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CatoTheElder 5 points ago +7 / -2

For thousands of years violence worked. Then we stopped being violent, and now in less than two generations there will be no more whites.

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CatoTheElder 2 points ago +2 / -0

So the Sedition Act of 1918 and the Office of Censorship don't count?

Anyways nobody is gonna buy your turbocrackpot theory that Gamergate was an FBI/M16/Hamas/Iran op.

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CatoTheElder 5 points ago +7 / -2

Plenty of people know, it just that every time one of them tells you, you start frothing at the mouth and screaming something about the weather.

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CatoTheElder 2 points ago +5 / -3

“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”

You are a coward for saying anything else.

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CatoTheElder 2 points ago +2 / -0

There was almost a factory game in the WarHammer 40k universe

I'd have played that. I enjoy Zachtroics, Factorio, and 40k.

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CatoTheElder 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's conditional upon a person knowing anything. They have to be familiar with some sort of field in order to see when the journos get something wrong.

Most people are so damn retarded that they have expertise nowhere.

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CatoTheElder 1 point ago +3 / -2

You are not understanding the effect if you still go to some other source and trust them. All sources are wrong.

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CatoTheElder 2 points ago +2 / -0

You turn the page and the article is written by someone else.

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CatoTheElder 12 points ago +12 / -0

Sounds like in this case they both get it.

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CatoTheElder 2 points ago +5 / -3

It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect if he doesn't apply the concept to EVERY person on Youtube, TV, radio, newspapers, everything.

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CatoTheElder 20 points ago +21 / -1

I also noticed that he was getting some facts wrong in stories I was well informed about,

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect strikes again.

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CatoTheElder 7 points ago +7 / -0

That would be the free square.

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CatoTheElder 28 points ago +28 / -0

It's October on an election year. Time for the October "surprise".

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CatoTheElder 1 point ago +8 / -7

He's forum sliding even as he accuses people like yoisi and ger111 of doing so.

It serves two purposes: flooding this forum with crap, and making anyone who posts here look crazy by association.

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CatoTheElder 3 points ago +12 / -9

So what does this have to with (in order of narrowest to broadest):

Games journalism

The Culture War in video games

Journalism

The Culture War in general

In other words: Nice forum sliding, bro.

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CatoTheElder 4 points ago +5 / -1

Your criticism is around the "waste" is entirely based off of that false assumption, and you are complaining the energy being used to mine. Typically what happens is the opposite, as most of that energy on demand would be wasted as literal smoke from powerplants, since the wattage that isn't being demanded has to be removed because it can't be stored. Instead, miners tend to work with powerplants to actually syphon that.

This is utterly false. There is very little waste in bulk energy production from coal, ng, hydro, and nuclear, because aggregate demand is very predictable. The waste comes from the unreliability of solar and wind, when a cloud comes by or a group of turbines are becalmed drops your production.

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CatoTheElder 4 points ago +5 / -1

There is an easy way to tell how much energy is wasted by bitcoin each year: The price of bitcoin. Last I checked BTC was 64k per coin and the amount received per block was 6.5, thus the amount of electricity per block is around $416,000. Blocks are by design supposed to be generated at around 1 per 10 minutes so that is around 52,560 blocks per year. This means around $2.1 * 10 ^ 10 energy is turned into waste heat each year for bitcoin. Where I live the price for electricity is cheap, around $0.12/kWh. Thus amount of electricity per year used by BTC alone not counting the other cryptos is about 1.8 * 10 ^11 kWh, 180 TWh, 6.142×10^14 BTU, or 640 petajoules.

BTC uses around the same amount of energy as the US Steel Industry, equivalent to 1/20th the entire energy consumption of the US. That energy is super useful electricity being turned into nothing. Especially since as soon as a practical quantum computer is made, every bitcoin becomes worthless overnight. Several different groups have 1k qbit laboratory computers in the last year. Any one of those could break SHA 256 in a way to allow unlimited mining of BTC.

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CatoTheElder 29 points ago +30 / -1

Trail of Tears when whites do it: "Bad!!! It's genocide!! Evil Colonizers!!!!"

Trail of Tears when jews do it: "Good, kill them all."

The lesson: The Andrew Jackson didn't own enough newspapers.

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