• @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    673 months ago

    Oh no, not irreparable injury to a completely useless and environmentally damaging industry! Better keep causing irreparable damage to the planet instead then.

  • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    633 months ago

    Ie: “no you can’t shut down crypto miners for pointless ecological destruction, I’m making great money off their wasteful power usage”

    • @silence7OPM
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      513 months ago

      This isn’t even an effort to shut them down; just report the harm they do.

      • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        93 months ago

        Documenting the harm is one of the first steps to ending it…

        "stop these atrocities!’ “what atrocities? You’ve no evidence what’s happening is bad.”

  • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    153 months ago

    When are we going to start telling these people their opinion is irrelevant, when we are going to war over water in the next decade? God, this is like watching a car accident in slow motion…

  • krellor
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    133 months ago

    It really doesn’t seem that hard to report electrical usage. The wording of the order (https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press550.php) isn’t very specific, but it sounds like they would simply be surveying major commercial miners. All they should need to do is pull up their electrical usage. Of if they don’t have it for some reason, they can estimate based on their devices and aggregate hash rate.

    • @silence7OPM
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      123 months ago

      The problem isn’t doing it; it’s that releasing the data makes them look bad

      • krellor
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        33 months ago

        Right; I just wonder what the judges imagined rationale is? It seems like it would be hard to construct even the veneer that it actually creates an unreasonably burden. But this is Texas, so🤷?

        • TheaoneAndOnly27
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          Cuz the rationale is that he probably needed another vacation and a boat paid for.

  • Dippy
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    123 months ago

    How could I possibly operate my business if I can’t destroy the planet?

      • Dippy
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        53 months ago

        I’m already doing that of course, and I’m only making record profits!

    • @silence7OPM
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      73 months ago

      They don’t even make them stop the destruction; just report how much damage they do

  • theodewere
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    93 months ago

    and because that judge is getting paid off by the crypto bros, he can’t allow that to happen

  • @NoLifeKing@ani.social
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    83 months ago

    Just order them to shut down because of climate damage. Either that or throw the judge in prison for obviously taking bribes.