Evian use 1.25 million litres of water per employee per year. When can we expect other non-bottled-water corporations to rise to this level of water usage?

Whenever I speak to someone who's planning to vote Reform (UK hard-right party) their views are primarily shaped by seeing AI slop videos on TikTok/Instagram, showing immigrants doing crimes etc etc

Reform will probably win the next election because of this, unless we find a way to make platforms manage the situation.

Interesting example: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-cr...

The cost of this pains me, and it doesn't help that our campaign manager hates using SFMC's slow / glitchy web app. We have a solid internal data infra and self-built platform, and a highly effective dev team.

I long to just replace the whole thing with SendGrid + React Email/MJML + some cron jobs + a job queue for sequences. And spend that money on a developer's salary.

Has it been done / can it be done / have you done it? Give me some hope (or scare me off!)

Note: I don't intend to actually send the email myself, I'm aware deliverability would suck. For our volume, Amazon SES or SendGrid can do that for ~$10k a year.

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It's good that the law isn't the only line between good and evil. A bit of stigma is a bottom-up way for people to shape society.

If nobody invites you to dinner parties because you run a startup that combines payday-lending and day-trading, that's a good thing. It's free alpha for companies doing more worthwhile things.

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I do think it's a bad take though. Not all new trends are the same: the metaverse was an obvious flop and crypto hasn't found practical applications. AI isn't like those because it's already practically changed the way I get my job done.

It takes time to learn skills, and getting started earlier will means more time to use them in your working life.

I often think that as I end up confirming a grumpy/aggressive person's expectation I'll be a bad customer, or confirming a kind/present persons's expectation I'll be a good one

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Perhaps one of the secondary effects of AI replacing developers will be mobilising a group of smart, motivated people to the left

(It's always interesting to think of the secondary effects which kick in past a certain point of growth. High-multiple stock valuations often fail to take these into account. For the East India Company, for example — your company can keep growing until it's the size of a country. But suddenly other countries treat you as a foreign power rather than a pet.)

"UK speed limits for heavy vehicles are also more complex than most car drivers realise. Articulated trucks over 7.5 tonnes: 60 mph on dual carriageways, 50 mph on single carriageways, 56 mph (limiter) on motorways"

Not able to find a source that verifies that

There's less interest here in developments in AI tooling and practical application

What communities are good to keep following along with this stuff?

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"These are excellent opportunities for men ... An equal opportunity employer"