Careful, your car will hear you!

But I want to use my RAM for stupid stuff society dislikes too. I'm just willing to pay the external cost for it.

In this scenario, who's performing an evil act if you're not willing to stop it? The smokers?

Is it cheap for peers on the network to verify that the work has been performed?

But this requires a beefy GPU. It's more like crypto because the average user won't be able to mine cost effectively.

Yeah it means he'll rack up a really high bill immediately on something stupid, and the board will pull the plug.

Would it still be political suicide if it was bipartisan? They'll make up a million stupid reasons, unleash their army of bots to promote it, and try the same thing Facebook did in 2016.

Check your lease, man, because you're living in Fuck City.

Exactly. And anyone with any sense has a gun safe, even though it's impossible to find a good hiding spot for one.

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

— Benito Mussolini (disputed)

Wouldn't that end up like the crypto mining market? Mostly big players due to economies of scale, with hobbyists struggling to break even.