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kleinbl00 · 1239 days ago · link · · parent · post: Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin

There are vast swaths of crypto Twitter that...

...well, allow me to say that they value self-reference over deduction and reasoning.

"Free Antminer with every PowerWall purchase" is about as peak Elon as you could hope for tho and you know it

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b_b · 1239 days ago · link ·

Every sub-culture has to adopt axioms that, once internalized, no longer can or need to be challenged. "We know Jesus saves, right, and so..." Lots of really bad conclusions have been drawn about the world starting from objectively stupid premises.

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kleinbl00 · 1239 days ago · link ·

I gave up on blackbootz' discord server when I had to go eleven rounds explaining the concept of scrip only to encounter "that is not my dogma therefore you are a poopyhead."

They say "fiat" a lot as if they know what it is but it's actually just a synonym for "satan".