Important notes: bail them out AGAIN because Trump already fucked over American farmers and bailed them out last time.
They aren't even feeding us. They're product exporters. Farmers in a rut will scream all day about how they're feeding the American people but there are TONS that sell exclusively outside the US, often to the detriment of all parties involved here, because it's more profitable.
I mean even THIS YEAR the South Korean president made a fascist power grab and was arrested and removed from power. I would call that a successful attempt to stop fascism.
And, as a reminder, the third biggest anti-climate lobbyist in the world, who has consistently made "EVs aren't viable until we have solid state batteries in a decade" statements for years to deliberately impede competitors efforts to push EVs.
Glass is, however, very well suited to reuse. My favorite cider brewery will take back used bottles to wash and reuse. It's better than recycling, and as a reminder, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" is intended to be prioritized in that order.
As an American, nobody has to buy them at first. "Light trucks" like pickups and SUVs weren't always big in the US, but because they were more profitable, aggressive advertising campaigns turned SUVs from being something mocked for being unsafe, unwieldy, and inefficient into being what nearly everyone drives.
I hate it. Infrastructure has shifted to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else. Don't let it happen to you. The last several years the top 5 best selling vehicles in the US have been pickups. Not because anyone needs them, but because advertising has turned them into a cultural staple, despite their inconvenience.
I'm pretty sure it's a product of scale, but also, GPT5 is markedly worse. I heard estimates of 40 watt hours for a single medium length response. Napkin math says my motorcycle can travel
about kilometer per single medium length response of GPT5. Now multiply that by how many people are using AI (anyone going online these days), now multiply that by how many times a day each user causes a prompt. Now multiply that by 365 and we have how much power they're using in a year.
I'll have to dig up finer details in a bit, but it's a backup device I got on discount years ago. i5 what gen I'm not sure, gtx 960m, I may have replaced ram up to 16gb at some point and it's running on an ssd at least.
Important notes: bail them out AGAIN because Trump already fucked over American farmers and bailed them out last time. They aren't even feeding us. They're product exporters. Farmers in a rut will scream all day about how they're feeding the American people but there are TONS that sell exclusively outside the US, often to the detriment of all parties involved here, because it's more profitable.