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The media isn't interested in the biggest technology story of the 2020s, the rapid transition to clean energy, because 1) it will destroy a bunch of oil based wealth and is a boring, competirive low margin business 2) it makes Democrats look good for helping it and they want Republicans to win
THERE’S A QUIET NEW DEAL GOING ON The antidote to Project 2025 is happening now and will die if Trump seizes power. So let’s make some noise.
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The powers that be are desperate that American voters not find out about this because so many of them profit from the Saudi's bonesaw regime and it's alliance with Trump bsky.app/profile/crai...
There is a one-two punch the administration is pulling off here. Not only accelerating the transition to clean energy but breaking oil’s ability to manipulate the market to defend its position. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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I suspect what will happen is that Saudi Arabia realizes they are in a "use it or lose it" situation with their oil reserves and turns on the taps at full volume and puts all the other oil producers in expensive-to-extract regions out of business rapidly. But who knows bsky.app/profile/meze...
I worry that we haven't really seen exactly what the death throes of the oil wealth look like yet. They're not going to be able to stop the energy replacement, its moving too fast and its too far along, but there's so much money in oil still that I wonder how they'll try to take the economy hostage
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So far the thing Saudi Arabia is going to try to transition away from reliance on oil profits is like "give Karim Benzema $200M to play soccer in empty stadiums" so I don't really have a lot of faith in their rationality going forward
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there's that giant city that's in a straight line too
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You know those abandoned half-constructed cities in China? This is gonna be like one of those turned up to 11.
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you can actually see evidence of them starting on google maps. it's... pretty much just a big trench in the sand right now, but it does appear that they're really going all in on it. i guess they just really wanted to one-up the UAE's world islands in the pointless megaproject money-sink department
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They've already severely downgraded completion timelines. They are bleeding money, and they miscalculated about billionaires investing in a murderous surveillance state project.
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They'll build something, but it's going to be laughably insignificant compared to the plan.
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oh yeah, the whole concept was crazy from the start. i was frankly just surprised that they had even broken ground on the project-- it seemed too absurd to ever make it off of the design page in any form.
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It's pretty easy to get some earth moved around when you are the king. But yeah, it is dumb af even just from the standpoint of making the whole thing a straight line.