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_th...

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

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.

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.

Thank you.

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

> Opinion about the value of Florida to the Union was mixed

was?

this article is hilarious as-is

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.