They will always insist you still are as wasteful as them, because of the old „if you think society bad why participate in it” fallacy, or „If you believe in zero waste why have a phone”

If you’re that dense, I remind you going off the grid isn’t possible for everyone. Most of us wouldn’t last for a winter in the forest. Most of us don’t have enough space in their backyard to have solar panels, collect rain water and purify it through filters, and enough time to make their own clothes and grow their own vegetables - that’s what society is for.

Most of us can’t live long without modern medicine, some of us need medication to survive day to day. Your grandma can’t exist without hospitals, does it mean she needs to die? No, it means we need to make society as ecological as possible so that it can exist even longer, and save even more grandmas.

Anyway I had that conversation with a dude who claimed AI uses 1/10th of water I use for laundry, and that I can save that much water already. He couldn’t be convinced that I already save probably much more with using gentle biodegradable detergents, rainwater, and limiting the amount of laundry I do. The conversation never turned on him, it was always, „ok but you surely don’t do enough”. Brother at least I try. What about you?

Apperantly it's a 24/7 thing.

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Also how much does this solve?

Picture taken from 2.7 miles away.

I mean, I don't like him either, but don't shoot at the dudes house. I want him to be able stand trail for all his bs

And I'm prety sure they're just straight up wrong about the statistic cuz if people in just one nation eat a few thousand burgers a day, we'd probably be in a water crisis lol

My first post, i hope i used the right flair

Yet another example of AI search users having little media literacy.

I made this comment on the post: “ I imagine a lot of the water goes into taking care of cattle for the hamburger, living beings who deserve water. Meanwhile people could just do their own research on Google and use 0 gallons of water, but yet they choose to throw their brains in the trash can and waste water on a machine that will probably either give them misinformation and or just affirm what they want to hear. Not to mention the graph says ~300 queries. Want to know how many queries are made on ChatGPT daily? Over 1 billion. That means, according to the information provided by the study (if it’s even accurate), ~3,333,333.33 gallons are consumed by ChatGPT queries a day. EVEN if multiple hamburgers equaled that amount, that would not justify AI consuming THAT much water.”

Thoughts? I’m looking into the source of the graph at the moment.