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[chalice]

[ckrit]

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/1...n-clone-towns/

[megabyteme]

http://www.messynessychic.com/2012/1...n-clone-towns/

That is just amazing/insane/WTF.

[ckrit]

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My reaction can be summed up as

[ckrit]

I imagine it started something like this:

-Hay, guise. How do we create economic growth rly fast?
-Dat's easy. We'll just build 64 million apartments, and employ millions of people to do it.
-Cool.
-Also, let's make them super expensive so 99.99% of the population can't afford them.
-Yes!
-And then we'll just keep on building more, forever.

Ten years later:

-Wait, what?

[ckrit]

'cos clearly, someone in that scheme isn't too quick on the uptake.

[megabyteme]

'cos clearly, someone in that scheme isn't too quick on the uptake.

I'd do some crazy stuff, too, if I had billions of unemployed people willing working for nothing.

I'm sure the conversation went something like this:

CGuy1: Wouldn't it be kinda cool if we built replica cities?

CGuy2: Yeah.

CGuy1: Let's do it.

Workers begin building cities.

10 years go by...

CGuy2: The workers have finished like 5 of those replica cities you wanted.

CGuy1: What cities? [thinks to self he shouldn't talk about crazy shit when he's high]

[ckrit]

[megabyteme]

[Skiz]

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My reaction can be summed up as

And even though there isn't a vehicle in sight, look at the horrible air pollution at 1:02 and 12:45