Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
MBech@feddit.dk 1 day agoMy thoughts exactly. This just screams “old men afraid of change, thinking everything was better back in the day”. The world is changing, things become obsolete because they’re replaced by newer, better stuff all the time.
I’m sure people were complaining that kids were getting stupider when they stopped using abascuses, fucking cursive (I specifically remember people being upset about this one), dictionaries in book form, fountain pens, handwritten exams.
It’s time for a lot of people to realise that they themselves have become the complaining old farts they always hated as kids.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I know a Gen X guy who “hates” digital clocks because “they don’t have hands to tell me what time it is.”
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That might actually be a perfect example of mental gymnastics. What a strange justification of just liking something.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I mean, not really. He knows analog clocks well enough that the hand position just inherently means something to him. Afternoon, and the little hand is almost halfway? Work day done! Just by position.
Somewhat analagous: I know how far a meter and a kilometer are, in principle, but when I consider distances I more intuitively understand them in feet and miles. It’s what I’m used to.