Of how the pre central banking united states currency was. Or any asset backed currency for that matter.
One day a dollar was worth X, the next Y the following day it was worth H. Then those thinking because it was worth X then Y they were going to be rich when it hit Z, suddenly weren't.

This is why people at the time preferred to be paid daily, stashed it anywhere and everywhere. Then didn't even bother to retrieve it on the lows(and why any house or property dating to that time always has a handful of these stashes). This is the reason states and territories had 2008 level monetary crises routinely and the country as a whole every few years.

People think now that this volatility is a good thing. It isn't. it solidifies the social classes, keeping the haves having, and preventing the have not's from saving. Because as long as the value does not equal 0, the haves will still have more than the have not's. And the have not's will stay have not's because saving anything would be dumb, because there's a high chance that tomorrow your wage for the day yesterday could be worth less. So better spend it today when you can get more or you may starve.

Yea it's almost as if there's a 5th column in linux determined to make it; worse, remove the gpl so 'one company' people can pull an apple, Or just otherwise make people use windows.

Exports more than it imports because it doesn't classify Canada 'tarsand' that it imports as oil, but the refined products after it as oil. Oil production in the united states peaked in the 70's. Thats why we had the oil shock in the 70's, we ceased to be able to dictate the price.
Safe flow and extraction rates. for long term oil field health. As in to minimize sudden ground shifting as you remove what's keeping it up int he porous rock. Which if done incorrectly can permanently lock of parts of the oil field is why 'armchair' analyzers are always wrong about 'we have enough oil for ourselves'.

Over blown and over hyped. Turns out gravity is 'really' good at bringing things down that have no way to keep up their own momentum.

First it was just someone no one heard of just, popping up out nowhere. Putting pull requests in multiple projects and distro's to add age verification.
Now a push to charge for access.
Next comes the knock on your door asking if you're using unauthorized software.

With how SystemD acts like the old Microsoft, assimilating everything into one giant blob of code violating the unix like philosophy. Won't be long till systemD asks this upon every boot.

Nothing you said disproves that. It's not a hack, just turning the og console into an emulated version of itself, at that point you might as well emulate the entire thing on a modern pc. Because you're no longer using real hardware and any advantages that come with that but all the disadvantages of imperfect emulation.

A hack would be tapping into the internal video data lines/output/traces to input into an hdmi encoder chip for an hdmi port. But no we don't do that now, we just cram a raspberry pi, and emulate the entire video subsystem to get an hdmi output. Or in this specific case. a Hack would be overclocking the actual chip.

I am hating the recent trend of sticking a raspberry pi into a retro console to 'emulate' part of it and calling it a hack.

If you're going to do that, might as well emulate it via software on a pc. you can leverage a full modern graphics stack, api's,a nd shaders to enhance the game.

Like that is 'really' what it will be used for. Instead of killing off political dissent and stopping movements like amelia before they get started.

Yes they do. When markets and Capitalism satisfy lower needs in the famous 'maslow's hierarchy of needs'. Peopl can turn to each other with less suspicion of them being a threat to these needs. It also helps when a society is more homogeneous culturally and racially because it gets past the primal 'us vs. them' tribalism our stone age brain runs on.

I'll simplify it.
The longer it runs, the more hard drive space the blockchain for bitcoin needs for you to participate.
due to the nature of bitcoin, nothing gets deleted from the blockchain. After all it's a permanent record of all your transactions. ie the basis of nft's and 'decentralized currency'
As the blockchain gets bigger, less and less will be willing to join in for the space required.
With less people, transaction times will go up.
Thus the value will go down, by a LOT.
Those who came in at the start will cash out before this happens, the rest will be holding the worthless bags. ie the definition of a ponzi scheme.

The entire thing was a ponzi scheme anyway.
I mean a blockchain/ledger that 'never has anything removed' and 'required to be on the network or have a wallet'.
Right now it's in the hundreds of gigs. mostly surpassing low priced 'physical wallets' due to the size and processing requirements.
Soon, sooner than you would like when it gets closer to the 1tb range. With ssd's not having the capacity growth that hdd's had and still have. Along with everyone mostly ditching hdd's People will be forced to drop participation, which in turn will slow transaction clearing time even more. It'll surpass many but the fanatics willingness to participate, many won't want near to over a terabyte of data on their computer dedicated this when it can be used for other things. The gig will be up, the price will plummet faster than an asteroid, and like all ponzi schemes those who came in not long after the start, get holding the bag.

Altering the behavior of bitcoin to sunset/delete block chain entries would do the same as it is the antithesis of the mythology built up around it.