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We've brought on friend of the show and multiple returning champion Séamus Malekafzali to discuss Saudi Arabia's deranged new city -- Neom -- and the specific detail that they're going to make a perfectly linear city called The Line. Do you know what its name is in Arabic? It's ذا لاين. Which is literally tha laaeen. Normal country, normal project!

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hill

I also heard “trashfinger”

Allen

Yesss

Petra The Alright

Back in my day cities were arranged in spokes around tram lines, not just one big long line

Gryphoneer

love the image of a hyperloop stopping every 30 seconds or so to service the hundreds of neighborhoods dotting the 170km line

mister mokka

I have hard time paying attention to any media before someone covers the wallstreet bets -fiasko properly. Again some amount of capital made the line go up without any material reasons, but this time they are self proclaimed autist and retards and also all the collection of capital hate them for making the line go up? I understand that it's fun entertainment and all but what the hell does it mean to for example workers who work at GameStop? Have we just agreed that their work is completely redundant for the capital they serve, and serve merely a ceremonial role in this abstract vehicle in chiken-game for rich or heavily in debt people? Just like with Tesla, any dividends the company releases are basically just a rounding error for any investors, and can never possibly serve an actual role in their investment strategy other than pure optics. So why do they still even take part in an economy and carry out transactions? Are there still employees who get sales adjustments in wages or provisions on sales, even if the owners aren't even remotely interested in the remaining profits?

Oliver Conway

We need trash future foam fingers. WWE style

Oliver Cant

A 3 level City? So they're trying to build Courasant? In the desert?

Oliver Cant

What if we did Bioshock, but in the desert? 😆

John Harwood

The Constructivist architects under Lenin proposed linear cities for the “blue” or new industrial cities like Magnitogorsk. It didn’t go well.

Amy Walker

I need a place to post my NEOM Genesis Evangelion meme