No more performative empty words for me while Europe suffers through temps over 100 degrees (in the units that God prefers). There IS a sacrifice that we Americans can make and be part of a global solution. With the help of graphic artist N. Vidia, I prepared posters and distributed them around our neighborhood:
Gemini (“you can help” makes this consistent with #climatechange and exhortations to recycle plastic), ChatGPT, Grok, Claude (“small but meaningful act” is a nice touch).
Because I am a terrible human being, I posted the above in various places on X. Most of those who responded did not process these are satire. Empty words and useless gestures have become so common among the righteous that it seems entirely believable that a group of American progressives would organize a campaign like the above.
Slop. Truly worthy of photo.net.
You don’t appreciate that Gemini, backed by all of Google’s accumulated wisdom, believes that the U.S. is a mixture of skin tones (ignoble white hands on the t-stats and also a noble Black one) while everyone in Europe seems to be dark-skinned? Actually, maybe this shows Gemini’s belief that Europe is adapting to a changing climate. Gemini shows European leaders replacing their heat-intolerant subjects with imports from Africa and the Middle East who are, presumably, accustomed to hot weather.
Reminds me of the Charlie Hebdo incident in 2015, when Facebook introduced a “flag of France” filter that you could overlay over your profile picture to show your support. I remember many left-leaning people did so then. How times and beliefs have changed, even in a single decade! Many more incidents like Charlie Hebdo have happened since, yet Meta and others have not done these widespread campaigns.
It will be interesting to see if Facebook France adds a “I paid my jizya” profile frame for infidels (they had that “I got my Covid vaccine” one that quite a few Maskachusetts users are still employing; https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/04/01/facebook-covid-vaccine-profile-frames/4829274001/ ).