I purposefully portrayed it a bit harsher, because of their own framing.

Sure, it’s a step in the right direction, and I’m all for that, but their own reasoning doesn’t make much sense. I don’t want to cite the whole video here, but they mention so many points for why you should go vegan, and even dispute some that would argue against it, they even say that they don’t have that “craving” for meat or milk any more. They don’t even especially like the burger they ate after the month is over, but still decided that they have to do that, on the exact second the month is over, even though they went out for dinner before, and include it in the video - what kind of attitude is that? Is this all a game to them to produce content?

Heck, he even mentions, that one of the things that would make going vegan easier is for more people to go vegan.

And he even mentioned that industrial livestock farming is one of the most cruel things we do to animals, he mentions that cows are one of the main reasons of the huge environmental impact of our food production, etc (I’m getting tired of having to repeat all this all the time, he even summarizes all of this very well in the video). From that point of view, vegetarians are not really much better than omnivores.

Better for you to be happy and well-motivated to join in solidarity with other animals.

This is exactly one of the points why vegetarians and vegans are not “friends”. Abusing and exploiting animals is not really “joining in solidarity” with them.

\rant over

Good on them for… immediately going back to eating meat the first second the month is over?

Yeah, he did go vegetarian afterwards, but…

Wait - some people pay for zines?

I also wasn’t aware that people ask for money for zines. Then again, I have never seen a zine in the wild :/ This one is definitely worth a read, it’s a whole mood

Ah, mir ist jetzt erst aufgefallen, dass ich deine Aussage missverstanden habe, tut mir leid, war keine Absicht.

Ich dachte beim OP gehts bei der Regulierung der Raumfeuchtigkeit um ein gutes Raumklima. Im Endeffekt ging’s mir ja auch nur um die Darstellung, dass “Lufttrocknung = Regulierung der Raumfeuchtigkeit” bei Klimaanlagen eine etwas merkwürdige Darstellung ist. Bin wohl etwas übers Ziel hinaus geschossen.

Es wäre mir neu, dass Häuser ohne Klimaanlage alle vom Schimmel befallen sind. Das wäre auch reine Symptombekämpfung. Willst du im Keller im Winter eine Klimaanlage laufen lassen, damit die feuchte Ecke nicht schimmelt?

Abgesehen davon ging es um “regulieren”. Klimaanlagen ziehen durchgehend Feuchtigkeit aus der Luft, das ist kein “regulieren”. Lehm bzw. Ton “reguliert”, in dem Sinne, dass sie Feuchtigkeit auch wieder abgeben, wenn der Raum zu trocken ist, also die Luftfeuchtigkeit auf einem gewissem Niveau halten.

JD Power

Thanks for reminding me of this gem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSBsq6HBBzw

This is your example of capitalism working? Then I don’t want to see it failing.

Das würde ich nicht als “regulieren” bezeichnen

You have to do a bit more than just open the website and immediately dismiss it. Granted, it’s in German, but clicking on the individual reactors gives you a list of incidents there.

If you want something more condensed, here is a list of incidents in

Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_meldepflichtiger_Ereignisse_in_deutschen_kerntechnischen_Anlagen

or Europe https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Störfällen_in_europäischen_kerntechnischen_Anlagen

though also only available in German. Just because an incident does not make it to the news, does not mean that no radiation was leaked.

Sure, I basically agree with everything you said. The thing is that even without data centers we’d be in this mess. I’m not trying to defend them, they definitely undo the little progress that was made. However, Trump would have undone the regulations with or without the data centers.

It’s just that it’s not only data centers that are fast tracking climate change. I mean… gestures broadly at everything basically everything is fast tracking climate change.

I guess you definitely are right in the sense that it’s one of the sources that’s among the easiest to get rid of.

That is the part that pains me to admit - running local LLMs is not a solution to the RAMpocalypse. In that case we’d just have more GPUs and RAM idling for ~90% of the time in someones basement, without being shared. As bad as it sounds, having data centers for AI stuff is actually the more ecological solution. I can’t believe I said that. Excuse me, I have to take a shower now *shudder*

Nice of you to side-track with current emissions (per capita even), and not cumulative historical emissions, which were actually mentioned.

Feel free to compare different countries yourself: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-metrics (I’m not sure why ourworldindata doesn’t just put all of this on one page instead of splitting it up. It’s always a hassle to find the right one it even is on the same page, I just didn’t look close enough) The more interesting comparison might be high-income vs low-income countries.

To get back to the discussion: Yes, Europes share is not as huge as it used to be, and it’s getting lower, but what can be seen from @[email protected] graph is that that’s less due to Europe behaving better and rather due to other countries polluting more. Not a good argument for saying “Europe is doing better now”

Don’t blame everything on the data centers. Everything else is doing its part in contributing to climate change.

Apart from that data centers, at the scale at which we seem them pop up now, are way too young to have a considerable effect on the current heat wave. Which doesn’t mean that they won’t in the future. Climate change is, after all, a decades long project

Ich find das an sich eine witzige Idee, aber ich glaube dafür ist das Bild nicht chaotisch genug, es würde zu sehr herausstechen. Und es würde das Bild ziemlich eindeutig datieren.

Vom Stil her hat Katapult Wimmelbilder, in denen so etwas durchaus vorkommen könnte

I like the general concept of this, it reminds of Kants categorical imperative.

However I’d be cautious to mix general concepts/principles and laws. I already found a contradiction between the right to life for everyone, including “Mother Earth” (I share @[email protected]s reservations on this term), and the explicit inclusion of the right to bear firearms with the explicit mention of hunting. I think it’s obvious which of the two parts is not supposed to be in there.

Also the further one reads, the more it feels like the text adapts more and more to existing structures and problems, instead of getting rid of them. Why even include states and borders, if it explicitly mentions that they are to be ignored, and nationality and place of living can be chosen freely? In that case the concept of nationality and borders does not make sense any more

posting a drive.google .com link in an Anarchism and Social Ecology community

Sorry, but I’m not going to open that.

Did you know that slrpnk.net also hosts a collaboration platform?

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It’s Erik with a K, goddamnit!

Exactly! Just upgraded to 12 gigs of DDR3 this year. Still have my i5 750 for gaming, just had to upgrade the GPU, but even that was almost 10 years ago. And it runs all the games that are worth playing.

What do you mean by

I’d been pretty skeptical that solar could ever cover its production costs

If you mean EROI, no one should be skeptical about that, unless you are constantly being fed misinformation. Solar panels quickly generate the energy required to produce them, in the worst cases it takes a few years.

And the good thing about solar panels is, they are incredibly durable, once they are put up they just keep on producing energy. Personally, I would argue that as long as not every roof is covered with them, recycling solar panels is bad. Why replace something that is still producing energy (and at that point for free, in EROI terms), when you could leave the old ones up and put the new panels on roofs that have none yet.

Luckily, companies are starting to see that as well, and refurbish solar panels instead of recycling them.

There’s a reason it goes reduce -> reuse -> recycle.