I don’t do all that much Covid testing, but I do wash my hands exactly 39 times per day. And I lock the front door exactly 7 times as I leave for work. I walk around my car 4 times, kicking each tire 3 times every time around.
The reliance on calculators is being trained in schools. Here in Germany, the school calculator market is firmly in the grip of Casio and Texas Instruments. Specific models are mandatory in schools, although basically all the students are carrying a smartphone.
Trained monkeys is exactly what society is becomng.
When I was a kid in the 70's my brothers and our friends acquired our bicycles by gathering parts at they local garbage dump and building them. I can't imagine 5% of 20 year old bicycle riders today could replace a tire on their bike. When I encounter today's 20 somethings it's usually because they lack skills I had when I was an adolescent.
My mother would not allow us to have digital watches when we were kids, instead we had to be able to tell her the time on demand on analog time pieces; and in 4th grade we had to learn/know our multiplication tables through 10 by heart. Today parents are giving their children smart phones that are guaranteed to prevent them from acquiring both knowledge and nonperishable skills. Instead of lerning to prepare their own meal they are taught to order from grub hub.
People joke about the coming zombie apocalypse. I say is already here.
Intellectual poverty indeed. Sovereignty poverty, courage poverty. We are so poor in so many different ways that we are like zombies staring at a screen much of the day.
I've tried to think of a monkey related pun to add, but you covered them all! 👏😄
I don’t do all that much Covid testing, but I do wash my hands exactly 39 times per day. And I lock the front door exactly 7 times as I leave for work. I walk around my car 4 times, kicking each tire 3 times every time around.
You can never be too safe.
The reliance on calculators is being trained in schools. Here in Germany, the school calculator market is firmly in the grip of Casio and Texas Instruments. Specific models are mandatory in schools, although basically all the students are carrying a smartphone.
Build Back Bonkers is right.
Trained monkeys is exactly what society is becomng.
When I was a kid in the 70's my brothers and our friends acquired our bicycles by gathering parts at they local garbage dump and building them. I can't imagine 5% of 20 year old bicycle riders today could replace a tire on their bike. When I encounter today's 20 somethings it's usually because they lack skills I had when I was an adolescent.
My mother would not allow us to have digital watches when we were kids, instead we had to be able to tell her the time on demand on analog time pieces; and in 4th grade we had to learn/know our multiplication tables through 10 by heart. Today parents are giving their children smart phones that are guaranteed to prevent them from acquiring both knowledge and nonperishable skills. Instead of lerning to prepare their own meal they are taught to order from grub hub.
People joke about the coming zombie apocalypse. I say is already here.
Intellectual poverty indeed. Sovereignty poverty, courage poverty. We are so poor in so many different ways that we are like zombies staring at a screen much of the day.
I've tried to think of a monkey related pun to add, but you covered them all! 👏😄