Complete community skill index
Skills Technology Is Making Less Essential—and What We Lose
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Music, art, and craft
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, photography, dark, and room with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 220 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to develop film and use a dark room
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, photography, digital, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 138 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That’s unironically picking up popularity right now. Many wedding photographers bring a film camera now
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photography, photos, camera, and good with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 90 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Professional photography.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trees, machines, logging, and tree with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 42 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Tree cutting, like lumberjack stuff. Machines doing the job have actually made it safer for workers and reduced the number of deaths caused by accidents in the profession. Edit: Some of you think I mean local arborist companies or tree trimming services. I don’t; those small jobs should absolutely still be done by trained professionals. I’m referring specifically to large-scale commercial forest clearing as part of the logging industry, which is where most deaths occur and why machinery like grapple saws are helping keep logging workers safe.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects porn, fluffers, hard, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 37 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: porn fluffers. Ever since cialis and viagra have become more commonplace, this classic art is disappearing.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, will, now, and artists with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 30 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As someone who is both shit at and has no real interest in STEM, it’s very frustrating to see arts and humanities— especially any careers in those fields— get systematically slaughtered by AI.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects field, camera, depth, and take with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 19 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A few years ago when some NFL games started using a certain type of Sony camera on the field which had very shallow DoF, some people on Reddit were discussing why it looked odd, or “like a video game.” One commenter theorized that the camera had a “portrait mode” effect on and I nearly lost my mind.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, photography, camera, and going with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 19 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If it gives you any hope, I gave our teenage son my Argus C3 for his film photography class. I felt like if he was going to do this he needed to do it completely analog.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects graphic, design, designers, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It is actually the inverse. AI is simply a tool in the graphic designers toolkit. We have been using AI as part of our workflow for well over a decade at this point within the Adobe suite.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, develop, dark, and room with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 13 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also quickly being replaced by digital x-ray technology.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects canva, design, designer, and folks with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Canva runs out. I teach graphic design to students and also professionals. The professionals classes are about 80% marketers and campaigners for NGOs who have run out of Canva templates and need to learn InDesign. Canva is not really a serious solution for orgs over a certain size and market share. AI has definitely killed a scale of freelance project, but is mostly useless at a high level where consistency and modularity are desired.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects armpit, farts, fart, and making with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Like making further noises with your armpit, can't tell you the last time I saw someone do it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, will, point, and made with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Art derives its meaning from the act of creation by a human being. AI “art” is just sludge, utterly devoid of intent or meaning. I would buy 1000 of your roughest sketch before even considering spending a dime on that garbage
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects professional, good, camera, and take with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A lot of people agreeing, but I have to disagree. I'm learning. I have a cheaper Nikon DSLR camera. I'm learning a bit about how things work with lighting, exposure, f stop, etc., which is a big thing. However, the framing of the subject, the backgrounds, the setup, the angles, the time of day, the little things that make a photo that anyone can take with a camera or phone to an actual professional photo. You can have someone like me take a very amateur photo even with a good camera and very (absolutely very!) basic knowledge of the settings and a professional and they're going to be leagues apart. Even in the same location, same subject, same background, etc.. Professional photographers are professionals because they have "The Eye". I swear that they can take something simple and turn it into a masterpiece. We take a picture, they take a photograph as a work of art. Very, very rarely can a non-professional get a photo that's worthy of being called something that would resemble a professional photograph, and that's because they got lucky. Professionals blend the science of the camera and the light and the art of the visuals and instincts to create masterpieces. However - I guess I'd agree that the appreciation for those masterpieces and works of art from professional photographers have gone down. Too many people pushing mediocre work as professional (iPhone photos with some AI assisted filters) and people fawning over it as their baseline for photography. You want to appreciate good photos? Get a non-phone camera and go out there in manual mode and take some good pictures. It's not easy. I'll never be a professional photographer, but I'd like to learn to do better and get some good ones to print and put around the house. The real professionals are few and far between, and they need to be appreciated and celebrated. There's a guy at the Oregon Coast that does some damn amazing work that I'm going to buy a couple prints from for support (that, and they're just really fucking good!).
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, art, drawing, and never with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also sometimes (and by that I mean quite often) AI can not reproduce the image you have in your head. So you have to do it yourself or else it will only exist there...in your head. Granted, people probably still won't pay you for your art but at least you can release your vision onto paper.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects instrument, musical, playing, and bias with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Another good example is that you can boot a PC, start software and click together a guitar track and drums. But wouldn't you rather learn to play an instrument and enjoy doing it?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects jobs, labor, done, and other with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Unless you're already in the 1%, you wouldn't be able to afford a kitchen or bathroom at that point to have it remodeled, so its a moot point. Thats the kicker though, as white collar jobs are eliminated the labor pool for blue collar goes up. At some point there are enough desperate bodies that'll do anything for food and shelter that nothing manual will be automated- other than the security/military to keep them in line.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, music, never, and way with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: All I can say is that I'm sorry. Maybe it's like how only certain people get goosebumps when they listen to music?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects company, economy, global, and market with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Big corporations have figured out ways around competition. Everything from making stuff subscription based to purposefully making products more complicated than they need be has a negative impact on the consumer's ability to make informed decisions. And that's before we get to the duopolies where niether party is really competing with the other to make better or cheaper products (smartphones are a good example). Capitalism was based on the concept that consumers woud choose the best value. Then the free market makes the whole economy more efficient and everybody wins (some more than others but in theory when competition works we all have a shot to get a bit wealthier). As it stands now capitalism is broken, in large part because corporations are able to exploit data and technology to a much greater degree than consumers can.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, learn, drawing, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Do you not value the process, or the fact that you are the one to have made it? Most of the fun of creative hobbies is, y'know, the creating part. AI can only give you a picture, not the experience of having made something.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, digital, physical, and media with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Eh. If you're looking for money then digital art did, indeed, take a major hit. Even the 'just kidding but no really' fallback option of furry porn took a hit. Physical art is still physical art, though. AI can't do oils or charcoal. It was never a huge moneymaker in the first place, but it's still there if you enjoy it enough to live for it. My main reason for doing it (drawing from life) is because of how it activates my brain and basically changed how I view the world. And yeah, I suck at it lol. It's like working out despite knowing I have zero chance of being athletically noteworthy.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects time, anything, folks, and lot with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being an artisan or owning a skill that you can afford to make a liveable business off.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects camera, pinhole, class, and making with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Did you ever have to take the Quaker Oatmeal box and make a pin hole camera? Memories
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects music, amp, production, and ads with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Music production
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automatic, manual, test, and license with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I agree as I’m in uk but I don’t think it will be for that much longer. Think all plug in hybrids, normal hybrids and evs are autos within the decade getting a manual from new will be hard and then over the next decade the existing manuals will start dropping out of the used market. As for the automatic licence stigma again anyone passing in an ev or hybrid is getting an auto licence now
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, black, developed, and white with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I get film developed all the time. I'd need to get five rolls developed to hit $65. Admittedly, I also scan my own negatives and decide what to print based on those scans, so that's usually a cost saver.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, don't, ideas, and now with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Art.. i grew up, drawing, painting and in general wery blessed with anything created with hands..now ai is taking over and i feel like it will never be the same. People don't need someone to paint something, they can print an ai created amazing picture.. they don't need new ideas from people, they get the scetch, ideas and developed words to paper from ai...I'm now useless
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects gotta, wasn't, work, and already with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’d love that job
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photos, photography, phone, and take with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Bugs me that modern multi lens cellphones use multiple points of view and computer magic to infer what used to take much more glass to do.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects attention, without, able, and doom with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Attention span.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects draw, point, learn, and able with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: >I was going to learn how to draw but whats the point The point is to express yourself—to discover and cultivate your soul. No tool can do that for you.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, class, edit, and hands with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You're lucky to have had a hands on approach to art, to physically touch the material and process it, getting your hands dirty, there's nothing like it. My film 1 class was the last one to actually edit film by hand, splicing it and gluing certain sections together then projecting it on a silver screen. I loved it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects breath, control, kind, and made with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My niece looked utterly gobsmacked when I played hers and made it actually sound good. It's all about breath control, people!
