sewer city

imagine collecting entire sewer output of new york city into some kind of
massive manifold and running a pipe from that to a huge unpopulated valley, let
the valley fill up for 100 years
what u should end up with is this nice 30m deep sewer lake. if u cant smell it
within 200km radius go back to step one and try again
now, pour a 5mm layer of concrete covering the entire lake. its remarkable how
inviting the place looks now, and a week later the smell is nearly gone
proceed to release a horde of entrepreneurs going full steam ahead to build a
city on top of this foundation
commercial buildings, housing, streets, sidewalks and parks all start cropping
up in short order, its very dynamic
eventually the city grows so big its no longer practical to explore it
travelling on foot or bicycle, cars are needed to navigate this thing
turns out its somewhat difficult to make cars that dont break through the 5mm
concrete, u need special nasa carbon fiber frames, state of the art low density
porous aluminium engine blokcs, extra wide and thin specially formulated rubber
tires filled with helium, all of these are extremely difficult and expensive to
manufacture and only 2 or 3 organizations seem to have the capacity to engineer
and produce these vehicles worldwide
nonetheless, inhabitants are satisfied - the clunky, fragile and expensive cars
seem to work well enouhg for the undemanding consoomer, and people can now move
around more freely exploring the utopia
few months later, cracks start appearing in the streets. they quickly get
filled with fresh asphalt, cars are retrofitted with even wider tires, helium
pressure is cranked up to 10bars. because of the new upgraded tires, road is no
longer wide enough to fit two cars side by side, u need to drive onto the
sidewalk a bit in order to pass oncoming traffic. speed limits are reduced to
3km/h in an attempt to halt the growing frequency of accidents (most common
being airpods-wielding pedestrians walking with their back turned getting
flattened on the sidewalk)
still, the number of sticky black spots of repaired asphalt keep growing in the
course of the next weeks, 75% of the workforce have been reassigned to road
repair duty
it is now a regular sight that cars are breaking throuhg the thin crust,
getting stuck spinning their wheels in rancid maggot infested 100yo sewer,
launching huge amounts of it into the air, its an urban shit geyser
traffic slows to a crawl, engines of stuck vehicles are overheating trying to
break free from fecal glue traps, people are often seen bending over vomiting
in the streets from the stench but keep going thinking in their collective
delusion this is a temporary setback, the expansion must continue

lets stop there this essay is finished
if it wasnt obvious the sewer is disgusting html7/cascading cancersheets/js
mess, 5mm concrete icing is jafashit framewerks/php/wordpress/whatever the fukc
it is this week, civilization built on top is the modern web, cars are the
marvel of engineering that is current state of browsers