I mean yes, but it's not like they use an extra drop for every drop conserved, it's still okay to not be wasteful.

Companies 3 years ago: helping the environment is part of our core values

The same companies one day later: start to heavily use and train AI

They tricked us into taking all the blame for climate change

They tricked us into believing metric fucktons of single use plastics would keep us safe and healthy.

But we never had any direct control over climate policy, because we never had any direct control over the capital itself.

All we could do was blame ourselves.

Yeah, but I'm terrible about carrying them with me

Bruh if you so much as spit on said cruiser you'll be wanted by the police for terrorism, despite the definition of terrorism being to threaten harm to civilians....

Before I submit, I want to clarify that I have read the UK Government's definition of terrorism, and as it's a stupid ass definition, I elected to ignore it.

"..as the use or threat of.. ..serious damage to property.. ..designed to influence the government.. ..for the purpose of advancing [an].. ..ideological cause."

As we know, damaging property belonging to anyone else, regardless of how many people will be saved, is against the legal law and punishable. HOWEVER, going back to their own law...

"..as the use or threat of.. ..serious violence against a person [OR] endangering a person's life (other than that of the person committing the action) [OR] creating a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public.. ..which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism regardless of whether or not the action is designed to.. ..intimidate the public.. ..for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.. ..Action includes action outside the United Kingdom."

By their own law, any organisation intending to assist in the wilful and unprovoked violence against people, with explosives or firearms, is by their definition a terrorist. This defines the UK government and many companies as terrorists, coconspirators of Israel.
The disclaimer "other than that of the person committing the action" absolves anyone of the definition if they are doing so to stop the attacker. This defines Palestine Action as innocent as they were acting to stop the attacking arms company.

But the only reason these interpretations are not the case in reality is because the government a) choose which laws to uphold and when, and b) defend their decision by lying that the Palestinian people were the instigators of their own eradication by the various countries of the world.

Sorry, I know this is just a meme

And yet, there aren't very many of them but there are billions of us.

Even if their lifestyles result in 1000x as much pollution, they only represent 0.00004% of the worldwide population, which is not enough to move the needle.

To put that in perspective, metro Tokyo has a population of approximately 38 million. If the fraction of billionaires in Tokyo matches the global ratio, there would be about 15 billionaires in Tokyo. Anything 15 people do in Tokyo will be just noise compared to what the other 37,999,985 people do.

Let's just pretend that all 3000 of the world's billionaires lived in the USA. They'd still only make up 0.001% of the entire US population. Even if they were flying around in personal jets, being followed by Airbus Beluga jets carrying their yachts, it would still pale in comparison to the sheer number of people currently suffering in economy class right now.

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I still think billionaires should be squashed by a hydraulic press, but I'm not kidding myself into thinking that doing that will have any impact on the environment at all. I support it more because they're greedy assholes who are taking far more than their share, and who are using their immense wealth to distort the well functioning governing of the world.

I still propose that we just stop with the single use straws and if people want straws for their drinks that badly they can bring their own reusable one, and if it isn't takeout the restaurant can provide a reusable one.

Like seriously why does everything need a straw?

The normalization of needless single use products, like straws, by making them non plastic DOES make things worse. It delays real action, like removing straws altogether.

It’s greenwashing inherently unsustainable practices, just like introducing carbon capture technology on oil rigs or hyping electric cars as a way to keep the auto industry going (while suppressing more efficient means of transportation).

If we’re not going to fix shit, then why the fuck bother with mushy straws.

Training is expensive. Inference probably cost less than the mushy straw.

Edit : My bad, some obvious AI artifacts

Insane that people can't tell this is a low effort Photoshop and think it's AI. Look it's literally a picture of a cropped cruise ship overlapped with a plane. It's 5min of Gimp

you must have some really good weed

I've definitely noticed paper straws come in different qualities, and are affected differently depending on what you're drinking. But the ones that turn mushy were largely phased out of use because I'm sure a lot of people complained. I haven't had a mushy straw in years.

Same.

The people I've noticed complain seem to buy giant drinks and let them sit around for a while.

Never been a fan of flat warm soft drinks myself.