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When Simon said corporations donated to help rebuild Notre Dame, I immediately got an image in mind of a big sign out front saying something like “Chase Bank Cathedral” or “Notre Dame - brought to you by Verizon”. You know how they are…

0:10 - Chapter 1 - Restoration of notre dame 3:25 - Mid roll ads 5:15 - Chapter 2 - The sindalah island 8:00 - Chapter 3 - Woven city 10:25 - Chapter 4 - New capital nusantra 13:40 - Chapter 5 - Ciel tower

"Allegedly, partially involved" is a very gentle wat of saying MBS ordered the dismemberment of a journalist.

i looked up the sea wall and learned that its a collaboration between indonesia and SEVERAL dutch companies that are specialized in these kind of projects ( a true dutch tradition) it makes me feel all sort of feels actually as a dutch person with indonesian ancestory (my dad being the last of us born over there before they moved across the world in the 60s) it makes feel proud to know that this is a collaboration, im ofcourse not completley in the know of its nature. BUT it feels symbolic. and im excited to visit this project when i finally get to visit indonesia (which is probably YEARS in the future haha)

Regarding Notre Dame: The roof structure of Cologne Cathedral was built in the 19th century with modern steel beams, although the original plans from the Middle Ages called for wooden beams. I think wood is more beautiful than steel. But if a single cigarette can cause more damage than a world war, I would rather build with steel than with wood.

16:06 Concrete! Not cement. Cement is an ingredient in concrete (along with coarse and fine aggregate and water). This is like calling a flour instead of bread, oats instead of Cheerios, or lettuce instead of a salad.

That island looked nice. I just don't want to be talked into a room and beheaded. So that's a hard pass for me and my yacht

Simonnnn the gasp with every inhalation is brutal, gotta edit that out brother. Excellent content as always

"allegedly at least partially" 🤣 You so funny, Simon!

Saudi Arabia has partially opened some of its major projects, such as the beautiful Red Sea islands, Al-Ula, or Diriyah

The Saudi project featured prominently in one of Simon's earlier videos (IIRC, on one of his other channels), of gargantuan projects headed for disaster for being completely unworkable. Sindala may be the only part of it to actually get finished. I did notice there was no mention of the environmental effect of any of these projects, for the good and simple reason that they are all ecological disasters.

an AI driven, corporate managed closed city based around maximizing productivity? woven city legit sounds like the absolute worst place I can imagine

So are they going to chop people directly at the yacht club or move the operation to a close by site? Are the female guests supposed to wear their burka at all times in the yacht club too or only if they leave it. Is there going to be religious police at the checkpoint of the yacht club? These are the questions we need answers to.

Super stoked to see the B1M take on the Ciel tower.

Get rid of that terrible inhalation gasp.

There’s a terrific documentary on PBS about the Notre Dame rebuild that’s well worth a watch.

"Sticky topic" regarding one of Saudi Arabia's many abhorrent assassinations is quite the understatement.

How you know you have no plan for an economy; Lets build a luxury resort! Doesn't matter if it's a space hotel or a private island.

Well, personally I think the Vadican should spend some of it's billions of Euros, and cover the whole cost.

I suspect that the vaguery behind the Woven City announcement may have a lot to do with the fact that it is a laboratory. It will be continuously redesigned, invented, reinvented and whatever over its life. Nobody knows what it will look like by the end of initial construction, much less a few years/decades in the future. It's a playground for the Engineer and Technology Development residents.

Imagine all the fertile land UAE would have if they invested in commercial composting and sewage to soil reclamation…

So Notre Dame is like Theseus's Ship!?

You should do a video on Woven City. I’ve never heard of this project and it intriguing

Does anyone else find it strange Saudi Arabia wants to be a tourist hub when alcohol and music are banned?

"Saudi" and "vision" don't belong in the same sentence

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia absolutely ordered that incident with the journalist.

Jakarta is the project I am most interested in seeing complete. Will it save the city or just extend its lifespan for a few years? Time will tell, but I do love the concept of a bird-shaped artificial island chain in the harbour topped with skyscrapers in its "head."

why does the future always involve self driving cars, i wanna drive my own dam car.

Thank you for ignoring Saudi Arabia's horrific human rights violations and crimes against women, Gays, Christians, and Jews.

