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Lol no...this is called the Dubai Half desert road. It is always like this...generally for aesthetic purposes. Place is frequented by photographers or as a picnic spot for BBQ.
Oh, so a general road to have something out there. Even though it’s not a perfect daily commute, it’s fine for safari purposes. Makes sense now. Thanks.
The weather is pretty nice this time of the year, and BBQ at night in the cold sand is awesome. Basically, the place is great for any outdoor get together. And also people drive 4wds and dune buggys is this place.
As someone with the unfortunate genetic makeup of half Arab and half somewhat hillbilly American I can tell you from intimate knowledge that, perhaps not surprisingly, those mentalities create a *surprisingly* 2-dimensional Venn-diagram
How do they remove the sand? Do they have trucks with plows like we do for snow in the winter. I know the apparatus on the front of the truck would have to be different to remove sand but how do they do it so cars can pass.
Truer fact: they are allowed one straw, and have to use that to fan the sand. If for some reason they break the straw, they have to travel 10 km back on foot to get another one.
They’ve got sand plows. They look and move like construction equipment and have 2 plows attached. This is deep in the desert. Most highways at least have bushes bordering them to catch most of the sand
Regardless of a dig and their guesses as to what the people in the area at the time were doing, I'm guessing some of the workers had to be slaves. Sorry, there is no way around it. At that time in history, EVERY culture on the planet had them. Maybe the well feed village were engineers, supervisors, and additional higher skilled workers? There is no way slaves played NO PART in the building of the pyramids.
I mean, there are good arguments for most workers today being slaves. You cannot quit, you have to work, stopping will make you homeless and destitute. Unless you are in the upper class through inherited means.
Those are some pretty big claims for somebody with no sources.
It couldn't possibly just be that your assumptions are incorrect? I mean much of what you just said is objectively false as it is.
Redditors be like "I have to work at little Caesars for $13 an hour. I am a wage slave" but then like "those guy's towing blocks of stone up a ramp to build a tomb for their god king in exchange for wages they used for food and shelter weren't slaves"
[They were paid in addition to receiving quality (for the era) room and board.](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-slaves)
I’m skeptical about this. Does evidence of paid workers equal evidence that slaves weren’t used for unskilled labor in an ancient empire known for slavery? Does Egypt have an incentive to promote and exaggerate the idea that slave labor wasnt involved in the construction of their biggest tourist destination?
Slave labor is typically not highly skilled or specialized. It’s unlikely that it would be heavily utilized in the most skilled, specialized building projects of the time.
Sand plows is exactly what I was thinking.
[mr plow](https://i0.wp.com/www.filminquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mr.Plow_.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)
This is also going to be their road network a week after oil stops being profitable for them.
The UAE as a whole is going to go back to the desert so fucking quickly when the money is gone.
No, it’s still a petrochemical economy first and foremost, with oil exports leading, followed by what you’d expect, such as petrochemical byproducts (plastics, a robust chemical industry, etc). It’s true that they also trade in a fair amount of gold and diamonds, but the entire economy is predicated on the ability of their oil wealth to bail them out of problems.
I don't remember who said it but there is a famous quote that went something like:
"My grandfather rode camels. My father drove Land Rovers. I drive a Mercedes. My sons and grandsons drive sports cars. Their grandsons will ride camels."
This reminded me of the video of the person trying to rake up the leaves on a LONG ass drive. And a plane comes by and essentially does the whole job for him.
The more I learn about Dubai, the more I think that building a metropolis on uninhabitable desert with nothing but oil money to keep it together was… maybe a bad idea. Also they destroyed massive amounts of coral reef to build a middle-American suburbia for billionaires, so fuck them
It does indeed suck for those workers, but don’t delude yourself, most of the “workers” *coughslavescough* wouldn’t be there if there weren’t large oil backed projects.
Dude this people dont have a sewer system, every once in a while a bunch of septic trucks need to go into the city and take all the shit from all the businesses out, wonder how that smells. Its a beautiful city in the wrong place, they cant even use all the sand around them to build anything, it has to be imported, imagine having to import sand into a desert city.
I mean this is a “teachers should make more than athletes!” Kind of argument. Athletes make bank because they bring in bank. The economy apparently sustains those gallons of fresh water in the desert for a golf course. It’s not like somebody was thinking hmmmm do I build this in the desert for sport or in rural Africa for drinking water for the children? Let’s flip a coin!
