This seems like a waste of time to me when you could instead focus on Coal or things that matter
My thoughts are that this makes no sense at all.
I think they want to subtly train the masses to use less electricity because the new AI schemes need all of that extra power just to exist.
Ah the UEL, where you can do useful studies that don't require screen time:
MSc Artificial Intelligence
MSc Artificial Intelligence (with placement year)
MSc Big Data Technologies
MSc Big Data Technologies (with industrial placement)
MSc Blockchain and Financial Technologies
MSc Blockchain and Financial Technologies (with industrial placement)
MSc Cloud Computing
MSc Cloud Computing (with industrial placement)
MSc Computer Science
MSc Computer Science (with industrial placement)
MSc Computing
MSc Computing (with industrial placement)
Or Business and Finance where you can learn how to make people consume and buy mooooore!
I thought you learned about cocaine and getting others to do your work.
Well OC, I did mention Business and Finance
What are your thoughts on this?
Or
What's your thought on this?
Not what the title is now. "What is your thoughts" obviously isn't correct.
Did one of their worst students in graphic design make this?
It's fucking awful.
Why is "on trees" circled?
Why is the first "think" crossed out.
Why would I think again when they dismissed my first attempt?
What is the significance of the paper in the centre being torn?
Is WiFi the issue?
Is screen time the issue?
What if I use WiFi without my screen?
What if I put my phone in aeroplane mode?
Do they want us reading newspapers or some shit?
Isn't cutting down trees also kinda shit for the environment?
Meritocracy never existed.
The first think is crossed out because you're not supposed to think. You're supposed to feel... feel bad about using your phone. It's like it's designed to turn any opinion against any other opinion.
The light that powers that sign likely uses more power than is going to be saved by people turning their screens off because of it
Updated version of the "turn the water off while you're brushing your teeth" ads in the 80s/90s. If you can afford ad spend, you're a bigger problem than the people targeted by it.
The climate after i send electromagnetic waves at 2.4 GHz frequency:
"YOUR screen time is destroying the environment!" Says screen that is using electricity 24/7.
The fluorescent tubes to power this thing all day for months probably uses more power than my router does in its life time.
If you wanted my screen time to be more efficient, please explain all these JS and CSS frameworks you are requiring me to load.
This is part of a larger UK campaign to make people feel bad about energy usage while Starmer is filling increasingly large amounts of UK infrastructure with AI stuff that requires 100x the amount of power.
Only 100x?
Segregate your garbage so we can later throw it all into the same heap anyways.
Remember to turn off every power source when you leave home everyday the whole year to compensate for one day of McDonald's signboard glowing 24/7.
Lease an overpriced EV so that the planet may survive another billionaire's wedding.
This is our collective duty to pay for the lavish lifestyle of the 1%.
I just stopped buying stuff..I buy food, that's it. my garbage has gone from 3 bags biweekly, 2etal and 3 cardboard down to maybe 2 garbage, half a metal one and maybe 1 cardboard.
it's amazing how much garbage they force on us when we buy companies junk
sometimes there's more packaging costs then product...it's absurd.
Individualistic solutions to systemic problems have zero chance of working.
they 100% work.
that's why they do it.
they make sure to shift the blame, to make sure the system remains unchanged and people who are profiting from what is basically omniside keep profiting from killing the planet and everyone in it.
I agree with you. Most energy comes from renewables these days, and your wi-fi usage is a negligible amount in the scale of things. How about going after corporate energy waste like AI instead?
Is that advert backlit ALL DAY?
~~Think. Think again.~~ Think about industrial energy use and lack of government enforcing landlords to install insulation and solar
And yet somehow bombs seem to grow on trees in the US and UK for dropping on innocent children by the IDF in Gaza.
This ad was a waste of the energy it took to print.
It’s cheaper and easier to make people feel bad than it is to take reasonable steps to actually solve our environmental problems. Plus, this option lets you be smug and judgmental.
A high-end estimate of the energy cost of data transmission is 0.1 kWh per GB. If a household uses 350 GB per month, that's still only 35 kWh, a drop in the bucket compared to a typical household monthly energy usage that includes an electric stove, oven, refrigerator, freezer, microwave, tea kettle, air conditioner, and heater.
The back lights that it takes to light this electric billboard probably take more electricity than the total energy cost of 3 people being online on their phone (or maybe 2 people on a laptop, or maybe 1 person on a desktop).
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