Opinions my grandparent had about cars, c. 2000 CE:

1. Electric cars are wildly dangerous because you can’t hear them coming; they will kill dozens of times as many people as gas cars do.

2. It’s hard to get across town these days what with all the traffic caused by big busses.

3. The New Beetle should be banned from public roads since it’s front/back symmetrical: you can’t tell which way it’s going.

Cars are in fact bad but not really for any of those reasons. I remember this sometimes.

This is, to be clear, me subtweeting people getting mad at ChatGPT for using a modest amount of water compared to … almost anything else you could name? Every single almond, like literally one lone almond, is about 3,000 ml of virtual water. A cup of coffee is 100,000+ ml; pee it out into a high-efficiency toilet and that’s a minimum 4,000 ml flush. May I suggest that the rogue billionaires explicitly aiming to stop paying for labor are the problem to focus on here.