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Re: Western Sahara

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Post by KellyCriterion »

culi wrote: post #3

It's fascinating. Basically the entire world's phosphate comes from this (it has 70% of the world's proven reserves). No country on earth recognizes Morocco's claims over this Saharawi land. At least they didn't until 2020 when Trump became the first in exchange for Morocco normalizing relations with Israel. The case has been taken to international court multiple times and always ruled against Morocco's claims. Despi…

You should click on the adjacent link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus#Biological_role

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Phosphor

Phosphor is not renewable/regrowable and recycling is very hard/expensive. In a nutshell: The worlds food completely relies on this molekule.

Re: Western Sahara

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Post by arjie »

adolph wrote: post #7

It is interesting that Western Sahara never developed piracy enterprises similar to Somalia. Is it some combination of: * stronger government control from Morocco than Somalia has had internally * little indigenous sea-faring populations outside of controllable cities * sea lanes with less hospitable currents * something else?

I think you have it, especially with the first, but also I couldn't find very much coastline for Polisario-controlled territory here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara#/media/File:Wes...

And of course there's the background indirect issue where the world's largest navy is stationed half on the same ocean.

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Post by eej71 »

nephihaha wrote: post #2

One of the lesser known criticisms of the recent "Odyssey' film is that parts were shot in the Western Sahara. I believe Emily Wilson herself was critical of this.

I've never quite understood the nature of this criticism. At best I'd describe it as deeply intellectualized tribalism. But I think I'm being a little too kind.

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Post by Apocryphon »

eej71 wrote: post #14
nephihaha wrote: post #2

One of the lesser known criticisms of the recent "Odyssey' film is that parts were shot in the Western Sahara. I believe Emily Wilson herself was critical of this.

I've never quite understood the nature of this criticism. At best I'd describe it as deeply intellectualized tribalism. But I think I'm being a little too kind.

Is it any different from Disney being criticized for filming Mulan (2020) in Xinjiang?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/disney-criticized-for-film...

Re: Western Sahara

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Post by Apocryphon »

dieselgate wrote: post #10
coshi_dz wrote: post #9

who submited this to hacker news doesnt seem like a fiting spot

Per HN Guidelines post "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." I learned quite a lot in just the first 10 seconds of looking at the wiki. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Their lack of sovereignty is blocking the .eh TLD from being realized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eh

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Post by glitchcrab »

coshi_dz wrote: post #9

who submited this to hacker news doesnt seem like a fiting spot

I had never heard of Western Sahara, nor did I know about Morocco's involvement even though I've visited Morocco several times. So I found this very interesting and I learnt something new. Seems to fit here quite well to me.

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Post by Stevvo »

Arubis wrote: post #4

Dakhla is actually pretty tourist-friendly, and spending time there will quickly do away with the notion that nobody lives in Western Sahara. It's well-known for kiteboarding and windsurfing, since it's got pretty consistent wind and surf and a hot-comfortably dry climate. Pretty heavy police presence and you're supporting Moroccan arguable-occupation by heading there, though, so it's a tradeoff.

Silly anchoring is forbidden, could be a great sailing destination.
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