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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So glad that sphere uses up the electricity equivalent of 22,000 homes (or something like that, it's got like 150 high the GPUs if I remember the article correctly).

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Is it worth 22,000 homes having some temporary electricity to lose the giant veiny Minion, which now lives forever in history?

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Las Vegas is known for its responsible use of electricity

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

We reaaaaally need pigouvian pollution taxes equal to the external cost of pollution.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Like, for real though, what the fuck is that? A dried minion? A minion under a microscope? Why the fuck does it have that texture

[–] graymess@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OK, I promise I only know this because it's related to my job: In the movie that came out earlier this year, there are minions with super powers. This one is supposed to be a rip off of The Thing from Fantastic Four. That's why it looks like that.

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

Thought it was corn.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing somebody got drunk and blew hundreds of thousands of dollars to project a minion face onto some big advertising orb

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

It's not projected. It's the las Vegas led wall orb

[–] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think defcon (hacking convention) happened recently.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Ooooh. Free would be better.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is there a giant minion in a city for decadent adults?

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because for some godforsaken reason plenty of adults seem to love minions

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't hate Vegas. But I could see there being overlap between some people who love Minions and some people who frequent Vegas.

[–] dditty@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True, but goatse, blue waffle, or the Howie Mandel prolapse would still be worse

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Goatse on the sphere would probably be pretty funny tbh

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

I don't know either, but I've been around the internet long enough to not ask.

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 28 points 2 months ago

When the shrooms the homeless guy on the strip sold to you hit....

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

the expression of letting loose things

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't like it's expression. I don't want to think about what's happening below the ground level to that giant minion. And I triple don't want to know what's happening to the sewer system after it finishes.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It looks like a Space Shuttle launch down there.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Fuckin vegas

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