Post Ax7co3qw2naPLo4Ovo by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #Ax6fER1oVSWZVWtzWa by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
       2025-08-12T19:24:54Z
       
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       The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦‍♂️ Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption."Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7co2awilCbRva7N2 by raracool@mastodon.ie
       2025-08-12T23:56:59Z
       
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       @MichaelTBacon correction: dont use cryptocurrency to get rich. People using it for privacy reasons, especially in light of the visa/MasterCard overreach is a fair use case in my opinion.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7co3qw2naPLo4Ovo by MichaelTBacon@social.coop
       2025-08-13T00:11:15Z
       
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       @raracool There are so many better ways to pay outside of the credit card system than crypto. Any of the payment apps are superior.Besides, the blockchain never forgets. If you want to hide transactions, it's a pretty rotten choice.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7co4b1HSRvejdClM by divVerent@social.vivaldi.net
       2025-08-13T08:54:27Z
       
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       @MichaelTBacon @raracool I only once used crypto to donate to defenders in Ukraine. Because all US payment providers had blocked all transactions to the largest Ukrainian bank because "sanctions against Russia". A failed implementation of a reasonable policy.Why? Eventually one bank told me: the issue was that the Ukrainian bank could not rule out having customers on occupied territory, and sanctions were implemented at a bank, not account, level.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7cz5xeXtNf4iTQMi by miki@dragonscave.space
       2025-08-13T08:04:58Z
       
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       @MichaelTBacon And of course, not even those are simple recommendations. What AI can do in two minutes will often take a human an hour. More humans in more offices means more air conditioning and more public transit (if not cars), and guess what, that consumes resources too.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7d0sWBUuMXxfTYSe by unknownpseudoartist@musician.social
       2025-08-13T08:11:43Z
       
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       @MichaelTBacon I guess that's very much like the ubitiquous focus on Recycling while ignoring the other R's like Reducing and Reusing, which are far more useful and necessary. But of course, of all these 3 actions Reciclying is the only one that don't affect the money earnt by corporations, so all makes sense. Why telling people "don't buy!" or "keep using your old stuff while it still works!" when you can simply tell them "throw your trash to the right containers"?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax7d1uOG1S383cG7zU by sy@mastodon.nz
       2025-08-13T08:11:57Z
       
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       @MichaelTBacon Totally agree... But also, if as a government you want to do something about email, rather than hassling individuals who send a few messages a day why not focus on the approximately 150 billion spam emails sent every day.