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Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper(futurism.com)

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stembolts@programming.dev
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It seems like one of the dumbest things ever. I hope they carry on. Don’t invest in the future, that’s for dummies, build a giant phallic symbol in one of the least hospitable areas of the world.

Think about the maintenance costs alone…

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gazter@aussie.zone
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A straight line is a phallic symbol now?

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stembolts@programming.dev
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Yep, the whole world is dicks. Dicks dicks dicks.

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BackwardMonkey@lemmy.world
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But… but MBS is rich so he must be smart, right? No way he could be naked?

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Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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Roofing is the most expensive and trickiest parts of a building, so let’s take an enormous skyscraper and make one of the walls a roof. They probably plan for a team of flat roofing slaves working around the clock like window washers. When they get to one end they go back to the start in an ourorobus of roofing.

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