• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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    It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

    But I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I’m not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people…

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      As a person who prefers analog clocks I disagree

      What benefit does analog bring over digital other than nostalgia?
      Once is objectively faster to read granularly, by the minute

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      I perceive remaining time much better with an analogue clock. It’s also why I perceive time in fractions. I think it’s the superior clock, and people should probably learn to fucking read one since they’re everywhere.

      I also think it’s kind of insane that we’re not at least learning how to read cursive in schools anymore. There are countless documents written in English that English speakers will not be able to properly decipher.

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        To be fair i learnt cursive and i can still not decipher most of it, even my own writing (or rather especially my own writing)

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      It’s not useless.

      It’s just less useful that other things that should be taught in school. There is only so much time in a school year, and it shouldn’t replace those more useful things in the curriculum.

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    Wife, for years, thought the “second hand” on a clock was called that because it was the “2nd” hand on the clock…which confused her. Took her over 30 years to realize it’s the “seconds” hand because it counts seconds.

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    Ugh kids these days can’t even prime a Magneto What’s next morse code!?!

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    So many edgelords in the comments shit talking younger generations for learning different things.
    Y’all sound like old farts crying about how schools stopped using slide rules and how modern music just isn’t as good.

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      I think keeping analog tech along side the digital equivalent is probably a good idea, just in case. Plus learning varied systems makes for more adaptable and smarter people.

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        There is some truth to that, but this doesn’t seem like the thing to focus on, if that’s the goal. Surely there is a better subject to fulfill those needs.

        Like… If we all forgot how to keep time, and we had to invent a new system of time keeping… Surely we could do better than what we have now.

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          You sound like someone who doesn’t know how to read an analoge clock.

          I bet you could figure it out if you looked it up. And you would be better for it ❤️

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              Jokes on you, because just that you learned to read analogue clocks, makes your brain more plastic. I am sure you know what that word means, but for anyone else, plastic means adaptable. The more things you learn the easier it is to learn more things.

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                  Imagine life in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. All electronic devices have been rendered useless due to the EMPs from all the nuclear blasts. You, with your unfathomable ability to tell the time from an old wind-up clock, are viewed as a literal god among men (and women)

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            You sound like one of those edgelords who acts like grumpy old men who cry at young people for doing things differently.

            I bet you could stop talking and everyone would like you better ♥️

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      No publisher, no byline, no way to know what the source of the claim is coming from.

      But they did include a bit of meme art, so it seems indisputable.

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    1 if u dont kids how to do a thing they dont learn

    2 and more importantly; finally, analog clocks have no place in our wold and every last one should be in trash they serve literally no purpose, i have always hated them and i will delight in their death.