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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Elon Musk's private jet uses energy equivalent to 980 average American households a year. What's your point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

How does this logic make sense in your head? Does this suddenly not become an issue because something irrelevant is also bad? How does that make sense??

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the point is we need to stop all this kind of ish or we die. our species is at a crossroads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah, but we won't all die. Just the poor. The majority will just live worse, much worse lifes.

The important people like Elon will be mostly fine though and isn't that what counts?