THE LINE aka Saudi Arabia's 100-mile long linear city

[Tisch]

@COB get back here!

The Line™ has had a slight reduction - 170km to 2.4km

Neom | Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km | New Civil Engineer

The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for

www.newcivilengineer.com

 

[Lucille]

Honey, that’s not a line it’s a DASH.

 

[big ron]

lol

 

[Kratz]

I know a few people working on this and indeed the tech bit of it (whatever that means) has tried to recruit me too - the whole experience is bonkers and I would be surprised if much of it ever sees the light of day.

 

[big ron]

I know a few people working on this and indeed the tech bit of it (whatever that means) has tried to recruit me too - the whole experience is bonkers and I would be surprised if much of it ever sees the light of day.

A friend who lived in Saudi said they were paying daft money to recruit people on it because of how ridiculous it was.

 

[Kratz]

A friend who lived in Saudi said they were paying daft money to recruit people on it because of how ridiculous it was.

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

 

[big ron]

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

Yeah even living in the cities sounded a bit prisony, the desert would be even worse.

 

[octophone]

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

Christ, that sounds terrible.

 

[Kratz]

Christ, that sounds terrible.

Pretty dystopian. One of my friends escapes almost every weekend - at least to Dubai - there’s almost no expense whilst living there but he doesn’t sound like he can withstand it much longer.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

BBC News - Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city - BBC News

Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city

An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Madison]

I am shocked the Saudi government would do such a thing.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

The plans for the 2034 World Cup stadiums are WILD (including one ON TOP OF THE LINE)

 

[GNL]

Saudi Arabia really will just SAY ANYTHING.

 

[Lucille]

New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began

According to the expose by ITV, more than 21,000 workers have died since 2017 while working on Saudi Vision 2030 and NEOM.

www.archpaper.com

 

[jivafox]

CANCELLED!

Will be used as an AI data centre instead

 

[Lucille]

 

[K.C.]

FLOP

 

[big ron]

Data centres get HOT, so yeah, let's build one in the middle of the desert

 

[PercyPig]

Some (not very) impressive spin that the rise of AI in recent years means there’s no room for people anymore

 

[Shoat]

If it wasn't dystopian enough that 21,000 people have died, now it was all in the name of the robots