Tenderizer78

If anything it’s a multi-track drift.

Then let me instead zero in on a different idea, from before I edited in the TLDR. “Both sides are made up of horrible people, just with different policy”

Ukraine, deportations, invasion of Canada/Greenland/Panama, and tariffs are the few areas where there is an actual difference. Biden absolutely would let Netanyahu keep doing what he’s doing.

When it comes to the morality and corruption of the candidates, they’re both the same. It’s just foreign policy and social issues where they differ.

TLDR: Short-term they’re different, long-term it all comes out in the wash. Or it would if Russia wasn’t trying to erase Ukraine from the map.

Both sides are complicit in genocide. Sure, technically both sides aren’t the same, but once you get to that level you’re splitting hairs.

While those of us who are wealthier like to make fun of poor people who vote for Republicans because they’re the pro-corporate candidate, strictly speaking they’re just the ones who are honest about it. LGBT rights, immigrant rights, and the rule of law are important but they’re also mirages. The democrats sold out LGBT people and immigrants as soon as they saw it wasn’t helping them (that isn’t to say it was hurting them, just not helping), and the rule of law has barely been a thing for a while in America.

Obama double-tapped children using drones, so he could get the paramedics too.

America is a unique country. One where the left-wing party has become the right, and vice-versa. As a result the supposed left-wing party in the Democrats is built on a foundation of slavery. That can’t be repaired without a miracle.

They missed at least one.

I’d sooner fly on the Hindenburg than Boeing.

Nationalize the drug industry.

We are not currently on track for the world to end. Things are bad, but not that bad.

Yes, it is a lot. But again not apocalyptic. And it’s noteworthy how the article tries to frame it hyperbolically as “22% of US household consumption”.

This article is dubious. When it comes to training it uses a lot of sensationalist and unsupported estimates. Notice the following quote:

OpenAI and President Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, which aims to spend $500 billion—more than the Apollo space program—to build as many as 10 data centers (each of which could require five gigawatts, more than the total power demand from the state of New Hampshire).

I am DEEPLY sceptical of those figures. Like, what data center uses FIVE BLOODY GIGAWATTS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FIVE GIGAWATTS IS. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT’D COST.

The use of metaphor is also concerning, comparing it to San Francisco or New Hampshire or household electricity consumption.

America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says “22% of household consumption in 2028”, which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption. A lot, but not apocalyptic and merely a projection for future power consumption. It’s also less than the 50GW to 10 data centers alone in the line I quoted above.

It’s right in that the core problem is that we don’t know and so I can’t fault it for assuming the worst, but even then there are limits.

As for the usage, the document you linked puts generating an image using stable diffusion at 400W seconds, or as much as my computer consumes at idle for 8 seconds. I’m gonna stop reading this article because I’m tired and this isn’t worth it.

I’m not pro-AI. I don’t like how it makes it so easy to fill the internet with slop. I don’t like how it discourages the people who use it from any and all critical thought. I’ve used AI twice, to reword by assignment questions in college because no amount of googling made the phrasing make sense. All I want is for the fearmongering about AI power consumption to stop, not just because it’s inaccurate, but also because it encourages investment into gas-fired power generation to “prepare for the AI boom”.

Social media, including Lemmy, doesn’t warrant that.

In what way won’t it help? Be specific.

Was gonna say this, although not the part about their “country of origin” (Russian does not automatically mean gullible).

Nope, but it’s pretty obvious if Ukraine was one of the only two countries to vote against.

And another guy, who’s actually read it, pointed out that it equates tearing down soviet monuments with Nazism.

Or, as the other (better informed) guy said. This resolution equates tearing down soviet monuments to be Nazism.

That by extension means it equates Ukraine (the country partially occupied and fraudulently annexed by Russia) with Nazism. Countries which respect Ukraine’s sovereignty (and have enough skepticism of Russia to read more than the title) wouldn’t want to vote against (because of the title) but also wouldn’t want to vote in favor.

God I wish I could’ve found the mute button, just so I could avoid hearing this bad take.

And all it took was someone responding with actual information, instead of 20 people responding with a straw man attack.

I did not know that and don’t know enough to respond. I’ll leave this conversation to the other guy who actually knows what he’s talking about.

I never said the content of the resolution is good. I haven’t read it. I’m just assuming it isn’t since Russia sponsored it. And even if it is actually good, the hypocrisy of the Russians sponsoring a condemnation of Nazism is notable.

Just because a country is anti-American doesn’t mean it’s anti-evil. I shouldn’t need to explain this. I don’t know why I even tried. This isn’t worth it. You’re not acting in good faith. Drawing a false equivalency between “all lives matter” and “all colonialism is bad”. Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine is bad. Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is bad. America is bad. All three things can be true at once, the world isn’t black and white. Seriously what level of Reddit-brain must you have to try to say stuff like this.

I should really just mute this whole conversation. I’m gonna look for the button.

Russia wrote it for a reason. Think for a few seconds on why that might be.

And please stop lumping me in with the imperialist crowd. I’m anti-imperialism, but unlike some of y’all I (rhetorically) oppose all imperialism not just western imperialism.