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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 83 points 4 months ago (3 children)

We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] dandi8@fedia.io 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yes?

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

Is that where guillotines come in?

[–] nikita@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 points 4 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)

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So we might a well build some shit.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, it's just $2,300,000,000

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

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 4 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.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 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.