What a weird take. How is google using that much energy? Is it just for their own operations or are they providing a good or service that billions are consuming?
By using a computer you are a consumer and are complicit. Your overall contribution might be small but it’s the same exact behavior that is absolutely part of the climate change problem.
You have zero knowledge of my consumption or my life. You also know nothing about my environmental care or actions. You’re extrapolating from my use of a computer to post comments to assume my use of energy is a net negative, which is as bad faith as it is wrong. It is possible to live in such a way that you reduce your impact to a minimum in some areas and then do a net positive in other.
Additionally, the number of people who consume Google’s services is irrelevant. Millions of people consume tobacco products too, it doesn’t make it positive.
stop posting, bro - you're literally killing the planet. turn off your device and send it away to be recycled, so someone else's descendants 100 years from now will have a few extra grams of copper. dig a hole somewhere in the wilderness and live out the rest of your life consuming nothing but grass and rainwater for sustenance. also try to breathe in moderation - you exhale CO2 every time, bringing the doomsday a bit closer, inch by inch.
>A very weird and pleasant experience, that alas can't be sustained forever given how delicious carbs are.
why not? it's just a matter of having access to decent meat/fish, discipline, and ignoring peer pressure at social gatherings.
for me, it takes at least two weeks to recover from SAD-like diet and go back to the kind of state you're describing - high energy, mental clarity, complete absence of hunger, etc. the first week is particularly unpleasant - low energy and constant carb cravings, etc.
> why not? it's just a matter of ..., discipline, and ignoring peer pressure at social gatherings.
Both of which are very dependent on willpower, and as much as we would like to believe we have control over, it's highly affected by emotions depending on the individual.
Great that you can sustain it but phrasing it as an easy thing to do is ignoring the fact that simple things are not necessarily easy to do.
Don't give up! Induction gets easier every time, and you learn lots of tricks/recipes, like keto-ade to feel better during induction, and making oats/flaxmeal tasty for cheap & quick breakfasts. You don't have to commit to long streaks, or feel bad about sunk cost when you cheat. All that progress accumulates.
I've been in and out so often now I can happily switch between keto at home & unrestricted on vacation/occasions. At worst I get 1 day of dopiness starting carbs, and 1 day of mild cravings stopping them, but usually I don't even notice.
I have done keto for a while but have no appetite for it anymore, it's also nigh impossible since I became a vegetarian >10 years ago.
I'm not talking about myself but in general, even though it can also apply to myself (my willpower is not absolutely under my control) but the same advice about discipline and resisting peer pressure is given to obese people as losing weight is quite simple, it doesn't mean doing the simple thing is easy.
Vegetarian keto is certainly possible, but vegan would be very tough. Only 2 out of 6 of my regular meals[1] have meat in them, and I'd probably replace these with tofu and mushrooms if I could tolerate them. There's a world of keto&vege analogues to try for noodles, breads, and pizza bases. IMO some of them are nicer than the carby versions.
I also struggle with willpower and it took me ~10 big attempts over ~14 years before I managed to stay on it long enough to fix my metabolism. I just wanted to spread the message of hope that every attempt gets easier. Mindset plays a big role - I've seen a few people push themselves really hard then declare it impossible and never give it another shot. If you know you're playing a long game, take a break if you're really suffering, and don't beat yourself up over failures, it's easier to try again next time you have the energy.
[1] I've lots of intolerances - whitelisting was easier than blacklisting. Here's the list: flaxmeal porridge, keto bread + cream/cottage cheese, omelette w/ pizza toppings, egg & cheese salad, caesar salad (w/ chicken), mince+vege+cheese mealprep'd casserole
I've struggled with "but factory farmed meat and dairy conflict with my moral beliefs" when trying keto. It's nice, but very challenging to do sustainably if you have dietary limits like that.
text, image, video, and audio editing tools have no 'safety' and 'alignment' whatsoever, and skilled humans are far more capable of creating 'unsafe' and 'unethical' media than generative AI will ever be.
somehow, the society had survived just fine.
the notion that generative AI tools should be 'safe' and 'aligned' is as absurd as the notion that tools like Notepad, Photoshop, Premiere and Audacity should exist only in the cloud, monitored by kommissars to ensure that proles aren't doing something 'unsafe' with them.
recaptcha is terrible if you are cursed with an ISP that Google deems icky for some indiscernible reason. at the time, I was getting slowly fading bullshit that invariably gaslit me with "try again" several times. when they've switched to custom captcha, I actually started posting again instead of just lurking.
yeah, the recent 5-15 minute countdown before your first post is a bizarre thing, but I assume the volume of spam and ban-evading schizos they're dealing with is ungodly. a single dedicated shithead can shit up a general or a slow board indefinitely by just resetting their router or switching airplane mode on/off for a few minutes when they get banned.
>but now 4chan is one of the most user-hostile social media platforms around.
virtually every single big platform requires your phone number.
>Similarly, Maddy Keyes, a 22-year-old recent college graduate and occasional contributor to Slate, shared her unsettling experience. Despite having no knowledge of firearm handling and no license to own one, she went to a store in the town of Noble and bought eggs, a packet of Chinese noodles and a dozen bullets: “As I walked through the parking lot to my car, I couldn’t suppress the feeling that I had just evaded some incredibly faulty security measures, because surely it can’t be that easy to buy bullets?” But it is
evidently, higher education does not prove that you possess common sense or basic critical thinking skills. what exactly can you do with ammo if you don't already own a gun, Maddy?
