Overheard a bank teller the other day saying they're teaching cursive in school again. And she makes her kids hand write thank notes for b'day gifts.

Back In My Day we did cuneiform on stone tablets, and were grateful. Postage was a lot less back then too.

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Podrod 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Back in my day we didn't bother with this new fangled "writing" nonsense, we just remembered things.

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4gotunameagain 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a false equivalence. One is a tedious and deprecated way of writing, the other is a complete dependence in technology. Imagine if the power goes down. The kids won't be able to write anymore.

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1718627440 6 days ago | parent [-]

A typewriter wouldn't need power.

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4gotunameagain 5 days ago | parent [-]

Okay great. One in 10.000 that has a typewriter will be able to write.

	▲	1718627440 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		While they are definitely not in common use and probably have some defects, I don't think they are that seldom. Most are probably rotting in the cellar/attic.