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  • MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRonald McRulegan
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    5 days ago

    No, I think the premise of the joke is bad. Its this “Things used to be better” attitude which is completely wrong. It’s guided by weird nostalgia and old movies, that show idealized rich white people.

    This is the whole basis MAGA runs on. A bunch of misinformation based on a few cherry picked stats.

    “One salary to support a family of 4” (to keep women in the kitchen) is still possible for well educated upper middle-class people, you just have to do the appropriate cuts to lifestyle.

    “One million was actually a lot of money.” Yea, that’s how inflation works. Did you not take economics in highschool and learned why that isn’t a bad thing?






  • Ok, idk where they get their data. Driving 4 miles generates on average 1.6kg of CO2 (src). Which is roughly equal to 2kWh oft energy, if we use coal, one of the dirtiest sources (src).

    After my calculation, the internet uses 0.17kWh per GB of traffic (src) (800kWh•10e9)÷(4.7GB•10e12).

    Now a 30min episode in 4k is maybe 2GB if the compression is unlucky. So about 0.34kWh

    Your TV probably takes 50-200W which for 30min is 0.025-0.1kWh.

    So after my crude calculation, it’s ~1.6kg of CO2 for driving and ~0.4kg of CO2 for 30min Netflix, if we only use coal. Solar, Wind and Nuclear reduce that number drastically.