What if I told you that we can do all these things at once, and don’t have to pick just one. Mindblowing!

Regarding the alternatives to fossil fuels, they still aren’t free as far as emissions go. It’s still better to not need a new source of power if you can, because they require minerals, fossil fuels, etc. to build.

Also, an insane strain on the power grid makes the transition to greener sources of electricity more difficult because there’s a bigger demand to satisfy. That delays the transition.

If you don’t like how “this website” talks about your garbage tech, maybe you can fuck off back to Reddit with the rest of the douchebags who still believe crypto has a future?

Oh sorry, I thought you were mocking the person you replied to because they were trying to redefine truth somehow.

Whataboutism at its finest 👌

The difference with other things causing climate change is that some of these other things are actually useful and work, which is not the case with ShitGPT.

And you can be mad at both simultaneously. You don’t have to decry LLMs only.

No, because the carbon footprint is ridiculously high.

Quit the whataboutism. While the construction industry is in dire need of improvements, it’s at least causing GHG emissions to achieve a useful goal, unlike ShitGPT which repeatedly fails to prove its value when opposed to its environmental costs.

On behalf of all humans suffering from your tech bro arrogance: fuck you and your useless tech. I wish this kind of energy consumption becomes illegal, because it is criminal. Can’t wait for the bubble to finally pop.

The article mentions generative AI btw, the kind that powers ShitGPT.

Don’t feed the troll. This one is obvious.

They sometimes do, just look at what Musk is doing. They also bribe donate to the democrats in an effort to influence them (this is lobbying).

Why do anything illegal, when you can bribe and defame in the media you own? It looks a lot less suspicious and is a lot more sustainable.

Unless something changes, the rich have basically sabotaged the democratic party into being a center-right party. That’s why it won’t be a left-wing party in the foreseeable future.

If you don’t believe me, just look up why the Democrats tolerate the Manchins and the Sinemas within their ranks.

Whatever you may think, rich people do donate to the democrats too †

Given that the orange clown may not win the election, they need to bribe democrats into doing their bidding. This is what lobbies do.

† https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/11/18/here-are-the-billionaires-funding-the-democratic-presidential-candidates-as-of-september-2019/

I had to switch recently because I wanted to try out font ligatures and it turns out Alacritty refuse to implement support for that 😬

Damn, this thing slaps

Bubbles joined the chat.

Well, you’re right they do sell newspapers. Their first issue was about rehabilitating Lenin, so I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss them as Trotskyists.

I know what the outcomes look like when the “left” represses the right and everybody else, including themselves. And your failure to see how undesirable those outcomes may be to leftists around the world is precisely the beef we have against Lemmygrad, Nazbear and tankies in general. You do not represent us, and we’ll never be allies. Even worse, you guys actively sabotage leftism by keeping red-scare era scarecrows alive. I’m glad you’re such an insignificant minority that we can contain, to be quite frank. The tankie problem used to be way worse on Lemmy less than a year ago.

I know my local revolutionnary/communist party, despite being leninist, is fiercely anti-Stalin, for instance. The fixation on defending totalitarianism is frankly bizarre.

The key difference is cars are a strictly superior version of horses. Horses do need fuel, they’re slow, maintenance is time-intensive/expensive, can’t take you as far…

Wireless earbuds’ superiority is not so clear-cut. There are pros and cons for both, and I hate that some execs are trying to force me to buy their overpriced garbage.

I wouldn’t mind wireless earbuds if it wasn’t for the rare earth minerals they require for their battery, if planned obsolescence wasn’t a core “feature”, and if I had a choice to keep using the cheap wired headphones I’ve used for years before they started enshittifying phones.

By using the kind of the repression they used on the public, they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.

Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes than which faction comes ahead. Politics aren’t a game of Risk. Actions have consequences, and humanity as a whole loses when innocents get killed by brainwashed idiots.

If stalinist Russia is what utopia is supposed to be, I’m not interested, thank you.

I acknowledge that. But what “struggle” means is not an unimportant detail. And I disagree with the Stalinist approach viscerally, and it isn’t in accordance with leftist values by any stretch of the imagination.

That’s precisely the extent of my criticism. Understanding stalinism instead of just demonizing it is a good thing, if only to avoid repeating the same mistakes. But the end doesn’t justify the means. Apologism is not OK.

It’s OK to take a stance against power abuses, and vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.

The problem is the violence of the totalitarian regimes you defend harms innocents too, which is why serious communists shouldn’t advocate for that kind of power abuse any more than they should advocate for Western imperialism. It’s not that hard.

Yeah I get to do that, because that’s what happened factually, sorry. No amount of whataboutism will change that. I don’t care about Western imperialists, fuck them too.