Best justice money can buy. Almost as good as in the US.

At a few billions net worth, the law ceases to be a problem, obviously.

Ha anyone thought of using horizontal tractor wheels instead of fenders?

Corinth Canal - yes, this is normal there.

They cannot afford wasting propaganda on the “Enemy”, they need it to keep the starving population under control.

On the other hand: How can they afford those balloons?

And now imagine that companies paid reddit money to be enabled to train their AI on them…

Will they serve it though?

There is a thing called “international arrest warrant”. Of course they are rich enough to hide somewhere where the Swiss have no contract with, but I don’t think they would enjoy that…

On top of that, they come cheap, like many people from Egypt did. If I understand this correctly, you can buy a kind of “Hadjj package” with hotel room, access to AC’ed facilities during the day, food and - most important - drink, and even medical supervision (or at least easy access to medical services). But of course you have to pay for this.

So it is cheaper just to get a tourist visum and do everything outside those guard rails. With the results that this years Hadjj produced. A bunch of Egyptian travel agencies sold the cheaper variant, and then left their customers without any real support inside Saudi Arabia.

There are GSM modems that can be used by the server to send an SMS. I nearly bought one when it was cheap, but noticed just in time that the GSM level of that device was 3, which is no longer available here. And it needs a valid Sim card to work.

Could be, if the neighbours did smart up.

Good start. They are actually not the only ones in that area where rumors of similar treatment of employees are making the rounds.

Tibet is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces.

I’d like to see Putins face when the Chinese start say things like “Russia is part of China and brooks no interference from external forces.”

Looking for CSAM is only the excuse they put out. Who knows what they are actually after. Maybe they just want to find compromat on people.

Why Egyptians? Is there a special reason that singled this group out for some reason?

Nope, not the King. He might have a lot of stuff, but quite a lot of that is basically unsellable. So his crown might be worth a gazillion, but parliament would probably interfere if he tried to sell it off. And it would be an issue what is actually his to sell and what is really owned by the state.

Put it on the list for the ICC. This was not an “Interrogation”.

Dying during a Christian pilgrimage has happend often enough. Our pilgrims log goes back to the time of the black death (actually right after it), and they took a coffin along on their pilgrimage even in the 19th century in case someone died (and, that was the believe, would ascend right into heaven). And yes, people really died doing strenous things for several days in a row that they were not used to.

Given the amount of people on the Hadj, the heat, and the age and medical conditions of quite some of those people, I think we have to give credit to the Saudis that it were just 14.

If he actually did this from a position of power, one might understand this. But in the here and now, it is totally ridiculous.

From the picture I’d say that you won’t need a caliper to see that their tolerances are nearly as large as the bricks themselves…

Yep. Cats and the Black Plague. Actually, they were a complicating factor for some. The Christians killed (primarily black) cats, as they deemed them helpers of the devil and therefor complicit in spreading the plague. The Jews, on the other side, kept cats to keep house and storage vermin-free. So the Christians thought the Jews were in league with the devil, so they killed them, too - at least that was one of the “reasons” for pogromes. And it is also a reason why there are way less black cats in Europe than colored ones. It is a crazy topic…

But even if they had not killed those cats, the Black Death would have come. Maybe it would have spread a tad slower, but not much.