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, jobs, job, and llm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > - Low level coders yeah probably ppl who did shitty basic things for really low wages are totally fucked. For the most part though it's still just a tool and any of the roles you described can use an LLM themselves and still do far more than an LLM can do alone.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, marketing, research, and company with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m sure you already know, but if you’re looking for the bullet point language for your resume, this is referred to as UX design (user experience).
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects birthday, nobody, after, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The key is writing them on your personal calendar (cause who uses Facebook anymore?)
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects editing, need, point, and photo with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Eeh, people still need it, it's just different than it was. You need someone to take photos at your event or of your family because you don't want to do it. Photo editing though, the client can do that themselves or the AI does it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automatic, manual, license, and premiums with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Depends where you live, insurance companies in the UK, for example, charge lower premiums on people with a manual license vs an automatic only license. So it definitely still makes a lot of sense to pass your driving test in a manual car and get lower premiums for life.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automatic, manual, car, and hill with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I live in the mountains and I need a manual. When it snows a lot, you have to be able to rock the car back and forth to get it moving. It's really hard or impossible to do with an automatic, especially when the traction control starts going crazy.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pbs, agree, disagree, and goes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As someone who studied journalism as part of my university major, I'll agree to disagree. As far as TV news goes, PBS Newshour is the only broadcast that goes into detail and presents information long enough so that a person can decide how they feel about an issue. They also clearly indicate when it's an editorial segment versus a regular news section. So like I said before, I'll agree to disagree respectfully.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects argus, light, meters, and photography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It is. They have light meters at school and I told him he can also use mine (which also dates to the 50s or so). He says there are now apps for light meters which probably work pretty well. He also won’t have to do flash photography, though I have bulbs if he wanted to haha. His teacher had never even heard of the Argus C3. Not sure what that says.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, black, bulk, and develop with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I used to develop my own films. Black and White was so cheap. WHY is it so expensive now?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects communication, capitalism, jobs, and good with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I worked in a variety of blue- and white-collar jobs; I've found that it's like a bell-chart out there, sharpest at the end: the lowest-paying jobs have low literacy, the mid-tier jobs have a good level of communication, and communication excels until you get to the highest tier (CEOs, etc.), where literacy completely falls apart. The highest-paid people I know and work with (I'm taking multi-, multi-millionaires) can barely string a sentence together.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, expensive, lose, and market with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As the market shrinks the chemicals become more and more expensive as they lose economy of scale and the few remaining producers lose competition. The rising prices have caused many schools to shutter their film photography programs, further shrinking the market, which causes prices to go up again and as they are now specialty supplies. Most likely it becomes the domain of a small group of very dedicated hobbyists/artists with money.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects encarta, encyclopaedia, died, and guy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Those have died with Encarta. And Encarta died with Wikipedia.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects amp, recording, real, and setup with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I use a hybrid analog/digital setup for recording guitars. Record amp using a load box, take the room out of the equation using an impulse response. It’s the closest thing to a real amp you’ll get without miking up a speaker
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects exposure, print, process, and same with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I wanna get a real exposure unit for sure but it’s low on my upgrade list
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fittings, rings, those, and pipe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sweating pipe fittings.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects advertising, cost, jobs, and until with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know visual effects and mostion graphics. That's being replaced by AI faster than anyone would guess.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photography, wildlife, smartphone, and camera with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I do wildlife photography as a hobby and I follow the work of some wildlife professional photographers. There is not way one can do wildlife photography with a smartphone camera. It is not something one can do casually without some level of specialized equipment. Also, specialized equipment automatic modes are very good but a basic understanding of photography is still needed.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cell, phone, home, and number with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I remember getting an award in kindergarten for being able to recite my home address and phone number in case I ever got lost so I could tell a stranger to get me home safely.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects writing, pleadings, way, and contributing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Literally, yes it is. Or, that's at least a huge contributing factor. I have been the subordinate contributing to a superior's sudden uptick in positive feedback and performance reviews because people tend to like my writing, and I enjoy writing, so I always got handed any long-form written assignments because I generally complete them quickly and without the need to even bother proofing them. Ironically enough I pivoted to law and my legal writing professor HATED my writing style and told me flat out I'd be laughed out of court if I submitted pleadings the way I write. I refused to change my writing style (and took a big ding on my grade because of it) and I was right to be stubborn because my writing samples are what got me interviews and job offers. I'm far enough in my career that I have my own client roster and generally manage my own work now, but my managing attorney that owns the firm still hands off a lot of more complex pleadings or any pleadings requiring novel arguments for me to do because judges seem particularly receptive to the way I write. Shocker, people whose job is to slog through hundreds of pages of written work actually pay more attention when it's not structured the exact same way every other pleading is structured!
