Comment on Data centers powering artificial intelligence could use more electricity than entire cities

gladflag@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why not stopping use of BOTH plastic straws and wasteful LLMs?

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  • finderscult@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because the latter isn’t going to happen until someone dies a lot of [REDACTED], and paper straws are fucking awful so while the world burns and the turtles are boiled alive, many may want to drink from a disposable straw that doesn’t melt in your mouth.

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    • Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Why use straws at all?

      Straws ate useful for babies, the elderly or disabled who are unable to drink from a glass without making a mess.

      Hopefully you’re able to drink from a glass, and don’t need a straw.

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      • finderscult@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What country are you from?

        We don’t get glasses in the US, we get barely laminated paper cups, or plastic cups in the rare occasion the restaurant doesn’t have a disposable plastic mandate. The mouths of said cups are far too wide to reasonably drink out of without straws, and without the lid the cups are far too structurally unstable to drink out of without at least some spillage or awkward handling.

        They’re designed for straw based drinking, and changing that would require an entirely different vessel.

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