isn’t it incredible that houses have pipes that carry clean water in and dirty water out and all you have to do is open a tap or push a button?

and that the networks that do this are built and operated by people and they run perfectly basically all the time?

clear intentions, lightly held ᐧ playful, feral free agent ᐧ I teach Alexander Technique, which helps you get out of your own way, at expandingawareness.org

and there are these wires that are all connected to the same network with lots of power plants of different kinds on it that spin in sync with each other, and they all slow down by the same imperceptible amount at the same time when I flick a light switch

and this all just works

and there’s an entirely different set of pipes that carry the gaseous remains of simple marine organisms that died millions of years ago and we burn that to cook with, heat rooms and heat the water we get from the other pipes?

and people built those pipes and they work

truly, i've been to places where such networks don't exist

Honestly I haven’t thought about this so good like this and a lot of effort put into the work 
Fr fr accolades to everyone that puts it all together

This is why I’m not that mad that utility companies basically have monopolies

David Holz had a great tweet about this recently, truly a miracle

Now, tell them where the water in the pipes comes from and how its supply and quality is closely related to the highly polluting human activities that many take for granted...

When you put it like this its hard not to be fascinated by it

Wrote a poem about this once… faecal hyperloops

and yet... these people are often seen as the dregs of society and get very little respect, socially, until we need them? That is the part I find incredible.