And I Would Build 1.5 Miles ft. Shanti Singh
...but I won't build 1.5 more!
RIP NEOM. The gang looks back fondly on our favourite megaproject as the Line's official plans are scaled back from 170km to only 2.4km (or 1.5 miles) by 2030. Then, we look at the emerging political movement of Grey Pride, and the plans that Balaji Srinivasan, author of the Network State, has to rebuild San Francisco in his image, claiming: "What Elon did for Twitter, so too shall we do for San Francisco!"
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Riley and November, please read Paul Scheerbart’s bonkers post-WWI novel “Grey with Ten Percent White: A Ladies’ Novel,” which is literally about a YIMBY billionaire architect with a private dirigible and a serious sexual dysfunction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gray_Cloth
As a European glasses guy named Jorg I feel personally attacked by Alice.
Calling themselves "The Greys" and all I see is the stereotypical Roswell aliens
Introductory bit heavily reminiscent of the actual AVP comics, which were insane. Alien vs Predator vs Batman vs Superman, Predator vs Aquaman, Alien vs Hootie and the Blowfish, Predator vs The New York Mets vs Dale Earnhardt Jr vs Hamas, etc etc - all real issues of the comics.
Batman vs Alien and Judge Dredd vs. Predator slapped
Wait... wasn't Andreeson banging on about Nietzche too? Who decided that this years one-book-for-all-tech-bros-to-read was Ecce Homo?
Saudi Arabia… knows how to party… Saudi Arabiaya… knows how to party… in the city… the city of Riyadh…
Meanwhile in the UK: https://www.404media.co/inside-the-com-world-war-robberies-brickings-and-drama/ (“Hackers” (1995) seems a lot less depressing.)
Neom dead? What're we going to do with all this renderite?
You mean what if the glut of renderite hitting the global commodities market triggers a cascading meltdown of seemingly uncorrelated asset prices, ending Late Capitalism as we know it? At least Elon Musk won’t have to overthrow the People’s Democratic Republic of Renderistan in order to secure access to this valuable resource.
I love Riley's Music Man analogy in which the circus comes to town and gives the children trumpets and violins to keep them out of the pool hall. Maybe that's what happens in the Canadian Music Man?
Why would he wear 2 robert moses masks?
Maybe he’s really into Fendi, or maybe he’s really into the Criterion Collection? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
32:50 He'll come after you with his suede-denim secret police. California uber alles.
Come quietly, please don’t fight. You’d look good in a Samsonite
I would love for these losers to win the lawsuits against the landowners, but to lose the water rights in perpetuity, so that all they have is an arid patch of dirt
It's Neomver
Remember remember, the 1.5 miles of Neomver,... N for Neom
Lavie Tidhar really lost in chess to a dog
For the opening chat, I once played pub trivia against a team called "Alien vs Predator vs Brown vs Board of Education". Have to wonder what it feels like to win the game that early.
Going on notGay Hajj to the puddle with all my homies
Can someone tell Riley to stay close enough to the mic so his levels can stay constant? This ep. isn't the first time its happened.
The NEOM ditch can take the Oxford-Cambridge boat race out of Lake Havasu’s cold, dead hands… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu
Karl Marx-Hof is going to keep that longest residential building record, Red Vienna stays winning.
But does its length in meters equal one-thousand nine-hundred and eighty-four?
So the nerds at the end are the institute faction in fallout 4
There are many petite Saudi Arabias in America.
Love when my Blue Queen is on to talk Sucka Free 🌉 meanwhile, I’ll give up on Neom when “X” stops advertising it to me (never)
Some times it feels like this is just a podcast about bodies of water. The boy canal, the Inguinal Canal, the 2.4km long perfectly straight luxury dry wadi, the puddle you drink from to prove you're not gay, the turd filled river that sickens Oxbridge rowers, the more equitable lagoon, the list goes on.
the boats doing donuts in the Thames, the Royal Navy doing full kinetic warfare against migrants in the Channel,
I went to the Bay Area this past weekend. Loved it in so many ways, if I could I would move there. However, I remarked that there's like, nobody on the streets. My wife said "yeah, they're all in cars or tents that have been swept". The rich don't deserve it. The queer and marginalized who are still clinging on do. It could be such an incredible place.
we were all in the Park bc it’s nice out!
Feel like pure shit just want her* back *gendering Neom like it's a fancy Victorian boat
Balaji Srinivasan an American Franz von Papen
So these gray guys are aliens right? Like they are Grays in disguise
yes
Gotta say, did not expect this weeks "This was a warning not a how-to-guide" to be Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist"
Sacramento is the capital of California due to a comedy of errors and the sitting governor being one of those people who moved to New York and thinks they're a real New Yorker, but for Sacramento instead.
So... it's Albany without the charm?
Hell yeah, Sacramento mentioned
Blue and grey were the uniform colors of the Union and Conferacy during the American Civil War. Grey was the slaver traitor color. When an American says they're taking the grey side against blue, I assume there's just racism at the core.
Has to be, right? Not just racism, but all on fascism in this context No American can be that clueless.
just say vallejo, shanti, it's okay, we know how bad our town is
I have no hate in my heart for Vallejo, save for its police department
Disappointed there wasn't a Bushido cop-a-type in Disco Elysium. Kim just staring deadpan at Harry as he writes death poetry with a nightstick and keeps demanding rice tribute from passing citizens
A cop preparing to do hari-kari whilst his stern-faced partner stands behind him with an upraised AR-15, but they both fire every shot without hitting anything
jesus christ that vs. bit in the first minute was KILER
Alien vs. Predator vs. Kramer vs. Kramer vs. Ford vs. Ferrari vs. Godzilla vs. King Kong vs. Ecks vs. Sever vs. Batman vs. Superman vs. Freddie vs. Jason vs. Joe vs. The Volcano vs. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
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I would love to have you guys cover the rise and fall Flagpole of Freedom in Maine. Local conartists/businessmen tried to build the tallest flagpole as a bit veterans memorial/theme park. A massive park in a town so small they don't even have sewers or more than a couple 100 people. They then canceled when they realized that Egypt was already building a taller one, but not before doing a bunch of illegal, unpermitted construction. they're getting sued by the state of maine now.
Wouldn't it be more damaging if Gay and Trans people wore a sticker saying they had kissed a Tory and more...many, many times.
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<i>and it seems to me you built your line</i> <i>like a candle in the wind</i>
Maybe the real Neom was the bone-sawings we did along the way?
when he said he was going to make san fran grey one street and block at a time, i got the distinct feeling he got his conception of political organizing from GTA
At the end of the day neon is really what ended up getting bone sawed.
Grey Pride shirts sounds like the Meow Meow Beans episode of Community.
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