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects yarn, able, basic, and cheap with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to hand work stuff with how much yarn costs and the price of labour its way to expensive for basic things that a machine can print out for dirt cheap
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, graphic, profession, and ammonia with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This really drives home the essence of graphic design. We aren't artworkers, we are visual communicators. Its why AI wont kill the real graphic design profession, only the artworker profession.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects music, court, downloaded, and affects with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I could be wrong as I was 11-12 when the whole Napster thing was going to court and Metallica’s drummer was crying in court about how this affects more than just his (millions) bottom line, but everyone else. And while I think there may be some truth to that, the contrary argument also is what was presented. People downloaded this music, either based on recommendation or just trying to download something that was mislabels and mostly a virus. Those people then went and saw the band live (my self and my friends in middle school) Warped Tour wouldn’t have been on my radar at all hadn’t I downloaded some Blink 182, Greenday, etc.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photos, prints, almost, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: We don't even print photos anymore, Digital screens rotate the 10k photos we took that autobacked up every night.... From only select folders! Sheet of Wallet prints anyone?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects anyway, human, resumes, and after with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Resume writing. With the application process being the way it is, I find it pretty hard to believe people are going to put that much thought and effort into their resumes for much longer. After all, why bother when 90% of them will never reach human eyes anyway? Just have AI generate something based on your work history and, if you're feeling ambitious, edit out the hallucinated bits. No need to be genuine or human when companies don't particularly care about that part anyway 😮💨
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects prices, competition, consumers, and based with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 100%! The big companies have told the lie that they’re keeping prices down so being a “monopoly” is actually good for consumers. The problem is in 2007 we entered the worst recession in 80 years and companies didn’t have pricing power, they couldn’t raise them much. Then after we “recovered” the economy was still too weak to raise prices, so they couldn’t. But in 2020 when inflation was “hot” companies raised prices massively. Yes inflation was real, but every company I saw that raised prices didn’t maintain margins, they grew them, IE prices went up so profit could go up. Now they’re going to start doing pricing based on the customer: in stores they’ll recognize your face and your spending capability, online they know your shopping habits, in either case they’ll extract the most amount of money they can from you. Now we’re seeing what monopolies actually do, they are not good for consumers. Never mind they kill competition from starting, and the competition that doesn’t exist can’t hire workers and can’t keep money local but that’s been true since the mid 1990s.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tires, don't, tire, and aren't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dunno, I've purchased parts for many different common things and a knowledgeable salesperson will absolutely save you a lot of hassle.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photography, professional, appreciate, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Photography will take a huge hit. You'll be able to use a high end phone like an iPhone or Galaxy and AI will go in and to the post processing for you. If you're a photojournalist and shoot news and sports then it won't affect you because you are shooting in JPG so you can get the photos out asap.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects alphabet, farting, farts, and i'm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Farting the alphabet.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, writing, hand, and i'm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Try one. Even their cheap Go! line write great, albeit absent the panache of the 530 style piston pens and the 700 style vacuum fillers. :D I had a problem with hypertrophy in high school due to using shitty half-dead Bics hard enough to make them write. This lead to a big hand muscle squeezing a nerve in my hand which lead to pain during writing for years after that until the low-effort (fountain pen) writing eventually led to the muscle returning to more normal sizes after a decade or so. :| Still, if it wasn't for that cheap Sheaffer, I'd still have pain every time I grabbed a pen so I choose to take the win here. :)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects digital, media, physical, and love with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Physical media really hits different than digital media. Don't get me wrong, I do love digital art but there's something magical about the tangibility of non-digital mediums. But sometimes the digital media lends itself to a final physical product. For example, I'm really into painting miniatures for dnd and with the magic of a 3d printer, they go from digital files to real, tangible objects that I can hold and paint.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects brush, signwriting, another, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Don't know about useless but old school signwriting with a brush and gold leaf signs have become a dying art
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ask, facts, memorizing, and questions with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memorizing facts and trivia. Used to be the smartest person in the room was whoever could remember the most stuff. Now it's whoever knows how to ask the right questions and filter through information quickly.Still see people in meetings trying to flex by reciting statistics from memory when everyone else just pulled up the same data on their phone in 5 seconds.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects artists, draw, tattoo, and trace with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: ai isn't replacing tattoo artists anytime soon
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects data, information, phone, and seconds with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Learn to memorize data. Before it was a sign of intelligence to know dates, formulas or capitals by heart, but today any cell phone gives you the answer in two seconds. The crazy thing is that we continue to evaluate students as if they were human libraries, when the true value should be in knowing how to interpret, connect ideas and solve problems. People believe that memorization is still a 'key skill', but in reality it is becoming a useless decoration in a world where information no longer has value on its own.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects minecraft, play, memory, and muscle with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have good muscle memory of Minecraft and how to press the buttons and I know many people play Minecraft these days but I feel like more of this generation doesn't really know how to play Minecraft and over the years I've gotten good enough muscle memory that I could just play it when I turn on Minecraft like I don't need to like go through all the steps of doing it I could just do it without even thinking it
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, movies, actual, and come with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Learn how to develop film for tv and movies? It’ll be even more niche… but more money
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drawing, able, better, and bother with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Drawing is about observing. AI can't observe for you.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, teaching, age, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: FIGHT BACK, don't let whatever skill, craft or hobby you enjoy, become obsolete. It does not matter whether you do it for money or love. Just be sure that you have this despite the onslaught, the juggernaut of 'progress'. There will always be someone who will benefit from your knowledge and teaching.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, veterinary, around, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I loved developing film at the vets. We took xrays of this dog and he was peppered with buckshot. Owner had no clue when it happened.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects point, tutoring, able, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: At this point it feels like every skill Ive learned. Writing, editing, tutoring, graphic design, photoshopping, I was going to learn how to draw but whats the point when a robot would be able to do it 10 times better in a fraction of the time
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects make, book, calligraphy, and far with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have a friend who is lovely but also an economist so she tries to monetise all of my hobbies. I made some cute bookmarks for myself and a few family members. "You need to sell those!" I wrote a short story after years of not writing. "You should publish it on Medium!" I learned how to bind a book from scratch to make myself a journal. "Do you want me to help you set up an Etsy account?" I just want to make wonky shit for my own enjoyment.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, artists, becoming, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A lot of these seem to be skills that have been depreciating for a long time. For something that is becoming useless faster than people realize, most of it is things that AI will replace really soon. \- Special effects artists \- Low level coders \- Stock image photographers \- Marketing and Social Media experts Things like that fit the question better.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects armpit, fart, able, and make with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to make a fart sound with your armpit
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, wasn, absolutely, and cared with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It seems to get overlooked that it wasn’t just pirated music that spawned the lawsuit, but that they were hearing one of their songs on independent radio they knew for a fact they hadn’t even released yet because it was unfinished. This absolutely had to involve someone in the inner circle of Metallica HQ. Who knows if Lars would have even noticed or cared if it wasn’t for that…
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manage, photographer, hasselblad, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This. My friend who is an excellent photographer gets shots out of his phone that just blow anything I can manage out of the water, because he understands the composition of the picture. I'm not a terrible photographer, but his photos always have a certain quality to them that I can never manage. And when he uses his fancy Hasselblad...
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects vowels, fart, prefer, and you'd with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can fart the vowels if you'd prefer.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects available, dirt, simple, and tools with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Similarly, video editors. Now, mind you, what people can do with easily available tools is just dirt simple editing, much like the dirt simple photography we're getting. But, it turns out, once there are widely available tools for "good enough", there are less people willing to pay for excellence.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects marketing, design, designer, and designers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A LOT of jobs out there that still need good designers (I am one). I worked in a marketing department at a university for a couple years, rebranding said university from every aspect of the marketing and advertising funnels. They were also doing web and needed a designer to help out with their design system which I jumped on. Fast forward years later I’m working in-house somewhere else as a principal ui designer, but I am still heavily involved in marketing and print. There are a ton out there. My degree is in graphic design and I just sort of fell into UI/UX. I always suggest to print designers to pivot a bit into UI/UX and look for anything in house, because you’ll quickly discover they need help with marketing. It puts you in a unique position within the company
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects first, camera, pentax, and spotmatic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ha! That is hard mode, for sure. Good luck to him. That’ll be a steep learning curve, but will be very cool for him when it starts to click. My first film cameras did at least have meters (I started on a Pentax Spotmatic in the 90s), but I didn’t get my first auto-exposure camera til I went digital.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects link, removed, iphone, and photography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not that guy, but here’s some old pics I took on my iPhone 5 back when I got bored with photography and started only shooting and editing on my phone (non professional work obviously) [link removed] Edit: few more [link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects blowing, nintendo, cartridge, and fix with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Blowing into a Nintendo cartridge to fix it
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dslr, lens, angry, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I had someone angry and confused how she couldn't get the same photos on her iphone as what I got with my 20MP DSLR with a 600mm lens. She kept insisting that it had more megapixels so it "must" be better.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cartography, manual, already, and arcview with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was a geography major, and I was in the very last class that learned hand drawn, manual cartography. It was phased out the next semester. ArcView and Freehand had already replaced it a few years prior. I just took it because it looked fun.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects can't, machine, anything, and doesn't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI will never replace any of those skills, because they all require human input and decision-making. Read an AI-generated novel sometime and compare it to even a mid-level author's work. A machine can edit your grammar, but it can't edit your content, because it doesn't know what anything actually means. I ran a music school for years, and the biggest takeaway from the entire experience was that there is no substitute for a human teacher. A machine that doesn't understand anything can't adapt to a student's needs. A good teacher changes their approach to suit their pupil, and to be honest, that's a skill that precious few teachers have in the first place. A machine can take some market share, but it can't think, and it can't make decisions, especially not creative ones.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects advertising, cost, filmmaking, and videography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Watching AI generated advertising videos that cost $6 that show locations around the world, that would formally have cost hundreds of thousands to shoot, leads me to believe that videography and advertising skills are about to take a huge hit. Filmmaking is also in danger. The tech is advancing so fast, AI is fairly easy to recognize now, but it won't be long until it will be almost impossible to distinguish AI from the real thing.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fraction, chart, chunks, and clock with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And yet when people want to visualise what fraction of something goes where they put it in a pie chart. With a digital clock though ... No visual chunks of an hour for you! Just numbers.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects arts, bachelor, and degree with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A Bachelor of Arts degree.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects meal, without, able, and enjoy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to enjoy a meal without a video/music/talking
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, going, keep, and vinyl with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yes and no. An individual can gain all the skills and materials to press vinyl, while film has to continue to be produced for analog photography. Nobody is buying film without a camera to keep the industry going. Makeshift silver plates or something could keep going after film is gone ... interesting road to go down...
