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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Alex Gladstein‏Verified account @gladstein 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_ and

      Right except our current financial system is based ultimately on the petrodollar, which relies on alliances with brutal dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and aggressive defense of the fossil fuel industry. Bitcoin competes with this.

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @gladstein @FranckLeroy_ and

      That's not what "petrodollar" means and that's not how it works The so-called "petrodollar system" depends on the global high demand for oil, it does not cause the high demand for oil

      3 replies 3 retweets 60 likes
    3. Alex Gladstein‏Verified account @gladstein 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_ and

      It's not "so-called" it is real, and it depends on petrostates pricing oil exports in dollars. To achieve this, the US has had for decades held an alliance with the dictators of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf tyrants.

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @gladstein @FranckLeroy_ and

      And it is caused by the global market for fossil fuels, it does not cause the global market for fossil fuels

      1 reply 1 retweet 45 likes
    5. Alex Gladstein‏Verified account @gladstein 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FranckLeroy_ and

      Actually, the beneficiaries of this relationship have stymied progress of nuclear power and renewables all over the world. Now we have a chance to shift to a world reserve currency that can run entirely on renewables instead of being linked to the oil industry.

      4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @gladstein @FranckLeroy_ and

      I fucking hate how you people talk about speculative shit about "Who's really responsible for killing the electric car?" as though it is anywhere in the same ballpark as Bitcoin straight up DIRECTLY BURNING AND WASTING ENERGY to the tune of dozens of terawatt-hours per year

      3 replies 8 retweets 75 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      It wouldn't matter if a shift in global energy markets pushed us to massively expand nuclear and renewable energy Because the Bitcoin miners would just use it all the fuck up and we still wouldn't be able to close any existing power plants

      1 reply 9 retweets 53 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      If the *total amount of energy we use every year* is going UP, and going up EXPONENTIALLY, going in the exact wrong direction, it DOES NOT MATTER if we "shift" or "move" the balance of energy production toward renewables We'll still be burning more coal anyway

      2 replies 8 retweets 52 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16h16 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @gladstein and

      You can say whatever you want about how you power the Bitcoin grid If you magically made a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that could ONLY be powered by renewable energy it would still be a fucking environmental disaster

      2 replies 9 retweets 56 likes
    10. danny mcClanahan‏ @hipsterelectron 14h14 hours ago
      Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and

      even if we had nuclear fusion ready to go (which it’s not) and installed everywhere in the world, the heat generated by cryptocurrency mining is going to massively contribute to pollution especially if corporations like microsoft keep trying to put data centers underwater

      2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9h9 hours ago
      Replying to @hipsterelectron @iridienne and

      Yeah this is a basic and fundamental problem with the indefinite-growth model of capitalism that everyone assumes is inescapable If we need an exponentially-growing economy to survive, and that economy has an exponentially-growing energy demand, the waste heat keeps going up

      6:27 PM - 24 Apr 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9h9 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hipsterelectron and

          It DOES NOT MATTER if we solve the problem of where the energy comes from completely (we climb up the Kardeshev scale and take all our power directly from the sun) And this has NOTHING TO DO with carbon dioxide HOLDING ON to heat in the atmosphere

          1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 9h9 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hipsterelectron and

          It's just extremely simple math, the inescapable reality of thermodynamics Energy has to go somewhere, it turns into waste heat when you're done using it, it cannot just disappear

          2 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
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        1. James Harlow‏ @hythloday 6h6 hours ago
          Replying to @arthur_affect @hipsterelectron and

          I mean, this is not true if we get exponentially increasing efficiency, which is what Buckminster Fuller referred to as "ephemeralization".

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