I just started thinking... Robot overlords would most likely do way better than the overlords we have now😂

Despite efforts to reduce Saudi dependence on oil, Saudi Arabia remained heavily dependent on oil revenue, as measured by its contribution to GDP, fiscal revenue and exports according to a 2022 report. Oil accounted for approximately 40% of Saudi GDP and 75% of fiscal revenue.

I'm not a religious person but that fire 🔥 was heart breaking even for me. I watched live on TV and cried.

Interesting side note. Notre dams recreation uses scans from assasins creed unity to recreate it 1:1

Id like to see the renovated Notre Dame and Ciel Tower. Those seem interesting

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA!

Megaprojects: “Projects that will finish in 2024” Also Megaprojects: Gives two examples that are set to be finished much later. One in 2029 and one in 2027 🤦🏼‍♂️

Her: Honey, lets go on vacation? Him: sure babe, where do you want to go? Her: Saudi Arabia Conversations that NEVER happen and never will

pirates are gonna love that Island

I used to work in a lot of old churches. It was amazing that the keepers of these structures eternally lived under the delusion that the buildings were actually old. The Victorians did a lot of restoration and modernising, which is most of the reason a lot of them still exist, but it never stopped people pointing at bits as if they'd be made by Jebus himself.

woven city sounds like a limited Eureka (the tv show) and at least i know where to winter with my yacht now....

I can't help but think of the Ciel tower as the CL tower, to compliment Canadas CN tower :D

Compressor sounds better...but there is still a ring in the audio. just listen to the ringing please....it's so easy to hear it's in EVERY video and would take LITERALLY 2mins to fix

what do you mean simon didnt say hello before the intro - truly the end of days A good vid tho

The “original cross” was a simple upright stake. Romans never used a “cross” for impaling because the extra support the cross member would have provided would have unnecessarily increased the time it took the victim to die (typically from suffocation due to an inability to draw in a breath). Look it up.

Simon is fine with A.I. taking over because he'll just leave with the rest of his lizard brethren in their interdimensional spaceship.

Woven city is just like the Lego movie

editors note: please huh , cut out huh , the inhales...

Don't think I've seen ur arms before 😅

big brain time

Did anyone ever notice that MBS and P. Diddy have the same cross eyed look? It’s almost like they’re so full of contemptuous rage they can’t see straight.

Never been this quick before

Did I miss something? Where is Woven City actually being constructed?

Saudi Arabians are going to build a massive yarmulke factory they believe they will at least break even

A corporate run city? That sounds fun...

Notre Dame is the modern(?) day Triggers Broom.

Awesome 😎 😊

Here's some Notre Dame trivia for ya: the team restoring the structure called on the makers Assassin's Creed and asked to have copies of their recent photo grammetry images in order to know exactly what the different areas and details looked like.

1:22 Merci Monsieur le Président, for not letting modern architects create an abomination!

What’s the point of docking your yacht in Saudi Arabia when there’s no alcohol, escorts, and gambling??

"At least partially responsible for the murder" Well yeah I would count 100% as 'partially'.

I'm not used to seeing simon's arms 🧥

Funny how Saudi Arabia always claims to be looking to the future but yet leaves all their ideals in the past.

You mentioned several sinking cities, including Tokyo and Shanghai. I'd like to hear more details of sinking metropolises and major centers fro around the world.

Is Toyota's obsession with automation the reason there's a waiting list of over a year for all their cars perhaps?

Why’s he naked? 🤨🤨

Are we missing an intro?

I assume that you should pronounce CIEL Tower without a pause: Not ci-el tower but ciel or CL Because the word "ciel" mean "sky" in English - and I don't think that this is a coincidence.

Woven City sounds like hell.

It's smoke and mirrors and poop trucks. I will give them credit where it's due and mention they do luxury air travel like nobody.

While I acknowledge that most of the current examples have numerous problems of funding, worker treatment ethics, and sounding ominously like the kind've company towns that give the Pinkertons more business. I find myself excited at the prospect of planned cities becoming more common. Maybe someday they'll even work.

If they ever lose their piece of cross, I'd be happy to supply another piece of the cross that has exactly the same providence as the one they currently have. My piece has exactly the same connection to Jesus as the piece of wood they currently own!

Woven city sounds like what EPCOT was supposed to originally be.

