• @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      624 months 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.

      • Eager Eagle
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        484 months ago

        It’s for ads. A wasteful beacon of light pollution for ads.

      • mle
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        174 months ago

        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.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        54 months ago

        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.

    • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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      244 months ago

      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…….

    • JackbyDev
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      124 months ago

      I’ve heard that the vast majority of the time it’s just advertisements, though.

      • @Dupree878@lemmy.world
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        64 months ago

        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

  • Flying SquidM
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    244 months ago

    I sent this to my wife assuming she knew about the existence of the sphere…

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    74 months 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