ajsadauskas

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[–] ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

@Showroom7561 I respectfully disagree.

If the infrastructure is in place, then the sustainable option becomes the default easiest option, no personal choice or sacrifice needed.

For example: If your local grid is powered by renewables + storage, then no personal choice or sacrifice is needed. It's the default that comes out of the socket.

It's only if the grid is powered by gas and coal that personal choice and sacrifices (saving up for solar panels, using less electricity) are needed.

Another example: If you live within walking distance of a modern metro or a frequent bus with dedicated lanes, where services run more than once every 10 mins, then no personal choice or sacrifice is needed. It's the default option because it's often faster than getting stuck in traffic and finding parking.

It's only where services run once every 15 minutes or less that sacrifice is needed.

Same goes for cycling when there's a good city-wide network of protected bike lanes vs mixed traffic.

Or travelling domestically by train when there's high speed rail vs no or slow, infrequent rail.

Or walking to the shops when they're within walking distance of your house vs 30 mins walk away with no good footpaths.

Have the right Infrastructure in place, anf no sacrifice is needed.

[–] ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@vk6flab In this case, the answers it's serving up are the statistically most probable sequence of words based on what climate scientists, energy experts, architects, urban planners, meteorologists, geologists, physicists, engineers, chemists, and other researchers have been saying for decades.

I'm personally pessimistic about whether the same words regurgitated by Gemini or ChatGPT will make a difference.

Hopefully it does.

Off topic: 73's, love the callsign 😁

[–] ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@pomCountyIrregs @music "Accidentally".

Just out of curiousity, has PCI ever been signed to a record label?

Do you see much in the way of royalties from the likes of Spotify or YouTube?

And do artists get much of a cut through Bandcamp?

[–] ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

@pomCountyIrregs @music Great explanation ☺️

And from the sounds of it, UMG has now just allegedly turned around and said: 'Whoopsies! Software bug! Trevor from IT forgot to install that last floppy disk!

'Sorry guys, we hadn't been tallying your YouTube/Spotify/whatever streams these past 20-odd years! Genuine mistake!'

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