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects navigation, airliners, pilots, and foreflight with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As another aviation nerd (and former glider pilot, but navigation there is completely unrelated to all of this) i can confirm this. Radio navigation still exists widely enough that airliners can always rely on it, airliners still have inertial navigation backups (computers just using math and last known location to figure out where you are now) and the “paper maps” is something pilots use several off every flight anyways. Its an app called Foreflight and its ubiquitous from hobby pilots that rent cessnas just to fly the minimum hours to high-hour captains on A380s.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects criticism, informed, replaced, and arts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Proper, considered, informed criticism of performance, film and visual art. Good criticism used to be part of the arts ecosystem, keeping audiences (and artists) informed and curious. The generation of critics who made criticism an artform in itself is dying or retiring, and the space for published critical thinking is shrinking, replaced (where it’s replaced at all) by enthusiastic but naive influencers who lack that depth of context.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects learn, notes, read, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There will always be nerds who love that sort of shit who learn to read it. Same as those who can read music notes - tabs and digital audio workstations have made notes fairly redundant but there's still people who have a desire, for fun, to learn that. I wouldn't go so far as say vital
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects career, equipment, guy, and knowledge with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There is an independent guy in Plattsburgh, NY who started his photography career in the Army and continued it professionally as a civilian. He has so much knowledge and all of the equipment, but after 50 years, age and pain forced him to retire. He couldn’t find anyone who was interested in being an apprentice. I wish someone would film a documentary on this guy to celebrate his career, preserve some of the knowledge, and capture the equipment used before it goes extinct. [link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects apps, good, meter, and photography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The meter apps are genuinely quite good and accurate tools. I personally use LightMe, which is a bit more advanced and has a lot of features, but isn’t the most intuitive. Lghtmtr is also good and simpler to learn! But, I think from a process perspective a regular meter works a little better than most of the apps I’ve tried. I really like the Sekonic Twin Mate, which is really basic, but it shows you all the different shutter/aperture combos for a given exposure in a way that I find really clear. In any case, I hope your son has a ton of fun learning photography!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects recorder, player, baroque, and best with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My best friend plays recorder professionally with baroque ensembles all over the world! That being said, no one is really just a recorder player. It’s an instrument usually doubled by the oboist or some other wind player.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects troubleshoot, able, adults, and booming with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Useless? No way, not at all. I troubleshoot/fix smart homes and low voltage tech stuff for a living now, getting close to clearing six figures this year. Being able to troubleshoot technology, understand how things are going wrong and deploy solutions is a booming industry for adults that grew up in the 90s. I was born in 88
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects alphabet, burp, film, and another with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's wild how many of these were once considered peak coolness or essential knowledge. I remember practicing the alphabet burp for hours as a kid, and now it's a completely useless party trick. Even practical skills like developing film have been made obsolete for most people. It really makes you wonder what current skills we're mastering that will be totally irrelevant in another decade or two.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photography, alt, die, and let with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yup. And a ton of alt process methods too. Real photography nerds will never let it die.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects you're, might, others, and probably with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Depends on the designer you're commissioning, I suppose. Some artists get REALLY offended by AI in general (which is valid) and would probably be turned off working with you without thinking any further. Others will understand what you're doing and appreciate that you're not using AI for the final product. Some might feel like their creativity is being stunted because you're essentially presenting them with a concrete visual starting point rather than them needing to be creative and figure it out themselves, and others might not give a shit. It's probably best to just ask the artist how they like to work before doing anything.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bartitsu with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: bartitsu
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bass, boondoggle, cake, and dance with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also making boondoggle items is in a bit of a downturn. Luckily cake building, bass catching, glamour photography,stallion taming, tetherball and most importantly freestyle dance are still going strong.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, baking, coffee, and develops with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to develops film with instant coffee and baking powder!
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects years, text, able, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think being able to use a CLI based text editor is rapidly becoming useless. I was in a class a couple of years ago where we had to edit a script, I just used VI like I have for years and the instructor actually told me I wasn't editing the correct file (I was). He'd just never seen anyone use vi.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects commercial, music, ads, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Commercial music production. I say commercial because true artistic expression will always remain. But a lot of people who produce shitty trap beats for YouTube ads will be out of a job once companies realize they can use AI for the music in their ads.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, today, away, and big with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The big customer for photographic film today is in cinema - there is still quite a lot of film/TV that's shot on film - [link removed] . Colour film is complex, and today there are only a handful of manufacturers (Kodak, Fuji, Harman, Orwo, Lucky), but B&W film is considerably simpler - to the point that it is possible to coat plates at home from bulk chemistry. I don't see B&W going away for a long time.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dental, assistants, can't, and digital with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Did that in dental offices for years. I'm a dinosaur, I can't take films with digital sensors now. Our assistants do it for me.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mouse, draw, kinda, and sucks with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah it's also kinda like trying to draw with a mouse...which sucks.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, always, developed, and i've with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah I've developed and scanned my own b&w, but I always preferred E6 film.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i'd, kids, birding, and photography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > Professional photography. For civilians the skill is useful when documenting your loved ones and other important personal events. Having used full frame since 2005 I'd be doing medium format 2025-onward if I had a family to record. I'd personally steer clear of birding unless you want to stay away from your spouse/kids/grand kids.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects stone, now, world, and arrowheads with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah. There are probably more people fletching stone arrowheads now around the world as a hobby right now than there ever were at one time in the stone age. That doesn't mean it's a skill that means very much in the modern world.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects advice, giving, history, and listening with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Giving advice to people who have a history of not listening to it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects guitar, playing, assume, and idk with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Idk playing guitar i assume, because thats what ive been doing
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hand, make, comics, and science with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My old molecular bio professor used to make us draw comics about every section in the book. My hand hurt and I sucked at drawing. We all resented him for it. He was famous on ratemyprofessor for being a dick, he took handwriting to the next level. With that being said, if I have kids I’m going to make them hand write essays and such. Science shows there’s a direct connection writing it by hand and memorizing it. Idk if it’s the same for typing on a keyboard
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects exams, learning, obscure, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Passing exams. I have so much beef with exams. One-time stressful event that oftentimes is a part of rushed learning experience with little to no time for proper practice to actually learn and remember stuff. Instead, you have to rely on short-term memory to provide an answer to obscure tasks under obscure limitations only to forget everything almost the second you're done. I feel like it defies the whole purpose of, you know, learning something.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects complimented, way, craft, and ai'd with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Bro, this is one of the reasons why AI is winning out over humans, an AI isnt going to get pissy that the way you complimented it wasnt the way AI'd like to get complimented. They appreciated the results of the effort you put in your craft, thats what matters (and you getting paid for your services, which, since you didnt point that out when it'd be a FAR more frustrating outcome, I assume they did.)