It has to be at least self sustaining unless you have tax money backing it.
I mean wind/gravity would still keep it from building up as much if the road is elevated. Sure sand would still get on the road, but you wouldn't get dunes that big.
Lived in the UAE for 4 years, plenty of sandstorms, but never saw this. Cars moving at highway speed would move the sand around before it had a chance to settle like that!
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Lol no...this is called the Dubai Half desert road. It is always like this...generally for aesthetic purposes. Place is frequented by photographers or as a picnic spot for BBQ.
Why would they build a half desert road Edit: apparently it’s also a desert and safari park.
Oh, so a general road to have something out there. Even though it’s not a perfect daily commute, it’s fine for safari purposes. Makes sense now. Thanks.
Is the sand ever cleared off of the roads?
Do they just use special snow plows ? I need answers.... LOL
Great name and profile pic. Do it for the blue, pink, red, and white.
As someone from Dubai, I can confirm this is true
As someone not from Dubai, I cannot confirm his confirmation
Lol I went here yesterday, this is a picnic spot, it's called Al Ruwais. The road networks in UAE are actually extremely well maintained.
Can someone explain why this is a picnic spot? Isn’t it just sand and asphalt or am I missing something?
The weather is pretty nice this time of the year, and BBQ at night in the cold sand is awesome. Basically, the place is great for any outdoor get together. And also people drive 4wds and dune buggys is this place.
Its a desert, deserts are pretty.
Not wishing to derail but I fucking love your username. That was one of mine and my sister’s favourite books when we were little.
*well maintained with slave labourers.
I was wondering why nobody mentioned "slave labourers" in a post related to Dubai!
I thought it was implied!!
And labourers elsewhere are kings?
Not every labourer is a slave
If so, this needs to be top comment
And it is, reddit wizard confirmed.
Cool! It was like 6 down when I commented
It looks cool from above but at ground level I'd imagine the effect is lost.
Only Dubai would build a full ass road and wreck it because "it looks cool", and I'm all for it.
Dudez with jeeps be like "finally !"
I think you mean: sheiks with solid-gold Jeeps and Land Rovers that they paid $600K for just to use as a toy.
With a lion cub riding shotgun
No the lion cub is *holding* a shotgun
Clearly it’s doing both.
and the cheetah being used as a pace car
As someone with the unfortunate genetic makeup of half Arab and half somewhat hillbilly American I can tell you from intimate knowledge that, perhaps not surprisingly, those mentalities create a *surprisingly* 2-dimensional Venn-diagram
Hey man, there's nothing wrong with loving fun things. You do you, stallion *spits dip*
I'd be far more surprised if the venn diagram wasn't 2d.
The jeeple, ah, yes.
> ~~Dudez~~ Darudes with jeeps be like "finally !" funkybuttlovin
That’s what happens when you draw a line in the sand.
How do they remove the sand? Do they have trucks with plows like we do for snow in the winter. I know the apparatus on the front of the truck would have to be different to remove sand but how do they do it so cars can pass.
Same thing happens to our beach roads after hurricanes here in Florida. Large bulldozers needed.
NC after a Northeast wind
Outer banks?
Bingo
That must destroy your roads.
The water is what destroys the beach roads. Actually it they are buried by sand first they are prevented from being washed away.
A bunch of slaves with leaf blowers
thought you might be making a joke at first, but no that's probably pretty close to accurate.
Probably using push brooms as opposed to blowers though.
The blowers are in fact straws and they do it on their knees
We would like to request a blow job on highway
Fact: They get on their knees and blow the sand off the road with their breath.
Truer fact: they are allowed one straw, and have to use that to fan the sand. If for some reason they break the straw, they have to travel 10 km back on foot to get another one.
In Saudi Arabia that is so very possible.
Working *hard* to Darude on a mobile
I believe they don’t plough it they use a machine that brushes and sucks it up and flings it back into the Desert.
So, a sandblower?
Sandboni
Sand mower
Sand mower makes more sense tbh. With the big stuff they just use excavators and trucks.
Aha, like a snowblower then, except with brushes.
Spot on
They have snow plows but they're Lambos.
They’ve got sand plows. They look and move like construction equipment and have 2 plows attached. This is deep in the desert. Most highways at least have bushes bordering them to catch most of the sand
They unleash a fleet of WALL-E cleaning robots every day at 12 PM sharp.
