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[hopelesslyfree]

Years ago today, Cosmo had an idea. 

[guerrillatech]

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[pinkpossibly]

This user appreciates your existence. Send me an ask for what you would like to see next!

[gayavatarstyle]

critical thinking while consuming media is important but some of you really are like "if you enjoy a cartoon with flaws you will never achieve happiness"

[lnnea]

I said something once and it didn’t really go very well

[nessa007]

me every minute of every day:

[guerrillatech]

[annoyingalchemist]

Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?

Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?

[commiemartyrshighschool]

So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.

So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.

There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.

[brokenmachine3553]

Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.

See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:

So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.

[white-throated-packrat]

Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.

Graphics cards! 

Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.

Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.

So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage. 

OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.

Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.

But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.

Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.

Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to  (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.

What a waste.

[smute]

was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem

[geocaprican]

In the US Cryptocurrency now consumes as much electricity as we produce with wind and solar combined. Any “progress” we’ve made with renewable energy has effectively been wasted on this bullshit.

[rymonaflowers]

But yet they’ll continue to claim that it’s harmless and that crypto is the future and way to go. Someone tried to say they run a farm on their own electricity, I guess could be possible but with the amount of mining in like that picture above how in the heck would you have enough electricity yourself without using the power grid? Also the insane waste of resources like metals for example. Y'all hurting the planet big time with this shit currency.

[adventuresoutsidethegenderbinar]

LGBTQ+ people: hey can we have equal rights

conservatives: stop shoving your AGENDA in my face!

Black Americans: can you stop killing us

conservatives: wow ok that is un-American. Respect our police!

Asian Americans and Latino Americans: we're Americans too, can you stop treating us like we don't belong and respect our culture

conservatives: are you trying to ERASE this country?!?!?!

Indigenous Americans: how about you admit all the atrocities you committed and also stop further hurting Native communities

conservatives: what sort of anti-white PROPOGANDA is this?!?!?

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[the-vegan-muser]

when someone wants a pet just because it’s cute and they have no idea how to actually take care of it 

[explicitcherry]

What's your sexuality

stupid

[creepish]

Going to stop paying attention. I’ve noticed enough

[fullpraxisnow]

Math proves that capitalism sucks and that capitalists are greedy.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

So he gave millions and you gave $40 and feel like you’re doing more?

[pebbleofgod]

[laurasterisk]

As presented, brought to you by Jesus, and THE FRIGGING BIBLE

[odinsblog]

Conservatives only read the redacted bible, so it’s easier to cherrypick which parts to follow

[bright-goals-deactivated2022103]

I‘m so angry and disgusted right now. I read about my home country, East Turkistan. (China calls it Xinjiang.) for a while, I stopped reading reports because I was suffering. But now I can’t ignore this any longer. I am heart broken and can’t comprehend what I’ve read. words cannot describe how I am feeling, how hurt I am and how angry I am. Therefore, I feel like I need to share this. I know a lot is going on right now but please pay attention to this as well.

I will not post everything but you can Read more here.

[2ghosts1shell]

Please read the whole thing it’s the most disturbing thing I’ve read

[zerohundreds]

Here's some screenshots for those that for some reason can't open the link

HEAVY tws for genocide, torture, forced abortions, rape, forced human experimentation, involuntary isolation, forced indoctrination, Holocaust mentions, murder, forced marriages, non-consensual organ harvesting.

This is the first image, here are the rest:

I'm not Uyghur or Chinese, but, just to be clear, this is not an accident, is a plan. The ethnic cleansing is not a side effect of anything. It's the goal.

[fish-to-male]

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

[saturnialsapphic]

Once, back when I worked in an LGBTQIA dungeon, I encountered a significantly older person who remarked to me that they hadn’t been to “this type of place” in decades. They struck up a conversation with me and told me how amazing it was to see an openly transexual youth such as myself. I asked them about their experiences with gender and they said “oh, well, I’m a bit male and a bit female. Men’s and women’s clothes, sometimes makeup in a suit, sometime fresh faced in a dress when I’m at home. You know, bisexual” Obv this puzzled me at first until I realized this person was using bisexual in a very, very, literal and old fashioned sense, as in, dual-sexed. Non-binary.

Y’all gotta understand there are generation gaps in the language we use and you open yourself up to a LOT of very interesting stories if you stop blocking off the past.

[cigarettecase]

the scripts for cruella, riverdale and the powerpuff girls reboot have done an Excellent job at raising my self confidence as a writer; I rest assured in the knowledge that I Literally can't do worse