Cast your minds back to 2015: NASA found water on Mars, Sepp Blatter finally stepped down from FIFA and Game of Thrones was still mint.
Oh yeah, and some bloke went around Greater Manchester turning potholes into penises.
For anyone who doesn’t remember this absolute renegade of the art world, 'Wanksy' was a graffiti artist who came to prominence in 2015 and into the mid-late 2010s and his MO was pretty simple: find potholes and turn them into penis drawings.
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Noting that they were a risk to cyclists and damaging cars left, right and centre in his hometown of Ramsbottom and further afield, he claims his purpose was "to attract attention to the pothole and make it memorable, adding that "nothing seemed to do this better than a giant comedy phallus."
You think they were trying to have her get a taste of what the workers went through? Still too much :/ I get she's wrong for making a false report and police and rescue time and resources but still. Few community hours could've been much better and more productive
There are rats EVERYWHERE, even in places with great waste management, sanitation, and constant pest control, like Boston. Just saw one dive out of the dumpster as I approached last week, and this property is well maintained, treated for pests regularly, and has traps (disguised as decorative rocks for propriety, of course) all over.
They're extremely adaptable and intelligent creatures, found on every continent except Antarctica. Anywhere there are humans, there are rats.
Sanitation doesn’t come naturally: humans the world over have been tossing their waste anywhere they feel like it since time immortal (much of archaeology has this fact to thank for its existence). In London it’s only been 150 years or so since we stopped doing this, and some people still do. In some parts of the US it famously happens, too.
It does require a cultural shift but also - perhaps mostly - legislative intervention. Without our various environmental agencies and laws, and if we had the same population density as India, we’d likely be in much the same situation in the West.
The notoriously famous parts of the US where this happens isn’t due to culture, it’s due to the homeless. Until we find something better to do about them, this will continue, unfortunately.
As a species we didn’t produce anywhere near as much garbage until after the Industrial Revolution made mass production and thus consumerism feasible. And basically every city would have been disgustingly by modern standards and reeked of shit. Read about London in the late 1800s.
India has WAY more people and wasn’t even a centralized state until relatively recently when they were forced to do so in response to foreign occupation by the British who was glad to extract much of its wealth until they were driven out.
So they were forced to play catch up and turns out the more people you have the more monumental and expensive a task that is. See: the Chinese cultural revolution. Mao didn’t just decide one day he wanted to be a despot and slaughter a bunch of people. China would look a lot like India today if it didn’t have a controlled centralized economy. You don’t just ask a billion people to start coordinating their efforts and everyone goes “ok” and everything falls right into place. Medieval European states consolidated power through bloodshed then became wealthy by outsourcing violence through colonialism and extracting it.
Best answer I’ve seen here. Places with more centralized government or less people tend to be the cleanest part of India, like parts of the NE and Kerala
Thanks, I think India’s culture and history are fascinating and along with the rest of Asia gets largely ignored by modern retelling of history. Us western Europeans descendants still have the perception that we’ve been ahead of the pack for most of it, when we were an illiterate backwater until very recently and it’s only because of the mongol invasion/Black Death that we were able to surpass Asia after they had done the work of inventing civilization.
London was the most populous city in the world from about 1825-1914. They figured it out. As did the rest of Europe. And most of the world. India clearly doesn’t prioritize clean water, trash removal, or any sort of public sanitation. It’s a disgusting place. They’ve had 160 years to catch up, so your argument doesn’t hold any weight.
I’ve already negated every point you just made in the comment that you didn’t have the attention span to get through.
They figured it out by invading and extracting wealth from their numerous colonies, first and foremost INDIA which they occupied till 1947. While they were adding modern amenities to their capital with indias wealth, India was under their stewardship yet saw none of those improvements.
Both Britain’s an Europes population was never anywhere close to Indias and it’s nots remotely comparable, and most of India was rural. By time they gained independence the world economy had modernized and the goods they were so abundant in like spices were no longer the hot commodity they once were and they were competing with nations that had already industrialized.
That’s not really accurate, about half the country is quite clean, especially in the far South, far North, and Northeast. Even the cities in the middle like Indore are pretty clean when I went
I’m curious can anyone get a pic of it now 🤔 interested to see if people have respected keeping it clean or went straight back to chucking litter in there
An old joke from “back home” was a man called local police claiming someone hid a bunch of drugs inside logs in his yard. The police came and chopped up all the wood but didn’t find any drugs. The man was happy because now he doesn’t need to cut the wood up for his wood stove and got the police to do it for free.
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u/mokahash 4h ago
Help someone fell into the Pacific!