• r1veRRR@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Well, sure, but when everyone loses their fucking minds about the tiniest thing, that even requires us to buy all the lies from billionaires about how much the build out will be, while having never done anything about the biggest thing they could personally change, it starts sounding mightily hypocritical.

    It seems like the personal responsibility to boycott polluting and unnecessary industries is limited to whatever doesn’t require any personal effort from the person speaking.

    Napkin math:

    • 40% of americans are very or extremely concerned about AIs environmental impact
    • To save 34 million tonnes of CO2e, you need about 5.2 million vegans from now until 2030
    • So only 5% of ONLY the complainers would need to go vegan to make up for this “tremendous” impact
    • That’s 2% of all americans

    That’s the thing we’re even attacking random strangers online for. The thing that we pretend is going to bring about the end times. But sure, veganism is the extreme position…

    By the way, what other resources are we saving?

    • Water — about 8.8 trillion gallons (~33 billion m³)
    • Land — around 1–1.5 million acres of forest/land
    • Animals — roughly 8 billion animals including fish and shellfish
    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      More than one thing can be bad.

      Why don’t we do both? Less AI, Less Meat

      Also, I’m not American, don’t insult me by assuming I’m one

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      Personally I’ll never go Vegan simply out of spite because no matter what is being discussed there’s ALWAYS some asshole inserting veganism into the topic.

      Veganism might be great for the environment, but as long as you(they) continue to act worse than especially obnoxious Jehovah’s Witnesses, veganism can go fuck itself.

      If I devoured one cow every time some vegan asshole spoke up in a thread that was on a completely different topic, cows would be extinct.

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        11 hours ago

        What a whiny little bitch you are.

        I’m not even vegan. But meat eating morons signal posting that they’re sick of vegans are way more common and annoying than vocal vegans.

        Its such a overplayed prejudice for as long as i can remember. I came across overreaching vegans which actually annoyed me maybe five times in my life. Signalposting meat heads are more like a weekly occurance.

        Random vegan at a bbq “hey, can i have small sliver of aluminum foil for my stuff and if you guys dont half intentionally wrench the meat juices over my veggies, that would be cool”
        What always follows: 10-30 minute moronic rant of some meathead because eating meat is his whole personality.