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> An example of this succeeding is my friend Nicole, who started making watercolor paintings about climate change for fun and sharing on social media. Her work
by floren 3y ago
> An example of this succeeding is my friend Nicole, who started making watercolor paintings about climate change for fun and sharing on social media. Her work went viral, and after four months, she decided to quit her job and go all in on art. Now, she makes a living through merch and commissioned work.
Ironic to bring that up as an example when your header image is an LLM-generated "watercolor" painting. Sorry, Nicole.
- Tadpole9181 3y ago[flagged]
- vinceguidry 3y agoEvery time I start to think HN might be getting better, comments like this still get to the top. Folks, if you don't like the story, just downvote it. It'll go down in the rankings and you won't have to see it again!
- creativenolo 3y agoI didn’t read that comment to be an affirmation that they didn’t like it. It’s an interesting observation.
- Tadpole9181 3y ago[flagged]
- floren 3y agoYou can't downvote a story. You can flag stories, but I don't like to flag things. I don't want to flag this story -- I just think it's yet another entry in a million shallow, vague, pointless "hustle" lifestyle newsletters written by wannabe Thinkfluencers.
- vinceguidry 3y agoAh. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
- ralferoo 3y agoAlso, one of the pictures in the article, and apparently "one of her more popular posts" is this: https://twitter.com/NicoleKelner/status/1589748415130664960 https://twitter.com/NicoleKelner/status/1589748415130664960 The claim is that using a two-stroke leaf blower for 30 minutes produces as many hydrocarbon emissions as driving a pick-up truck from Texas to Alaska. Clearly she has never actually thought about the logistics of this! The shortest route I could find on Google Maps was from Dumas, TX to Metlakatla, AK at around 2500 miles. I drive a car in the UK, but that would be probably 200L or more (or 100 gallons for US folk) and even more for a truck. There's no way that ANY leaf blower gets through 3 gallons of fuel a minute! In fact, google tells me that a typical leaf blower uses 0.43 gallons per hour. So driving a truck will use approximately 500 times as much. I'm concerned about climate change, but making completely ridiculous claims like this, even if they are pretty watercolours, isn't helping the cause - especially when it's immediately obvious that it's nonsense!
- MarkSweep 3y agoYour point may be valid if you we are talking about CO2 emissions. But if you click the source, linked as a reply to the tweet you linked: https://www.edmunds.com/about/press/leaf-blowers-emissions-dirtier-than-high-performance-pick-up-trucks-says-edmunds-insidelinecom.html https://www.edmunds.com/about/press/leaf-blowers-emissions-d... You will see it is talking about other chemicals like oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and non-methane hydrocarbons.
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- TedDoesntTalk 3y agoYou're assuming 1 gallon of fuel consumed by a pickup truck emits the same amount as that emitted by a 2-stroke leaf blower engine consuming 1 gallon of fuel. They definitely don't.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoOdd you didn't explain how they could be different. I can't see how they can be (by much).