Satire...or is this our future??!!-----Diogenes' Middle Finger: Your Government Wants You to Know Your Sacrifices Are Making a Difference

We here at the Department of Energy wanted to thank you for being conscientious about your energy usage this summer.

Your efforts haven’t gone unnoticed. 

As a token of our gratitude, we wanted to highlight all the small but powerful steps you’ve taken to conserve energy over the past few months—and how that energy has instead been used to fuel the insatiable beast that is AI.

• By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course.
• By hand washing your dishes instead of using your dishwasher, you made it possible for an elaborate, four-story digital billboard in Times Square to advertise a seven-dollar bottle of water for twelve seconds. The display runs 24-7, naturally, but you personally contributed twelve seconds of that. You are making a difference!...
• By switching all the lightbulbs in your house to LED, you saved enough energy for a self-driving car to make an unprotected left-hand turn across three lanes of traffic...