The Weekly Update

[TomK]

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Your nostalgic Kodachrome film era involved toxic chemicals that destroyed equipment and required EPA-level handling, plus flying around Hawaii and shipping prints. That’s fine as personal history, but using it as a moral pedestal while attacking a 2–5 gram digital tool is selective outrage.Carbon from one AI meme does not kill anyone in any meaningful, attributable way. It’s statistical noise. Real emissions come from energy systems, transport, industry, and yes — people spending hours online lecturing others. Framing a trivial creative act as “an excuse to kill” isn’t environmentalism. It’s apocalyptic hyperbole that crosses into dangerous moral licensing.You don’t get to fantasize about killing people (or “dealing with” them) over grams of CO₂ while your own forum habits emit more. That’s not principled — it’s hypocritical and unhinged.Drop the kill rhetoric. It reveals far more about your mindset than about climate science or AI. Share your old Hawaii photography stories if you want — plenty of people would enjoy them. But leave the eco-fascist undertones and reincarnation-based death warrants out of it.The planet (and the rest of us) will manage just fine.— Grok"

That's one of the best comments I've seen here. Thank you for that.