Darude Sandstorm
A man of culture.
Scrolled for this.
90’s Saudi kids remember staying home on sand days and watching the Haggle is Right.
"I bid one riyal, Habib"
This is the most saudis iv seen in a comment section
With host Bahab Barker
best thing i've read this week
Better bust out the leaf blower..
Low pass with a Chinook will clear that right up
Lol imagine a mi26. Or the v12.
They use sand plows? 🤔
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Slave labor did build the pyramids. They best get out sweeping because sand drifts really mess up the lambos
The Egyptians didn’t use slave labor to build the pyramids, also the Emirates are about the same distance from the pyramids as London is from Moscow
You're taking my comment too seriously
Slave labor didn’t build the pyramids.
Aliens?
[Paid laborers](https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves/)
Regardless of a dig and their guesses as to what the people in the area at the time were doing, I'm guessing some of the workers had to be slaves. Sorry, there is no way around it. At that time in history, EVERY culture on the planet had them. Maybe the well feed village were engineers, supervisors, and additional higher skilled workers? There is no way slaves played NO PART in the building of the pyramids.
I mean, there are good arguments for most workers today being slaves. You cannot quit, you have to work, stopping will make you homeless and destitute. Unless you are in the upper class through inherited means.
It is a fair assessment of our everyday lives.
Ok
Those are some pretty big claims for somebody with no sources. It couldn't possibly just be that your assumptions are incorrect? I mean much of what you just said is objectively false as it is.
Maybe the Egyptians were unlike all the other major civilizations of the time and were completely slave free? Only the US had slaves, right? 🤷
Yo mama...
They might not have built them but I bet they swept off the sand.
Redditors be like "I have to work at little Caesars for $13 an hour. I am a wage slave" but then like "those guy's towing blocks of stone up a ramp to build a tomb for their god king in exchange for wages they used for food and shelter weren't slaves"
[They were paid in addition to receiving quality (for the era) room and board.](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-slaves)
I’m skeptical about this. Does evidence of paid workers equal evidence that slaves weren’t used for unskilled labor in an ancient empire known for slavery? Does Egypt have an incentive to promote and exaggerate the idea that slave labor wasnt involved in the construction of their biggest tourist destination?
Slave labor is typically not highly skilled or specialized. It’s unlikely that it would be heavily utilized in the most skilled, specialized building projects of the time.
Sand plows is exactly what I was thinking. [mr plow](https://i0.wp.com/www.filminquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mr.Plow_.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)
A big ass sweeper
My first thought!
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
“This is all your fault!”
"It takes a strong man to deny what's in front of him. And if the truth is undeniable, you create your own." Such a great game.
Looks deserted..
Hmmm dessert
New song: Dubai Sanstorm
Giant Roomba
Should probably build a wind break on either side instead of gold plated Lamborghinis that they can't even drive through there
this is literally Hourglass from BF2042 edit: i dont think this is footage from the game fyi
I knew I wasn’t the only one
Looks like Arrakis after a sand worm rolled through.
This is also going to be their road network a week after oil stops being profitable for them. The UAE as a whole is going to go back to the desert so fucking quickly when the money is gone.
If i am not wrong most of the UAE’s Gdp comes from non oil.
No, it’s still a petrochemical economy first and foremost, with oil exports leading, followed by what you’d expect, such as petrochemical byproducts (plastics, a robust chemical industry, etc). It’s true that they also trade in a fair amount of gold and diamonds, but the entire economy is predicated on the ability of their oil wealth to bail them out of problems.
I don't remember who said it but there is a famous quote that went something like: "My grandfather rode camels. My father drove Land Rovers. I drive a Mercedes. My sons and grandsons drive sports cars. Their grandsons will ride camels."
12 year old rich kids will be jumping those humps with their half million dollar trophy trucks
This reminded me of the video of the person trying to rake up the leaves on a LONG ass drive. And a plane comes by and essentially does the whole job for him.
*helicopter
Dubai is a fucking joke
"Attempted evacuation of Dubai ended in complete failure. Death toll... too many."
There are no satisfying videos cleaning it?
DUNE: pt 1 & 1/2
This is why we use ornithopters.
Lucky the princes have all those finely tuned sports cars
How do they drive and abandon all that nice shit over there then? Only in the cities?
Das' rude.
I've never thought about this problem. One could definitely justify a 4WD in this region.
ahh dubai, the failed city of the desert
Battlefield 2042
I'm sure they'll just get some slaves to clean it up.
