• Flying SquidM
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    3011 days ago

    It’s June in Saudi Arabia. I’m surprised it’s not way higher than that every time.

      • acargitz
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        1011 days ago

        The Hajj has been taking place over 1000 years. Hyper-aggro heatwaves in June is a new thing however. It wasn’t religion, it was climate change.

        • @kamenoko
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          1111 days ago

          Then the religion should adapt to the climate.

            • @VirtualOdour
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              010 days ago

              Yeah and all the communist states are super ecologically friendly, oh no you don’t belive they are communist do you? Handy.

              But let’s imagine a perfectly communist society, are workers all able to heat their house? Able to travel freely? Enjoy hobbies? If you answered yes to these then your either going to need magic or energy.

              You can’t just pretend capitalism is responsible for everything bad, unchecked consumption can happen in any system as can over production, ecological destruction, and all sorts of potential problems. I would love to transition to a decent type of communism but I’m not going to pretend it’ll fix the climate on its own.

              • @[email protected]
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                Yeah and all the communist states are super ecologically friendly

                Historically, planned economies have had a better track record preserving ecologies and building sustainable infrastructure. That’s largely because the economic planners deal with long-term timelines (five year plans being the standard) rather than quarterly business cycles.

                When you’re running a logging company and you have to ask where you’re going to get your next batch of trees in five years or fifty years, you engage in more sustainable harvesting practices than a for-profit fly-by-night that only cares about growing the number of trees chopped down after every round of investment is depleted.

                You can’t just pretend capitalism is responsible for everything bad

                Capitalists do a much better job of scaling up industrial infrastructure rapidly, because they do fixate on the short term much more narrowly. Profit-driven practices have rapidly converted our coal-based electricity economy to a natural gas economy. And private speculation has created a booming industry for new technologies - from batteries to cryptocurrencies to LLMs.

                But when you run up against the limits of your natural resource supplies, that rapid growth isn’t an economic advantage anymore. You generate far more waste than your communist peers. You spark lots of international conflicts attempting to increase your rate of extraction. And you end up with a very top-heavy unprofessional administrative state, as power consolidates into the hands of financialized aristocrats with little real expertise in the businesses they administer.

                In the modern moment, that produces a lot of problems directly attributable to capitalist business practices.

                I would love to transition to a decent type of communism but I’m not going to pretend it’ll fix the climate on its own.

                If the US were to adopt more Communist-championed energy, housing, and transportation policies, it would immediately benefit the global climate.

        • @[email protected]
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          410 days ago

          They all know the consequences and they think God will protect them from whatever… Yeah, religion killed them.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 days ago

          The Hajj has been taking place over 1000 years.

          With people dying on it, yeah. Religion is why they’re making the trip to the desert

        • @VirtualOdour
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          110 days ago

          Yeah that would be a good story and support some preconceived notions but Mecca has always been incredibly hot, you can’t just rewrite history to suit the message you want to send.

          • acargitz
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            610 days ago

            Precisely. Mecca has always been incredibly hot and yet pilgrims have not been dropping like flies. Ostensibly because over the centuries certain common religious/pilgrimage practices have helped them cope with the heat. But when climate change moves the needle to 11, those centuries old religious/pilgrimage practices no longer work to protect people.

            That is the message I’m trying to send; what’s yours?

          • @[email protected]
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            010 days ago

            Mecca has always been incredibly hot

            What even is the difference between 40°C and 50°C? They’re both “incredibly hot” aren’t they? Quit your complaining.

        • @[email protected]
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          -310 days ago

          So let me ask you. When some Russians stripped people of their clothes and made them march into the frozen tundra, do you really believe those Russians werent guilty of murder, it was all the tundra’s fault?

      • @[email protected]
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        010 days ago

        When a skydiver died skydiving, do you really blame the pilot of the airplane that got him up there? These are adults who choose to believe in fairytales

        • @[email protected]
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          Did the pilot push them out without a parachute? Then yes.

          If religion starts condemning people doing this, then they won’t be responsible.

  • @[email protected]
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    510 days ago

    Such senseless loss of life in the name of religion. Many hundreds or thousands of people die each year doing the pilgrimage, often times from crowd crushes, literally getting squished to death because there are so many people, or just exhaustion.

    There are only a few short video clips on YouTube of the massive crowds and it is sort of unnerving seeing that many people in a moving crowd. Super weird what religion makes people do.

    There is also this weird video which talks about how they plan to revolutionize the hajj to make it safer and accessible to more people - using technology in a weird blend of old world meets new.

    I do hope they find a way to make it safer because people will never stop doing it, but the whole concept just seems absurd to me.

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      510 days ago

      Such senseless loss of life in the name of religion.

      If they’d died in the Saudi heat to a secular activity - at an F1 race event or inside a poorly A/C’d movie theater or trapped on an overheated bus - would that have been better?

