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VCs, Very Smart
  • Fuck their profit margins, and fuck the shitty double standard billionaires and their holdings are held to. If I'm expected to be energy conscious as an individual, I don't think it's too much to ask for these rich fucks to make their companies energy conscious as well.

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  • No shit people are utilizing things. That's not the point. The point is that on the way to providing these services, they harm the environment disproportionately more than you or I. As your first article points out:

    "AI doesn’t have to be super, super data-hungry or super, super compute-hungry,” says Donti. Instead, we can “imagine AI differently.”

    That's the point. The billionaires and their megacorps could do it better. Your article points out a bunch of ways for LLMs to use less energy, and the amount of energy doing that would save would be orders of magnitude more than if people cut back or stopped their use, or whatever it is you're suggesting.

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  • Sorry, didn't realize we were doing the theatrical pedantry thing, let me clarify: we want the companies that the billionaires own and control to stop using so much fucking energy and making things disproportionately worse for everyone.

    Better?

  • This is my reason for joining "Fuck Cars"
  • I don't think the spotless white f250 parked in what looks like a strip mall parking lot in a warm climate is doing any off roading or driving through snow.

    You've got a point about towing/load capacity, but the large majority of the time I see those big 4 door pickups driving around, they have one passenger, an empty bed, and no trailer behind them.

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  • Yet... somehow they want to freeze the entirety of the world, magically build enough wind, solar, and hydro to power everything, then just... turn it back on again.

    No, we want billionaires to stop using so much fucking energy and making things disproportionately worse for everyone

  • What the heck is a god dang cloud?
  • We used to do this with thumb drives. You can get a 128G usb3 thumb drive these days for like 20 bucks in the checkout line of most electronics stores. Cool things about a thumb* drive is I don't need to pay a subscription fee for it, it doesn't need an Internet connection, and it isn't liable to be rifled through by Microsoft unless Bill Gates comes to your house and steals it from you.

  • The debate gets interesting sometimes
  • Technically the DNC candidate was more popular than the RNC one, but years of voter suppression perpetrated by the right wing over the past few decades prevented said candidate from attaining office

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles
  • You're goddamn right I don't, but I don't have a choice due to where I live. A car is a tool to me, in the same way that a vacuum cleaner or a push lawnmower is a tool. The most important thing a car should do for me is reliably get me from point a to point b in relative comfort. I could give a fuck about the "true driving experience" of a manual transmission.

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