By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course.
Ok, my lack of impulse control is not allowing me to do opsec right now. I used to work as a manager for the DoE’s wing of green shit. It singlehandedly destroyed my faith in renewables and literally every electrification effort to the point where I’m pretty much not even against petroleum solutions. The green washing is fucking ‘intense’ and the DoE funds it and all the shitty companies profiting from it by the 100 billions.
I don’t believe in anything anymore, I am a full blown nihilist, and it feels awful to say but I almost see a give and take working for a Oil corp that’s about as equal as working for green washing bullshit which is almost 95% of all sustainable efforts.
I’m probably being dramatic but my experience there has put my brain in tremendous disrepair, the words ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ ring in my head every time I try to think of finding a path that will have me help make a better world, a path that does not involve me stripping bear ass naked and running around with a hammer and sickle etched to my ass.
Greenwashing is such a powerful grift that the richest man(child) in the world is the richest man(child) in the world because he's hoisted atop a mountain of government greenwashing subsidies.
Techbro grifts love to greenwash their energy costs. Internet funny money did that with claims of "these proof-of-work math puzzles could be done with green energy!" as if that energy couldn't be used for something, anything else. Now treat printers have basically the exact same claim of energy and pollution mitigation but with a side order of "if the robot god wakes up every problem will be solved anyway, just you wait!"
