Neom, sorry, NEOM really is something else. Like if Musk was a king or something. But itâs so bad that my brain wiped details on how stupid it is, alas.
Thatâs some science fiction novel shit. I donât see anything so terrible about it if it works. Itâs almost like a model for a colony on another planet. Just enclose the whole thing and make it airtight.
MikeJ
1639
I feel like on first principles a line doesnât make sense. If the main point of a city is to quickly access a large set of potential services (and a large set of potential customers) then a line is basically the worst shape? Itâs the answer to the question of how we can arrange a city so that two random citizens as far away as possible.
Matt_W
1640
OTOH, you can set up a transit system that just goes back and forth. No crossing traffic :)
A line might be easier from a construction perspective, and also potentially from a surface area perspective for their mirrored solar power generating walls (if they serve that purpose).
Iâm thinking about the design and given the desert locale, maybe concrete and underground may make more sense.
Two things come to mind.
First, the concept seems to be why live in a grubby old city when you can live in a shiny new one?, but why not make the existing one shiny and new instead?
Second, none of the women in that concept video are in compliance with the dress code for Saudi women. I guess the conceit of the video is that they are all foreigners, and that Neom is a city for foreigners?
Thrag
1645
Spam is now a commodity valuable enough to guard.
Itâs like weâve become a second world county!
Is that really a spamburger⌠is that a thing?
CPB agents not even trying to hide that theyâre making this shit up.
abrandt
1648
We should admit that kid into the country immediately, he could be out of college by age 5 and be an extremely productive member of society.
Why do so many pricks get border agent jobs and police jobs?
Itâs a job that requires minimal education and skills, and in that job you get to lord it over ordinary people, so it is naturally going to attract a lot of pricks.
Are Indonesian McDs so significantly different from Australian ones making it worthwhile to attempt to smuggle in a McMuffin?
Theyâre Vegemite free, mate.
Plus the job has been fetishized and hero worshiped for decades, including on television and movies. Even when âbad copsâ are shown in shows and movies, there are always âgood copsâ taking them down. There is never a television show about police officers rolling around their city using their authority to bully the disadvantaged or people of color, harass women they find attractive, and beat the shit out of protestors or anyone that doesnât give them the ârespectâ they think they deserve. Thatâs not entertainment, itâs reality. It would be really interesting (and probably incriminating in a lot of cases) to see the unused footage from shows like COPS that followed real police officers in real time.
Good grief.
Thatâs the trophy for the new Saudi-funded-breakaway-league golf event at Trumpâs property last week. Iâm sure it is not deliberate, but WTF were they thinking?
