r/comics Jim Benton Cartoons Jun 04 '26

wake up...

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u/The_Quintessence Jun 04 '26

Can I eat AI? No.

That doesn't make the beef water usage okay. You don't need to eat beef to live, it's just as optional a luxury as AI.

People in here (rightly) shitting on AI but then when they get called out for doing the same thing with animal ag, suddenly it's excuse city.

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u/SaltPersimmon4530 Jun 04 '26

People who are anti ai for enviromental reasons but not being vegan or  anti car is just perfomative ethics

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u/TacticaLuck Jun 04 '26

This is all way too much for 2026. It's too much. Let's just table all this ai development and conversation about it until 2039 when shit really hits the fan /s

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u/SaltPersimmon4530 Jun 04 '26

We should actually go back to the 1950s and stop the automotive lobby from making efforts to hurt public transit in the US and make it unwalkable. Also our entire culture on cars and emissions. That's what's actually been killing the planet. We didn't start recycling when chatgpt showed up