• psud@aussie.zone
    11·
    5 days ago

    How much of a prude must you be to think you need to censor the word tits?

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 days ago

    Same with water usage. Everybody has to reduce water, not wash cars while industry and agriculture who use like ¾ of the water don’t do anything

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 days ago

      The various platforms with their various advertiser-friendly stances have all but maimed the english language. Had someone I know talking about a death in their family and they legit said “unalive” once without realizing it.

    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 days ago

      Free market economics are going to slurp any extra watt as long as it’s capable of making a modicum of profit, unless it is just told “no”. The private sector is going to have to pay far more for their power, or else we’ll never reach NET zero emissions.

      • ModernEraCaveman@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        Even if it’s told “no,” it’ll take the person or entity that denied them access straight to the courts, all the while continuing to do so anyway.

  • spicystraw@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    We’re so into pushing the limits of AI, but we’re forgetting about the important stuff, like making sure everyone has power when the weather goes crazy. It’s like we’re so focused on the shiny new toy that we’re ignoring the basics. It’s like we’re trading our populations health for a few cool pictures. We need to think about the bigger picture and make sure we’re not sacrificing what really matters for the sake of technology.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      0·
      10 days ago

      Oh everyone is into toys and roleplaying right now. That’s the theme of the era.

      Pretend.

      Pretend to do business like your daddy and then sit back and watch number go up. Pretend the new algorithm system is some super future app. Pretend we can just undo it and that we really have control over everything we do.

      Heck, even most politicians aren’t actually bringing plans but simply roleplaying what they think is the party or level of conservativeness needed to just make it work a little longer.

      No plans. No thoughts towards the future. Just now and how to make it feel more right than be.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        0·
        10 days ago

        We are an emotional species, it’s always been entirely about feelings and games of pretend. We briefly dabbled with the idea that we were a species of reason and logic, but the advent of being able to share our thoughts and ideas with anyone, anywhere, instantly, has dashed all our hopes that we can rise above our biological nature. We simply cannot handle things we weren’t designed by evolution to handle, and as soon as we get distressed, our brains work overtime to invent a story to explain how we feel.

        You do this a thousand times a day about small things. The brain doesn’t care if the story it presents you makes sense, it just has to tie every feeling to something it thinks it knows. Which is why you have doctors and nurses becoming anti-vax science deniers and why so many people are so ready to accept an alternative view of the universe even if makes no sense and there’s no evidence for it.

        We are now currently making machines that can connect with those emotional responses and create new stories for us and make us feel things. This should be incredibly worrying, even as we’re suffering under climate change.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    1·
    10 days ago

    Perhaps if there was a lot less asphalt and concrete and more shade trees and grass, it might be a bit cooler and more comfortable?

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    I’ve got solar panels and AC. I’m keeping the house at meat locker freezing while staying within the solar panel production. Might as well use the power when it’s there.

    Some people will complain about using AC in general. They can sweat all they want - I’m keeping cool.

    • sulunia@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      10 days ago

      ngl, this is my lifelong goal. Have a house and being able to install and own green technology. Too bad that’s mostly out of reach for anyone born in the 90’s.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        They’re making that increasingly difficult. Basically, as more and more people get solar it becomes economically impossible to maintain the grid with millions of people being paid to connect to it.

        The result is a higher and higher percentage of your power bill not be for “use” but for some other bullshit.

        Because of the crazy power rate spikes during one of the Texas freezes, my power bill gets like a bunch added to it as a recovery fee for like the next 15 years. Then there’s the connection fee, maintenance fee, etc. My bill is like $300-400 a month before the first milliwatt is calculated, which makes solar less-viable. I’m paying a huge power bill no matter what (illegal to disconnect from the grid entirely), so payments towards a $50,000 solar setup would just make it more expensive.

        I might save 20-40 bucks on my electric bill, but the extra $250 in payments for solar would kill that.

    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
      01·
      10 days ago

      If everyone had solar panels and thought like you, we’d still have globe warming

      Energy is heat. There’s no such thing as cold, just lack of heat.

      Trapping sun rays then releasing hot air warms the planet. That’s what your system is doing. Removing heat from your house and putting it outside while your electric motor throws out extra heat.

      It just doesn’t have the air pollution that burning coal or gas does.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        01·
        9 days ago

        That light was already going to turn into heat. That’s where basically everything but nuclear power came from.

        Unless you have actual, credible researched math on the climate impact we’re all going to ignore you.

