You say this, but the people yelling and screaming are typically the ones that are pushing for progress, while the people that hide behind “decorum” are the ones trying to strip people of their rights and funnel money into capital.

Also, human beings are animals…

More that it isn’t relevant to this discussion because in the hypothetical you’re still spending the same amount, just on electricity instead of the game cost.

And yes, because labor rights are a joke in this country. I’ve got bills to pay and mouths to feed.

Passing the “carbon credit” on to my employment is kinda outside of my hands, since that is dictated by my employer, which few are lucky enough to have a meaningful decision in. People also don’t work an extra amount that somehow corresponds to “waste money” but budget out the amount they earn.

As an idea, using crypto to offset the API costs to crypto and thus to electricity usage is wild because I’m still paying the same dollar amount, just in electricity that I have then wasted, and not directly on the game without all the middle man BS. So instead of paying for API + profit, I’m paying for electricity, which is then wasted generating crypto to pay for a game I could just pay for directly without the excess energy waste.

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Given the comment I’m responding to, I felt it was appropriate.

I would pay good dollar money to be this stupid.

Do you think solar panels come from thin air? How is that going to do anything but offset renewable adoption?

They might. Sexuality is a spectrum.

Tipping is optional but in the US many tipped employees are making $2.35/hr. They’re paid a minimum of min wage after tips, but their tips first have to cover them to minwage

He isn’t considering it. He’s already made the decision

What is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?

Your analogy doesn’t really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America’s capital-dominated power structure?

Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?

In my experience professors are heavily overworked and heavily underpaid. Offloading work onto other systems to get a better work-life balance seems like a natural response.