As opposed to the constant devaluing of the US dollar we have now? Do you have any idea how much less our dollar is worth since the 70’s? They could have found enough gold to quadruple the known amount and it still would have left the dollar worth significantly more. No gold deposits being found the world over would have effected it nearly as much as our rampant inflation we have now. A loaf of bread was 20 cents in the 70’s and paying more than a dollar a pound for ground beef was unheard of. A GOOD living wage was $35k a year. That’s poverty levels now.

Good per ounce in 1970 was $35. Thirty five fucking dollars! Do you know what an ounce of gold is now? $4,800.

The only thing getting off the gold standard was good for was making sure peoples savings and retirement money would keep being worth less and less, because the “economy” doesn’t want you to save your money. They want you to spend it and have to borrow. It makes sure whatever you have been saving will never be enough to retire on. Oh; you managed to save a 100k for retirement? Too bad that by the time you retire that’s only going to be enough for a new truck.

I edited my comment. Yes. It totally helps.

I bought a game on steam once that I already had on epic for free. It was on sale for like $5 on steam(Hunter: Call of the Wild), and I was curious if all the shader pre-caching and optimizations steam does with the Steam Deck would have it run better with the steam version, compared to the epic games version.

Edit: my bad you guys. YES. It does run better. The pre caching steam games have is noticably gets rid of stutter. Mildly noticeable in a slower paced game like Hunter. Very noticeable in Borderlands 3 that’s higher paced.

Ah. The stuff the US dollar never should have gotten off of in the first place.

They aren’t invested in bonds and they only take loans because it’s cheaper than taxes on incomes and profits. This won’t really hurt the billionaires. They’re already divested out.

They started making shit TV’s (for their price) is why. They kept charging premium prices, but their quality of buying a TV that wouldn’t break like all the others dropped off a cliff.

Yes, but about 5 years or so ago sony started cheaping out on quality. You used to pay more for a Sony but the TV was better and more reliable than other brands. As of late, they still charged more, but they were just as likely to break or have problems than any other cheaper TV.

So was mine. Lol. I’m just old enough that I got around and saw books from other places.

Same book, but still color separated with business in yellow and residential in white.

Well what could possibly stop it?

There isn’t going to be any getting around it. At the absolute best, people will use ai for images and ideas, and then hand copy\draw\paint it themselves. AI with an extra step. Movie and game industry will definitely use it, because capitalism and eventually not enough consumers will care.

Life lessons. Lol. My entire plot of sabotage can be undone by simply pulling out the cmos battery. But the path it would take to get them to that point is loads of knowledge.

IKR? It’s way more fun to boot to the bios\uefi, adjust their ram and CPU clock speeds way down, then lock the changes behind a security password and just see how long it takes your kid to figure out what the hell is going on with their PC and how they can fix it.

Our generation is the most PC literate generation there is. This comic needed to come out like 25 years ago to be accurate.

In the past this was spot on. By today’s timeframe, your 40 or so year old parents know how to use a desktop PC better than most teens. Late gen X and millennials are the PC savvy ones. Gen Z and A don’t deal as well with using an actual PC.

My fresh beans, burr grinder, espresso machine, scale, and milk frother have proven the facts of science!

You can browse digg and reddit without an account.

I agree with some quality over quantity, but we really need a bigger base than 50k to get more people on. With only 50k there’s pretty much no user base for any instances\topics that aren’t very popular.

For instance, there’s no user base for an instance about yo-yo’s here. But reddit is so big that \throwers has a subscriber count as large as the entire user base of Lemmy. We don’t need 50,000,000 people here, but having a couple million would make a world of difference.

Reddit was nothing but an unused digg clone untill digg screwed themselves so everyone just moved over.

The user base on Lemmy is 40k to 60k. It’s held there for the past year. Lemmy did get a big increase compared to the sub 10k a few years ago, but a total of 50k users is still miniscule by comparison.

If digg opened up api calls (no idea what they’re at on this right now) and has better implementation for keeping out bots with fewer ads; all the sheep will enjoy being a part of a mass exodus.

It was less bad on digg around 2010 or so when everyone bailed from there to reddit, than what reddit currently is right now.

It’s still stupid easy to make an account and create a sub. I’ve been on the internet since no one owned a cell phone and a modem gave you less than 3KB\s speeds. I’ve watched a lot of .coms that seemed unstoppable become worthless in a manner of a few months. If a few million people decide to head over to digg, the other 40 million will happily follow. It will be fun for them to do. It happening is anyone’s guess.

There was a time when aol owned the internet, dogpile was the greatest search engine, Yahoo was the defacto email provider, Craigslist was the only and best way to make local sales, and MySpace was where you put yourself up at on the internet.