https://twitter.com/BTCNatureFund/status/1387784998460219394
It's cool to see "we the working class resent being looked down on by you wealthy coastal liberal elites" used by rich libertarian dorks to defend their expensive computing clusters. Like bitcoin nerds don't even have the faux working class aesthetic, like at least buy a pickup truck and wear some overalls when you say this shit.
Are cargo ships all that inefficient? I thought the main issue is that we do insane stuff like ship fresh vegetables half way around the world, can them, them ship them back.
AFAIK cargo ships are very efficient at moving goods over long distances, compared to the alternatives. And the bigger ships you buy the less energy you spend transporting each container.
Ships are good. What's inefficient is a global economic system that dictates that goods should be produced in one country and then loved to the other side of the world to be used. It is completely bonkers that Europe and Anglo-America doesn't produce its own clothing, smartphones and medical equipment.
That's an issue too, but cargo ships also switch to bunker fuel when in international waters which is worse than the diesel they use near shore.
I realized the liberal inside me equivocates between cost efficiency, energy efficiency, and carbon emissions.
Don't forget dumping sulfuric acid into the ocean.