what looked like a rather elaborate cooler space with a double bottom on top of it?

Also, while the level of the lake is higher today, it wasn’t that much lower back in the days. So if it was a cistern, it would have been very close to the waterline, and regularly flooded every year anyway like it is today: the level of the lake is regulated now, but it wasn’t before, and the level varied a lot more.

The location doesn’t make much sense for a cistern. Perhaps for a well, if whoever built it wanted clean lake water filtered by the sandy ground.

Unlikely: it was built when this whole area was a marsh. It was already there when the first owner of this land built his first house.

I think the reason (some) people haven’t noticed is the same reason family members don’t notice until it gets really bad.

Yes, and something else also: when somebody is a “colorful” character like Trump, it becomes even harder to distinguish what is somebody’s normal behavior from the effects of the dementia.

My Dad was somewhat eccentric and neither my Mom, my siblings or I realized there was something seriously wrong with him for a long time: we just assumed he was being weird like he always was, until he become erratic enough, and most importantly violent - which he had never been - that we brought him to the doctor, who showed us the MRI: he was in an advanced state of FT dementia, but we just didn’t see it. And then with hindsight, it all became clear all of the sudden.

I highly doubt Kristi Noem was hardcore MAGA before the orange utan offered her the job in exchange for blind obedience. But she certainly was the immoral politician willing to do anything for power. Just like Rubio: they’re all turncoats first and foremost.

Whether you think Bryon Noem demonstrates a character flaw and moral turpitude by marrying a power-hungry woman, and whether he should be punished for it, is up to you.

The only one who compromised Kristi Noem is Kristi Noem. If her husband puts party balloons under his shirt and it stays in their bedroom, I don’t see how that impacts the horrors she did.

I admit that I would have been willing to throw Bryon Noem under the bus to get to his wife and oust her faster, because the good of the country and the poor people she unlawfully got arrested, deported and killed outweigh the good of that one man. But now that she’s out of office, Bryon Noem should be out of the limelight.

There’s no reviving and there’s no debate: anybody who’s ever had to deal with a loved one with fronto-temporal dementia has know what Trump is suffering from for years.

Don’t click on that link: it’s a crass antisemitic site.

Bryon Noem’s life choices are nobody’s business: he hurts no-one and he doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything.

Unlike his bitch wife: you want to bash a Noem? Concentrate on Kristi. She’s the one who needs to pay for her crimes.

You would never have heard of her unusual husband, were it not for the very public disgrace of that terrible woman. I say give the guy a fucking break already.

Funny you should say that: you know what the kid next door told me today? He said “Are you sure it’s safe to dig this? Maybe you should leave the stone slab: what if it’s the lake bung?”

He looked genuinely concerned 🙂

Ah no, I’m in northern Europe 🙂 I use standard because I grew up an American (which I am no more, thankfully) and that’s still what “speaks” to me for casual measurements. For anything precise though, I’m a metric boy.

The land was public before the first owner bought it. I have the cadastral records. Back in the 60s, this was literally a swamp with five houses around the lake, and people bought land here to build summer cottages on the cheap. Now it’s quickly turning into an unaffordable posh suburb of the main city nearby that has tripled in size - but I still managed to score this prime piece of land and the house on top of it for pre-pandemic dollar, because I got very, VERY lucky.

My best guess - and the original owner’s - is that this was somebody’s fishing or hunting spot, and they built the cooler without asking anybody’s permission.

Oh I know when they were built: 1967. That’s when the first owners bought the land and built their first house on it.

And not a second too soon.

Oh the migration is done. That was very painless thanks to @rimu@crust.piefed.social 🙂

Yeah, I joined SDF because I liked their “old computing” service concept. I even gave them money. But I quickly realized that there’s never any help available when you hit the help thing in the shell account, and the one thing I use the most from them - their Lemmy server - is utter shit. I’m pretty sure it’s an old server someone set up somewhere and completely forgot about.

It was not money well spent. Oh well…

I don’t think SDF shut down: all the other Fediverse services they run are still alive and well, as always, and I can log into my SDF shell account just fine.

It’s just the SDF Lemmy instance. This thing has never run well, has always been slow at the best of times, and down so often it’s not even funny - sometimes for weeks at a time.

Whoever runs the Lemmy instance at SDF clearly doesn’t give a rat’s ass.

It may or may not come back. But like always, don’t hold your breath. Me, I’m done with it. Good riddance.

Those stairs look quite old

They were probably built at the same time as the mystery cold storage thing - if that’s what it is. In fact, if you think they look old, a couple of months ago they weren’t even visible: they were buried under 5 inches of dirt and were starting to merge with the surrounding vegetation. They look like steps again because I dug them up.

That makes total sense. But only if the lake was lower than it is now some 75 years ago. It might well have been: this place was kind of swampy and full of mosquitoes for a long time until the state decided to build a dam to control the outflow of the lake into the river and pump air into it to raise the oxygen level - and now it’s a fancy, desirable lake 🙂

I find 360 photos more memorable that the thousands of phone pics i have from special occasions.

110% with you there. Photospheres capture good memories like no photo ever can. They’re so immersive they take you rigth back. At least they’re still impressive to this easily-impressed gen-Xer 🙂

I guess it could use a slightly lower FOV angle to look less distorted on a phone. It seems alright on desktop. It’s a compromise: the lower the FOV, the slower it spins around with the mouse. But of course, if you activate sensor control on the mobile version of Pannellum, this becomes moot.

I wonder if Trump is a fat lump of blubber to emulate his mentor Orban or if it’s the other way round.

Modern fascists are really sloppy. They don’t even try to look like proper Aryans.