Yes, implementing an insanely wasteful solution that affects one metric that sounds good while doing virtually nothing to solve the actual problem and actually causing several more, arguably worse problems (eg: plants need sunlight to live) is pretty much how everything works these days.
I’m genuinely considering putting some cash aside in case the AI bubble does pop so I can load up on cheap PC parts if they start dumping them lol
It reminds me of when Obamacare passed in the US, and the Republicans tried to repeal it over 70 times in the first seven years.
I genuinely think there needs to be a rule that when something fails to pass (or be repealed), there needs to be a decent ‘cooling off’ period before it can be attempted again. Passing wildly unpopular legislation by just spamming it over and over again until everyone gets tired of fighting it is no basis for a system of laws IMO.
I wish there was a better way than the “be a horrible piece of shit for the first half of your life until you get your bag, then do nice stuff to rehab your image” path a lot of of them seem to take, but at least we get something out of some of them that way I suppose.