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects information, human, beyond, and bloggers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI still gets a lot wrong though since most AI is scraping the internet for information. The quality of that information is poor because it is generated by AI filtered through SEO buzz/keywords, or bloggers that just list expensive things with minimal effort and information to get referral traffic/commission. I dabble in sales and people are starting to realize that. Human salespeople still give more valuable information and shopping experience because they can talk at length about a products features, strengths, and shortcomings that go beyond specs or marketing bullshit.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, cameras, due, and format with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This will still be relevant, due to medium and large format cameras, as well as infra red film
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drawing, art, can't, and ditch with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm an art teacher and I regularly tell students that want to improve their drawing to ditch pencils and start using only ink. If you can't erase, you'll think more about what you're doing.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects inkscape, app, desktop, and easier with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If a desktop app is OK, [Inkscape]([link removed] is very good and its pen tool in spiro mode is far easier to learn how to use well than most other programs.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fewer, film, after, and again with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: We have 6 places to get film developed in my medium-size city. It’s true labs are fewer and fewer, but film is continuing to grow in popularity again. After a few years of things looking bad with a lot of stocks discontinued, more and more people are getting into it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects assembly, film, almost, and arts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Graphic arts film opaquing, stripping and flat assembly. Rubylith cutting. Lots of people still have the skills, but the need is almost entirely gone.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects number, farm, cell, and check with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 672-6155, the number for our farm. 15 member party line. I'm 68 and have to check my own cell number sometimes, but this one is stuck in my head till I die
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects monochrome, develop, film, and negatives with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to develop monochrome film, into slides (not negatives)
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects antimlm, baby, bring, and buy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If you have to pay a company to start working for them or buy some package and also need to bring as many people with you as possible, that's an MLM baby!! r/antimlm
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fun, hotel, room, and slides with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I had a job where I had to shoot tons of party pics at events at resorts, run back to my hotel room, quickly turn the bathroom in my hotel room into a darkroom using towels and tape to seal any light leaks around door, develop color film, create slides and insert into slide reels within a few hours and show the slides to the participants set to fun music. It was fun, tedious and stressful all at once!
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects largely, particular, term, and agree with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I largely agree with you but I don't think the people skills part of selling will ever go out of style. Salespeople largely became/are becoming grifters. We still get cult leaders. It's all the same skill just amplified to a particular level and with a particular goal of either short term or long term gains.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects blots, developing, fashioned, and few with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You may have luck with developing western blots in a life sciences laboratory setting as I know quite a few labs still do it the old fashioned way.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects negatives, box, life, and normal with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Talking of which... I got like 300 glass negatives and a box of film negatives and positives from \~1900 to 1930. My family has had a hobby of photography since... well as long as Finland has had photography. Fantastic thing is that they are from normal life scenarions, they aren't from special occasions really but normal life. I got like 20 that are about a surgery being performed in a hospital \~1910 to 1920. I am in desperate process of trying to get them scanned and archived as they been basically neglected for 50 years. Here is an example of few I took a picture of with just my phone and a light box. [[link removed] I'm in process of getting a professional (used) scanner to do this. As we got hundreds of negatives and THOUSANDS of photographs from 1900-1960. And there doesn't seem to be **anyone** in this city or area who could develop them authentically. (For the sake of conserving history). And we got a god damn university level art school.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clarinet, extrapolated, piano, and play with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I extrapolated how to play piano and clarinet from that, so… still useful I think.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ammonia, rotring, bloodshot, and copiers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I used to be really good doing drawings with rotring pens. Making copies with ammonia copiers. Ah, those bloodshot eyes
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects animals, anthropomorphic, dragons, and draw with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How well can you draw dragons and anthropomorphic animals?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, super, anti-helation, and backed with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Film seems to slowly move towards a renaissance, at least that's my impression. I tried to buy super8 film this summer and everywhere was sold out. Granted some of it was caused by Kodak switching to a new Super8 film without the carbon backed anti-helation layer, but still. I think your skills will hold increasing value over the next decades.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trace, tattoo, artists, and cant with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I used to do tattoos. You would be surprised how many tattoo artists cant even draw. They just trace. They just use ai to make the image and then they trace it.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects access, dumber, getting, and intelligent with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Increasing access to the technology increases the participation of the less intelligent, allowing for more visibility, Younger inexperienced people and less intelligent people have access to the tools to create and participate, the perception that people are getting dumber is due to increased access. I don't think people are getting dumber, I believe dumb people are becoming more visible through access.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, graphic, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing and graphic art.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects acrylic, oil, painting, and everyone with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Oil painting. Everyone uses acrylic now.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects running and walking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Walking and running
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Where commenters report limits
School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. Unfortunately, the dark rooms are allegedly completely gone now.
This would be wonderful if it lead to StarTrek. Unfortunately it leads to technofuedalism.
Source-record spotlights
I know how to develop film and use a dark room
School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. Unfortunately, the dark rooms are allegedly completely gone now.
I'm already rated -1 on this is exactly the uncharitable phenomenon I'm referencing: people misunderstanding first and asking questions later (or never); I have a deviantART account and people just ghost my pretty niche, well-labored creations nowadays for whatever reason...at the very least, social doesn't value art like it once did (in the course of my lifetime). (Virtually instant down-rater: You should try to *comprehend* before you reflexively denigrate; the latter borders on nihilism, and there's such a lot of believers in said Nothing that you're dragging down the genome)
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What the counts show
140 indexed entries draw on 716 distinct source records. Darkroom film development and printing has the broadest support in this group (220 source records).
