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WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by vmception »

nonameiguess wrote: post #154
beervirus wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really evil to use drones to kill evil people?

I'm not personally against usage of drones in some totally general way, but we should keep in mind why the Bush to Obama shift was made. Aside from the technology simply maturing and growing more viable, we went away from having teams of special operators apprehend terrorism suspects in surgical snatch and grab operations and toward just murdering them with drones for two basic reasons. One, surgical snatch and grab…

When another country or organization turns their drones on us because of our antiquated human rights ideas, inability to form consensus, and extreme ideologies - from their perspective - opinions will get much clearer.

Best way to stop the drone wars at this point are for us to stop now.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by bpodgursky »

skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

But seriously, there are more like 100,000 lowland gorillas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_lowland_gorilla. So there's plenty of adoption to go around.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by internetslave »

tudorw wrote: post #48
skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly, timing seems about right...

Homes this is a great idea.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by thebean11 »

Supermancho wrote: post #221
thebean11 wrote: post #205

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Luckily mining with renewables is much less difficult technically than flying with renewables.

How is that lucky?

Lucky for Bitcoin, there's a clear path to reducing environmental impact.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by ISL »

skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

So someone is selling gorillas short in order to make it possible for WSB to be able to adopt >200% more extra gorillas than actually exist?

Sounds like par for the course?

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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ISL wrote: post #236
skohan wrote: post #24

Just to put this in perspective, the global population of mountain gorillas is 1,063, so this represents the symbolic adoption of over 3 times the mountain gorillas alive in the wild! I hope this unexpected boon in capital will allow for some meaningful work in preserving and protecting these rare animals. It would be an interesting footnote in history if we can look back in 50 years and draw a line between an intern…

So someone is selling gorillas short in order to make it possible for WSB to be able to adopt >200% more extra gorillas than actually exist? Sounds like par for the course?

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Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by TameAntelope »

curiousllama wrote: post #174
s1artibartfast wrote: post #163

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Just make a NFT with pen and paper

"Buy this sticky note it'll save the whales"

Right, but then it actually does (or meaningfully helps), which is, I guess, the prestige.

Re: WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days

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Post by capitol_ »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #118
pas wrote: post #78

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The estimated energy consumption of BTC is between the electricity consumption of Ukraine and Argentina. It's as if everyone would be a banker in Ukraine and every building would be a bank. Seems excessive.

Thank you - I heard the 'if you add the costs of Visa / banking it evens out' and was not sure how to tackle it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina - 44 Million people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine - 41 M (handwaving around bits that got invaded etc) So is the global population of the banking industry comparable to 41 M ? UK employees: 1.1M US Employees: 8.3M So I went round a few houses and there is a l…

But here you are comparing apple and oranges.

The energy one technical component uses versus the energy that all the people that use another technology uses.

Bitcoin also have support systems around it, hardware production lines, and a lot of people who use it that you don't include in your comparison.

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