Thats the plan - and nothing will be done because there is no law, no faith, only money.

Democrats are no better. They’ll argue for women’s or trans rights (when convenient) but even most of their "progressive voters still worship at the altar of Money and think to limit greed in any meaningful way is inherently sinful.

So i can come deflate your tires every night and tell everybody you’re a loser who doesn’t even know how to fill a tire then?

If you knew how to take care of your car the tires wouldn’t be flat every morning. 🤷‍♂️

People who love arguing socialist states fail love to ignore that the reasons are 95% economic interference and outright military intervention or coups from capitalist countries.

Oh fuck off already, nobody cares.

Do we have an iamverysmart community? We could use one.

Yes

Of course Lemmy and dropout have a meaty Venn diagram, but this really makes me glad I haven’t watched all the Smarty-pants 🤣

For a point of comparison, a ChatGPT request uses 2.9 watt-hours (and rising) to a google searches 0.3 (which per your example would only be run once assuming you’re checking different blogs from the same list of results.)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/chatgpt-google-search-need-power-to-run-heres-how-much-water-and-electricity-are-used-to-answer-questions/articleshow/111382705.cms

You’re quick to imply that this study is bullshit, yet offer no counter argument except “believing statistics is for losers lul”

So where are your sources to refute the article?

I’m in DC and NYC a lot, and the places I stay are almost always pretty quiet areas (cause I’m not staying in the hotbed touristy/party-y areas)

Even in cities, most people have average boring 9 to 5 jobs and need to sleep at night. When you get away from those particular areas (of course Times Square isnt indicative of the “norm,” right?) its all pretty mundane actually.

Stonks

Its the car centric mindset of just jetting all over town for the fuck of it more or less. As I mentioned elsewhere, if we were ““going out”” I’d understand changing, but we had one drink and left (which was the plan from the jump.) we could have been on the way out of the bar by the time we left their house if we’d just gone there.

Yeah its equally dumb on a bus but most people on public transit wouldn’t do that because it IS silly for one drink.

If they wore particularly expensive stuff, maybe. They weren’t, nor are they particularly concerned about such things, just “comfort.” If we were going out all night it tracks but we literally had one drink and left.

Its a car centric attitude I don’t understand. Driving absurdly out of your way wasting an hour and a half cause why not hurrdurr car.

I can’t speak to how often, but it definitely happens.

Its a perception thing, they see it as “I dont have to’learn’ anything I just follow these tutorials” even though a similar amount of effort would get them through the few commands they might need on Linux.

Eh, no use crying over spilt milk, youre here now. :) Linux is still stuck in a weird cultural hole, its not your fault it took a while.

Ive always been familiar but a daily driver of windows. I started self hosting a year or two ago, and recently switched my office PC to Linux with a secondary win partition. Ive just never had issues with windows but I’m pretty tired of what they’ve been up too lately so for me it was time. Whenever I get around to grabbing another m.2 for my living room rig I’ll do the same for it.

This is the thing that gets me about that level of user. I understand basic users who dont care prefering windows, but I always kind of found it amusing to watch people “Linux too hard booo CLI…now excuse me while I learn to manipulate the registry, and run scripts/disable certain things via the checks notes CLI.”

Although I do think its an exaggeration

“Almost every day?” Maybe, depending, but not always. Which is why I fell back on multiple times a week which is depressingly not an exaggeration.

You’re awfully angry over a passing internet comment and are trying to argue an absolute because of it. Perhaps you’re the stupid and hateful one here?

US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don’t fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif

They say if you’re driving, that’s time lost, while if you are on the bus, you can be doing all sorts of things on your phone or what have you.

I don’t have a car right now (not in any rush, especially with the current market) and I’m a BIG defender of this point. On the bus, I usually have a book. I take Amtrak alot and having driven on plenty of out of town trips over the years - I LOVE getting to nap out after hopping on then getting some reading done, do some gaming, or just…stare out the damn window. Coming home I have a tendency of getting a bit drunk one way or another haha.

My thing with people’s perception of Amtrak in particular is how if they applied the same standards to driving we’d have an INFINITELY more equitable movement infrastructure. Sooooo many people I talk to swear off Amtrak forever cause that caught one delay, in a number of these folk it’s only an hour or two but that’s enough to swear it off entirely. Meanwhile those same people will sit in gridlock for an hour every day driving to work without batting an eye, or pound the steering wheel once in a multi-hour delay while traveling then are just like “that’s life.” How come one 1 hour delay is a forever deal breaker but nobody (seriously) complains about that? It’s just what they know so no level of inconvenience is too much and they’re rather be stuck in a car for 6 hours in a jam than share space with others for 2 hours on a train.