      There is also this weird video which talks about how they plan to revolutionize the hajj to make it safer and accessible to more people - using technology in a weird blend of old world meets new.

      So much of the modern Saudi state sees the Hajj as little more than a massive tourist attraction. They’re heavily invested in Disney-fying the experience, such that the maximal number of high-paying visitors can slide through the building frictionlessly.

      Which is a shame, because the Hajj as a cultural event was originally intended as this class-agnostic unifying practice social event. You aren’t supposed to visit these holy sites encapsulated into these exclusive expensive little bubbles. You’re intended to mingle with people from the rest of the world and revel in a certain shared experience common to the faith the world over.

      What we’re seeing isn’t some toxic religious ideology that Saudi administrators need to cleanse for mass consumption. Instead, we’re seeing a commercialization and stratification of ideology, by which elites get a bespoke Hajj experience and Saudi officials get to operate as gatekeepers of tradition at some astronomical markup.

      • @[email protected]
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        Such senseless loss of life in the name of religion.

        If they’d died in the Saudi heat to a secular activity - at an F1 race event or inside a poorly A/C’d movie theater or trapped on an overheated bus - would that have been better?

        Well I think religion is one of the few things you can get enough uneducated/dedicated people to die in the hundreds from heat stroke without people being like"I should probably leave"

        All the examples you gave, of course except being trapped on a bus, people would realize there is a serious issue and start leaving once the first handful of people died.

        “I’m not leaving the theater till I see the end of Iron man 2, I don’t care that half the theaters dead and I’m next!”

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        the Hajj as a cultural event was originally intended as this class-agnostic unifying practice social event.

        lol, weren’t women not allowed to go alone until recently or still?

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        If they’d died in the Saudi heat to a secular activity - at an F1 race event or inside a poorly A/C’d movie theater or trapped on an overheated bus - would that have been better?

        What a ridiculous statement. No it wouldn’t be better, but when was the last time you heard of nearly a thousand people dying at an F1 race event, or inside a movie theatre due to lack of AC? If that were happening multiple times per year we would shut down F1 /movie theaters in a heartbeat.

        Fact is that the Hajj claims thousands of lives every year, all in the name of religion.

        Which is a shame, because the Hajj as a cultural event was originally intended as this class-agnostic unifying practice social event. You aren’t supposed to visit these holy sites encapsulated into these exclusive expensive little bubbles. You’re intended to mingle with people from the rest of the world and revel in a certain shared experience common to the faith the world over.

        Yea as long as you aren’t a woman.

        Don’t be surprised that people are using religion to grift the gullible and exploit the poor - that’s what religion is best at.

        The Saudi government has an ethical responsibility to mitigate the risks. It’s not like this was some freak accident. This was entirely predictable and this will defiantly continue to happen until protections are put into place.

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          when was the last time you heard of nearly a thousand people dying at an F1 race event, or inside a movie theatre due to lack of AC?

          The Qatar World Cup killed a minimum of 400-500 project workers during construction.

          If that were happening multiple times per year we would shut down F1 /movie theaters in a heartbeat

          I wish that were true. But we’ve got a history of being extremely callous with athletes and spectators alike.

          The Saudi government has an ethical responsibility to mitigate the risks.

          I couldn’t agree more. Shane they’re cheap ass fucks

          • @[email protected]
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            -19 days ago

            It’s ironic that you cite a country where the government and ruling family are linked inextricably to Islam, but I digress.

            I wish that were true. But we’ve got a history of being extremely callous with athletes and spectators alike.

            Name any other ongoing event that kills thousands of people every single year like clockwork.

            Not trying to argue or anything… I just think that Islam is a foolish religion in the same way that Muslims might think that Mormonism is a foolish religion.

            Mormonism is stupid, but if they had an event that killed thousands of people from Utah every year I would like to think that at least OSHA would step in or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 days ago

      I read somewhere that people who fork over money for a special visa to Saudis Arabia have access to air conditioned stations along the way. Most likely the Egyptians are doing it unofficially, which is likely easier to get away being in the general region already.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 days ago

    I don’t see any references or sources at all in the page, and I couldn’t find other news sites with comparable numbers, I call bullshit.

    it was reported that there was 41 jordanians who died trying to get to mecca without permits and they slept outside in the sun so that part was true but inflated number, the Egyptians thing is just a lie.

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    They should build a giant enclosure over the Kaaba so it can be air conditioned. Or at the very least put in those mister-fan combos all over the place that are in amusement parks.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 days ago

      they do a pretty decent job cooling the place, the problems are outside the kaaba area though, as they can’t cool down all the city,

      the jordinians who died were sleeping in the desert as they were without permits and wanted to hide from the authorities.

      the Egyptians though were not mentioned on any other news sites I know and I don’t see any references or sources, so I call bullshit.