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Halfway in I realized the author is just narrating the Wikipedia article. If you'd rather just read it without the attempts to be funny: https://en.wikipedia.or

Halfway in I realized the author is just narrating the Wikipedia article. If you'd rather just read it without the attempts to be funny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_and_development_of_the_Everglades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_and_development_of_th...

ksymph 1y ago
Wish I noticed before submitting, I would have just shared that instead. Oh well. Thanks.
- ElijahLynn 1y ago
  the comedy was what got me through it, probably wouldn't have read the Wikipedia article, fwiw.
- zem 1y ago
  I enjoyed the author's style, personally
  - rubyfan 1y ago
    Felt like AI to me
    - littlestymaar 1y ago
      Please tell me which AI writes like that by default so I can recommend it to everyone who copy-paste the obnoxious chatGPT slop answers in the comment sections.
- randallsquared 1y ago
  No, this was much more entertaining to read.
- 4pkjai 1y ago
  Normally I don't, but liked the humour.
hitekker 1y ago
In addition, it feels like the author asked an AI to do the narration for him. He made some edits here and there but the humor feels off.
IncRnd 1y ago
Yea, so here's the tl;dr history in the article: 1. The author, who actually cribbed from wikipedia, gets the willies when he sees shallow water infested with tens of thousands of perfectly happy alligators. All he thinks is that amazing commerce will happen when he kills all the kind gators, flushes the state, and runs away before the next time it rains. 2. Everyone throughout history has wanted to Drain The Swamp. Every one of those amazing historical people has seemed perfectly reasonable and without a doubt was an incredibly towering bastion of science who wanted to drain the Everglades. Too bad they were all incompetent. 3. Please leave Florida Man and Gator Lake alone. They separate the Gulf of America on the West from the Sea of Florida on the East.
- vermilingua 1y ago
  *Gulf of Mexico
yieldcrv 1y ago
> Opinion about the value of Florida to the Union was mixed was? this article is hilarious as-is
hypercube33 1y ago
Thank you. Another example of draining wetland is Mexico City I think. Drained to farm and then developed on.
xorcist 1y ago
What's not funny is the amount of podcast episodes that are two guys summarizing the wikipedia article, trying to be funny. When civilization ends, we will look back at podcast episodes more numerous than the stars in the sky, and wonder if it that was really the most productive use of our entropy.

ksymph 1y ago

Wish I noticed before submitting, I would have just shared that instead. Oh well. Thanks.

ElijahLynn 1y ago
the comedy was what got me through it, probably wouldn't have read the Wikipedia article, fwiw.
zem 1y ago
I enjoyed the author's style, personally
- rubyfan 1y ago
  Felt like AI to me
  - littlestymaar 1y ago
    Please tell me which AI writes like that by default so I can recommend it to everyone who copy-paste the obnoxious chatGPT slop answers in the comment sections.
randallsquared 1y ago
No, this was much more entertaining to read.
4pkjai 1y ago
Normally I don't, but liked the humour.

hitekker 1y ago

In addition, it feels like the author asked an AI to do the narration for him. He made some edits here and there but the humor feels off.

IncRnd 1y ago

Yea, so here's the tl;dr history in the article: 1. The author, who actually cribbed from wikipedia, gets the willies when he sees shallow water infested with tens of thousands of perfectly happy alligators. All he thinks is that amazing commerce will happen when he kills all the kind gators, flushes the state, and runs away before the next time it rains. 2. Everyone throughout history has wanted to Drain The Swamp. Every one of those amazing historical people has seemed perfectly reasonable and without a doubt was an incredibly towering bastion of science who wanted to drain the Everglades. Too bad they were all incompetent. 3. Please leave Florida Man and Gator Lake alone. They separate the Gulf of America on the West from the Sea of Florida on the East.

vermilingua 1y ago
*Gulf of Mexico

yieldcrv 1y ago

> Opinion about the value of Florida to the Union was mixed was? this article is hilarious as-is

hypercube33 1y ago

Thank you. Another example of draining wetland is Mexico City I think. Drained to farm and then developed on.

xorcist 1y ago

What's not funny is the amount of podcast episodes that are two guys summarizing the wikipedia article, trying to be funny. When civilization ends, we will look back at podcast episodes more numerous than the stars in the sky, and wonder if it that was really the most productive use of our entropy.