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> skateboarding is inherently wasteful, should we ban that too?

* Skateboarding does not waste nearly as much energy

* Each joule expended Skateboarding is spent increasing fun, on crypto spent on greed

* More skate borders makes more fun, more miners is less fun

Not just energy, crypto is also using far more rare earth minerals and metals in their excessive utilization of CPUs and GPUs. Batteries to keep things running when power goes out. It's wasting so very many of our resources. There is no defense.

skateboarding doesn't scale to take up all available resources. I could be 10x the skater as Tony Hawk and I'd still only use one skateboard at a time. Doesn't matter if it's a $1,000,000 skateboard, I'm still only using one at a time. Meanwhile, $1,000,000 of cryptomining by one person is going to use so many more joules, and for what?

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