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[Rolan7]

why do people think fiction is real

like

they use terminator as an argument against AI

they use jurassic park as an argument against genetics

they're just movies goddamn

Same way people got inspired by old sci-fi, except getting scared is a lot easier than hoping.

[Putnam]

but they seriously seem to think that it's evidence

[RedKing]

but they seriously seem to think that it's evidence

They have a point. Independence Day *clearly* proves the superiority of Apple when it comes to infecting alien motherships with a virus. You can't dispute that.

[Bohandas]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

why do people think fiction is real

like

they use terminator as an argument against AI

they use jurassic park as an argument against genetics

they're just movies goddamn

Yeah, especially since Jurassic Park wasn't even really about genetics anyway (though it may have been intended to be), it was more about badly designed zoos. It's fundamentally no different from when those people in San Francisco got mauled by tigers that got out of their enclosures

[itisnotlogical]

The "Most American Thickburger" from Carl's Junior actually sounds kind of good. Even though it features hot dogs and potato chips among its ingredients.

[Baffler]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Cursive is hardly useless. It can be written much more quickly than print, and the only reason people have trouble reading cursive in the wild is because everyone gets it drilled into their head that cursive is useless for whatever reason, and the prophesy becomes self-fulfilling when nobody has any experience reading or writing with it.

[Neonivek]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Cursive is hardly useless. It can be written much more quickly than print, and the only reason people have trouble reading cursive in the wild is because everyone gets it drilled into their head that cursive is useless for whatever reason, and the prophesy becomes self-fulfilling when nobody has any experience reading or writing with it.

Then teach short hand. It is faster then cursive.

[Bauglir]

The "Most American Thickburger" from Carl's Junior actually sounds kind of good. Even though it features hot dogs and potato chips among its ingredients.

Sweet Eaglecrying Jesus, that sounds amazing. Why isn't it in my mouth yet?

[Bohandas]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Cursive is hardly useless. It can be written much more quickly than print,

Providing you're using a quill pen and don't care about how the result looks

[Rolan7]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Cursive is hardly useless. It can be written much more quickly than print, and the only reason people have trouble reading cursive in the wild is because everyone gets it drilled into their head that cursive is useless for whatever reason, and the prophesy becomes self-fulfilling when nobody has any experience reading or writing with it.

All the modern usage I've observed (by people who are like...  50+) has been this abominable mixture of cursive, print, and scrawl.  Knowing the actual cursive alphabet is just half the battle.  It's a stereotype associated with doctors, but I can attest that it applies to some nurses as well.  Fortunately the people I know have been transitioning more and more to print characters.

You're right that it's effective when people use it correctly and can read it, but that's not generally the situation anymore.  And I'm skeptical about *how* effective it ever was...

[Lord Shonus]

Apparently Tennessee is reintroducing cursive writing to its grade school cirriculum, and not to the history cirriculum either. I can't imagine any situation in which a person would need to know this; granted there are still a lot of situations in which people are expected to sign their names in cursive, but if we keep humoring them this outmoded practice will never be phased out (cursive signitures that is, cursive itself has already been phased out most other places). The only time somebody should be learning cursive in school is if they're a college student majoring in history who will need to be reading a lot of old documents.

Cursive is hardly useless. It can be written much more quickly than print

Multiple studies have found this to be a myth. People that have spent their entire lives writing legibly in cursive do not outperform people that write purely in print (most speed writing is a bastardized hybrid script that only the author can decipher), and cannot even approach print speeds while maintaining legibility. Add in that anyone with a reading disability has four to five times greater difficulty with cursive than print and the fact that most of the times you write by hand nowadays explicitly forbid cursive to be used, cursive writing has no reason to be taught. Reading cursive? That's still useful.


As far back as 1972, studies were using phrases such as "A preponderance of evidence gleaned from the review of literature indicated the superiority of manuscript over cursive." and "Intermediate grade pupils taught exclusively the manuscript form of handwriting write as fast or faster than do pupils taught to make the transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting. A significant difference in speed of handwriting in favor of manuscript was found when pupils were instructed to write, "as fast as you can." "


EDIT: Fixed broken quote tag.

[itisnotlogical]

Latin would be a useful skill to learn if it were still the primary language of western civilization, but it's not, so we don't teach it anymore.

Print characters are used in advertising, on computers, on packaging and labels, in textbooks, in instructions, in subtitles, just about anything you could conceivably read in day-to-day existence. Cursive only makes it hard on people who don't use cursive regularly (a majority that is only growing). Even signatures are dying as electronic forms and PIN numbers become more common. Let it die already.

[hops]

Why can a non-autistic actor not play the role of an autistic person?

You realize what acting means right?

BBT is not a documentary...

I don't really care, but it's apparently kinda dickish.
It's like painting a white person's skin black and have her play as a black person.

[pisskop]

I've heard Higurashi is a fun romp.

WTF did you send me out to watch?  The first episode was unbearable light and fluffly, and then . . .

EDIT: :V

[AlleeCat]

Why can a non-autistic actor not play the role of an autistic person?

You realize what acting means right?

BBT is not a documentary...

I don't really care, but it's apparently kinda dickish.
It's like painting a white person's skin black and have her play as a black person.

Or like having a cis man play a trans woman...