Archive: 140 index entries preserve 716 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Sport, movement, and outdoor skillsComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Sport, movement, and outdoor skills
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cars, manual, new, and automatic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 40 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They’re disappearing over there too thanks to the efficiency of the new automatics. Automakers just aren’t opting to build them anymore in a lot of cases.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects logos, files, pdf, and vector with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: People designing their own logos are a massive problem in my industry. They use shitty online apps that create raster logos (jpegs, pngs etc) and those files are completely useless when it comes to recreating that logo as a physical sign. I spend more time vectorizing logos than I really ought to do because people think they can save a few bucks doing it themselves.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automatics, efficient, automatic, and manual with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 14 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The efficiency thing was always a lie told by people who liked standards. It was never more efficient to drive stick for virtually anyone. In practice some of the earliest commercial automatics were beaten by professionals but not the vast majority of people. That situation was also only true for a few years. The reality is there is maybe a few thousands people world wide who ever lived that drove a stick over an automatic and it was more efficient. It's a common thing to hear people say but the numbers are so small virtually nobody has ever met someone who managed to achieve greater efficiency then an automatic, only people who thought they could. It also hasn't been true for anyone at all for well over 30 years already.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, grammar, don't, and i've with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To the point that online writers who *do* use proper grammar and punctuation now get accused of their stuff being written by AI.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects punctuation, grammar, spelling, and etc with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Be me. Learn about m-dashes and use them all the time. Then, dumbass AI witchhunters decide writing well is a sign you're not a real person.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects key, lock, locks, and getting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Lockpicking.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects number, phone, matt, and same with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 2004ish I got a cell number with my name as the last 4 digits. I answered a call at like 2am and they asked if I was “Matt” - which of course I am. She was drunk and looking for the previous Matt that had the number. She was too drunk to understand. Over the next few months she called every time she left the bar, often kicked out. At first my girlfriend was suspicious, but it became clear after a few calls. Luckily it was harder to take your number when you switched providers back then, so she became some other Matt’s problem.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects meat, hunting, before, and bit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hunting
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects unicycle, ride, always, and completely with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ride a unicycle
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects farming, sister, apparently, and becoming with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Farming
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects areas, bedding, bit, and hunting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: So could you just go sit in the woods for a bit, or is killing something crucial to the relaxation?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects real, world, will, and physical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Exactly this. **online**. That's where AI lives. That is not the real world, and we will always go back to the real physical world for validation, not to mention, that's where WE humans, interacting on this forum, live. The real, testable, measurable, atomic, physical world. So one can imagine a scenario where people that rely on AI will lose their ability to validate anything in the real world - the REAL WORLD - and they will become useless. Like can't troubleshoot a cash register type useless.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects face, e-bikes, riding, and bike with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Riding bikes. Why pedal into an intersection when e-bikes can do it for you?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects don't, along, anymore, and bottles with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I don't care for certain politicians which my neighbor supports. We don't talk about it and he's been super great. Let us help ourselves to his garden, gives us bottles of home made wine, called the cops when sketchy dudes were on our property and helped us when our pipe in the garage broke (we were too panicked to be useful in the moment). Its possible for people to get along despite differences but no one wants to anymore.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adapted, combine, eliminated, and everybody with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They said the same thing when the combine eliminated 50% of farming jobs pre-1900. People adapted and everybody had to be literate to get a job.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects guy, local, anchors, and app with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The local TV folks get to work before the crack of dawn. They sit there and repeat the same things over and over, all day long. You go eat dinner, turn the TV on and they're still there! What a boring job to have. They can all be replaced by a free news app: the weather guy, the sports guy, the traffic guy, even the "anchors".
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dance, revolution, and play with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dance Dance Revolution 😔
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects copies, hard, anything, and find with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How to find hard copies of anything.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bicycle and riding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Riding a bicycle
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects canoe, kayak, paddling, and bother with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Paddling a canoe/kayak There only seems to be a handful of outdoor enthusiasts who bother learning
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects disrespect, even, keep, and peace with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Tolerating disrespect to “keep the peace.” Really takes skill, even though it's self-abandonment at times.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects combined, great, physical, and they're with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They're great when combined with a physical token like a Yubikey, though
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects unicycle, hoped, juggle, and lucrative with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can juggle and ride a unicycle. Not quite as lucrative as I had hoped.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects becoming, even, every, and few with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And knowing how to pirate things keeps becoming useful every few years even now whenever there's some new push to lock people into pre-curated walled gardens.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects motorcycle, buy, and riding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Buy a motorcycle
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects route, times, motorcycle, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I still do that, technically. Every time I go out for a motorcycle ride, I plan my route by looking at the map before I leave, and there have only been a few times that I deviated from my planned route. Less than 5 if I don't count the times I was re-routed by a road being closed for construction.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sportmanship and sportsmanship with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sportmanship
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects always, silence, quiet, and tinnitus with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: growing up I've always been fond of natural occurring silence in life. now i have tinnitus. i still like ambient silence but sadly ill never experience true quiet ever again. Most of my friends over the years always wonder if something is wrong when i happily just sit there quietly enjoying just the physical company. its odd and a little irritating at times.
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Source-record spotlights
People designing their own logos are a massive problem in my industry. They use shitty online apps that create raster logos (jpegs, pngs etc) and those files are completely useless when it comes to recreating that logo as a physical sign. I spend more time vectorizing logos than I really ought to do because people think they can save a few bucks doing it themselves.
The only brief time that automatics were less efficient than manual was when they were controlled by massive and complicated analogue hydraulics and basically only found in ridiculous rich people cars. Don't even get me started on towing. Automatics are probably the only reason that every idiot with a trailer isn't currently upside down in a ditch somewhere.
Letter writing, typing, real research, pedaling a bike, driving a manual transmission car (stick shift), talking to people face to face, being chivalrous,
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What the counts show
28 indexed entries draw on 122 distinct source records. Manual-transmission market decline has the broadest support in this group (40 source records).
Archive: 28 index entries preserve 122 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Trades, tools, and makingComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Trades, tools, and making
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, work, jobs, and robots with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 21 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: galaxy brains in the thread "robots will be able to cover the jobs listed in the future as tech progresses." "heres a situation using unrelated current technology as a rebuttal." ???????
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tree, trees, will, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: True in a way, but professional arborists will always be in demand no matter how advanced their tools become.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects job, modular, computers, and jobs with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Anywhere a human is being paid to do a job, someone’s working on ways to get that job done without them. Computers can layout wiring, plumbing, and HVAC diagrams on new builds, and modular approaches to the actual components means the installation is faster. This, in turn, means you need fewer plumbers, electricians, and HVAC installers to work a given area. Then there are entire modular homes where the electrical wiring is built into the kit. Not to mention “3D printed” construction. Once upon a time kids were told the future was in computers. Everything’s going to be computers. If you learn how to install and fix them you’ll never be out of work. Then they came up with self installation and remote diagnosis, and suddenly the only IT jobs were in Hyderabad and Bangalore. Doesn’t matter what your job is, someone’s trying to get rid of it. If they can’t get rid of it they’re working on doing it with the fewest possible humans and making sure it can be done with the least possible training.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trees, machines, logging, and mechanical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: New school logging is so much fun
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machines, mining, money, and bolts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The same thing happened in coal mining. Machines are safer than miners.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trees, chainsaw, birch, and cut with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah except that those machines are wildly expensive. It's a lot cheaper to just go out there with a chainsaw.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects safety, least, regulated, and that's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: if you worked with middle managers, you would realize that safety is not paramount regardless of how much they shout that it is.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checks, check, writing, and called with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing checks
