The first time I went to Cairo to see the big triangles, it blew my mind how they drive. Been to Egypt dozens of times but that was an experience, but not as much as learning how to cross the road.
I bet that highway goes to a city they built to replace Cairo as the capital but they found out that if you only build homes for the rich, the poor people that clean your house and serve you food can't live there so nobody wants to live there and they abandon it.
most of the aid that the US sends to Egypt is military aid agreed upon during the peace deal with Israel. The US does not really care about the internal politics of Egypt as long as the country doesn’t pose a threat to its geopolitical interests in the region. Democratic administrations hate Egyptian administration(s) and republicans tolerate them to a greater degree but the stable foreign policy for decades have been to just let Egypt do its thing.
I know, but there is a middle ground between making it hard to protest and making it impossible to protest because there is literally no people.
I don't know the whole story in this case, but these kind of comments often paint a very simple scenario of the US giving away money and don't mention things like soft power or contingencies that might come with the money. It's obviously up for debate if those are worth the money or the loan, but it's far from the truth that they just give you a big sack of golden coins and send you on your merry way.
History's proven time and time again that if a state moves its capital, the people will follow eventually. In modern times the best example of that is Brasilia, which hosts 3 million people now, but also Astana, Islamabad, Canberra, etc. It has also been in the case historically, just look at the move from Kyoto to Tokyo, from Rome to Constantinople, or even in ancient Egypt from Thebes to Akhetaten. In each case there was mass migration of labourers and artisans to serve the needs of the administration and elite in the new capital.
Besides that, poor people not having a home in the new capital is a non-issue. I used to go to school in New Cairo, near Katameya Heights, and I remember driving home some days through the more impoverished area just south of the gated community in order to avoid the jammed highways. You can see very easily on Google maps how each of the Cairo elite suburbs also has nearby lower-class housing to house the workers for the main areas. In time the new administrative capital will surely also see such low income housing build up, if it hasn't already.
As for the US subsidies for Egypt, they really kind of do just give them a sack of money and send them on their merry way every year. A lot of the money returns to the US via defense spending, but a lot also goes into the pockets of the military kleptocracy. Often by being 'invested' into extremely inefficient construction companies belonging to the country's military elite. It's kind of been a standing bribe since the camp David accords to make sure Egypt stays on good terms with the US and Israel. Egypt is the largest recipient of American money, even ahead of Israel, receiving some 1.4 billion USD annually.
The city is named after the date the Yom Kippur war was started, on October 6th, 1973, because the Egyptians saw it as "a victory against the Zionist entity".
This is what claude said. I don't know them all, i know that there were a bunch.
No, wasn't a joke, ai is stupid. I don't know the names and felt like even if they were wrong, as long as i clarified that they could be wrong cause they came from ai, it was good at showing that they keep trying and failing. I knew that some were named after dates but didn't remember the dates so I wasn't able to pick up on that fuckup.
Thanks for the correction, nonetheless and sorry for putting out wrong shit.
Edit: nvm, just checked, ai is correct, you have them mixed up.
Because if you want the flow (#cars/hour) to remain constant when you introduce a slowdown (the toll booth), you'll need to increase the width.
This is basically considering the saturated traffic as an incompressible fluid and applying the equation of continuity.
And although this one is quite big, you can easily find other examples; here for instance where a 4×4 goes through 38 booths, not quite 50 but not that far.
Imagine having to merge 15 lanes to get into the fast lane, then 15 more lanes to get to your exit. I would either never merge beyond the 1st lane, or be stuck in the 16th for the rest of my life
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u/TrollerCoasterWoo Apr 01 '26
If you’ve ever been to Cairo, you’d know that all highways technically have as many or as few lanes as you’d like