I dunno, but “Erotic is where you use a feather, kinky is using the whole chicken, perverse is serving it to your mother in law for Sunday lunch the next day”

I’m using OpenSCAD because I want to program a fish!

The extremely vocal minority are really fucking annoying

No. It’s risen because corporate execs think they can gouge you for money to increase the high scores in their bank accounts. Increased demand means they’d be selling more which would mean more profits or even your bills decreasing if they were being fair. As usual it’s corps and billionaires that are the problem

I’m calling out how stupidly and obviously disingenuous the article is. That’s not whataboutism. Do you know what disingenuous means? The article claims it has a huge environmental impact. It doesn’t.

Why? Because I’m not keen on lies and bullshit? I don’t work for google

The environmental impact of AI is massively overblown all the fucking time and I don’t like lies. And I do like AI

Right back at ya! Calling out bullshit agendas is not bullshit and you, know it

Chrome sucks, sure. Did you have a coherent point beyond that? No, didn’t think so.

I don’t even know what you’re getting at here. You claim my comment, which points out how disingenuous the article is, is whataboutism, then provide some whataboutism.

Claiming a tiny environmental impact is huge in order to push an agenda is bullshit and you know it

Also you had movie sizes misremembered - 700mb was 720p divx or 480p mpeg2, Netflix is now more often than not higher resolution that that (1080p for fullHD, minimum, for most people - I have an old TV that’s 1080p - though 720p is probably also available), and likely encoded at a higher bit rate, though I don’t know what file formats they use. A movie being 2gb is pretty normal for 1080p on torrent sites, and 4gb is not that uncommon for higher res

The article, as usual, makes no comparison to the environmental impact of companies like McDonalds (who use PER DAY what every AI data centre combined in the world uses PER YEAR, not companies like Shell or BP who are orders of magnitude worse than that. This is the usual anti-ai fear-mongering bollocks.

Should Google have installed it unasked? No, that’s bullshit, possibly illegal bullshit but honestly considering how disingenuous the environmental impact is I can’t trust the legal stuff that I don’t know about either. But it is not an environmental catastrophe as whoever wrote this article would like you to believe for some reason.

Honest question: why are the haters pushing their nonsense? What do they have to gain?

edit: As usually the haters and useful idiots provide nonsense counterpoints and downvote because they don’t have laugh reacts to demonstrate their groupthink and wilful ignorance. I really wish they’d all shut the hell up, they’re annoying!

UK here. Last year I spent four months in hospital with a moderately obscure neurological condition called Guilian Barre syndrome, half of it in critical care (some sedated) and much of the rest in a specialist neuro-rehab unit. My partner had a foot amputated two years ago after spending several weeks in hospital with blood poisoning caused by an infected foot ulcer, they now had a prosthetic leg and have had physiotherapy and psychological counselling (they recognise it’s a big life change). We’re both disabled, and my partner has dialysis three times a week. I take 11 prescription pills a day (plus three non prescription magnesium recommended by a physiotherapist). Nurses are generally friendly and caring (if understaffed and overworked), and the doctors don’t have the adversarial money-driven approach I hear about from the US, plus they’re often some of the best in the world - my partner got one of the world’s leading podiatrists because they happened to get his rotation!

Total cost for medical care: £0.00 plus some petrol and taxi rides - being registered disabled I don’t even pay for prescriptions but if I did it’s, I think, £12.50 a time no matter how many pills you’re collecting.

The NHS is not flawless: recently my partner had a day surgery that turned into a week as an in-patient as the second part of the surgery kept being pushed back (some for good reasons like the Accident and Emergency department having a sudden glut and needing all the surgeons, some for less good reasons); wait times in A&E can be as much as 12 hours on uncomfortable (but easily cleaned) seats if you’re not an emergency and you show up at a busy time like Friday night; and waiting lists for adult ADHD diagnosis was seven years (so I went private cos I could afford it). It also don’t fully cover dental work (and finding an NHS dentist is notoriously difficult), and if you have a complex prescription it doesn’t fully cover glasses either, but it does contribute to both of those bringing them down to merely expensive rather than ludicrous.

But when you really need it, it’s there, you will get good care, and you don’t have to worry about being bankrupted.

Would recommend, 9 out of 10

“Where shall we have dinner?”

“Lets eat up the road”

“No thanks, I don’t like asphalt”

What do you get if you fling a piano intro an army camp?

A Flat Major

I believe so, yes. I grew up really near the European home of the Scientologists

My parents used to buy vitamins from Neil Gaiman’s parents

That’s not a derailment, that’s the point of the book!