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trade, will, work, and you're with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also, trade jobs fucking suck and have no real retirement plan. I worked a low level trade job once, and everyone there had fucked up their backs, knees, etc. It's all great when you're young, and the money seems easy for the effort, and you don't have to go to school. It's not so cute when you're only 40, and you're walking like an old man. It was that job that convinced me to go back to college.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mining, machines, underground, and bolts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Aren't they just doing open pit mining where they use gargantuan machines to dig the stuff out with less workers on site?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects last, years, forgery, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah, a forgery would be too perfect. That said - falsifying a physical signature is a pretty rare crime these days. And physically signing documents - I think the last time I did that was on a friend's then fiancee's (now wife's) immigration paperwork in 2020. And that had to be signed in front of an on-duty cop or certain other approved witnesses.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects heli, need, helicopter, and logging with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Helilogging is a thing. Its not 100% machine but it's close.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects work, build, cost, and already with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I wouldn't be so sure. They have already built an autonomous excavator that can clear and level a programmed patch of land and build a stone work retaining wall out of the stones it found during the excavation. Robots can work in smaller and more awkward spaces than humans, and are already used for many hands on jobs that used to be done by humans.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects communication, written, apart, and apply with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You're confusing skills that are becoming useless with skills that people are forgetting/not practicing Knowing how to write properly is a very useful skill still
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tasks, jobs, dexterity, and complex with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Except for the literal hammer swingers. It seems mental jobs are being replaced more than trades nowadays. Maybe when AI takes over they will still use humans simply for their dexterity.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, chad, finger, and make with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: >No tool can do that for you. Said the Chad finger painter to the virgin paintbrush user
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects robotics, already, catch, and humans with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It'll be longer than that, because once they catch up, they will also need to catch on in large enough numbers that mass-production can start to bring down the cost of the robotics hardware (and changes in manufacturing takes a while.) Human-task robotics has those two big hurdles: sufficient AI, and affordable body. Both will presumably happen over time, but I suspect they may develop sequentially instead of at the same time.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dyslexic, able, addition, and app with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Some of are just dyslexic.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thoughts, writing, persona, and argument with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Most perceptive comment of them all, AI must be drafting emails saying things people had never thought of at all, slowly creating, forming, then deforming their persona into.. slop.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects anymore, arm, balls, and behemoth with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Whatever machine the county uses to maintain our ditches and power line right of ways is crazy. Big tracked behemoth with an arm tipped with a disk loaded with 4 lengths of chain and cannon balls on the ends. Thing doesn't harvest trees it blows them into match sticks. Makes the feller bunchers look tame.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, dying, executioners, and far with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There are far less executioners than there used to be, it's a dying art.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drafting, aided, best, and catch with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I took drafting. That computer aided drafting was never going to catch on, right? But, at least I still have the best handwriting you can imagine. I even handwrote this.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ass, becoming, can't, and convince with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It can't. Ai is a white noise machine that we made specifically to convince us that it's more than that. It has no ways of becoming an income, and thus, it's gonna plummet, as investors realise just how ass it really is.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, answer, can't, and damn with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Answering the damn phone. Why can't people just call each other? They'd rather sit texting all day and now being able to answer the phone a talk is gonna be the same as having a trade. Hi do you have any skills? Yeah I can't talk on the phone, cool you're hired and in the future that skill will be useless because no one wants to answer their damn phone.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, definitely, educational, and hours with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It definitely isn’t. I’ll spend those scarce, valuable educational hours teaching my kid to code, thanks.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machine, before, came, and complete with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Technicians came from Japan to L.A. to train me on a one hour photo processing machine. Before then, I had been working on an A5 handprint machine. The kind you had to pull these curtains and hand feed the paper through spools in complete darkness.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, work, next, and ones with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Drafting. That got me interested in being a mechanical engineer (at which point I realized the two don’t relate 🤣). Oh well - the degree ended up being of value.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects gwt, insight, moz, and sucked with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Very true. GWT was the only insight we had, and it sucked. Remember Moz?
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hand, notes, written, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have to go back and read my hand written notes from projects years prior to find wood stain recipes and be forced to decipher my condition of cursive and manuscript. sometimes it's so bad I go out and apologize to the ladies in the office who enter my hand written notes into job files. Which hey always tell me I'm one of the carpenters with better hand writing and at least they don't have to text me pictures of my handwriting asking what it says😅
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machine, arm, long, and quilt with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to quilt on a long arm sewing machine.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manufacturer, sadly, and manufacturing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sadly any manufacturer skill
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects alpha, characters, especially, and fool with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Especially if it's numbers only.... Maybe if you use the little sentence trick as a way to utilize something you won't forget. But I pity the fool who only uses alpha numeric characters.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, work, next, and ones with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Trade work. A lot of people have no idea how fast robotics is developing. That's not something you have to worry about this decade, but by the end of next decade there will be robotic plumbers and electricians. There will always have to be a human coordinator overseeing the work for the foreseeable future, yes. But that's one person overseeing a machine that will retire a dozen people per-unit and cost pennies on the dollar to operate compared to the cost of paying human contractors and electricians. A great many people are telling their kids to go into trade work because it's "safe", an 1/10 of those kids at best will retire in those fields. The ones who do will be the ones who excel and, plausibly, the ones who take their education beyond trade work into actual engineering. The age of the "entry-level" blue collar tradesman is on notice and it's coming so much faster than people are prepared for. If you're an aging tradesman, thank your lucky stars. If you're a kid just going into your field, I _STRONGLY_ advise you to spend this time wisely, save your money so you can take your skills to the next level. You'll be approaching middle aged when this shit hits, and if you weren't aware, there's basically no industry on Earth that is keen to hire a middle aged person transitioning from one career to another. You need to be thinking about how to make yourself more valuable, how to take what you want to do to the next level, whether than means an engineering degree or also taking night classes in business management, or something to that effect. The age of the grunt is ending. Quietly, slowly, yes...but _inevitably_.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects vaccine, makers, and manufacturing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Vaccine makers.
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Appears when: Arts, trades, and physical skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects welders, always, demand, and gonna with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As long as there’s steel, you’re gonna need welders. And good welders will always be in demand.
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Source-record spotlights
The same thing happened in coal mining. Machines are safer than miners.
Most perceptive comment of them all, AI must be drafting emails saying things people had never thought of at all, slowly creating, forming, then deforming their persona into.. slop.
This is a horrible way of thinking, not only they can and WILL, but your sector is now being swarmed with billions of workers that lost other jobs and theyre probably more inteligent, cheaper and eventually more skilled than you, congratulations, now youre earning pennies and plumbing robots are around the corner.
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What the counts show
35 indexed entries draw on 99 distinct source records. Robotics trade-automation forecast has the broadest support in this group (21 source records).
Archive: 35 index entries preserve 99 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Communication and literacyReviewed category with meaningful source-backed subcategories.
Reading, language, and referenceComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Reading, language, and reference
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, gps, maps, and way with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 314 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basic navigation, like reading a map. Now they're digital, and point the way with a colored path + pins, not to mention voice navigation.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, maps, phone, and google with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 45 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I doubt you would struggle with a physical map if you are good with digital one
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, graphic, canva, and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 38 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Agreed. And from the print side of things -- people can make logos and flyers and whatnot in AI and Canva all they like, but there are diminishing returns there, too, because they almost always hit a wall when it comes to making real stuff that represents their brand, business, organization, whatever. I work in an apparel print shop right now and I've seen all kinds of slop come in that we've had to either turn away or charge to recreate because most folks don't have the training or knowledge to generate something that can actually be printed, or easily adapted to multiple uses. At some point they're going to learn that their 60-billion color, 200 pixel, 72 PPI jpg isn't going to work when they want to make banners or tee shirts. My best advice for new designers is to focus on building solid production skills for whatever medium you want to specialize in (print, web, video) so you'll be ready for those folks. It also helps to be ready to explain why those skills make a difference!
