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The only use for this that I think would be worthwhile would be tricking 
into believing he found a "based" community to call him the Meme Maestro while he's confined in some goon cave far away from levers of power.
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I am so tempted to name names because a few long-time users here still sometimes play the "you're afraid/emotional"
card as if being upset at this planet-burning bazinga shit is somehow unreasonable.
EDIT: The aforementioned proselytizers showed up and saved me the trouble. Neat.
Hey, it's me! lol
It's not unreasonable to look at how this stuff is being used and get angry about it. That's fine and reasonable. But please try not to mischaracterize what people are saying about this issue.
But it's not helpful to get mad every day and post this same comment about how you're definitely not being emotional about it (with the smuglord, always with the smuglord, give the poor guy a rest).
So where do we go from here both as individuals and as a movement? For example, we could cap or limit uses of it to research and industrial applications, or put R&D into specialized hardware and algorithms to increase efficiency. Maybe we boycott companies that abuse it? I don't think it would work, but it's a more interesting discussion we could be having that moves beyond just saying it's all a grift or it's just waifus all the way down.
FWIW I think all governments should ban proof-of-work crypto schemes like China did with Bitcoin, but I don't think you can do that with this because the technology does actually have useful applications.
Please note that simply stating that this tech does sometimes have useful applications IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT of the most commonly seen uses of it on reddit or whatever. That's just the internet that most regular people use reflecting the worst aspects.
Aaaaand then the rest of your post.
I'm going to talk about the energy wasting and environmentally ruinous treat printers (and their feverish fandom) as much as I see fit.
Your reading comprehension's not very good if you haven't caught on by now, even in this thread, that I'm not claiming a lack of emotion about this shit. Far from it. LARPing as a smug Redditor-style supposedly-emotion-free logician looks more like your brand.
You can selectively ignore/downplay what actual other people are saying all you wish, but it's you and like two other people's takes versus everyone else on this site.
If you're going to post smugly about this shit, you're getting the emoji.
LMAO Thank you for your unique brand of contribution to this website.
The one where you pulled the "you are afraid/emotional" card? Do I have to dredge up that entire exchange or can you just accept that it didn't fly with me?
Speaking of flying, if you're going to do more of that shit here, I'll post this in advance unless you really need another last word game: