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Don’t forget: - inability to milk a cow - inability to chisel messages on a stone tablet - inability to navigate the seas using only the stars - inability t
by christiangenco 3y ago
Don’t forget:
- inability to milk a cow
- inability to chisel messages on a stone tablet
- inability to navigate the seas using only the stars
- inability to light a lantern without spilling the oil
- inability to decipher a message sent via smoke signals
- inability to troubleshoot a malfunctioning sundial
- inability to sharpen a quill
- coldtea 3y agoSome skills similar to those would be great abilities to have still, and way more environmentally friendly and self-succifient than our current dependencies... But the comparison of those with the parent's list, as if to imply the parent's items are equally useless or "deprecated", is indeed very troubling...
- deafpolygon 3y agoSmoke signals environmentally friendly? Fun.
- coldtea 3y agoCompared to the "smoke" emissions of the huge infrastructure for electrical powered signals (whether directly fossil fuel powered or "renewable" using panels and wind turbines still built, transported, and installed with hugely polluting resources and processes, themselves powered by fossil fuels)? You'd be surprised. And that's just a first level comparison, a meta level would include the huge waste enabled by a real-time inter-connected world, over one with limited local signalling abilities.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoIf the material that is burned is wood, no net addition to the carbon cycle occurs. The issue with burning fossil fuels isn't the burning, it's the fossil fuels.
- deafpolygon 3y agoBut knowing people, they'll find some way to make cheap, quickly manufactured smoke signal machines.
- pvg 3y agothe GP's thing is a list of generic, nigh-ageless kids-these-days gripes so it's a decent target for light mockery.
- yawboakye 3y agothe parent list rues lost sharpness of mind/mental industry in the general population. a few people still have it, and it makes them our overlord, inevitably. compared thus, your list is nonsense: a careless slapdash composed in a quick, gotcha-y response to a well-deserved criticism.
- timrichard 3y agoAnd before the gramophone was invented, getting the latest tune for home entertainment often meant bringing the sheet music home and sight reading it at the family piano. I don't have a wider point to make about modern skill levels, but I do admire such things being fairly common.