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I am not proud of it, but I watched it. I enjoyed the skating in the park finals, but they should not have let Jagger “Jackoff“ Eaten win. He did difficult tricks, but the run felt like the local miniramp kid busting out his best moves, because two teenage girls just walked by…
It seemed actually really fucked up they held the contest there. Sand kept getting blown in the bowl from the desert next to it and skaters kept slipping out and getting injured, so they had to have clean up breaks.
In an interview Cory Juneau was asked about the contest experience and the interviewer got noticeably uncomfortable, when he hinted at strict laws and Islamic rules “the run a tight ship here“ and “it is hard to drink here“.
Is the bowl going to be permanent? If so: did they really have to build it in the desert?!
The whole emirates are in the desert, they build everything in the deserts- and it makes absolutely no sense- but they do billions of dollars of oil - and they have no better idea then to waste that money into useless development like waterparks and 5 star resorts inside the desert. This happens if you don’t need to work for your money and become shitloaded - you make stupid decisions and waste it…
Okay.
But we’re not this obtuse, are we? There’s not much subtlety required of our understanding here: their land is rich in a resource (let’s say… oil?), but also is not so appealing due to a lack of another resource (I’m gonna go with water for this example.)
Do we really think the wealthy people of this (certain) resource rich land are going to live deprived of comfort & luxury, even though they are among the $$$ nations, per capita, on earth?
Nah.
They may seek residence elsewhere but their wealth is still tied to a desert.
Speaking of deserts… in reply to
@S. you seen this place? As
@lurker_and_poster noted, absolutely any & EVERY thing they build WILL BE in the desert, because that’s where they at.
So they’re going to be the billionaires they are & build oasis after oasis in the sand in order to make it more appealing when they fly back in from Paris for a business meeting, or need to impress a potential head-of-state to buy petroleum from them.
It’s pretty gross & decedent of them on so many levels, but it’s an equally bad look for us to throw stones while we simultaneously throw our dollars at them, whilst sucking up their export as fast as we can.
Maybe “we” burn less & be more?
I dunno.
I feel like we are the start of the change though. In our behaviors & consumptions.
We can do this.
Right?!?
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