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S again, you think it was just the picture, not just who made it.
When was the last time you saw a successful parody that did not mimic the style of the original thing being parodied? When you create a meme do you hand cut your letters like back in the '60s or do you use a computer a typeset library? How would you go about the process of making it in the same style as the thing that it is a parody of without using AI and would that be more or less resource intensive? Do you know how many gallons of water it takes to make and clean some paint brushes? What the carbon footprint of seven tubes of paint is?
Your now making the claim those are similar, so post your figures.
Because you really believe the carbon footprint of a tube of paint and its shipping is comparable to a gas turbine generator running 24/7, and the Google data centre using 2 million gallons per day.
Okay buddy.
Edit:
When was the last time tubes of paint Made someone's home electrical rates rise
But you know that it did not take 2 million gallons to make this. So the daily total is irrelevant.
Seven tubes of paint shipped across the world.
Your "gesture" was to use the entire water consumption for a whole day at a data center for one picture. I learned it from watching you.