That's what really blows my mind about all of this shit. The engineering that went into designing it, the materials that go into it, the labor of putting it all together. The sheer scale of effort that goes into making this a thing that could and should be spent developing real, useful stuff is shameful.
God, how much resource it took to design, manufacture, transport, install, and operate this thing.
and be explicitly worse than the glass panel it replaces. It even has an ongoing cost in power, it's basically performance art
Woah woah woah.
Performance art is worthy of respect. This is not.
That's what really blows my mind about all of this shit. The engineering that went into designing it, the materials that go into it, the labor of putting it all together. The sheer scale of effort that goes into making this a thing that could and should be spent developing real, useful stuff is shameful.