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1. Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jan-2019 16:56:34 EST Snake Girl Ellie

   "Do your part" energy conservation plans, like turning lights off when you leave the room, are great for your energy bill, but their job as part of "lowering carbon footprints" is to deflect from the big corporations that actually use the vast majority of the power.

   For example, the average US stand-alone home uses ~11,000 kWh per year.

   The VERY MOST EFFICIENT roadside LED billboard uses ~61,000 kWh per year. That number rises to ~323,000 kWh at the top end.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — not from Bangalore (thor@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jan-2019 02:53:57 EST 🇳🇴 Thor — not from Bangalore

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      @noelle Those big corporations and their billboards wouldn't exist in the first place if we weren't consumerist whores in the first place. If we all spent our money sensibly and didn't throw our money after large corporations, the world would look very different. Billions of people in the developing world aspire to the lifestyle of 1950s America and have no intention of changing course.