Why only 15?

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/transport/aviation#tracking

https://lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=IEA
Like I said, the IEA. The International Energy Agency. I wonder if you’ve heard of them.

You can throw scepticism as much as you like, dude, but
(1) I did not lie and
(2) your website is unreliable. Give it up.

Again. LLMs are crap, they spout falsehoods all the time, they use unreasonably large amounts of data, but the airline industry pollutes a LOT more.

I begin to wonder whether your website was itself written by an LLM.

I checked. The IEA says airlines generate about a gigaton of CO2, and it’s still growing since the dip of covid, which is perhaps where your infographic authors got their screwy figures, which are, like I suggested, the wrong order of magnitude.

Picked at random, It also claims this:

Why does nighttime AI use burn dirtier energy? Fossil fuel dominance: Coal and gas supply up to 90% of overnight electricity. Solar drop-off: Solar disappears after sunset, while wind delivers only ~30% capacity at night. Peak carbon hours: Between 2–4 AM, grid intensity rises to 450–650 gCO₂/kWh, compared to 200–300 gCO₂/kWh in the afternoon.

This is complete bullshit in the UK, where energy is greenest in the small hours of the night when demand is low and the wind turbines are still turning. Least green and most expensive is late afternoon and evening, when energy usage spikes.

Let me reiterate. AI is crap. AI is a massive waste of energy, but your website has its calculations off in terms of order of magnitude when it comes to comparing the airline industry pushing tons of metal fast and hard into and through the sky with AI pushing a bunch of electrons through a bunch of transistors. Seriously, way off.

Just because something has a pretty infographic doesn’t make it true.

Yeah, AI is shit and a massive waste of energy, but it’s NOTHING compared to the energy usage of the airline industry.

AI makes crap up almost as much as Donald Trump.

Maybe they like to stand out but don’t like to be searched out.

Actually the “communist” places often called themselves democratic too. They weren’t that either.

Some executive noticed that they can’t sell you larger cloud storage if you haven’t used it up.

Then someone on the office copilot team said they wished they had access to more comprehensive data about what people write with office apps and the rest is history.

You’re right.

(The paste above stops just before the table of contents)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/#table-of-contents

What’s a left leaning site that has lots of ‘adult’ or ‘harmful’ content?

Dude, it’s very simple. Homelessness is caused by poverty.

I don’t know about your country, but here in the UK, over half of homeless people are adults who were previously in the care system. I told you this and you clearly didn’t listen: if you’re in the care system, when you hit 18 your family placement evaporates and if you don’t already earn enough to pay private sector rent, you’re homeless. I don’t know about you, but I wasn’t financially independent of my parents until I was in the second half of my twenties and it’s much harder now than it was when I was starting out. Good luck getting a job and claiming benefits if you don’t have an address.

Say after me: if you don’t have parents or family to stay with, and you can’t make rent, you’re stuffed. It pisses me off when people treat homelessness as a character defect rather than a complete failure of society to care for those who can’t cope. Fuck right off with your judgementalism.

It’s all very well you sitting on your comfy sofa declaring that they have brought it on themselves and and that if they only cut down on the narcotics they’d have enough for a nice little apartment somewhere, but your cosy little plan isn’t going anywhere on the hard pavement at 2am when some lads piss on the homeless guy’s sleeping bag because, like you, they think is his fault, because you have no fucking clue and your holier than thou moralising about how you’d definitely stay squeaky clean if you ended up on the street being kicked night after night and treated as non existent day after day is BULLSHIT.

I think the person who you’re replying to wasn’t laughing at people with addiction problems at all, rather they were pouring scorn and skepticism on the idea that some wonder drug can fix all the problems of people who end up with drug addictions.

Let’s take homeless people for example (who are frequently people who were in the care system as children, so don’t have parents or relatives to go back and live with when money gets too tight).

All the things that I do to cope with my (much less serious) problems, like chill on the sofa on my phone, take a long bath, go for a nap on my bed, hang out with my friends at the pub, talk it all over with my wife or my dad, none of those are open to them. Sleeping rough is painful. How do you escape that?

So to expand on what @[email protected] said, if you treat the drug addiction of a homeless person on its own, you will completely and utterly fail to treat the drug addiction problem.

Wholesome.

If everything is the way you like it, you are winning. Keep on winning.

Oh that’s a bit underhand, especially when they must be well aware that snap can be unpopular.

That’s the most interesting thing I’ve read on the BBC for a while. I didn’t know about BBC Future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/columns/best-of-bbc-future/

Loads of very interesting articles.