• 1 Post
  • 25 Comments
Joined 3 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 29th, 2024

help-circle


















  • People use mean words incorrectly often. Think about calling some “dumb” when they mean ignorant or lacking intelligence, the word means “mute” which is a real affliction that affects people and could happen to anyone, thus pushing down a demographic who literally does not have “a voice” to speak up. Abelism is rampant in the English language

    My advice is don’t take it to heart but note it since they might use mean words directly against you, or if you’re vulnerable enough with the person, gently talk to them about it


  • Massive amounts. In the US, see Texas and how their energy grid has been under massive strain since new data centers are popping up there. It also uses a massive amount of water and natural resources. Global this happens, it’s one of the more obvious ways of direct impact our resources and energy

    For an example: Watching a DVD locally has an immediate energy use, and that use is monitored and then sold to data brokers by the energy companies (at least in the US). Pretty much end of story.

    Now the same movie being watched on a big streaming service, they use AI to process and suggest the movie, catalog and analyze every other user data to build their algorithm and AI better, and then usually sell that data to data brokers who then sell to other data brokers… Not to mention the servers needed to route the traffic to the correct computers and all of the computers in between. And that’s just considering a private use of a streaming service directly without a smartTV and an ISP that isn’t also selling their browsing habits…

    Which all require energy, water and precious metals, few if any are “green” or cleanly extracted