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   ahab said, 10 months ago

   While you are at it, saddle up the horse.
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   jack75287 said, 10 months ago

   I tell you there is a lot of truth here. In the past 22 years my hand writing is now awful. I often use the digital voice recorder on my phone to write stuff down later, on my computer.
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   Godfreydaniel said, 10 months ago

   My local school district doesn’t even teach the kids how to write cursive anymore!
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   dtroutma said, 10 months ago

   The great blackout of years ago showed we aren’t ready for even a minor blackout today, it’s gone downhill considerably since then. Of course, the ones who can’t write are the spawn of that last blackout when so many on the east coast only knew one thing to keep them “occupied”.
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   coot31 said, 10 months ago

   I grew up with the Palmer Penmanship method. I even “earned” a few certificates. But I’m left-handed so I had to cheat.
   Twenty or thirty years ago my cursive became so illegible that I switched to printing, using a mixed bag of upper and lower case.
   Then I bought a computer. but had to print everything by hand then transcribe it into the computer.
   Now I compose directly into the computer even though my keyboard skills are abysmal; but my cursive and even printing are even worse.
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   Eryx said, 10 months ago

   @jack75287

   I don’t think writing in cursive is your problem. While the advent of spell-checking on browsers is a help, it doesn’t catch mistakes such as “hand writing” instead of “handwriting”.
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   Eryx said, 10 months ago

   The larger issue of this ’toon has been ignored. India had a blackout that affected 600 MILLION PEOPLE (twice the population of the US). In much of the area (but not everywhere), there were backup diesel generators for apartment blocks and businesses. The grid was restored in short order, even though the source of the problem was unknown. Now, compare that to the DAYS that people in Virginia spent without power a few weeks ago, while the server farms that support Amazon (and their clients like NetFlix) were up in a few hours.
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   Fairportfan2 said, 10 months ago

   @Eryx

   “Dew knot trussed spill chick two ketch awl miss steaks.”
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   DrCanuck said, 10 months ago

   Our poor grandparents didn’t have modern conveniences; they had to watch TV by candlelight.
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    Eryx said, 10 months ago

    @Fairportfan2

    I dew note. ;^D
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    mdavis4183 said, 10 months ago

    Must be Oabma’s campaign headquarters.
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    cjr53 said, 10 months ago

    @Godfreydaniel

    Schools in my area no longer teach cursive. I wonder what these uneducated children are going to do when they are called upon to sign their name to some document, and can’t.
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    corzak said, 10 months ago

    It is a profound point being made here. Human civilization is now as dependent on electricity as it is on food and water. Maybe even more so.
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    Richard S. Russell said, 10 months ago

    “Q: What is the ONE critical infrastructure, upon which all the others depend?
    A: Electricity.
    Q: What is its most salient feature?
    A: Nobody knows how it works.” —Declan A. Rieb
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    38lowell said, 10 months ago

    In the US, you can see this coming! How will it affect our military preparations with chips made in China? The US elec. grid is at its max transformer warrantee, 40 years. In AZ, they had to get one from Korea, the only country that builds them for us. It took three months, with all kinds of bridge & road changes to get one (1) from CA. Now, Mitsubishi is starting to make them in Alabama. How many can they make before the outage that’s coming? PS: They still don’t know what happened in India with almost the whole country out of power. Happen here?
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