Wasn’t that disproven by Snopes?
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
… And now read idiots who advocate that it is OK to not understand analogue clock:
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idiots on Lemmy were disproved? News to me.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If those clock actually didn’t exist anymore, than it really would be no point in knowing how to read them.
And there’s close to no point nowadays. If I was making some school curriculum, I would probably keep them because they are useful for teaching fractions. But I would look for an alternative.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 day ago
guess the new “go touch grass” is going to be “go read a dial clock”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re far less common than digital clocks now. Same with the bullshit cursive.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I genuinely don’t know where I would even find an analog clock anymore outside of school and I haven’t been in school for more than 20 years. genuinely do not remember the last time I’ve seen an analog clock, and I work in a lot of public government offices who are usually pretty far behind the times but even they use digital clocks. to the point that I just went to look had a picture of one and it actually takes me a second to read now.
I don’t understand why people are so obsessed on holding on to knowledge that is not relevant to your daily life, digital clocks are objectively better at the task of telling the time and it’s what exists everywhere in life now I don’t really fault anyone for not being able to read an analog.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The thing that gets me is that calling it a skill feels like a stretch. You need like 4 pieces of information to read an analog clock, most of which can be gleaned from looking at it. Sure, you might not be able to read one instantaneously without practice, but it isn’t exactly calculus.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You really can’t glean the information just by looking at it if you’ve literally never seen one before in your life. It’s hard to Envision if you’re just used to it, like I said I was a little slow to read it but I still know how I’m just not used to it so it’s no longer instant . But I also can understand that if you’ve literally never seen one in your life and never had it mentioned to you you would really have no way to know what the difference between the big or the small hand was.
Now if you did sit and stare at it for long enough you could eventually figure it out as the hands moved but most people aren’t going to sit there and stare at a clock for 10min to try and figure it out.
At the end of the day even mundane things can be a skill, and I do agree that there is a substantial lack of critical thinking as the generations go on it was a problem already in my generation much less these latest ones. All That No Child Left Behind and standardized testing crap really destroyed schools hard it went from critical thinking to just memorize the answer or skip the question if you don’t know, asking questions became bad and unfortunately that’s going to follow you into adulthood
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More I read USians, more I understand how come Trump was elected the second time.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is many reasons it happened but not being able to read analog clocks was not one of them. I’m sorry that it upsets you so much that I don’t agree but I feel like there’s a better way to express it than what you chose.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I saw that. It’s fucking breathtaking, the apologists for stupidity.
If I go start an account on a .ml instance and claim letters and numbers are colonial, patriarchal constructs and should be eliminated, I’ll be the most popular poster until I accidentally make everyone illiterate out of spite.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, and the level of upvotes these idiots have is truly shocking.
Lemmy is no way better than Reddit and the Idiocracy is a documentary.
I feel like fucking vomiting just thinking about it.