Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer

• nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

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  • dandi8@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

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    • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes?

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about using it for the free school lunches that the Governor decided to veto for some fucking reason?

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    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.

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    • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that where guillotines come in?

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  • nikita@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So we might a well build some shit.

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

      Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

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    • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the equivalent of saying “Eat all your dinner cause there’s starving children in Africa”.

  Sure, this sounds nice, but this logic falls apart the instant you start thinking about it.

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• CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You sound like the people criticising NASA for spending money on science. “Who do X when Y is still an issue?”

  I doubt you make that kind of prioritization with your own money.

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  • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NASA also consistently provides new innovation and new science.

    What will the dome keep contributing to society for the absurd electricity cost it takes to keep running? Advertisements?

    Yeah, there not really the same argument.

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