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[–] 178 points 8 months ago (20 children)
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    I wish someone could quantify how much energy goes into this.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Which, for those of you who aren't energy professionals, is actually a fair bit of energy.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    To give a comparison, this is the sort of energy you often see in stars, cars, or springs.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    stars, cars, or springs.

    Sounds like the name of a weird gameshow 😁

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    Any time someone brings up to me what a waste of power crypto is (and it is, I'm not denying that) I bring this up, and it's so fun to watch them all do this:

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Why would they get mad about dissing advertising along with crypto?

    (Maybe they think you're saying it to defend crypto using whataboutism?)

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I think most people have genuinely never thought about it once in their life, just like how they never would have thought once about crypto's energy usage if the media hadn't told them to be angry about it. So they either get upset at the sudden realization that we're all being played by the rich or they get defensive because suddenly their world view is under attack. Same expression either way.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I always figured the angry npc wojak meme implied they were mad at you for making a good point that they didn't like, but if you're using it to say they just became angry in general, fair enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I mean, it is absolutely that on occasion. I may come off as doing a whataboutism, but I mean it more like "Absolutely, we should be angry at people and technologies whose energy use exponentially outweighs the societal benefits. Here's the world's biggest offender!" But they don't actually care about energy usage, they just hate crypto and have never thought critically about targeted advertisement; all they know is it's a part of capitalism which they love so their brain starts doing flips trying to find a way to make it defensible. It's like telling a 'wont somebody please think of the children' evangelical republican all the ways in which they directly support child abuse and abusers. "I agree with you, but do you?"

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    They don't really need to make or sell products, they just need to create the appearance of selling products to attract investment from billionaires. They've got all the money, why would they care about the small pittance of money everyone else has?

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