Melkath

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Took the words out of my mouth.

If you wanna get all brutal and how it is in America about it, I am thinking more about giving the kids a chance to say good bye than actually getting help.

We have established that noone who could actually do something about it cares about all of the kids getting murdered in America schools.

Edit: And remember. While Uvalde cops sat outside and wet their pampers, a mother overpowered them to get children evacuated. A mother who was… notified by their child with a cell phone… and later faced criminal charges for it.

What phone doesn’t have internet anymore?

Edit: Wait, I get it. So now kids have their at home phone AND their parents also pay for their “you’re at school so this is how you get us your last words in the event of a shooting” phone.

Again, genius.

Parents needing to pay MORE money they don’t have and kids have ANOTHER reminder of how their job is basically to obey AND very possibly be killed while obeying.

So much better of a solution instead of MOTHER FUCKING GUN CONTROL.

Take away kids ability to communicate with family and law enforcement when they get shot up.

Genius idea.

So you are confirming that, you sir, are the outsider trying to influence American politics… by accusing other people of being outsiders influencing American politics.

Sounds very Blue MAGA.

Found the Blue MAGA.

The irony of claiming burden of proof on a post about proof being suppressed.

My hunch is the billions of dollars we have recently siphoned into a cyber warfare branch of the military, Project 2025, which is advancing almost identically to how The Plan for the New American Century progressed 20 years ago, and a President who is in bed with a war criminal fugitive. Oh, and they also recently started one of the largest censorship campaigns in decades Ala “STOP FREELY SHARING INFORMATION ON TIK TOK! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FILTER RAW INFORMATION OUT AND PROPAGANDA IN VIA MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS AND ISP THROTTLES THAT WE CONTROL!!@!@”

The 100% part was hyperbole, but America is the one doing everything in it’s power to spark WWIII, and the one that benefits most from scrubbing recent history.

I didn’t know know you could see who voted on kbin.

I just knew lemmy, mbin, and some others don’t get counted, so the troll down boats don’t matter.

100% US Military doing it.

Where do you think rebar comes from?

But think of all of the valuable experience you will get to put on your resume!

God damn it Chuck.

Edit: I made a better call saul reference. Jimmy would have never done this, but he would be working to undercut chuck.

CO2 doesn’t only come from fossil fuels. It comes from combustion in general.

We can go nuclear, but look at how Russia has ruined its entire country trying to do that (if you are not aware of how severe the radiation problem in all of Russia, not just Chernobyl, has become, there are tons of youtubers that do documentary style content, Plainly Difficult is one of my favorites).

Solar, wind, hydro can do it, but the amount of CO2 produced by manufacturing the generators is still massive. Its just producing the CO2 upstream in the process instead of during the actual power generation. It would take so many solar panels and windmills to replace burning coal that producing them would still release an amount of greenhouse gasses that rivals just burning the coal.

I don’t disagree that we can make try moves to mitigate the damage, but giant red flags went out about Crypto mining. The power draw from AI is far surpassing that, and AI has hardly even started to spin up yet.

I hope for the day we figure out how to produce unlimited energy without destroying the atmosphere in the process, but its Newton’s Third Law. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Each “solution” comes with its drawbacks, but our thirst for electricity only ever grows.

The answer would be to make AI draw less power, not to create more power in different ways.

There is no way we are going to get CEOs to scale back their AI power draw when it gives them the ability to scan everyone’s face and spy on them in a comprehensive, existential way. They are already using it on Anti-Zionist protesters. They are never going to give that kind of power up, but that kind of power requires an insane amount of… power.

I’d say the masses dying of starvation and exposure would reduce global warming, but the millions of cars will be replaced by hundreds of private jets that net greater emissions.

The poor factory workers will be more destitute, and the rich will always find a way fill that void. Fuck, they will force their pilot to fly the empty jet around the world just to make sure that conditions on earth dont improve and they eventually get to utilize their vault 3 miles underground before they die.

It is already showing really great potential.

Then the news drops that all of the progress we made on global warming has been undone by the energy usage caused by AI.

So sure, AI will live up the hype, and we will still die a slow and agonizing death of heat and suffocation.

But at least we will have AI friend chat bots to comfort us through the end.

Absolutely.

I dont share my anecdote for the first time.

I have heard in equal parts that I have a rare privilege and also that privilege will not last forever.

I challenge both takes a little, but mostly accept both as true.

That’s been the tactic.

Baby steps.

My company ordered back to office, and as I was told, I was the only one to say no.

I generate too much value and have tolerated being underpayed enough that they can’t justify firing me.

I’m also not some MIT AI machine learning savant. I come from a business analyst/ QA background, and I have made a SQL/Java/VBA system for virtually free that does the work of a team of 10 every day, but it’s just my underpaid ass running it.

When I lose this job, honestly, I’m fucked and it will be a nightmare because I’ll probably need to go into an office, and I’m in no shape for that.

But for today, I said no and I keep doing my job.