Saudi Arabia has this weird affinity for these completely ridiculous sci-fi projects that are proposed as actual non-fantasy developments. See the Mukaab for another example.
I guess it does get them attention
End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
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#12I'm surprised not to see the article mention the previous report[1] about the three men who were sentenced to death, the killing of one, and the decades long prison sentences for others over their opposition to this project.
Karmic justice requires this project to be crushed by the sand that these arrogant dictators tried to impose their steel dick over.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/un-rights-expe...
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#13I always expected Megacity One would be built somewhere in England.
Something tells me it won't be built, it will be evolved or grown from an existing big city.
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#14I always expected Megacity One would be built somewhere in England.
No no, that's where Airstrip One is.
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#15Re: End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
#16I'm surprised not to see the article mention the previous report[1] about the three men who were sentenced to death, the killing of one, and the decades long prison sentences for others over their opposition to this project. Karmic justice requires this project to be crushed by the sand that these arrogant dictators tried to impose their steel dick over. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/03/un-rights-exp…
Indeed, there is a reason for the saying "what comes around, goes around". In this case, a prestige project that the Saudis try to market themselves to the world as modern and green and ambitious, but they still are quite authoritarian in the end.
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#18Anybody would be forced to scale that back.
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#19The whole idea of a linear city is daft. A circle is way more efficient at getting around. The dimensions of the Line are, of course, silly as well.
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#20I always expected Megacity One would be built somewhere in England.
Something tells me it won't be built, it will be evolved or grown from an existing big city.
Gall's Law holds true
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.