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The Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for
by m12k 6y ago
The Saudi royal family is busy buying as much of Silicon Valley as they can, to ensure they can still live atop a mountain of cash once the oil runs out. As for the rest of the country - yeah, they are royally fucked (pun intended) since no other industry than oil was ever developed.
- arethuza 6y agoThey seem to be trying to develop their tourist industry - I keep getting adverts for holidays there!
- andrepd 6y agoIt's possibly one of countries in the world I'm least interested in visiting.
- nasmorn 6y agoWhere else to go to a good oldfashioned lashing?
- arethuza 6y agoSaudi Arabia apparently has stopped using flogging: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-to-end-flogging-as-a-form-of-punishment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/saudi-arabia-t... However, plenty places still use corporal punishment, including Singapore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment
- I-M-S 6y agoPublic beheading then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square)