• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    How so?

    I genuinely don’t understand the clock-face-reading-is-a-useless-skill opinion so both seem equally important to me.

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      4 months ago

      Fair enough. Most people don’t encounter analog clocks anymore. And many of us have smart watches or phones where we check the time. Since I have a non-analog watch, I don’t find I ever look at analog clocks anymore. If it’s in a room, I just don’t notice it. Growing up, it was important to know, but now I just never have a use for it. Learning is important, but there are so many more interesting and useful things to learn.

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        4 months ago

        Yea that’s kind of what I was thinking when I said eventually handwriting will go the same way.

        If people never encounter it and do all their writing on keyboards, it’ll eventually be a useless skill as well.