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• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hot take, I like the sphere and the goofy stuff they’ve done with it.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • mle86@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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…….

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Dupree878@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s amazing.

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could be worse.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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