Regarding that last boost: pardon my language, but Eric Schmidt is out of his f*#$@ing mind.
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Regarding that last boost: pardon my language, but Eric Schmidt is out of his f*#$@ing mind. I never thought all that highly of him but holy cow, lately he's uncorked the nonsense champagne and it's fizzing everywhere. It's extraordinarily discouraging that people like this have the ear of US government officials.
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@abucci And even if it were only government officials in the US in his pocket, he and his friends will boil every other country on the planet too.
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I am tired of living in interesting times.
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@abucci Between this horseshit and MS wanting to reopen three-mile island just to power their AI ... I struggle to see how there's any possible way to *avoid* incinerating the planet anymore.
(Sure, I don't eat meat, I don't own a car, I never travel by plane, I spend lots of time power-optimizing my home electronics - but so what? Millions doing that won't even make up for one of those data centres. And there's a part of me that feels like I'm being swindled.)
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@[email protected] You are being swindled. I honestly think all of us are better served by putting every ounce of spare energy we have into resisting all this stuff. "Reducing your carbon footprint" is a pointless waste of time. Permanently constraining a billionaire's ability to increase their carbon footprint beyond all reason? Now that would have an impact.
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@abucci I'm not disagreeing with that. Billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and any society that creates billionaires is a broken society.
That said: Aside from avoiding their products and platforms to the best of my ability, involving myself as much in the public debate as is sensible and voting for the left, I'm not sure how much meaningful action there is to do at this point - particularly for someone living in what is functionally a vassal state.
