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Be kind to your elders (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (6 children)

So people who 35years old are elder now.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Before 1990?… fuck you.. I have kids born before 1990… elder my ass … I probably understand crypto better than you do…

I’m not bitter. Not at all.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

SMH. Dear boy. We elders were taking it to the streets in the 60’s and 70’s—in huge numbers. We organized without social media, were willing to face danger and arrest, and got shit done. We were using DOS before you were probably even born (do you know what that is?). While many of us are, in fact, fading, there are legions of us with knowledge and experience you will never understand until YOU are an elder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Don't confuse the politicians with the makers. They literally invented the entire backbone of the Internet.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Us elders be here designing the shit that does crypto.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days 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] 5 points 4 days 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] 69 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Your elders refers to people older than you, not necessarily elderly people

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days 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] 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's really not proving much of anything. These new "concepts" and "paradigms" are nothing more than buzzwords thrown onto old concepts. Every scam is a scam that's been done before even if there's a new layer of glittery wrapping paper over it. Who're you trying to convince more, the potential suckers or yourself?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (6 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] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The same room? Remember to take your meds

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Nope.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days 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?

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