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    I would say “cursive is how adults write, you’ll need to know it”, but that wasn’t true then either.

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      Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!

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      “You need a pen licence because that’s what you use at work”.

      Um no. Secretaries, lawyers and journalists used typewriters and engineers used propelling pencils. Builders had these odd rectangular shaped pencils that could write on anything. Fitters and boilermakers used chalk.

      Only schoolchildren used biros.

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        I actually use it myself sometimes when taking notes. It’s just the natural way to write for me. It’s faster and more space effective.

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        I cant even read my own cursive from back then.

        Now i know how my teachers felt and why they constantly told me i write unreadablely. Used to be able to read it fluently lol

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    We don’t know what the appendix does, the whole pluto thing, I think the Oxford comma is going out of style, and cursive in general.

    But I love cursive, mine was “very nice” according to my teachers.

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      Eh, Pluto isn’t really something proven false, just that we found more objects like Pluto that made more sense in their own category. It’s classification, like there weren’t always separate categories for feature films and short films, there wasn’t a separate category for dwarf planets when it was just Pluto.

      Oxford comma is useful. I think what’s getting popular is just complete disregard for spelling and grammar.

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        My handwriting turned around after I got a fountain pen. I went from doctor to pre-med handwriting. Having to think more about how to form the letters has me taking my time. No need to rush when I’m writing with a fancy pen full of cool ink.

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    -Coequal branches of government -Separation of Church and State -Life terms for SCOTUS ensures political impartiality -The second amendment was so that we could defend ourselves (see: redcoats) -Bohr system

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    Haven’t seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there’s infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka

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      I am from germany. Sex ed is not just manditory but also part of normal lessons all two years. The body, genetics, sex itself and how a baby is made and how protection and STDs work and which are there next to condom and pill

      Funnily enought i wasnt present the whole male sex ed part so idk if they talked about queernes. Being in a psychiatric hospital they only had german, math, english, classes so litterly only the essentials

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        What do you want more? This is pretty specific, what was taught to them about gender and sexuality, in particular that gender only exists in two forms, and no mention outside of heterosexuality. Pretty sure most of us had a similar experience in school about these subjects

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    My sysadmin professor told me to not learn about tape backups because they are going away soon

    Like 3 years later ransomware was invented

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        I went to a trades school which offered IT computer systems as a 2 year diploma. Fast track to a job back in the early 2010s. That path would never get you into IT today lol

        The specific class I mentioned was windows system administration

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      tape backups are definitely still a thing. it’s one of the cheapest ways to store a shitload of data for a long time

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        I spend a portion every day removing tapes, shipping them offsite and inserting new tapes

        Annoying but must be done

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            No but look into datacenter night shift work. Where i am nobody wants that shift. Working in a datacenter is pretty fun

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              interesting. what sort of resumes are you looking for in a data center? security clearances? i have a devops resume, AWS, Linux etc.

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                Pretty much that but also ability to use tools and basic knowledge of air conditioning etc

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                  how do I find a data center role in particular? normally i am searching “Linux” to get devops roles.

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    The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was seen as just one of several possible theories, rather than accepted fact.

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    “This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy.”
    I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn’t have Fridays off, so that was a lie.

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    There are 10 Commandments.

    No - there’s 14.

    And most of them also have sub-commandments, just to confuse it further.

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    A huge number of aspects of the US’s geopolitical enemies, and its own mythologization of the Founding Fathers and early settlers.

    There was also a really bad political test with liberalism on the left and conservativism on the right, and we had to take a test and put what we got in front of everyone, which was very strange.

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    I learned that it’s not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things or remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.