• Tigbitties@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    You know what else uses as much water as a swimming pool? Swimming pools.

    And don’t get me started on golf courses.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t get me started on humans either. Not only do those thirsty shits require shitloads of water to function, it also needs to be clean! Not relatively clean either, but clean clean!

      Do you have any idea how many bitcoin farms I could run if there weren’t any humans? Me neither, but it’s probably zero.

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      11 months ago

      Cruptocurrency evangelists use this whataboutism the same way fossil fuel evangelists say “cars produce carbon monoxide, but so do cows!” as if they’ve proven or debunked anything

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, whataboutism is essentially telling on one’s self; an implicit recognition that one has no better arguments than to try to distract.

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      11 months ago

      Are swimming pools using one swimming pool or water per swim? Per year? 5 years? 10 years?

      I think you missed the ‘per transaction’ part. Which is kind of important.