• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    And yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you’d be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don’t, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.

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        11 months ago

        Uh what, that’s literally the point lol. The “you won’t have a calculator” has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.

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          11 months ago

          Bro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years

          You’re talking as if everybody was carrying around pocket calculators the day they were invented

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            11 months ago

            No actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao

            If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn’t you go out and buy one?

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              11 months ago

              Of course. But, again, that’s not everyone. Not everyone went out and bought pocket calculators and carried them around everywhere.