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Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's way more children today with electronics/electricity skills than back in the day...
by tiagod 4y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's way more children today with electronics/electricity skills than back in the day...
- mikewarot 4y agoI'm pretty sure there were way more children back then who had practical skills, now everyone is pushed into "college prep" and discouraged from having practical skills, as they are associated with the lower class workers. The people who keep us all alive are viewed as less worthy... that's our problem in a nutshell.
- noirbot 4y agoIs that true? I feel like the drumbeat I constantly have heard for the last 10 years is that the trades pay really well and are easier to get into. Most of the electricians I know are definitely not "lower class". That said, they're harder jobs physically. They're not particularly good for your body a lot of the time.
- veltas 4y agoClass isn't all about money.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoAnd being a clerk instead of a workman isn't a ticket to the aristocracy either ...
- lupire 4y agoGetting a paid a lovit wage to stand around in air conditioning is pretty good if you can get it.
- veltas 4y agoThere are more levels to class than 'aristocracy'. A lot of it is just perception and known rules, and so the fact you know to compare a clerk and a workman means you already know there's a perceived or known difference in status.
- lisper 4y agoYeah, this. Two days ago we returned home from a short trip and when we turned on the tap for the first time the water pressure seemed unusually high for 5-10 seconds before returning to normal. I would have thought nothing of it except that about fifteen years ago I had experienced the same phenomenon after installing a water pressure booster pump in our house and so I learned the hard way about the need for thermal expansion tanks in modern domestic plumbing [1] and so I knew right away that our tank had failed and needed to be replaced. It's a pretty trivial DIY project, but only if you do it before your pipes burst. I suspect most people have never even heard of a thermal expansion tank. [1] https://homeinspectioninsider.com/thermal-expansion-tanks-installed/ https://homeinspectioninsider.com/thermal-expansion-tanks-in...
- whimsicalism 4y ago> I suspect most people have never even heard of a thermal expansion tank. I suspect that if you did surveys every year going back to the 19th century, in every single one of them the majority of people would have never heard of a thermal expansion tank.
- lisper 4y agoThat's because they didn't exist back then. But I'll bet most people could tell you why they had separate hot and cold water taps. (These things are related BTW.)
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- lupire 4y agoI have a joint hot and cold water tap, so...
- lisper 4y agoI'm referring to a setup like this: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/b0f25dc10b76dbe4_6198-w500-h666-b0-p0--.jpg https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/b0f25dc10b76dbe4_6198-w500-h666-b... where the hot and cold water come out in two different places.
- DonHopkins 4y agoNow it's Redstone in Minecraft.