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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 84 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] hoch@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yes?

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 0 points 10 months ago

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Is that where guillotines come in?

[–] nikita@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

So we might a well build some shit.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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.