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[–] [email protected] 12 points 46 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 26 minutes ago

Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 35 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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

Worth it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Crypto is an EMP away from being worthless

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago

I'll give you five chupacabra for a mothman

[–] [email protected] 93 points 6 hours ago (30 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 37 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

See, this guy gets it

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

As an elder millennial, I respect gen z and alpha for coping with modern society. It may just be a fond remembrance, but things seemed much simpler then. Creative jobs weren't threatened by AI, the tech didn't exist for corporations to spy on people, the US.. well let's not get into that.

I at least got to experience a decent time in history and built up enough context where I understand what is going on in the world today. That of course leads to irreconcilable sadness with where things are going, but at least I got to experience a wild culture shift.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

When I was a kid I always was amazed at things like my grandparents going from no electricity to microwave ovens and VCRs. I often wondered about huge cultural shifts and what that was like, going from preindustrial production to industrial or major shifts in religion that affected whole societies. Now I am experiencing it and it's very uneasy but exciting at the same time. Weirdness.

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