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Kjeld Duits's avatar

The plan has sickened me from the start. Good riddance.

What a monumental waste of money and manpower. Just imagine how much good that money and manpower could have done. Then again, it is unlikely that Saudi Arabia would use its wealth to do good…

Pete McCutchen's avatar

See, I thought it was fucking hilarious. The Saudis spending their oil money on a giant linear city out of a dystopian sci-fi movie. I just wish they had spent more.

zack d's avatar

"The Line was the zenith of our age of insanity"

I disagree, AI data centre boom is far more insane

April Petersen's avatar

Killing thousands of workers and wasting $50 billion to build a trench in the desert is less bad then the data center hosting this website? Are you out of your mind?

Chris Nathan's avatar

He IS out of his mind. Most people don’t actually do any thinking; they just repeat sentences they’ve heard other members of their tribe speak or write. What most people call “thinking” is basically doing what parrots do, except that parrots don’t flatter themselves while they’re making word sounds.

Ghatanathoah's avatar

The way this idea was implemented always made zero sense to me. Wouldn't it have made more sense to build shorter line, like half a kilometer long, and then keep adding segments to it if it was a success? Why try to build the whole thing at once?