I meant Paris, not “Paris, Texas”.

Sorry, are you talking about Parisians?

Considering more people in the world speak multiple languages than only one – multilingualism is the majority – no, we very much don’t experience existence from a point of view no one else can understand.

AI is not all GenAI and LLMs, I hope you know.

Yes, that’s the minimum :)

This is it. Active sequestration is at best a small part of the solution, at worst a dangerous tangent that will grab investments and energy that should go to reduction, restoration and preservation efforts.

But really, humans have to stop emitting as much CO2eq. That’s it. There is no magic sciencey solution.

For a starts, we need to shut down all coal mines and power factories, stop oil, reduce animal exploitation as much as possible, stop fast fashion and reduce AI to scientific uses.

Nothing here is new or controversial, it’s just a bit boring, difficult, and goes against massive entrenched interests. That’s the hard part.

But any approach that is banking on technological breakthroughs maybe helping us capture all the CO2 (and methane, and nitrous oxide, and…) is inane.

Here’s a similar perspective: as a vegetarian, seeing advertisement selling meat is good: it means the animal exploitation industry is struggling and needs to promote their “product” which need nearly no advertising for years if not decades.

It’s very similar here: the advertising (in the form of putting it where you can’t miss it, in the tools you use everyday) is trying to convince you to use something many people are apparently just not that interested in.

This is depressingly accurate.

It’s not a theoretical situation :)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-genshin-impact-anti-cheat-system-to-disable-antivirus/

Pretty hilarious if after years of being the scourge of Linux and FOSS advocates, complaining how they could never leave Windows because they need it to play, gamers become our greatest allies, switching in droves to get more out of their hardware and games.

Really, this isn’t entirely new, I remember some games were known to run better on Wine than Windows years ago already (Soldier of Fortune comes to mind).

Ah, that’s great to hear!

Try a French classic from the 80s, Three Men and a Cradle (3 hommes et un couffin). Maybe not exactly the same, but similar enough that you might find it fun.

“and we are thereforerenaming the project Joséer González”

Personal, business and government spending are all entirely different things.

Using one to think about the other makes very little sense.

Terrified Pro Max.

Terrified Robespierre St Just.

Probably throw in a bit of “just world” delusion in the mix, to make things worse.

If not the cruelty they are often convinced (or have convinced themselves) that poverty is deserved, like their opulence is.

Just today there was a post on how most Americans believe poverty is the result of individual choices.

The president of peace and all that.

We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: “we make up what is true” is what they are trying to show.

FWIW, i didn’t read that as anything but genuine.