Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s attitudes like this that are the problem, not the solution.

@thecarpathian You are speaking in idealistic terms that would never happen. If we all stop supporting a bad company, they would go bankrupt overnight. Sounds good but people would never unite. Unity is not humanity’s strong suit.

You are forgetting something. Humans are very bad people. Not all. But a lot of them. And by law of nature, it is 10x easier to break than it is to fix. So 1 good deed does not equal one bad deed. 

This is not a doom and gloomy mentality. This is a realistic take. Humans have been around for about 100,000 years and they have r*ped and killed for just as long. You want people to unite? You can’t even get 20 people in a thread to agree on a post. When was the last time a country was at peace and the government wasn’t corrupted?

You think I don’t care about using energy efficiently? Let me share a story. I used to live in the 3rd floor from 2018 to 2023. It gets really hot in the summer, And anyone that had ever lived in the 3rd floor would know, It gets stupid hot, 80F would mean the room is somewhere between 90-100F. I endured the heat throughout those years not because of cost, but because A/C is very destructive for the environment. So I never once used any A/C in that room.  Look it up. You might learn a few surprising things. I’ve seen how stupid and destructive humans can be and I no longer care lol. 

No solution will make a noticeable difference unless the population drastically decrease. Sorry for being frank. The best anyone can do now is be a good person to family and friends and maybe not spit gum in the urinal.

@samureyex There is also a very simple solution: A child tax, so the inverse of a tax credit.

If we think that cars need to be taxed because they pollute, if we think air travel needs to be taxed because it pollutes, then we have to put the biggest tax on parents for having children, because they pollute massively.

Needless to say, politically DOA. 

@oberoniaomnia The idea is right but I don’t support any idea of tax for 2 simple reasons:

1) We already get taxed out of the bumhole.

2) Tax dollars just magically entered politicians or corporation’s pockets.

I do believe 5 kids is extreme, I don’t have a word for 9 kids. If someone has that many kids, it is their own responsibility to feed and shelter them. No one else should carry that burden. 

If you are really beautiful and make beautiful children, or you're some kind of genius and we need more of that brain. Then perhaps we could get a state exemption.

@samureyex ,

"..I could(n’t) care less how much electricity is being spent or heat that is being generated."

"You think I don’t care about using energy efficiently?"

Well, yeah. Since you literally stated it.

About 50mil new vinyl records were sold in the US in 2025. Obviously the number of records manufactured was much higher. 
Significant amounts of pollution is bringing produced by these factories. Tons of electricity is being used. All equipment used was manufactured using a combination of natural resources and recycled. All of which produces a schiit ton of polution. Workers driving to these plants in their cars burn fuel and pollute the environment. 
I propose we boycott buying new vinyl records. 

The AI we all use now almost daily requires installations that consume enormous amounts of energy to power the processors. As AI evolves and is implemented throughout large corporations IT and other areas, the energy consumption will increase exponentially. Boycott AI. 
 

When you buy your next appliance that’s made in china where they consume energy and don’t give two schiits about the environment, think about washing your dishes or close by hand and air dry that stuff. 

In the winter just dress in layers in your house. Turn the heat down.  
 

I’ll think about how long it really takes my system to warm up and how long I should listen for. I’ll draw my own conclusions on how long to keep my components on