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.
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.
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…….
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
Hot take, I like the sphere and the goofy stuff they’ve done with it.
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.
It’s for ads. A wasteful beacon of light pollution for ads.
We all know that.
Look, if im gonna live in a late-stage capitalist hellscape, im gonna enjoy when one of our murderous overlord douchebags decides to do some wacky.
Its all we can do.
Or break shit. That’s an option too.
Enjoy signing up for 21st century slavery in prison!
Vegas in a nutshell.
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.
Or, ya kno, to another AI center.
Most prolly another AI center.
I prefer the goofy ball.
Will you PLEASE think of the shareholders?
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.
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…….
I’ve heard that the vast majority of the time it’s just advertisements, though.
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
Huh, I’ve never heard U2 described as “goofy” before, but it works.