this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

iirc it's just an accounting trick to dodge taxes and the CFO quitting is unrelated

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i'm not surprised but i still think the image is funny

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's bourgeois decadence, but i like the "larger than life" design/construction projects. A light up sphere is neat by it's own merits

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I agree. The people of Las Vegas should take ownership of the Sphere, and use it for... i dunno, proletarian things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I like these megaprojects from the technical problem solving side of things. It's fun to learn that they had to develop new ways of doing things to meet unique constraints, which might be useful later. A bit like the space program

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

ok this is better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

im glad somebody did it. i was really trying to get my brain to come up with a good one

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

No, they're just gonna fill it up with wigs now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Pondering my orb (it cost me hundreds of millions of dollars and I am financially ruined) bateman-ontological 🪩

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of the Bass Pro Shop pyramid in Memphis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

yeah and it should have been an escape room instead with traps and you only go in with people you've never met

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The orb is no morb

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Now what will the giant wizard ponder?