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Hey, it's Earth Day today
30 points by burnt-resistor 21 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments
Let's think and act a bit more wisely to protect the only place we can provably live, eh?


While you're contemplating the miracle of Earth, consider how rare wood or chocolate icecream is in the universe as compared to gold or diamonds or similar structures.

Life is rare. This adds a particular irony in wearing uniforms. All the uniqueness of life has this need for uniformity layered over the top.

(These deep thoughts go haywire when you realize that IRS Tax form 1040 is therefore some kind of wonder of creation and is a rare thing in the universe)


IRS Tax form 1040 is made from a tree. The tree seems much more miraculous..


Happy Earth day! Although I'm having a somewhat sad earth day since I've been scattering wildflower seeds and two days ago the city came though and mowed them all down. So it's less happy than usual, now the flowers are all dead.


Keep the faith. It's one setback. Check out the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't channel for guerrilla arboreal and gardening tips.


Thanks! Their videos are already being recommended to me. I'm persistent with my flower seeding, this is my third year and in the big picture 'mowed by the town/county" is one of the less distressing things to happen. Once I had several beautiful zinnias growing near the county creek and someone came with a shovel and dug them all up! The seeds won't be stopped though.


Humans are ironicial, they do wars on one end and fire missiles to take all efforts 20 years back and then celebrate earth day and talk about Saving nature. Wow :)


Thank you for the reminder. I participated in the lights-out event in the evening. I believe that small changes can make a big difference.


My contribution today: fewer LLM calls, fewer GPU hours, less CO2.


Practicing green prompting? It seems like you tried you be attentive today to you computer to return ratio.


Trying to use human attention, instead of Transformer attention.


How about no LLMs?


Agreed. Maybe let's stop trying to set the world on fire so we can have AI generated cat videos. Just doesn't seem worth it...


on Earth Day i am thinking to Help founders Build Cool Stuff https://launchcraft.studio/ do check it out even if you are not a founder i would love your feedback


On Earth Day, I just launched my own Hacker News app that I really love! https://haiker.app!


hi strangers, but I'msaying hello everybody. My name is hector.


How do you play your part?


Some that come to mind:

- Switch from an ICE passenger vehicle to an EV

- Minimize commuting and commute distance

- Minimize air travel

- Minimize HVAC use

- Minimize non-local consumption, maximize local

- Minimize meat, farm-raised seafood, palm oil, and non-organic foods

- Minimize LLM use and other actions that indirectly cause resource consumption elsewhere

- Minimize work carbon footprint using similar thinking


i want to protect Earth


Pray for earth




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