Incidentally, the things are called stalactites, not stalagmites.

The issue is not AI in itself. The issue is that the current iteration of AI chat/image bots is shoved down our throats by billionaires with a eugenicist agenda.

That's a many-edged sword.

If people tell you, "you can do better" simply as a tactic to shift blame, it's disingenuous. However, individuals going, as much as possible, plant-based and car-/flight-free and in general consuming less, those still are very good and even necessary steps towards ensuring survival of the species. Those steps also provide a degree of credible moral standing to those individuals on those topics. And we won't ever get to system change either if there isn't a critical mass of individuals who change their behavior, thus proving system change is possible.

E.g., the fact that plant milk is a thing now and every supermarket carries at least three varieties and brands now, is because consumers changed their behavior as much as it is about Alpro and Oatly marketing and lobbying.

To a degree, production currently is always decoupled from consumption right now. Somehow, we allow ourselves to landfill 30%+ of the new clothes that are produced worldwide currently. Same for food. Flights need to be 80% full to be individually profitable, but airlines will not simply discontinue a unprofitable route right away, because that would endanger their landing rights at the affected airports. Meta and the Google and Amazon will still start construction on new AI-focused data centers and force AI responses down your throat, because that is the future they already sold to their investors and AI is a loss leader right now anyway. Somehow, there's also this class of antisocial rich assholes that emit hundreds of times more than you do and whose behavior can torpedo any kind of climate action.

And all of that you can't affect much from the pure consumer angle, you need to organize and act politically. Ultimately, your power comes not from your individual action itself but from the fact that it may help convince more people to do the same.

All that said, the suggestion "delete some mails" here is just remarkably useless. Even compared to other barely useful suggestions like, say, "limit your total Youtube/Tiktok/Instagram time to 2h/wk" or "downgrade your video streams to 360p".

Bizarre. Apparently asking providers to cut off some AI or crypto shit ain't possible. No, instead you gotta pointlessly ask individual consumers to delete a few mails, as if that made any kind of difference.

So, about that NordVPN ad... That doesn't make any sense, or does it? Why'd he need a Korean IP adress from a VPN if he's already in Korea?

About a year ago, my grandpa experienced wondrous symptoms. So he went to the hospital. The doctor wasn't sure what was wrong with him at first, so he had to stay for multiple days. After much discussing about possible causes, it turns out he'd eaten a piece of some random game that another family member brought along, and that he'd let thaw and then had refrozen it. That allowed the doctors to treat him successfully on, I believe, day 3.

After leaving the hospital, he still wasn't sure of the cause though — and you can't just throw away perfectly good meat!; so he ate another piece of the defrosted game and, no surprise, went to hospital again. This time around, the diagnosis was a lot easier though.

Pack of camels has two meanings (actual camels vs. the cigarette brand). Mind blown.

Egg piercer?

Almost like there is a coordinated campaign by gas & oil lobbyists across the globe. Curious.

(Greetings from Germany where the government had the goal of helping 500k heat pumps get installed in 2024. People installed 200k heat pumps, but 500k gas/oil furnaces. This follows a solid year 2022/2023 of concentrated disinformation campaigns about heat pumps.)

Be careful with your caffeine.

One espresso has ~60mg of caffeine, which means a Fistbumping Lesbian has 7 * 60mg = 420mg. This means it's 20mg over the FDA's determination of what's safe for adults, so in the range of the lemonades from the article linked above. Don't drink more than one of these per day.

So is this a response to Vaultwarden becoming more popular?

(As an aside: One of the reasons I trusted a semi-proprietary hosted app like Bitwarden at all was that Vaultwarden exists, theoretically allowing me to move there if necessary.)

I like how the text weasels around having to mention the name of "The famous explorer and former director of the USGS". The Egyptians are a nice touch too.