"what if humanity became obsessed with reversing hash functions and used up all their energy resources to the task" sounds like something a cryptography researcher in 1996 might errantly come up with
@SuricrasiaOnline it's Philip K Dick's world, we're all just living in it
@pineappleface @SuricrasiaOnline so the reason for half of this is that we're all high on really fucked up drugs?