Comment on Pro tip: it's much easier to lose 100k than it is to earn it

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all know that.

      Look, if im going to live a late stage capitalist hellscape im gonna enjoy when one of our murderous overlord douchebags decides to do some wacky.

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      • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or break shit. That’s an option too.

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vegas in a nutshell.

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  • mle86@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or, ya kno, to another AI center.

      Most prolly another AI center.

      I orefer the goofy ball.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…….

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Dupree878@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.

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