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[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 15 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 23 minutes ago

Fr. I just turned 40. Give me my senior discount card.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 29 minutes ago

Dispense your wisdom, o my elder. I'm just a nineties boy, what do I know of the world before ?

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 22 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago) (1 children)

No hate, but this is exactly proving the point of the meme. There's so many new concepts and paradigms, each so complex and constantly evolving, that we need to rely on familiar comparisons that strip away the true identities of the subject. And I think this is true for pretty much every everyone in this information (bombardment) age, myself included.

People tend to forget that cryptocurrencies are based on cryptography, and were founded on the dream of building a decentralized system, built by the people, free from "big player" censorship and influence, in the wake of the 2008 crisis. If you are on the Fediverse, I guess you share that dream. But then the finance "bros" started coming in and badabing badabang now it's another asset you trade through your bank like stocks or gold. Then came the NFTs and yes, somehow "crypto" evolved into being the prime speculation and scamming vector.

And the same goes on for every news topic. "Trump!" "Gaza!" "AI!" "Climate!". Our brains try to reduce these mind-melting concepts hitting us all the time to simplified good/bad or us/them categorizations. And we're left utterly unable to actually tackle and act upon anything at all.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

I keep saying that humanity's toys do evolve spectacularly while humans are still working on the same basic impulses they've been dealing with for millennia.

Trump is a petty conman who does everything in his power to consolidate as much power in himself as he possibly can so that he can funnel as much money to himself and his gang as he can. That's not new. The environment he's doing in may be more complex, or differently set up than in previous iterations, but the core is depressingly mundane.

Gaza is just people hating people and other people supporting different sides while all sides give each other more reasons to hate each other perpetually, some more war-crimey, some less so. Tragic,, quagmired to hell and back, but not groundbreaking in and of itself.

As for AI, the framework is the usual capitalists trying to convince everybody that their new best revolutionary thing is a word sorting machine that can sort very, very many words now very fast. Trying to cash in on the hype is the eternal constant, the occasion this time is a very sophisticated chatbot/image generator based on all the materials the inventors could get away with stealing.

And climate stuff is just this generation of capitalists stripping the planet for parts while they can get away with it. The scale is bigger, but vulture capitalism is also not even remotely new.

Just like the principle of singular attributability of data via the blockchain is a fancy way of assigning stuff to one recipient. We've had approaches to this before. This time the blockchain's ledger system is the big new anchor for the human element, which will invariably at first be either grifters or people who wanna bash in other people's heads with it.

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago

I feel like its an advantage to know the analog way to do things in addition to the current norms. For example, navigating by paper map and direction of the sun, like some kind of land pirate.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago) (1 children)

Who do you think built Crypto? The millennials were the ones building everything in the last 10-20 years. Be sorry for the boomers. They built the infrastructure we stand on but tech has completely changed since they left the workforce.

And at least when the chase check glitch fad went around we recognized it immediately as a felony. Gen Z jumped right on that grenade.

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 1 points 10 minutes ago

Boomers didn't build shit, they just pulled up ladders.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 58 minutes ago

Us elders be here designing the shit that does crypto.

[–] Stepskippin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Y'all don't understand. We had to learn you don't have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm a xennial and I'd say I'm doing pretty good at keeping up, but I'm also a software dev so that probably skews things a bit.

[–] 1984 40 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.

Worth it!

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I am immeasurably grateful that the entirety of my youth is not on record.

[–] tinyvoltron@discuss.online 1 points 51 minutes ago

Right? AFAIK there's about 5 pictures of me between the ages of 8 and 25. A couple of those are driver's licenses.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 hours ago

I seriously wonder how much brain damage I avoided by squeaking in my teenage years before the invention of smart phones.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago

Honestly I understand better now why old people complained about computers so much. We don't even know what we lost.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 hours ago

FUCK YOU! I understand crypto and STILL have a VHS tape I never returned. pfft. arrogant youth. now where do i push to send this to reddit?

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

OK, this one kind of hurt a bit. I can't be the only one with a functioning VCR in the room with them right now...

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 54 minutes ago

The same room? Remember to take your meds

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was born in 1983 and I’m old enough to remember having only 5 tv channels, vcr’s, and you couldn’t get on the internet if your mom was in the phone.

[–] quinacridone@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can remember only having 3 TV channels, and they closed down sometime around midnight until the morning. You got the fuzzy black and white bits of CBR on the screen when they turned the signal off

When videos came out, only my richer friends had them and they were few and far between, we used to have an after school video club where we'd pay 10p to watch a film in the AV room (sat on a carpet of old piss stains)

The internet didn't exist, and I saw my first computer while at secondary school in the late 80's (I'm thinking BBC commodore or something, I can't really remember)

I feel so fucking old right now lol

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 1 points 3 minutes ago

Reading this made my back and neck hurt lol.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 3 hours ago

I may be older but I know how to take a selfie without my phone in it.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 hours ago

Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Crypto is an EMP away from being worthless

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm against crypto but this logic seems same as money is one fire away from being worthless.

Which is true. We just give worth to things to make it easy for transactions.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Also, modern money is also susceptible to an emp, arguably more so than crypto.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

It hasn't been that hard in my experience. Ignore shifts in the social landscape until the yung'ins reach a consensus about it, and always remember that time just before the dotcom crash when a company got venture funding to deliver tuna subs by mail.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cryptocurrency or cryptography?

The former you don’t really need to understand fully to use, but the latter is vital and indeed brain-melting.

[–] Mini@lemm.ee 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

I'll give you five chupacabra for a mothman

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 92 points 7 hours ago (30 children)

I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Yall seem to young to to understand crypto. Its original intent was to combat the crazy bad economic stuff from 2007. It’s not inherently a scam as a category. 2007s banking collapse was really scary when it happened if you were paying attention. It made 9/11 seem like NBD. Unfortunately not much has changed and you’ll probably get to see something similar again.

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