  • psmgx@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    To paraphrase another Twitter post, “AI uses the same amount of power per day as Guatemala for the sole purpose of making kinda acceptable slide decks for consultants to use when telling other corporate types how many people to fire”

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    Data centers with AI won’t be in cities.

    Hosting will be where it’s cheap, and that’s not in Phoenix or Vegas, except those things that must be near-line. Deep thought shit will be in rural Oregon or Virginia, where juice more plentiful and trouble is not.

    Sooooo, false equivalence.

  • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    11 days ago

    1 AI search uses the equivalent of 10 google searches…

    Just imagine how much power you’re using up browsing the web lol.

    AI is not making or breaking power grids, water sources, or any other bullshit alarmist prop you’re peddling like AI isn’t being used all over from image generation, checking your shitty grammar, or saving us all time from writing bullshit proper emails every day.

    LLMs are 5 tits of awesome that I’ll be suckling on every chance I get.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      11 days ago

      You sound very angry and defensive. And you will continue to do so after evidence shows that AI has had a negative impact on the environment. On the bright side, the end of humanity will mean that people being angry and defensive won’t exist either, which will be nice.

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        8 days ago

        The environmental impact is interesting, if an AI search being as environmentally impactful as 10 Google searches is true.

        I don’t know about you, but it often takes a number of Google searches for me to find the right information, whereas with AI and Google combined I usually get the info I need in 1/2 Google searches.

        That means that, based on my personal experience, AI is probably more environmentally efficient at getting me the correct info than google search alone.

        Edit: gotta love downvoters that give no discussion. I’m happy to re-evaluate the above but if nobody is rebuking it then all I can assume is that downvoters are ‘AI BAD’ folks who don’t have any intelligent input.

        • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          11 days ago

          The ai results from Google I have been getting are less helpful than two specific searches. It could be because of how we search for things and it is definitely getting messed with because of seo weighting and ai targeting those tools, so I think a better option would be to teach people how to actually use the search engines properly instead of just sitting back and letting ais pick up slack.

          • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            8 days ago

            My scenario is that I use chatgpt to get context and terminology in the area I’m researching.

            I then know how to do more specific Google searches (only 1/2).

              • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                7 days ago

                I guess it adds up to 12 searches worth of environmental impact with chatgpt+Google (10 searches worth from chatgpt, 2 from Google)

                When I use Google alone it’s often the same as that if not more. Sometimes it’s less if I already know the subject matter, but in those scenarios I would usually give just Google a go first anyway.

                Basically chatgpt often either gives me the answer or a much better starting place for what to Google.

                • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  7 days ago

                  I don’t understand the chatgpt bit still. When you say you need more context on the subject matter, you could search for the wiki or a forum and get the same information chatgpt is pulling without the impact.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 days ago

      Assuming °F, you can survive that indefinitely as long as you wear light clothing, you’re not in direct sunlight, you don’t have a medical condition that affects things, and it’s not too humid.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
          0·
          10 days ago

          While doing anything… 70F is pretty much perfect temp for most people. You’ll cool down fairly quickly after any heavy activity and will be safe during said activity unless you’re in direct sun, not drinking, and not taking breaks, but all that is true in nearly any temp.

          70F is roughly 20C

          • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
            01·
            10 days ago

            Cool, but that’s 70 and not 79. Sure it’s only a few degrees swing but that still matters. We’re also looking at water shortages in a good number of places so counting on that being a ready supply is not necessarily true.

            65 is a real nice temperature to survive at too though a little on the cooler side but it’s not what we were talking about.

              • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
                01·
                10 days ago

                Cool, that’s still not answering the question. What level of work can a body do under standard conditions at 79 F, without overheating? That changes with humidity so at break points of 40, 60, and 80% how does that affect the body? What you think feels nice is not what I was asking.

                • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
                  22·
                  6 days ago

                  Just go outside and look at people working outdoors or exercising. 79 isn’t very hot. Shocking fact: A/C was invented in the 20th century. Humans and summers were invented way, way before that. Do you think farmers just spontaneously combusted every summer before the advent of A/C? I know many farmers that don’t have A/C to this day, and they work sun up to sun down all summer long with no problems.

                  79 degrees would barely be considered hot in large swaths of the world. You can live and work in relative comfort at 79 degrees. Think of it this way: people run 135 mile ultramarathons in Death Valley where temperatures get up to 130 degrees.

                  Not everyone sits inside an air conditioned cube all day.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    01·
    10 days ago

    Kinda wish the people I rent from would do this. They keep theirs at like 65 and I’ve been freezing my nuts off in their basement all summer. It’s their house and they deserve to be comfortable in it but damn. It’s a good excuse to keep active I guess.