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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by Spivak on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:25PM (#27199754)
I mean on HN you really do see a very anti-cruise ship sentiment whenever the topic comes up. They are really really wasteful and worse than commercial ships since they pollute the very water people want to visit for its beauty.

I wouldn’t really be all that upset to see them banned but there’s no momentum for it. Crypto just happens to be really visible to a lot of people who see no personal benefit for its existence.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by caconym_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:44PM (#27200012)
> I mean on HN you really do see a very anti-cruise ship sentiment whenever the topic comes up.

For sure, and in other contexts too, but I don’t think the issue of not being able to buy gas because cruise ships exist comes up often (mostly because AFAICT it’s not real). And that’s really my point: it’s perfectly valid to complain about cruise ships being wasteful without being able to point to some incredibly obvious consumer-facing manifestation of that waste, because them being wasteful (they are, obviously) isn’t predicated on any such manifestation. Despite the vast scale of their waste, they’re a drop in the bucket that is the global economy.

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