Ditto books on manipulating people are far more interesting and far more useful

like, you're not going to find a basic algebra book useful, are you?

But some people will

Same

oof, coming from a programmer

Well not basic algebra but yes

Math is my worst subject by far

YOU GET MY POINT

The only reason why I almost failed high school

I took 12 rounds of shop classes in 4 years and almost fails calculas

See, most of my coworkers are people who would benefit from knowing those 12 rules.

They're good people, and inclined enough to try and learn something new and useful. But no one ever laid it out for them in an instruction manual

Funny though I passed English with a 98 which you would never know because I suck at grammar and spelling

I was good at shop. I just never bothered to take a 2nd year cuz I knew that eyeballing everything was only gonna go so far.

Measuring something ans math are two totally different fields

Wouldn't even consider them is the same form of thought.

Algebra 1 is the only overlap lol

Your ability to distinguish a set distance is done differently in your head then your ability to put numbers together to mean something about that distance

Don't need math to read a tape measure micrometer or to know how much you need to take off of a part on a lathe

Your ability to know that eyeballing something is not a good method of measurement is also something else lol

Fuckin whats with kids who cant read analogue clocks.

I'm accurate down to about .3mm for eyeballing it

Its the simplest shit in the world and I learn that half of my cousins 8th grade class cant read one.

And for larger things that I over 6 feet I'm accurate within 2-4mm

eh, analog clocks are unnecessary use of brain power

@Banks=Gay that's actually kind of sad

Because people’s ability to understand simple things like 12*5=60 and that there two hands which go around allowing you to figure the time is going as people don’t use them. Since everything is digital or computer

But it takes no effort at all to learn one.

Its not fuckin trigonometry.

They know how, they just don't want to do the math

Yeah, I know it doesn’t

Learning how to juggle is just as much effort as learning how to read a clock you're using a part of your brain haven't used before. then again though I can juggle so maybe I'm wrong.

It’s because kids themselves are stupid since they play bloody iPads and shit from day one and not go outside or other activities which don’t involve a bloody screen

I never had a phone growing up so I guess my reliance on unnumbered watches just made me think that way

I use an analog clock maybe once or twice a week, when signing into a warehouse, while trying to talk to the customer, and I don't have the time nor inclination to do math in my head at that moment

I learn how to tell time with no clocks like at all.

Yes but you can’t if you don’t have a screen

I get little weird internal mental notes when it's like 12 6 and the morning and 6 at night

My point is that parents failed when they start to use a computer to solve all of their woes with their children

I'm at most off by like 5 to 10 minutes when someone asks me the time I don't even like need to check my phone

Well aren't you special?

I think it's just cuz I lived most of my life outside