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  • Showed this information to my boomer mother who then asked my also tech illiterate step father what he thought.

    “We don’t send sensitive information through texts.”

    The ignorance almost physically hurts… Thinking that only the actual message content is important.

    Or ignoring the pictures we send and the private things I talk about with my mom.

    Do I think that specifically my information would be useful to China? Likely not. But I also have no idea what all is possible with that kind of information in the aggregate.

    At the very least, I assume they will use it to manipulate us even more with disinformation.






  • PS2 was definitely a huge jump to me, too

    The biggest detail for me being that characters blinked outside of cut scenes in higher resolution (for the time) games like The Bouncer.

    It stopped feeling like leaps after that. And even that, for me, felt more like polish.

    But I love the discussion and I like seeing where and how people draw the lines!



  • karashta@lemm.eetoRetroGaming@lemmy.worldThe water has waves!
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    5 months ago

    It’s hard to really describe to younger generations just what it was like.

    I’m an elder millennial (1984) and the changes to games within my lifetime has been breath taking and staggering.

    The first game I remember playing is River Raid on my brother’s Atari. I was a vaguely plane shaped black block.

    A couple years later, I find myself playing Super Mario Bros. A few more and it’s SMB3 and I’m holding a gameboy in my hands on the road trips to Florida to see my grandparents.

    Then the jump to SNES and Genesis. Seeing that depth and life seep into the characters… The music gaining in complexity…

    I even had a Sega CD and I remember how mind blowing it was when Sonic turned and ran towards the back to go through a loop instead of just side to side.

    Then for it was PS1 with Final Fantasy 7… Graphical cut scenes like moving works of art.

    After this point, yes there was still obvious and sometimes bigger jumps… But this is where it all was SO different each generation. Not just seeing extra small details and polishes. Large, discrete jumps forward

    I wish I could give my wonder to anyone who never got to experience it. It was an amazing time to live.





  • I only posted this in news. Not sure why you commented twice and both were basically saying the same thing.

    Directly from the article

    “To their astonishment, it was a 4 to 5-meter-deep structure offering clues to a settlement almost identical to the one in Soline. They also dug out several Neolithic artifacts such as flint blades, stone axes, and fragments of wood on this site.”

    I’m not personally saying that one building is a city but it’s a start.

    They never mention the university at Bradford, but speak of the university of Zadar, so I’m not really sure why you linked that article that is related but not the same.











  • karashta@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlthe debt
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    9 months ago

    The other person who responded to me made a very all written post but it gets a core assumption completely wrong.

    They seemed to think that tax revenue in some way has to happen for spending to happen. That’s why they think GDP has anything to do with our ability to service debt. But the federal government creates money ex nihilo.

    Money has to be created before it can be destroyed through taxation. Spending and back stopping creation of money by private banks through the reserve system comes first. You can’t destroy something you haven’t created.

    It’s sad, really. Economists and politicians have blinded everyone with what I think of as “the money delusion”.

    It doesn’t matter if the money can be “gathered up” to be spent on things we need. We do not rely on the money of the wealthy. What matters is actual, real resources and services we can provide.

    The national “debt” is a misnomer. That’s the amount of dollars left in circulation that have not been destroyed through taxation, as well as the “dollars” that pay interest which we call bonds.

    I’m glad to see at least a handful of other people who understand. Fight the good fight, fellow human.