I am a bit fed up with all the corporate eufimisms on linkedin. I just unclogged my toillet becomes:

Even chatgpt can make these things in an instant. There is a clear statistical pattern there. So I make it a point to be a bit more real and authentic. I occasionally do posts, more or less a bit of a blog now and then about something exciting I encountered. I am a teacher. One example is my attempts at correcting homework with AI, a hobby project. I get useful feedback there from people with more experience. Not much engagement though. It is fine like that.
Anyway, I thought I'd pull a little joke at the end of the schoolyear. It is a rush in the end. Correcting exams with a tight deadline, provide comments, debate if students can pass or not. Bringing bad news to parents. It reminds me of the pressure I felt when I was a hardware designer and the deadline got close. Of course teachers do not post about what they accomplish at the end of the schoolyear. Nothing special, we all do this every year. So I asked chatgpt to write my "achievement" in a typical linked in style. The prompt went something like this: "Finished correcting 260 exams, worked through weekends, everything is finished now, good prospects for the future, I am experimenting with AI to correct homework, it looks promising, do it in an over the top linked in style". I added AI since it is a hot topic. It spewed out a brilliant linked-in parody. To be transparant, I put the prompt in the first comment and hit post.
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I never had a post with so much engagement. People congratulated me. I got 10 times more "likes" than on my other posts. Someone congratulated me right below my comment with the prompt... Some big shot consultant I worked with more than a decade ago...
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It is worse than facebook.

It depends... ;-)

You can summarize every study like this with two words. It depends... It rarely is only good or bad, reality is usually a lot more complicated than that, especially in social sciences. It all depends. Not everyone can handle that though. This is apparently one of the causes of mental issues. Excuse me, It CAN be one if the causes. It all depends...

Good point. I live in Belgium, not Spain, so down here it is still manageable. I can imagine Texas without AC is not bareable. About Integrating ACs to not lock up the vulnerable... It is not that bad here. Lots of shops have ACs. Trains are catching up decently. Retirement homes are investing. I was thinking of my 80+ year old neighbor. If he installs an AC I understand. Cheers!

Hear hear!

Oh, don't take it too serious. It was more of a joke. Down here it would be hard work in summer, but plenty of grey windless days in autumn and winter. We may get lucky. Icelanders are fucked with their fancy geothermic power. So you are not alone.

Nononono, let them reflect first!

Sure, we all know. One day every summer may be like this one. AC or die. What my arguments boil down to: no need to rush to install an AC. This is the second extreme summer in my life. We have time. In fact, when the first extreme summer hit, I think it was in 2017, may have been a local thing here, people were shouting that it was the end of moderate summers. Every summer from now on would be like this one. The next one was miserably wet. So there is a bit of ... human over excitement. I acknowledge it will get worse though, let me be clear. Maybe this is what people misinterpret. That I am some sort of global warming denier. It is not the case.
But AC... There are other ways. For some reason, this always triggers people. There is some cultural aspect there that is conflicting. I am always surprised how this whole thing polarizes. Your comment was fine though, but... summary of some of the feedback I got was that... I hate America, I do not want America to be right, I want to die, I am the cause of thousands of deaths! There is a sensitivity there that I do not get. Some underlying psychological thing makes me the instant enemy. That is the part I want to understand. I do not get it.

While everyone is reflecting in harmony, I just wanted to add something to take into consideration during this reflection. I get payed when my solar panels put energy on the grid. It is not much to write home about, but it is there. Best is to souper it all up. Luckily most equipment has a timer these days. It is fun though. Every evening, I gamble, when will the sun be out. OK, dishwasher starts at 8, washing machine at 10. It mandatories me to ... reflect every evening.
P.s. I literaly translated some of my home region's expression. With a bit of reflection you may figure out what it means. Now excuse me, it is time to eat my sandwich with shit of mouse. Reflect on that!

Idd, they should just buy the dirtiest second hand oversized diesel generator you can find. Start it up, cause a smoke trail that is visible from miles away and make your point. If that makes you happy man, go for it!
I bet there is even a market for "a clean coal powered home generator." Add a drawing of Trump doing a thumbs up and a wink for extra effect... and extra cash. Paint it gold so that everyone can see you have one...

It is not. My original post mentioned expanding threes for shade and installing an evaporator in my ventilation system. I even mentioned a mobile AC in case we get desparate. Guys... from this side it is astonishing how hard you cling to an AC. It just cannot be questioned. You can have an AC, you know. I am not stampeding in and taking your unit. The US is different. Just add some solar panels and it is a clean solution. Down here? It is for the vulnerable.

There were a few days above 35 degrees here this summer. There are months of freezing temperature. I do put the heating at US AC temperatures though. 18 degrees. Cheers!

Yeah, you got me. This was not the first, but the second extreme hot summer in my entire lifetime. Better start installing an AC ASAP.

Damn, already losing voters... It is just not meant to be.

We should just pause all Ai development for a year. Why? For no real reason. Just to show restraint, discipline. Just to show we can wait. The world will keep spinning. If after a year, it becomes hysterical again? One month pauze. Company Blabla reserved all NVidia chips for 2027 up to 2030! Let's do a pauze of 3 years this time. May even add a monster fine somewhere.
I am getting old and my weight is getting on the radar. It is very similar. Whenever you are at a banquet, you just fill a small plate and that is it. All those delicacies you did not try? That one dish everyone is extatic about? You just let it go and enjoy what you got. Small bites! The alternative is a hart attack in a few decades.
Stop the race to infinity and beyond. Feet on the ground. Be human. We're not gods. No. Really. Talking to you AI CEO. Nononono, do not weasel out. Let ... it ... sink... in ... slooooooowly. No adrenaline rush for you today. You will ive. Yeah, write another letter. It may be a good way to cope.
This isn't about trust. This is about dragging the entire world in an complete disproportional manic episode and hoping for the best. Despite history showing tons of examples where it went wrong. This is about having no restraint, not thinking consequences through. Not being careful. Sure push boundaries! Don't just ignore all of them. This is way beyond trust.