Divide and conquer I guess

Again that is not really solving the problem by getting rid of capitalism, that’s solving the problem by empowering democracy. The market system would still be capitalism even if lobbying were banned and fines were proportional.

Reread what I said, smarter this time.

You’re not even arguing at this point, you’re just repeating false claims I already debunked as if saying things louder might make you more correct.

I never said I cared about labor, I only care about outcomes. You’re the inconsistent one.

bro just doesn’t get it, sorry you’re slow mate

Ah, so this kind of tool is allowable, but not another?

Yes.

Pretty hypocritical thinking there.

Not even.

Different tools with different costs and different outcomes.

Grammarly predates commercial generative AI, as I attempted to explain to you before. It’s over a decade old. You clearly don’t understand the core mechanisms of any of these things.

Ok but why do you think it’s okay to use a wrecking ball for a task that requires a chisel? You’re creating low quality high cost work just because it’s fast and easy.

So there is this thing called a Primary Election which Bernie lost by a huge amount of votes every time. Luckily Bernie agreed with me on this and desperately asked us to vote for the candidate who won.

Fun fact, Bernie isn’t even in the DNC and they still let him on their tickets to begin with.

In 1995 until 2002 they attempted to ban large campaign contributions and SUCCEEDED until it was struck down in 2010 by a conservative split SCOTUS decision 5-4 in Citizens United

In 2013 they used the caucusing IND supermajority to vote for public option healthcare coverage and it lost by 1 vote (the IND betrayed us) so instead we got Medicaid Expansion which combined with Childrens Health Insurance Program payed for the medical costs of 79 Million Americans currently.

The previous Tax Plan was written and passed by the GOP after 2016 elections, and it expires THIS YEAR meaning the GOP get to write the next tax plan, too. Can you guess what Kamala Harris’ tax plan was? It was to lower taxes for earners below 400k, tax unrealized gains for the rich, raise taxes for the wealthy in general.

I think unprecedented is fair for US contexts, but it’s certainly not a shakeup.

Those are literally laws they have written, voted on, and in some cases actually passed before.

LMAO wtf? I included all of gaming opposed to all generative AI. My estimate also included the cost of production if you check the source.

You’re the one who wanted to compare AI power costs to gaming costs and now you’ve shifted the goalpost to all power costs for everything total?

It’s a waste. AI is a massive fucking waste. It’s going to actually literally kill us all with climate change alone, it’s going to multiply our power consumption many times over in only a couple of decades at the current rate even after you account for efficiency gains. It’s beyond worthless, it’s an almost pure negative.

Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not “the lesser evil” it’s fucking good. It’s blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.

What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.

Hey at least they’re not Detroit.

Apparently you can only read 2 of 3 lines, that estimate was a global projection of gaming cost IF the globe followed similar trends to the USA (because thats the only available data) so the real global cost estimate for gaming might be far far lower.

The USA alone spent 27 on gaming, not 285.

See it’s funny that some people thought he would learn from his mistakes last time because actually they weren’t mistakes at all he knew exactly what he was doing. He is a bad man.

They actually already did this at least once in his last term.

What a fucking curveball joke of a question, you take a nearly impossible to quantify comparison and ask if its equivalent?

Gaming:

A high scenario electricity consumption figure of around 27 TWh, and a low scenario figure of 14.7 TWh

North American gaming market is about 7% of the global total

then that gives us a very very rough figure of about 210-285 TWh per annum of global electricity used by gamers.

AI:

The rapid growth of AI and the investments into the underlying AI infrastructure have significantly intensified the power demands of data centers. Globally, data centers consumed an estimated 240–340 TWh of electricity in 2022—approximately 1% to 1.3% of global electricity use, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). In the early 2010s, data center energy footprints grew at a relatively moderate pace, thanks to efficiency gains and the shift toward hyperscale facilities, which are more efficient than smaller server rooms.

That stable growth pattern has given way to explosive demand. The IEA projects that global data center electricity consumption could double between 2022 and 2026. Similarly, IDC forecasts that surging AI workloads will drive a massive increase in data center capacity and power usage, with global electricity consumption from data centers projected to double to 857 TWh between 2023 and 2028. Purpose-built AI nfrastructure is at the core of this growth, with IDC estimating that AI data center capacity will expand at a 40.5% CAGR through 2027.

Lets just say we’re at the halfway point and its 600 TWh per anum compared to 285 for gamers.

So more than fucking double, yeah.

And to reiterate, people generate thousands of frames in a session of gaming, vs a handful of images or maybe some emails in a session of AI.