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[–] logflume@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year 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

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

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year 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

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ok this is better

[–] booty@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kestrel@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the Bass Pro Shop pyramid in Memphis

[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MiguelParenti@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The orb is no morb

[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Now what will the giant wizard ponder?