Why the US Will Never Go Metric
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Bloody hell man, if we can do it you can too. It takes ~2 generations. My dad can't metric if his life depended on it. I still measure my height in feet. Still worth doing.
You don't realize that most people can't even count. Go to a cashier if they mess up the amount they pull out their phone. Try to make it easier but making it an even number and they still need to do it on the phone.
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
They were always this way. It just lets stupid people do jobs that they could not have done before.
True, but there are many people who have worked through and learned because they had no other option. Those people become competent at least.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
It's just funny because 1km=.62m. The kid was spot on.
intense eye twich at mixed units
I really hope the US goes metric soon.
Will never happen at this point. The shame has become a badge of honour.
'Murica
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@thanksajdotcom said:
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
I'll derail this hard, but it's worth talking about
The one thing that really scares me about having technology always around to "google" stuff, is it's making my memory shit. I used to be able to rattle off an absolutely terrifying litany of crap on nearly any topic. Now, I find myself just asking google.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Bloody hell man, if we can do it you can too. It takes ~2 generations. My dad can't metric if his life depended on it. I still measure my height in feet. Still worth doing.
You don't realize that most people can't even count. Go to a cashier if they mess up the amount they pull out their phone. Try to make it easier but making it an even number and they still need to do it on the phone.
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
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@MattSpeller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
I'll derail this hard, but it's worth talking about
The one thing that really scares me about having technology always around to "google" stuff, is it's making my memory shit. I used to be able to rattle off an absolutely terrifying litany of crap on nearly any topic. Now, I find myself just asking google.
They've done studies on this. More and more people are no longer remembering facts, but rather how they found them. So someone doesn't know something, and they Google it. A month later, someone asks them about it. They don't remember what the fact was, but they remember it was the third link in their Google search result and what the search was.
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@MattSpeller I want to say it was actually called "the Google effect" but can't remember for sure. I remember something about it in a post made by @scottalanmiller on ML about the memory.
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It was a video I believe.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
I'll derail this hard, but it's worth talking about
The one thing that really scares me about having technology always around to "google" stuff, is it's making my memory shit. I used to be able to rattle off an absolutely terrifying litany of crap on nearly any topic. Now, I find myself just asking google.
They've done studies on this. More and more people are no longer remembering facts, but rather how they found them. So someone doesn't know something, and they Google it. A month later, someone asks them about it. They don't remember what the fact was, but they remember it was the third link in their Google search result and what the search was.
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein -
I believe it was this post: http://mangolassi.it/topic/1753/you-can-t-trust-your-memory/2
Youtube Video -
There we go: found it! Go to 1:33. It's number 5.
Youtube Video – [01:33..] -
Ah I still worry about it. I think a decent memory is important - helps us with pattern recognition amongst a hoard of other stuff (which I've forgotten)
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That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
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@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.
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@jevans said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.
No, she just didn't know how clocks worked.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@jevans said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.
No, she just didn't know how clocks worked.
wow
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@jevans no kidding. I was a little kid and knew she was a moron.
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lol @scottalanmiller
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@nadnerB said:
lol @scottalanmiller
Some people will continue to argue the point even when they discover that they are wrong mid-argument. Ass-hats.I'm not sure she ever figured out she was wrong. Once you can't read a clock, you really just need to be kept in a padded room somewhere.
