reddit General

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
BernieRose said:
I don't know anything about crypto, but apparently my lib friends keep complaining about how it somehow damages the environment, 'buying an NFT literally burns down a random chunk of a rain forest' or something.

I think crypto uses a lot of PC power, so I guess it's kinda wasteful since it makes PC parts break quicker? But that ain't my area of expertise anyways.
Click to expand...
Because absolute fucking retards did some math and figured out that creating non fungible tokens, whatever the fuck those are. And let me be clear, I don't know how precisely it works because I'm not a total waste of space and oxygen.

... I hope

anyway, yeah, the whole process is using about as much electricity as Ireland. Not realizing that Ireland is fucking tiny and if they could see how much electricity goes into say, silicon, they would shit themselves.

Of course the same argument applies to electric cars but because the talking heads say cars good and NFT bad scary and against the fed they will defend electric cars and lambast weird ahegao lions in the same breath.
 
good lord I didn’t know how faggy Reddit is nowadays. I don’t venture outside basically two or three communities, and two of them are for “problematic right wing podcasts” so the posts in each one are just dudes havin fun. Some of us dawgs have noticed autobans going around whenever someone posts the word “faggot”, though.

Edit: War Mode never dies 🥔 💪
 
Last edited:
BernieRose said:
I don't know anything about crypto, but apparently my lib friends keep complaining about how it somehow damages the environment, 'buying an NFT literally burns down a random chunk of a rain forest' or something.

I think crypto uses a lot of PC power, so I guess it's kinda wasteful since it makes PC parts break quicker? But that ain't my area of expertise anyways.
Click to expand...
Its amazing how the same guys complaining about "MuH electricty!" when it comes to crypto currencies don't mind using the same amount of energy when it comes to jackin it to their favorite OnlyFans girl or ordering their 200th Funko Pop toy online.

Just admit you coomers don't know anything about investing.
 
Last edited:
Fields Of Rye said:
Because absolute fucking retards did some math and figured out that creating non fungible tokens, whatever the fuck those are. And let me be clear, I don't know how precisely it works because I'm not a total waste of space and oxygen.

... I hope

anyway, yeah, the whole process is using about as much electricity as Ireland. Not realizing that Ireland is fucking tiny and if they could see how much electricity goes into say, silicon, they would shit themselves.

Of course the same argument applies to electric cars but because the talking heads say cars good and NFT bad scary and against the fed they will defend electric cars and lambast weird ahegao lions in the same breath.
Click to expand...
Maybe that's true for NFT, but bitcoin absolutely does use an astonishing amount of electricity. 121 terawatt-hours per year isn't exactly nothing. It stands shoulder-to-shoulder with fucking countries (it's in the top 30 consumers globally). I don't care if Ireland is "fucking tiny." It's not pissing away enormous amounts of electricity on digital tulips.

That's 121 terawatt-hours per year getting dumped into special-purpose silicon computing SHA-256 hashes and generating lots of heat. And that silicon literally can't do anything else. SHA-256 isn't even particularly popular for general cryptography (SHA-384 is more useful and arguably faster, and SHA-3 (the successor to SHA-2, which includes SHA-256 and SHA-384) is already gaining popularity). Worse, this gear is continually being rendered obsolete by faster and faster replacements; it's practically an arms race between ASIC developers to produce ever-faster hardware. This shit has a "useful" service life of less than 3 years before it gets tossed in the trash. And once something displaces bitcoin and it falls into obscurity, all of this "mining gear" will be completely useless.

That kind of colossal waste of raw material and electricity for one mostly pointless computation is utterly ludicrous.
 
moocow said:
Maybe that's true for NFT, but bitcoin absolutely does use an astonishing amount of electricity. 121 terawatt-hours per year isn't exactly nothing. It stands shoulder-to-shoulder with fucking countries (it's in the top 30 consumers globally). I don't care if Ireland is "fucking tiny." It's not pissing away enormous amounts of electricity on digital tulips.

