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Probably you heard about Saudi Arabia's plan for the "Line" - a "revolutionary" living/commercial/city that will when completed extend some hundreds of miles across the desert. Critics have denounced it for the displacement of indigenous peoples along the route, and various other things.
If you're not familiar you should take in their "vision" here: https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline
It looks impressive. I was pretty skeptical, though, still am, I mean - anyone remember the hype about all the "World Islands" built in Dubai? Here's a refresher: The World Islands - hint, most are already eroded and under water.
Now, news that so far "The Line" Project has cost 21, 000 lives - mostly Nepali, Indian and Bangladeshi - with another 100, 000 missing. 100, 000 people missing. One Hundred Thousand.
Anyways, while it will be built, I'm reasonably certain that it won't take even a hundred years for it to be revealed as the colossal folly it is. A place for the new goatherds and survivors of the new stone age to take refuge from the heat, and wonder what in the hell we were thinking...
Link: https://www.archpaper.com/2024/10/documentary-reveals-21000-workers-killed-saudi-vision-2030-neom/
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Link: 0xbeef.co.uk/random
Description: From when the internet used to be an interesting place. Randomly generated links to obscure and forgotten content. Kill some time and remember the potential the internet used to be, not the corporate hellscape it's become.
And this, their other project, seems somewhat curious: Alchemy, the infinite crafting game. Given the 4 basic elements, how many things can you make?
Link: https://allchemy.io/
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This makes me laugh...
Link: https://www.wonkette.com/p/canadian-idiots-who-fled-to-russia
There's hope yet...I mean, the Canadian government should under no circumstances allow them back. They can be the propaganda arm of the great Mother Russia and lure the over half of Alberta that voted for Danielle Smith and "think for themselves" crew...
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The most interesting link of the day; half million year old wooden "structures" discovered, built by ancestors we can't even conceive of...
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772
Consider, the Bible, Uruk, Epic of Gilgamesh, Dynasties of Europe, Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization, at most, 10-15,000 years old.
And then there's this, the fact we (not necessarily...) were building structures hewn with stone tools half a million years ago. What was lost in the interm?
Ample ground there for the mind to play...
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Yeah, you're daily dose of internet saccharine...a flying squirrel knocks over a broom and then poses beneath it as if it were squashed. Who knew squirrels had a sense of humor?