:what-the-hell: :stalin-stressed:
He's always been a lame ass lib. He was pearl clutching during the Floyd protests. Also lol @ the idea of the pro-NFT crowd being "normal peeps"
I don't remember Eric saying anything about the Floyd protests. I do remember Hannibal complaining about the property damage, though.
do you remember when killer mike went on cnn to tell everyone to think about the property
That was extremely disappointing but also funny bc his most recent music video at the tome featured a riot of people burning money in the streets lol
source? if this is true, I'm going to have to set fire to my rare Eric Andre funkopops.
I posted a screenshot of this last year when he first made the above post, and lots of the comments here where sus. A bunch of "it's not that bad" bullshit and even some fucking dork arguing that crypto/NFTs where the future of left-wing movements because it's "decentralized banking." I should have fucking reported that shithead.
EDIT: found the post. Some of those commented are fucking wild lol https://hexbear.net/post/123037
Tons of rich people are looking to make (or lose inshallah) a shit ton of money off it. This is our new banking house loan grift. I've been in Malibu around multimulti millionaires all week and it's all they fuckng talk about
Sorry you had to deal with that, comrade. I had no clue it was old news, I just saw it for the first time on the bird site. He really wasted no fucking time once he saw the money in it, huh? :michael-laugh:
Also love how that one crypto-defender is banned now. Definitely report that weird shit if you see it again and we'll take care of it. If there's not already a rule against crypto apologizing, we should make one.
Reminds me of the time I made a post venting about people not wearing masks and got shat on for "toxic individualism"
There were systemic reasons why wearing masks was put on individuals in the first place too. What a weird way to twist it
Copypasted the cryptobro comment by [@chadhominem](/u/chadhominem) (now banned)
Putting my crypto fedora on. Most criticisms of NFT’s energy consumption are rooted in a deep misunderstanding of blockchains and specifically Ehtereum, and follow the exact same logic as other reactionary arguments putting focus on individual actions over systemic changes ala vegetarianism, turning your lights off, recycling, buying a hybrid etc.
Ethereum has about the same carbon footprint as Youtube yet you don’t see 10,000 word think-pieces by genX luddites about how it’s warming the planet. Actually you see the exact opposite and it’s quite interesting to see. The same people who say (correctly) it’s wrong to shame people for watching Youtube/Netflix despite their massive energy consumption and resulting emissions - are the same who criticize artists use of blockchain to sell NFT’s. And you’re lying if you say Youtube serves some higher purpose than blockchain - literally burning through a propane tank worth of CO2 to watch PragerU and twerking TikTok compilations.
If you’re talking about Bitcoin then sure, that’s an actual criticism given its massive footprint, POW system, and literal zero technical functionality other than a speculative currency. But most leftists don’t understand the difference between the blockchains and come off as old man yells at cloud, all while libertarian weirdos take control of a pretty revolutionary technology. Ethereum is at least transparently moving towards a POS system that drastically reduces its energy use whereas Youtube does the opposite and is owned by Google who donates to republicans, works with ICE/DOD, you know the works.
The truth of the matter is both are dumb. Both Youtube and ETH are a microcosm of our overall global energy consumption - however the world is powered is how the internet is powered and right now that’s fossil fuels. This criticism is literally telling people to use less straws when they drive their escalades to the starbucks down the street. Let the artists get their bag and go kidnap an oil exec.
wait does one single blockchain use as much power as the entire largest video streaming platform on the planet? the one that's serving content to like 2 billion people rofl
i guess losing money on swapping funney monkye back and forth is just as valuable
They like the compare themselves to VISA too. Like, VISA is several orders of magnitude more efficient than even the most ecofriendly blockchain
As I said to the chud at the time, it's completely ridiculous to compare youtube to fucking crypto currency:
"Youtube is free to watch/open access for anyone to post (YouTube’s shitty copywrite system and moderation notwithstanding)
Ehtereum, unless I’m mistaken, is literally a form of currency - decentralized, but, with prices/the current system how they are, it’s effecivaly the same as owning stock.
Partaking in the proliferation of an alternative, completely unnecessary, but equally exploitative and status quo maintaining currency, on which capitalism is further supported, is much worse, to me, than a free system of millions of hours of entertainment/education, which allows for personal creative expression as well. No one has to partake in Ehtereum; it’s not like normal currency in which, yes, we must gain and use it to literally avoid dying and starving. Ehtereum is completely superfluous, and a luxury, which offers nothing, or next to nothing, comparatively."
Youtube uses a huge amount of computing resources because it's a massive video hosting service that uses those resources to deliver the functionality
Crypto uses a huge amount of computing resources because the nobody-trust-anybody-else algorithm requires proof of capital
These are the same
I better see a lot of red flairs when I open this.
edit: :bern-disgust:
14 year old
the cars they driveI hate when people use young age as some insult as if 14 year olds are just idiots incapable of making accurate observations about how fucked something is for the environment, or just how fucked the environment is in general. They're going to have to live more of their lives with the consequences than you. And it's made extra dumb here by pairing it with something 14 year olds can't even do, drive. They don't even have any choice in their method of transportation.
But also even as adults we kinda don't have much choice in our transportation. Our cities are built to be car dependent. You can't not drive a car. Doesn't he live in LA? He should know this. It's not hypocrisy, we literally don't have a choice. While we absolutely do have a choice not buy those dumbass jpegs.
and the planes they fly
Again, we don't have much choice, there isn't exactly a high speed rail network to get to further away destinations.
and throw away AA batteries every other month
wtf is he even talking about here?
wtf is he even talking about here?
This doesn't sound like his usual nonsensical humor. It sounds suspiciously like that conservative thing where they try to tell a joke, get way too mad halfway through to think clearly and instead make a barely coherent rant
So you believe that he actually thinks 14 year olds drive cars and fly planes? This sounds like a joke he'd make. Same with AA batteries. This is pretty much his schtick
So, instead of pressing backspace he tried to save his boomer humor with absurdity?
I think that last part, unless u/FreakingSpy is correct, is just a really dated idea of energy consumption to back when every gizmo had batteries. everything charges now so it seems like a very out of touch thing to say. Like he thinks we all live in the 90's/early aughts while he lives in the crazy digital future.
Tulip mania but growing each tulip also burns down a tree in the Amazon.
Shoots Eric Andre labelled "NFT bandwagoning"
"How could cancel culture do this?"
Now we just need the most talked about guy in here from yesterday to launch his own NFT to break western online left.
