@marioliveirain Experts have been saying that it is a high probability of el nino and a chance it will be super, it is difficult to predict el nino this far in advance so it's important to keep that in mind; it's scary but it's far from guaranteed with our current info.
@diamondminercat@Mollyploofkins For ethical reasons I will not be the one to encourage an order of two beef burgers that might not otherwise occur without my positive input. It is your decision.
@diamondminercat@SenSanders I'm a bit confused where your getting the idea that AI data centers are not increasing electricity cost from, I understand I'm not educated on the nuances but that's opposite to magnitudes of reporting I've seen
@diamondminercat@SenSanders Ppl generally massively overcorrect on the significance of water and power cost, but they are still significant problems in specific locales that are directly impacting a not insignificant number of people right now, dismissing any mention of them entirely is I think quite silly.
@diamondminercat Although to elaborate, I mostly dislike the stock market for different reasons, there's gambling involved there but sites like kalshi and in particular sports betting are often deeply predatory and addictive, the growth of that industry has been depressing to see.
@LICH_REAPER@reallyoldchick1@Toastii_Alt Also want to note I'm not defending AI but I think it should be attacked from more truthful angles such as the fact that it's making people a shit ton stupider, makez sections of the internet entirely unusable, uses theft in training, hallucinates, gives tools to scammers, etc.
@LICH_REAPER@reallyoldchick1@Toastii_Alt Primary water usage of beef is not direct consumption but the water cost of growing animal feed, animal feed like alfalfa take the majority of agriculture water consumption in the u.s. 1 pound of beef takes around 1800 gallons of water to produce all factors accounted for.
@LICH_REAPER@reallyoldchick1@Toastii_Alt AI is rapidly placing strain on our water system when our water is already extremely stretched thin, so it isn't helping the problem, but probably the best thing you can do for the environment is cut beef from your diet. It's literally orders of magnitude worse than AI.