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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by user-the-name on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:50AM (#29483261)
> It's definitely not up to you to decide what people can and can't do with their energy

It absolutely will need to be if we are going to avoid frying the fucking planet. The free market is the enemy of humanity.

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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by michaelscott on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:08AM (#29495006)
We're talking about renewables? How is that frying the planet?
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Re:Crypto lobbying is going ballistic by user-the-name on Thursday December 09, 2021 @05:08AM (#29495681)
We are talking about energy. Most of it is not produced by renewables. Any renewable energy that is being wasted on cryptocurrency bullshit is not going into displacing coal and gas, which are currently frying the planet.
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