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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 year 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 64 points 1 year ago

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

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 52 points 1 year ago

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

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 20 points 1 year ago

But that might lead to eventually maybe doing somethinginvestors!

Think of the investers!

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year 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."

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Trump judge?

checks

Trump judge.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 21 points 1 year ago

Won’t someone think of the scammers…

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My bored ape needs his slurp juice. HIS SLURP JUICE. PLEASE THINK OF MY BORED APE.

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

Have you tried massively underpaying your workers and hiding in tax shelters?

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] krellor@kbin.social 13 points 1 year 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.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] krellor@kbin.social 3 points 1 year 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@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Of course it's fucking Texas.

[-] NoLifeKing@ani.social 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Gosh, that's not suspicious...

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Now did that statement cyst a couple thousand or a couple million?

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