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@ leadore @lemmy.world

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  • Question for those who didn't learn cursive

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  • Thanks, this is the kind of information I'm looking for.

  • Question for those who didn't learn cursive

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  • Clearly you haven’t seen many signatures. Mine is a scrawl that no one could identify, and I learned cursive a long, long time ago.

    I'm old and have seen very many signatures of cursive writers so I know that most are scrawl-like and only slightly resemble the letters they're based on. What I haven't seen is signatures of the non-cursive-knowing signers, which is why I'm asking the question and hoping to get responses from those who never learned cursive.

    For people who learned cursive, it's natural and intuitive to develop a unique, flowing signature that's hard for someone else either to forge or even guess what it might look like. So my question is trying to understand if those who've only ever printed also develop unique signatures like that, or if their signatures look closer to how they would normally print their name.

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  • Probably anyone over 40-45 or so who reached adulthood before smartphones became a thing. The first iphone was 2007 and it was still a while before everyone had one and the addictive apps took them over. So even if they had cell phones in their teens or tweens they would only have been talking and texting with their friends on them, IOW socially interacting face to face with people most of the time.

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  • You could try talking to older people who didn't grow up with a phone plastered to their face so it wouldn't be weird for them.

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  • Then Fox bought it

    OMG I didn't know that had happened! :( When I was a kid my grandmother got me a subscription to it every year for Christmas. It was great.

  • Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino to retire, sources say

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  • He should be in prison, instead he gets a nice retirement package.

  • Montana halts permitting on all weekend rallies at Capitol, thwarts upcoming ‘No Kings’ event

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  • All those people who keep telling us protesting is useless please explain why republicans in power keep trying to suppress protests. What are they scared of?

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  • Hmm, I would say a monkey would be an obvious choice since they can manipulate objects and do all kinds of things, are also fluffy/cuddly, and there's a potential for two-way communication. Possibly an ape, though it would be bigger--maybe too big and not as cute, and it could easily kill you if things don't go well.

  • Is it just me, or...

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  • I've seen just a few that I suspected were AI, wouldn't be able to prove it but they had that vibe--they were personal stories where someone describes something that happened and ask for people's opinions about it. Some of the lines were very typical AI-cliche sounding to me, and the situations didn't seem like something that would really happen . So I wouldn't accuse the OP of pasting slop in for the entertainment of watching people argue about some made-up situation, but I also wouldn't reply to them either. I've read that they're getting that kind of thing on Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened here too.

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  • God forbid we finally get rid of DST and save people from car wrecks, industrial accidents, and heart attacks if it makes you have to adjust offsets once in some software.

    watches downvote counter while all the techies rage-click the down arrow

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  • That's how it should be of course. Problem is businesses and companies still follow standard business hours and make their employees show up at the same time no matter if DST is in effect or not.

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  • Yeah given a choice, I'd rather have light after work instead of before. Unfortunately when I lived in Montana, the winter days were so short that I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark. The only light I saw was going outside during lunch break.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Even more wild is they assume there's going to be a real election.

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  • Or more likely, you live in the northern US, or Canada. The further north, the more extreme the length of the long and short days are, which explains much of the split in whether people want to go with standard or DST when debating this.

    The idea of having narrower time zones, say by adding a new one, is an interesting idea to mitigate the large difference in how people experience the time zone based on if they are at the east or west edge. Shifting the existing ones around would only change who is affected but not how many.

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  • This is the most reasonable approach, and it meshes with medical studies about how DST affects our mental and physical health. We don't need sunlight until 9 or 10 pm, and the sun is supposed to be approximately overhead at noon, not 1pm.

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  • Yeah I saw a map like that illustrating how which side of your time zone you're on makes a big difference. I wonder if adding another time zone so they're all a bit skinnier would help with that aspect of it.

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  • The problem is that if you're far enough North, the days are so short that if you work full time, no amount of clock-adjusting will keep you from either going to work or going home in the dark.

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  • They went about it in a stupid way and now we're doomed for all time because it gets pointed to as proof we can never end DST 🥲