smallpatatas

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Corporations and surveillance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here's a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It's Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This move, at least on the face of it, seems to privilege the cloud giants over say, a company that maintains its own servers. That's effectively a handout of public resources to those already fabulously wealthy and powerful corporations.

That's where I drew the conclusion from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't technofeudalism great?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

1 Ape = 1 Ape

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would like to hear you say it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

What's strange about defending people's freedom to be themselves?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Why not do both?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (11 children)

What's the problem with drag queens reading to kids, exactly?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Like it or not, things sometimes become symbols for other things, and especially given the political climate, it makes sense for people to get their guard up if they see something that looks like one of those symbols that represents, say, an utterly toxic ideology.

Not wanting to make others navigate that stuff unnecessarily is a sign of thoughtfulness and pro-social tendencies, not weakness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

With energy companies, you mean? Like, we've seen federal governments of various countries cancel (or re-approve) pipelines all the time - Keystone XL comes to mind, for instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

finally got around to watching this one today - fantastic

view more: ‹ prev next ›