I agree with your first two paragraphs.
The third, well, it’s your choice to choose not to have children. That’s fine and I understand. But people shouldn’t feel obligated not to get children to save the climate.
Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
poorlytunedAstring@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Right when we literally need to chill, they keep inventing nonsense that is somehow worse. Crypto is literally just machines wasting energy on purpose to create false scarcity, it was already a worst case scenario for truly pointless excess emissions but by god, they managed to top it, this place is going to be a raisin with dead oceans.
Of course, anyone who does anything less than suck the dick of this AI is a reactionary ignorant peasant, at least with crypto everyone agreed it was lame, now we’re back to the iPhone fuck-you-only-change-allowed-keep-up-granny bullshit that lead to everyone but you knowing everything about you, so they can exploit and even criminalize the behavior your phone tells them about. Never the change we need, though. Just whatever makes your stupid line go up.
I guess. Glad I’m not having kids. That’s the only fucking downward pressure on future emissions that’s happening, on any meaningful scale. I can’t wait to see what sort of shitty boilerplate copy and fake fucking pictures makes all this CO2 worthwhile. I’m sure the problem is me, and my Luddite, unseasoned irrational fear.
kn98@feddit.nl 5 months ago
TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not about to say people can’t have kids, but they should really do their best to truly understand the future that awaits those kids. That temperature line is going to keep going up. Things will be worse and no one is coming to save us. Deciding to bring a new life into that future is a serious ethical and moral choice.
kn98@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Believing we’re living in the end of times is nothing new. Up til now, it never turned out true.
SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Crypto is literally just machines wasting energy on purpose to create false scarcity
A monetary system that is designed to lead to eternal, cancerous growth through intentionally inflating the money supply is far worse.
WldFyre@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I’d love to see any evidence or logical arguments that an inflationary economy is worse than a deflationary one.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Inequality since Nixon because of the Cantillon effect
SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I’d love to see any evidence or logical arguments that an inflationary economy is worse than a deflationary one.
Don’t you understand that artificially induced unlimited growth is bad? It’s not about inflation or deflation, but the outcome.
www.ecb.europa.eu/mopo/strategy/…/index.en.html
The main task of the ECB is to maintain price stability. The ECB’s Governing Council considers that price stability is best maintained by aiming for 2% over the medium term. Price stability creates conditions for more stable economic growth
WldFyre@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mean, I don’t disagree with you on that. I didn’t think your first comment quite conveyed this nuance, and deflationary economies are terrible for everyone.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
People on here are straight up brain washed, even more than on reddit… Good on you for not having kids though, you’re making society a favor, just for different reason than you think.
towerful@programming.dev 5 months ago
I tried to wash my brain, but I couldn’t find enough clean water