eating large amounts of citrus fruits (mainly oranges) in order to induce vomiting or diarrhea in oneself

black and brown ballerinas being told that they were in the wrong place and that "the sports school nearby [was] that way"

no non white ballet instructors

not having a period until much later in puberty than what is normal

non white girls and girls who hit puberty earlier being called overweight for having any semblence of curves

one little girl (notably, not white) who spent multiple days not eating and instead only recieving nutrients from an IV bag

weight being a determining factor on if you were allowed to continue to study in the academy, my mother was kicked out for being "too fat" (in pictures of her you could see she was actually noticeably underweight)

HRT makes the penis work like a clit. It no longer responds to stimuli as an androgenated penis would.

You wanna actually get that big full-body orgasm? A vibrator is how you do it.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

This means:

If you draw a hard line between "drug" and "medicine" based on current legality where you live (or any other criteria) you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to do massive harm to someone's body, mind or well-being you've gone wrong somewhere,

If you think legality and/or prescription status tells you all you need about a substance's capacity to contribute meaningfully to someone's healing, function or happiness you've gone wrong somewhere,

ChatGPT's worldwide energy usage, when I looked it up, was 17 TWh/yr. That's not all AI but it is the biggest one. I think it's reasonable to say that if we extrapolate both of those out to their full worldwide industries, they'd come out pretty similarly in terms of energy being used. But junk mail is just The Way The World Is so nobody fights that hard against it.

Likewise, a lot of the energy and water usage comparisons people pick for AI are things people ALREADY had no context for. ChatGPT uses "ten times as much energy as a Google search" sounds scary if you don't have any context for how much energy a Google search takes. Sounds a lot less scary if you phrase it as "A ChatGPT query takes 1/10 as much energy as running your TV long enough to watch a single episode of a show" or "A ChatGPT query uses less than 1/1000 as much energy as a single dryer cycle".

And like, the "1-3 bottles of water per query" thing was already massively inflated by a game of fearmongering telephone where each person in the chain increased the number to make it scarier, but even if you deflate it to the actual number (500 ml for every 5-50 queries), then some other back-of-the-envelope math I did indicated that the Average American Household could switch to a lawn irrigation system that was 15% more efficient and save enough water to use ChatGPT for literally hundreds of queries per day and still be at a net decrease in water use.