It is absolutely one of the better benefits of this forum

Title is misleading, there is an open discussion on the topic with someone raising valid points and a clear escalation method that involves a vote from another group.

Yeah you can, though to be fair its referred to as jevons paradox because it is counterintuitive.

I’m not saying it’s inefficient. I’m saying cloud computing uses a lot of power.

What about it is whitewashing? This seems like it would be a great resource if you wanted to contextualize the argument you're gesturing at.

I think you missed the bit where they suggested being curious and offering perspective - it really does work out differently

I've seen pathological users like the sibling is commenting about. I don't want to out any community in particular but some of subreddits surrounding open source games can get pretty yikes.

Not saying you're wrong to find silver linings, just wanted to corrobate that sometimes that is insufficient (as far as I can tell, given impassioned haterness germinating for years).

No, the real one, not the one people talk about here.

Probably pattern recognition

Just nitpicking your first sentence: prohibition broadly works, just in the US (at least) it breeds negative externalities that don't seem worth it in balance.