‘Help me get through the winter,’ the Governor reportedly told crypto miners in the state
edit: Companion article ‘A deep freeze is coming to Texas, and no one knows if the power grid is ready’ - https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/a-deep-freeze-is-coming-to-texas-and-no-one-knows-if-the-power-grid-is-ready/
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an egg with a big crack in the middle?
spoiler
it’s not ready
Crypto miners, renown for their sense of civic duty and willingness to sacrifice profit for the greater good…
mr. texas: “cryptominers pls you’ll literally freeze to death if you don’t listen to the most libertarian governor in the most libertarian state that attracted all the tech libertarians plssssss”
cryptominers: :yea:
Everyone in Texas should use their cryptomining rigs to heat their homes.
Abbott: Find it in you’re heart to spare our power grid, pretty please :kitty-cri-texas:
Crypto is so wasteful that even the governor of Texas is pissed about its energy use. I’m against the stuff on a moral level, but it’s crazy seeing governments need to take stances against crypto for their self interest
It tickles my goat. Like that one town they tried to form where they ideologically rejected municipal trash collection and the whole place was swarmed by bears. They build a rube goldberg machine of nonsense that hits them in the head with a cartoon hammer.
One thing that the Free Towners did that encouraged the bears was unintentional, in that they just threw their waste out how they wanted. They didn’t want the government to tell them how to manage their potential bear attractants. The other way was intentional, in that some people just started feeding the bears just for the joy and pleasure of watching them eat.
As you can imagine, things got messy and there was no way for the town to deal with it. Some people were shooting the bears. Some people were feeding the bears. Some people were setting booby traps on their properties in an effort to deter the bears through pain. Others were throwing firecrackers at them. Others were putting cayenne pepper on their garbage so that when the bears sniffed their garbage, they would get a snout full of pepper.
:le-pol-face:
“Fuck you, land of the free, do what I want. “
