• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I stayed near the sphere when in Vegas for a friend’s wedding. It’s strange but I’ve never seen anything that belongs in that city more. It’s a monument to the 21st century’s Las Vegas. And yeah it’s amusing seeing something serious and looking over at whatever it’s doing

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      19 hours ago

      It’s giant, it’s stupid, and i love it. This is what tech should be used for: Art, not math to maximize stock trades per picosecond.

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        Full agree. It’s flashy and stupid and impressive and it represents a lot of terrible financial decisions. What could better represent Las Vegas? It should be on Nevada license plates.

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        I get the sentiment, but at the same time it feels like a mad waste of resources and energy in a time of climate crisis. These materials and electric power could have gone into sustainable transportation or carbon capture instead of fuelling some corporations monetary gain.

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          Or, ya kno, to another AI center.

          Most prolly another AI center.

          I prefer the goofy ball.

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      It’s great from 2000 miles away only ever seeing it on the internet, it would probably be amazing in real life for a week maybe two… three…a month… a year… a decade…….

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        We had a big digital display put in my town and they did that shit and in less than a week it was made illegal because they drafted an ordinance that specifically only affected that building and sign. They could stop it if they weren’t owned by corpos