That's 121 terawatt-hours per year getting dumped into special-purpose silicon computing SHA-256 hashes and generating lots of heat. And that silicon literally can't do anything else. SHA-256 isn't even particularly popular for general cryptography (SHA-384 is more useful and arguably faster, and SHA-3 (the successor to SHA-2, which includes SHA-256 and SHA-384) is already gaining popularity). Worse, this gear is continually being rendered obsolete by faster and faster replacements; it's practically an arms race between ASIC developers to produce ever-faster hardware. This shit has a "useful" service life of less than 3 years before it gets tossed in the trash. And once something displaces bitcoin and it falls into obscurity, all of this "mining gear" will be completely useless.

That kind of colossal waste of raw material and electricity for one mostly pointless computation is utterly ludicrous.
Click to expand...
industrial fields wasting resources on making shit that has no real value or utility isn't anything new.
like, the cosmetics industry for example consumes truckloads of (petroleum derived) chemicals, processes them in dirty chemical plants, creating tons of nasty chemical waste products in the process, all to make products like makeup, nail polish and hair gel, shit that literally gets flushed down the shower drain after people smear it on their bodies for a couple hours.

and that's just scratching the surface. resources and energy being wasted on pointless consumer goods that serve no purpose beyond vanity is extremely widespread and occurs across so many different sectors of the economy that using it as an argument against crypto is extremely dishonest.
 
DumbDude42 said:
industrial fields wasting resources on making shit that has no real value or utility isn't anything new.
like, the cosmetics industry for example consumes truckloads of (petroleum derived) chemicals, processes them in dirty chemical plants, creating tons of nasty chemical waste products in the process, all to make products like makeup, nail polish and hair gel, shit that literally gets flushed down the shower drain after people smear it on their bodies for a couple hours.
Click to expand...
It results in babies getting born though.
 
moocow said:
Maybe that's true for NFT, but bitcoin absolutely does use an astonishing amount of electricity. 121 terawatt-hours per year isn't exactly nothing. It stands shoulder-to-shoulder with fucking countries (it's in the top 30 consumers globally). I don't care if Ireland is "fucking tiny." It's not pissing away enormous amounts of electricity on digital tulips.

That's 121 terawatt-hours per year getting dumped into special-purpose silicon computing SHA-256 hashes and generating lots of heat. And that silicon literally can't do anything else. SHA-256 isn't even particularly popular for general cryptography (SHA-384 is more useful and arguably faster, and SHA-3 (the successor to SHA-2, which includes SHA-256 and SHA-384) is already gaining popularity). Worse, this gear is continually being rendered obsolete by faster and faster replacements; it's practically an arms race between ASIC developers to produce ever-faster hardware. This shit has a "useful" service life of less than 3 years before it gets tossed in the trash. And once something displaces bitcoin and it falls into obscurity, all of this "mining gear" will be completely useless.

That kind of colossal waste of raw material and electricity for one mostly pointless computation is utterly ludicrous.
Click to expand...
Sure but when you're in the field of "what's bad for the planet" you've entered into an absurdist clusterfuck.

121 terawatts per year. That's roughly equivalent to the energy required to make 24,000 memory cards. That's how much energy is spent by America's electronics in sleep mode. Ammonia synthesis is 18 Gj/ton at a thermodynamic minimum IIRC and we 235 million metric tons of it per year.

Syngas made from trash is still being used despite the fact it exists only to take carbon sitting buried in a landfill and pump it into the air at 1/3 the effectiveness of natural gas, and the overwhelming majority of solar panels will never see any kind of ROI in terms of the energy required to produce the silicon and cobalt they require. Wind turbines are the same if not worse.

Focusing on fucking ahegao lions of all things is absolutely bizarre. It's stupid, and pointless, but so are video games, and given that most of the bitcoin rigs are using graphics cards I see no reason why video games wouldn't be on the chopping block as well, stupid as it sounds.

Bitcoin's fucking retarded but acting like it's an exception is stupid. The electrical requirements of large scale chemical synthesis absolutely dwarves everything else.
 
Fields Of Rye said:
Focusing on fucking ahegao lions of all things is absolutely bizarre. It's stupid, and pointless, but so are video games, and given that most of the bitcoin rigs are using graphics cards I see no reason why video games wouldn't be on the chopping block as well, stupid as it sounds.

