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  Is it the country's fault it has a dictator at its helm?
context: Saudi Arabia is just rich north korea >
  
  ya so why is any wiki staff there? it's an unhealthy work environment >
  
  Wikipedia is built by a colourful staff of folks that take it very seriously from around the globe. I've just started editing, but I've been so impressed at how fast and professional everyone is. They were likely working on the Arabic version. >
  
  Wikipedia is primarily built by editors (normal people) rather than staff employed by Wikimedia. The staff is primarily about administration, fundraising, and moderating disputes between editors. >
  
  True, that being said, you’d need some staff fluent in Arabic to moderate a dispute about an Arabic article. >
  
  You don’t have to live in Saudi Arabia to be fluent in Arabic. >
  
  They're about 8% of Arab world population and arguably the largest rich (ie educated and technologically enabled) Arab country by population. 
  Morocco is just a bit bigger and has a much freer press environment though and also probably relatively higher income than the average for such countries. 
  Morocco is press freedom rank in the 130s and KSA in the 160s (hence home of the Khashoggi shitshow).
  Algeria has similarly free press as Morocco. All the other bigger Arab countries have shittier press rankings than Morocco and Algeria do. 
  However Morocco and Algeria have 1/10th GDP per capita of KSA. Ergo the conclusion is that it's going to be pretty hard to do business in that region of the world in a place with both wealth and press freedom and a large population. You can't find a place with a high score in each simultaneously. 
  Egypt is very large but equally poor as the other two with disastrous press freedom since the Arab spring collapsed. >
  
  While we in Saudi Arabia have a large population of like 35m, only around 20m are Saudis. Egypt has a much larger population, are in a way very connected to Arabic that would be used to write articles (the Arabic every country speaks is different than the Arabic used to formally write so this is important), and have a rep of doing lots of tech work as much of the freelancing is there >
  
  They are not tolerant to other races and are known for homophobia >
  
  I can't wait for us to kick our oil habit so we don't have to keep averting our eyes from these human shit piles.  It's like knowing your smack dealer diddles kids but you keep going back. >
  
  we won't until every last drop is gone. there's nothing more energy dense for the price. planes need it. generators. long-distance driving
  all those trillions and they still can't build a real country >
  
  while I agree for planes, you can replace a large share of electricity and energy generation with nuclear power or other green options
  see: vogtle and electric cars and all that jazz
  and Saudis.. I don't know much about their infrastructure and society other than a bit of why it's not a place I'll go to >
  
  Airbus is building 3 different size Hydrogen powered airplane prototypes, seems way more promising than 10 years ago >
  
  Yes, liquid hydrogen is actually several times more energy dense than jet fuel.  It is a substitute that has a lot of promise.  The problem is that it comes with its own set of engineering problems and aircraft companies have had generations to work out all the bugs with using fossil fuels.  It also requires its own infrastructure that practically no airports are renovating to be able to support.  There also isn't any government support for specifically the aerodynamics industry yet (although the 2022 IRA act extends some tax credits and applies new ones to Hydrogen fuel cell investment and hydrogen production investment).  Still, it is unlikely existing subsidies will be enough to close the gap in cost between running a plane on fossil fuels vs hydrogen. >
  
  Worked out all the bugs..
  Except that little one where the entire planet becomes completely uninhabitable after 100 years of heavy fossil fuel use, more or less. lol >
  
  That's what they said. No more bugs. >
  
  Stupid. More effective to setup a content farm themselves. >
  
  That's a fiddly new thing that takes effort to set up and run. Jailing dissidents is a tried and tested tool they successfully used many times in the past. >
  
  Porque no los dos?
  When resources are unlimited
  Might as well do both >
  
  Porque no los dos = Because not both  
  Por qué no los dos = Why not both? >
  
  Oops thank you >
  
  So Saudi wants to dissappear people through the internet...
  You can't jail the world, you jerks. >
  
  
  You can't jail the world, you jerks.
  
  Saudi: Wanna bet? >
  
  what are they gonna do? Throw oil at us? Lol >
  
  how about a plane? >
  
  That is not in their options anymore because of availability >
  
  I know it is tempting to deal with the ultra rich but people need to think twice with the Saudis. I would advise never doing business inside their country or embassies. They obviously care little for life. >
  
  Unfortunately, even setting aside the oil, they are geopolitically valuable as a check on Iran. >
  
  For now. >
  
  Well sure, stuff changes and I'm sure when the oil money stops that whole region is going to implode and then who knows. But so long as the Arabian Peninsula has military powers aligned against one of the 5 major enemies the US names in its national security strategy, the US is going to be friendly with those military powers because that is what is in its best interest. >
  
  When the oil would get out of trend, then these countries would realise >
  
  Vile country