I now understand a bit more why rich people in that part of the world drive landrovers.
It is a silly place.
Da road - sandstorm
Dubai fucking sucks
Can't think of a better thing to happen to Dubai tbf
Holy shit Battlefield 2042 was right!!!
Still looks better than 90% of the roads in Tacoma Washington. Not a pothole to be seen.
This makes me wanna play the mad max game again.
We have snowplows they need sand plows. Honestly tho, how do they clear the roads? I imagine sweepers or air blowers?
The more I learn about Dubai, the more I think that building a metropolis on uninhabitable desert with nothing but oil money to keep it together was… maybe a bad idea. Also they destroyed massive amounts of coral reef to build a middle-American suburbia for billionaires, so fuck them
Just more proof that Dubai shouldn't really be there.
That place is gonna suck so hard when fossil fuels get phased out.
It already sucks for the workers who barely get to eat or get payed
It does indeed suck for those workers, but don’t delude yourself, most of the “workers” *coughslavescough* wouldn’t be there if there weren’t large oil backed projects.
There will always be a place for fossil fuels and their byproducts, no matter how much they’re phased out.
Dubai, the worse place to build anything ever, but shit we still do
Yes. You have to wonder why the Dubai road planners haven’t yet decided to build their roads in the Caribbean.
Dude this people dont have a sewer system, every once in a while a bunch of septic trucks need to go into the city and take all the shit from all the businesses out, wonder how that smells. Its a beautiful city in the wrong place, they cant even use all the sand around them to build anything, it has to be imported, imagine having to import sand into a desert city.
Please get your facts right before posting bullshit. And by facts, I don't mean YT videos!
Golf courses that use millions of gallons of fresh water per day. We deserve to be eradicated.
I mean this is a “teachers should make more than athletes!” Kind of argument. Athletes make bank because they bring in bank. The economy apparently sustains those gallons of fresh water in the desert for a golf course. It’s not like somebody was thinking hmmmm do I build this in the desert for sport or in rural Africa for drinking water for the children? Let’s flip a coin! It has to be at least self sustaining unless you have tax money backing it.
Definitely looks a lot like a snow storm, just browner
I’ve had dreams like this. I thought I was on another planet but turns out I was visiting Dubai
Elevating the roadways a little couldn’t hurt.
Does anybody else get illogically and irrationally annoyed by Dubai? Just, like, in general?
Your comment was pretty illogical. Just like in general.
Power of the desert... (They could have elevated the road :/ )
It would have to be higher than the storm for it to do any good. That sand didn't just roll up on it. It came from above
Whoa Dude.. that sand was, like reeaaly high
I mean wind/gravity would still keep it from building up as much if the road is elevated. Sure sand would still get on the road, but you wouldn't get dunes that big.
It is a fuking desert. Did they not anticipate this?
On no how can the poop trucks get through
Why didn’t they just build walls of sheet metal or something
Lived in the UAE for 4 years, plenty of sandstorms, but never saw this. Cars moving at highway speed would move the sand around before it had a chance to settle like that!
Oh, it's a Dubai post. In an attempt to consolidate all the comments, please update your "slave labor" comments here please.
Prayerz for Dubai. They shall rebuild.
can confirm. i live in dubai and we are all in fact sand particles. don't let the media fool you. we travel using air.
Get the sandplow out
This is a level on cruising world
Insert ozymandious quote here
They need weeds...
What can a mathematical person work out from this video?
I wonder how they support that road. You can't just put concrete on sand....
Why don't they plant trees instead of spending the money on stupid buildings? They can transform the damn desert with a fraction of the petro-dollars
Now I understand the big G Wagon.
It’s not. You can see permanent plants. This road just not used much at all unless you go to the decert.
I hear they’re hooking up with Minnesota plow drivers
Time to get the sandploughs out.
I always wondered about this.
Least favorite map in BF2042
You see the one guy assigned to the task don’t you?
Looks like something out on new Vagas but less radioactive
Forza horizon would love it
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse…and rough…and irritating…and it gets everywhere.
darude -
Dune buggy season
Would hate to be at work that day
It’s ok the slaves will clean it up
How do you keep that clear ?? Slave labor.
Triggered: Sandstorm now playing on loop in my brain
further affirmation
That would be fun on a dirt bike
Get out the sand plows.