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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where and what is this usually?

[–] ritswd 108 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://www.thespherevegas.com/

My guess is the blue screen picture is fake, but it’s still pretty funny.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Only a matter of time before somebody hacks this and starts playing porn for the whole city.

[–] TurretCorruption 31 points 1 year ago

I feel like the popilation of vegas would respond to that much more positively than the italian senate.

[–] Crackhappy 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's fine. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Except STDs. :(

[–] Confuzzeled 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The largest gaping anus in the whole world.

[–] HappycamperNZ 5 points 1 year ago

We should use the guy from interestingasfuck on reddit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm picturing a meatspin around the vertical axis.

[–] danc4498 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Directed by Darren Aronofsky? Weird as shit.

[–] ritswd 4 points 1 year ago

I hadn’t even noticed that. Yeah, weird idea…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ritswd 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, it’s amazing how much of a pass Vegas gets about the complete lack of sustainability. Like, for instance, I don’t know, having tons of thirsty tourists and gigantic pools in the middle of a freaking desert! Kinda nuts…

[–] jumperalex 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] ritswd 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for that, I definitely learned some. I’m not surprised that it takes some smart thinking to get this to even be remotely possible, and it’s interesting to read what smart thinking goes into it. I was at Lake Mead recently, and it was impressive to be explained how much it had receded over the past few years, and how much of a strain on it Vegas keeps putting despite the mitigation. I wonder how long before it just runs out, if it does; and what happens next.

[–] jumperalex 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's painful seeing how low it is. I lived there back in '99 which meant I also got to drive/ride over the damn itself. Good times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think water-wise are LA and especially Phoenix much worse than Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US has terrible land management in general. You build these huge sprawling cities made of low density suburbs, both wasting productive farmland in the east and isolated in the middle of the desert in the west. It's all completely nuts.

[–] ritswd 2 points 1 year ago

I grew up in Europe, and the major difference with Europe is that there is almost no scarcity of productive farmland almost anywhere in the US. Besides in desert areas, you’re always a reasonably drivable distance away from very cheap and vast farmland. It wouldn’t make sense to optimize for a resource that is so far from being scarce. Basically, we mostly build with low density, because, well, we can afford it in resources, and it’s nicer, so why not.

That includes the west, there is also a massive amount of productive farmland in the west. California is actually the number one US state in agricultural revenue.

Most cities developed in the desert are not particularly impressive, just because of the lack of resources indeed. Albuquerque is half a million people. Reno is half of that. That’s tiny as far as North American cities go. In general, it doesn’t make sense to build too ambitiously around there indeed.

… well, except Las Vegas. Las Vegas I can’t make sense of. That place just makes no sense to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@biddy @ritswd

Part of the issue is that it is illegal to build high density outside of redlined areas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Damn, that's going to be worth a lot of shower piss, that's for sure!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the Las Vegas sphere that I think recently opened. From what I can see, there’s a stage and seating inside it for events.

https://youtu.be/wKCY1Ph7T0k

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

DEFCON's going to be great this year

[–] weirdly_austin 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I litterly built that place, we erected the steel. I did my job, don't know about the electricians though 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That wouldn't be an electrician's fault. This is an error in windows. Realistically it would prob be the fault of some unknown programmer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Sorry, but you can't know that. A bluescreen is often caused by hardware errors, like faulty RAM modules and so on. In theory this could absolutely be caused by an unstable energy supply that could be the fault of an electrician. I am not saying that this is likely, but we cannot know.

[–] weirdly_austin 7 points 1 year ago

Eh, I just wanted to poke at the electricians. No hate, just fun!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a shoop or did this actually happen?

[–] Zerfallen 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Definitely fake. Funny idea though.

[–] marcar 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the blue orb of death, very different

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I assume this is fake, but still very funny.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

🔔

Leave me alone!

[–] jelloeater85 4 points 1 year ago
[–] croobat 3 points 1 year ago

We are truly living the most boring dystopia.

[–] oolio 12 points 1 year ago

That orb desevers some pondering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Blueballing

[–] Asudox 7 points 1 year ago

I am having a hard time reasoning why companies use windows for such things. Sure it's convenient and has a great (size, not that the economy is good) economy. But the OS is bs when it comes to stability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

God I hate Windows

[–] Daniikk1012 4 points 1 year ago

What is this? Did they remake the sphere from Expo 2017, but in Vegas?

[–] capt_wolf 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My lifetime goal has been to speed run Super Metroid on the biggest screens possible... So far, I'm up to 12' x 20'. Anybody want to hook me up

[–] ch00f 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shit, we’d better get IT out to Neptune fast. Who knows what having an unresponsive planet will do to the solar system?

[–] Letto 1 points 1 year ago

This looks like it would make a hilarious Akira edit