Bitcoin's fucking exceptional but acting like it's an exception is stupid. The electrical requirements of large scale chemical synthesis absolutely dwarves everything else.
Click to expand...
Akshually, Bitcoin is mostly ASIC miners now, custom built for purpose. GPU mining is mostly Ethereum and other 'alt-coins'. Personally I've been wasting a few hundred watts at home with my GPUs doing mining. But if I wasn't I'd be spending the same amount to keep my house warm and there wouldn't be any possibility of payback. I mean I'm not sure ETH will ever be worth anything, but at least there's a chance it will pay for some of the heating of my house.
 
Fields Of Rye said:
Because absolute fucking retards did some math and figured out that creating non fungible tokens, whatever the fuck those are. And let me be clear, I don't know how precisely it works because I'm not a total waste of space and oxygen.
Click to expand...
This is a picture of a cat. I got this picture by taking a screenshot:
1.PNG

This link takes you to the "real" version of that image: https://www.cryptokitties.co/kitty/894626
Only one person can own that "real" version of this wetarded cat.
Because only one person can own the r.etard-cat at a time, it can be used to launder money.
Now you understand NFTs.
 
DumbDude42 said:
industrial fields wasting resources on making shit that has no real value or utility isn't anything new.
Click to expand...
Fields Of Rye said:
Bitcoin's fucking exceptional but acting like it's an exception is stupid.
Click to expand...
Dante Alighieri said:
How much energy does the banking industry use? Some sources are saying "more than Bitcoin". It just seems like a nonsense argument meant to appeal to low information NPCs.
Click to expand...
It never ceases to amaze me that the only defense people can come up with for cryptocurrency's absurd waste of resources is "lol everyone else does it too!"
 
💗Freddie Freaker💗 said:
Reddit is also selling NFT avatars.
View attachment 2695610

It's probably going to turn the site into more of a shithole than it already is. Pajeets will flood the site and parrot bland, popular opinions for upvotes/money. That's what's happening with /r/cryptocurrency.

Alternatively, this could happen:
View attachment 2695617
Jannies will have a hard time banning wrongthinkers who have a lot of karma without destroying people's trust in their blockchain.
Click to expand...

You hear that? It's the sound of money. Real, actual money. Thank you friend.
 
moocow said:
It never ceases to amaze me that the only defense people can come up with for cryptocurrency's absurd waste of resources is "lol everyone else does it too!"
Click to expand...
If your argument is that it has to stop because it wastes resources, but you do not care about other things wasting equal resources and do not prioritize things that waste more resources, then it makes a reasonable person think something else is going on

Or in other terms

When reddit banned NoNewNormal for raiding? But didn't ban anyone else? Do you think you need any more defense than "Other people did worse and had 0 consequences" to explain why you don't think it was actually about raiding?
 
Averageredditor finds some deranged pedophile infesting r/teenagers:

smi8jn2sj7y71.png


www.reddit.com

r/averageredditor - Average Pedophile (more in comments)

2,641 votes and 304 comments so far on Reddit
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com

Then, some other pedo shows up in the comments coping, seething and dilating all over the place:

Screenshot 2021-11-08 at 01-45-57 Average Pedophile (more in comments).png


https://archive.md/k504l (and a lot more throughout the thread)

The entire profile does literally nothing other than defend pedophiles:

archive.md

overview for anon8477

archived 8 Nov 2021 01:45:40 UTC
archive.md archive.md

I'm tempted to say this is Ryu238's alt, except that guy is so fucking autistic he uses the same nick everywhere with his real name attached and doesn't seem to be smart enough to sockpuppet, so it would appear this is a different kiddy diddler.
 
moocow said:
It never ceases to amaze me that the only defense people can come up with for cryptocurrency's absurd waste of resources is "lol everyone else does it too!"
Click to expand...
singling out one particular field with criticism that could apply to nearly every other field as well is just dishonest, that's all.
it's like saying that you hate KFC specifically because they use trucks to distribute food to their restaurants and trucks are bad for the environment. like, yeah, obviously they are, but the whole fucking economy uses them, so how the fuck is this a valid argument against this one company in particular?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom