[ribosometronome]

I think the almond talking point takes hold because, like a lot of complaining about LLM usage, large parts of the blame gets directed elsewhere rather than the choices that we're all way more likely to be making and could influence. Like, it's 2025. Even the people most likely to be drinking almond milk have largely moved to oat, whose water usage is great.

[wyre]

Almond's get brought up because it distracts from the fact that beef and dairy milk production uses a lot more water than almonds do.

No one wants to be reminded that their 4 oz burger they had for lunch used 460 gallons of water to produce.