6:43 Didn't want to say "Dutch Disease" ? 😂

Simon, I’ve noticed you’re playing around with your microphones and compression. thanks for the episode by the way. But the compression on your voice makes your breath stand out and it makes it sound so artificial. Compressing your voice like you are doing is annoying on a 16 minute show. or even a five minute show. we use it for radio and TV commercials to make the commercials stand out and to be annoying. so I would like to suggest getting back to some more natural audio like the advertisement you did. Around 3:25 time code, for ground news. that sounds more natural. Yes a massive compressor can make you sound more sexy but dude you’ve got that going on in spades. You don’t need the compressor. Thanks.

Renders, more renders, and buzzwords. Truly uncredible.

I’m of the opinion that the church could have paid for the cathedral themselves.

Saudi: Sees finite resource (oil), try to move away from it economically. U.S: Sees finite resource (oil), try to suppress green alternatives or any alternatives at all. Thanks oil lobbyists.

Coup de grâce has an s sound in the end, the meaning changes completely if you omit it. Maybe Simon got it mixed up with foie gras. 😂 If you use fancy phrases, you should get them right. 😊

1:50 Sounds like North Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club. Each part of the building had been modified / reconstructed / extended several times in it's existence of less than 100 years, with each addition done cheaper and looking more hideous than the last. The whole place was unsafe and about to collapse. For around a million dollars and 2 years work, the new building would respectfully keep some of the old appearance. Unfortunately, work was stopped as the dozens of different crumbling parts had to be recreated from scratch because of the "historic significance" of the emergency repairs done as recently as 15 years ago. Several million dollars and as many years later, it's still not finished. They learned nothing from the South Cronulla Club rebuild about 8 years ago.

Jakarta invested the equivalent of around 5 months of Germany's health insurance fees everyone has to pay by law to build an entire city, and the western governments claim they have issues finding money to build schools and hospitals. Around 42 million in employment paying around €170 (minimum) each per month. Do the maths ;)

Wouldn’t be surprised if a cigarette butt burned Notre Dame, Paris is the capital of second-hand smoking.

Did Indonesia take architecture design advice from the Romulan's for the new government building?

May the blaze be with you!💙

And yet our local railway bridge has been gone since 2016, and the new should've been finished 2 years ago.

Yamakas with propellers optional yes they will cost more

Woven City must have been inspired by Big Mountain from Fallout: New Vegas...

if you do a pt2 you need to add jey vs jimmy from mania 40

"Woven City" - Toyota's original business being the manufacture of looms.

A Canadian construction company located in Dubai? Even as I type I can see Trudope the Boi King's bank account swelling.

there was never a partially built tower where Ciel tower is now.....in fact it has nothing to do with the 08 financial crisis. as a project for the plot wasnt considered till after the 2013/14 UAE financial crisis. the one thing that is partially true is that it started out being designed as a slightly smaller residential tower and the foundation was dug out and the piles put into place and then that was it! it was then that the plan was changed and then new piles had to be created before the Ciel could rise out of the ground.

Isn’t that island where the Yemen rebels are bombing American boats? Who would take their yacht there?

That hotel is just going to be a giant money sinkhole that looks good. There just isn't enough Dubai tourists in need of a hotel to fill 1/4 of it during the busiest season if the top 5 hotels closed. if all hotels were booked to capacity there would be a huge amount of reasonably sized hotels being built. There is no boon in hotel construction and there is plenty of vacancies in the largest hotels during the busiest seasons. Just another waste of oil money they don't know what to do with and just want Dubai to look wealthy through wasteful useless projects. Kinda curious how they will fill the hotel, are they going to dump everyone on a different floor and opposite side of the building so they cannot hear their neighbors even if they hire a rock band to do a concert with concert speakers in their room? Or will they dump the majority on the first 3 floors and the minority on the top 3.

That last one was basically an Archiology from Sim city 2000? who will build 256 first?

The mouth breathing is worse than Trump

Toyota ain't playing no games! Lol

Chapters please?

I’m not sure how the Notre Dame is being “restored” when they are trying to add a bunch of modern stuff/ technology. They shouldn’t have been doing a modernization when the fire started solely because the purpose was to make it more modern. The beauty of it is the history and tradition not modern tech

Is there a French version of "We didn't start the fire?"

$760 Million for a church instead of ya know, feeding & housing poor people....How Christian of them.