I sent this to my wife assuming she knew about the existence of the sphere…
Pro tip: it's much easier to lose 100k than it is to earn it
Submitted 1 month ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
That’s amazing.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month 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
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hot take, I like the sphere and the goofy stuff they’ve done with it.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s for ads. A wasteful beacon of light pollution for ads.
mle86@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’ve heard that the vast majority of the time it’s just advertisements, though.
Dupree878@lemmy.world 1 month 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
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.