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> You must be new around here The commenter you respond to joined HN 4 years before you, with 10 times more karma points.
I was very obviously only making a joke. But ironically your reply perfectly embodies the petty, joyless and argumentative side of HN commenting I was alluding to.
I know; it was a tentative to make the thread more serious than these snarky, unconstructive comments.
Swiss river swimming is one of the highlights of my year.
Fucking mad, but I love it. Of course, you need to work into the culture swimming as a foundational cultural thing. (Not so in the US!) I can see us getting there in some decades. It tracks with other aspirational goals which are in progress.
Swiss river swimming is one of the highlights of my year.
My wife and I are going to summer vacation to Swiss towns that are on the river Aare for this exact reason. To me, floating in blue, transparent, super clean water on a hot day is heaven. Swiss are also individualist folk, so there is always many almost individual options to enter and leave the water or stay by it. It is depressing to come back to Berlin’s Spree and Havel that are both filled with cyanoalgae and Spre…
This has to be a joke seeing how much of a fuckup "swimming in the Seine" for the Olympics has been, but I gather this writer hasn't kept up to date with people commenting on L'Equipe's related posts on social media. Maybe they just can't read French.
The Olympics and having the Seine swimmable for everybody are different things; the criteria for athletes and for the general population are not the same. The objective of having the Seine open to swimming again still stands and should be achieved by Summer 2025, as expected.
That being said the "swimming in the Seine" during the Olympics and Paralympics has been complicated but I wouldn’t call it a "fuckup"; triathlon athletes are used to these conditions (think about Rio, which had much higher contamination levels, or Sydney which had (risk of) sharks and bacterias), and nobody has been sick after the competitions.
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I’ve come across a video where Swiss people were commuting from work by diving into the river yesterday and it blew my mind! It looks so delightful. I’ve never thought about going to Switzerland for holiday but now it’s all I’m thinking about.
Have you got a link to the video?
Urban swimmers are stewards responsible for protecting the health of their local waterways, working alongside Mother Earth’s closest carers, such as Indigenous peoples...
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Why you can't swim after the rain? Does the water get dirty, or else?
Since all other replies are a bit too concise, I'll try and dive deeper (ha ha). 1) Naturally, rains wash out street grime and small pieces of rubbish which may easily bypass the sewage system altogether and end up in the river. 2) Cities have systems in place to treat wastewaters before releasing them into the rivers. However, these systems need to store yet-untreated water in reservoirs, and heavy rain may fill the…
Other than "don't put sewage in the rain collector".