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clock, analog, reading, and time with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 32 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I don't know why but reading an analog clock comes to mind. I know many young people who don't know how. they just pull out their phone. edit: Spelling
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects seo, google, search, and page with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 27 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This happened to me with seo writing. Its clickbait though.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translators, translation, language, and languages with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 26 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No way in hell. AI is a good tool for translators, but it's a long way from replacing them.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
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What commenters described: I guess it depends on what you see as "useless". It seems most in here consider any skill that can't be monetized as useless, in which case we are doomed. "Learn to code" has turned into "learn a trade". I suppose everything is about your job, but we also have to live our lives. Not everything has to be for money. I'd still rather be able to write, speak a second language, think critically, carry a conversation etc. I will continue to resist the stream of AI slop and automation/cheapening of every aspect of life.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects encyclopedia, accurate, set, and family with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 23 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My mum bought some secondhand ones in the 90s for my brother and I to cut pictures out of but we left them intact because they were wild. They were from the 1930s, there's a writeup about Chancellor Hitler and his good ideas, there's an article about how New Zealand is good because it's like England but less crowded. They had aged like milk
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drones, soldiers, those, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 21 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not to mention the robots. The reason Boston Dynamics is constantly creating those cute robot videos is to get us used to them so that when they replace police and soldiers with them we will be "used" to them.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, google, ask, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 16 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: it can be considered critical thinking, not just troubleshooting but daily stuff like different usage of tools at work (spreadsheet , compression format, logs etc.). Googling skills has dimmish over time too, people reliance on chatbot is almost at peak, solving simple task be brough in a meeting instead of peer checking / reading documentation. \*im working in IT too \~ Edit : typo
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, translate, language, and translators with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 16 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I did field testing for AI translation software in clinical settings and it was AWFUL. The way it’s typically done now (with a phone translation service contracted by facilities) is 10000x more accurate and compassionate. We had one AI model completely lose its mind and repeated scary words over and over during a hospice conversation.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, will, years, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have worked in sales for five years now and as much as it pains me to say - I believe that a lot of sales positions will become obsolete with Ai now. All of the questions you can ask a sales person you can get a better answer from an Ai bot that has all of the information about vehicles and about policies for companies you would like to buy from and with the internet being as prevalent as it is now there is less use for people to go into physical stores to purchase things, people do WEEKS if not months of research online before they even walk into a store and most of them know what they are going to buy before they even step foot on the property so in my eyes as soon as you can chat with an Ai bot and tell them your EXACT wants/ needs with the product you're trying to buy, this bot will check off each of your boxes through its inventory and find you exactly what you need (more or less) and give you exactly what you should get. Making it easier and people will feel less like they are being "scammed" because they are not dealing with a greasy sales person.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects languages, learning, language, and time with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 14 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Language skills, sadly AI is on the verge of making learning foreign languages completely obsolete Except at higher, specialized levels maybe
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading, literacy, news, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reading
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects encyclopedia, ones, years, and couple with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 11 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Encyclopedia Salesman
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What commenters described: What you're talking about is what makes you good at selling not providing a service. People don't like to be sold they like to experience a service. People don't want to be read and tricked, that won't be the intention of the Ai. The intention for the Ai will simply be to take all of the needs/ wants of a customer, compile the data and spit out what it thinks is best for the customer based on those expectations. people will only buy from companies they see value in and will only buy products that they think an algorithm perfectly handpicked for them. Imagine going online to a used car dealership and texting the chat bot "I want a vehicle that has under 100,000KM's, it can only be red, white or grey, I want x, y & z features, little to no bodywork flaws, etc" and then it thinks for a minute and spits out a list of potential options that you go through with the chat bot and you ask questions 1 by 1 until you narrow it down to 1 or 2 and at that point you THEN go to the dealership which can use 1 of 2 models, there is a sales person but it won't be sales person in the sense that you or I are used it, it'll be a salary based person simply just there to hand them keys to the pre-selected vehicles and to walk them out to the vehicles for them to see themselves - the customer can choose whether they want to ask the human or the Ai the questions that pop up during that time and with this model everything will become a one price store, no negotiations. the other business model will be similar to how self checkout amazon grocery stores work, you scan your phone to get in and out, you get granted a key using your credentials set up before on the website and you make the payment online. This is the future of sales, less interaction with humans the better because that is the main issue most people have with any sales situation is dealing with a person
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bread, home, store, and baking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 11 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I will say baking
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects want, will, sales, and car with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Well they don’t sell new cars. You’re not really ordering anything except what they have in existing stock.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading, comprehension, i'm, and adults with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This comment section is dominated by people not understanding the thread title lol. I'm starting to think reading comprehension is becoming useless faster than I realized.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects customer, service, company, and actual with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Customer service being replaced with AI and killing an entire industry that is used worldwide. I would know. I recently lost my customer service job to Trump's changes to BEAD, my company losing a ton of money on construction projects we already won bids on until that point, and having to layoff a majority of my department
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects model, bots, generated, and models with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's a specific and extreme case of training a model exclusively on synthetic outputs. This scenario is pretty much impossible in practice. As I understand it, the entropy of generated text gets progressively higher on subsequent iterations of generated datasets and the dataset gets harder to compress into the same amount of neural network weights. Adding even a small amount of original texts back into training resolves the problem. Language models picking up and reproducing slop made earlier by other models is a real issue, but the model is not "collapsing". It's learning to make more slop and that's it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects spelling, will, reading, and i'm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It gets progressively less useful the worse people are getting at reading. It's insane that I can send a professional, tightly worded email that's about two paragraphs to a person who gets paid considerably more than me... just to have them call me to summarize what I'm talking about because they don't want to read it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects missing, content, england, and google with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In addition to the other comment it is why so many websites look like they are trying to appeal to some strange non-human entity. *Welcome to our ultimate guide to London, England in 2025! Are you going to London, England in 2025? Then read on for the best things to do in London, England!* It ends up being almost like a cargo cult of people trying to appease the algorithm and be blessed with first page Google results for popular search terms. Then having a collective heart attack when Google changes something. There are more functional elements like load speed and not having links to known spam websites too.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translate, translators, translation, and lot with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Specialized translators will always have a job. Technical manuals, court documents, medicinal texts, contracts and so on just can't be translated well enough by any machine. Literary works also can't be translated automatically, and localisation is a specific skillset altogether. However, the value of it is lowering every year. Why pay someone full rate to translate the contract when you can run it through Google translate and ask the translator to "look it over and fix mistakes". Nevermind it's not actually less work, you still think it shouldn't be paid as much because half the work is done! How hard could translating be anyway, I just took a vacation to Greece and my phone translated everything so well I had 0 problems!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bias, option, better, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You realize that the machine which outputs perfectly crafted responses to trigger buying behaviors in you is the absolute greasiest salesman humanly imaginable, right? That sales machines which speak to you like people are effectively the most sociopathic form of capitalism you could possibly have? Am I the only person who would rather speak to a person who is obviously self-interested, but flawed? And not perfectly engineered to perpetually-but-subtly push me towards consuming in every single little, seemingly-innocuous interaction?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, want, will, and buy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Many buyers do NOT know what they want. Over 50% have an "idea" and then buy something else after talking a few hours at the store. Personally I am the opposite. Wild to me.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fountain, pen, pens, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I would add "writing with a fountain pen / even knowing what a fountain pen is and how to use it".
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, happy, lick, and start with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "So, Bob, what did you think of my new girlfriend?" "She's shiny! Her hair go whoosh whoosh and that makes me happy. I would lick her."
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects transmission, shift, automatic, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Porsche killed the manual transmission. They built the PDK to be so fucking good, there is simply no application left where the manual is better than some of these modern automatics. It’s what made the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini go to autos. F1 was already doing paddle shifters. The only reason MTs are still around is cos old farts like me still enjoy the feeling in spirited driving and for regular daily driving.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, lab, students, and course with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To be fair, I was super curious about how chewing insect mouthparts work, and Google searches would just lead me to websites that list the names and label mouthparts like a school textbook diagram. I needed information deeper than that. I asked my question in chatgpt, and then searched on Google based on the answers I got. AI is still stupid, and will forever be in its current form, but it's a good starting point. Anyone using just AI for their whole 'research' though, is just digging their own grave. Misinformation harms down the line, especially if it starts piling up.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, criticism, makes, and artist with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Me: *sees beautiful art* I should compliment the artist! Me: *knows nothing of art terms* .... It's shiny! The lines go whoosh whoosh and that makes me happy. The colors give me feelings. So clean, so vibrant. I would lick it. [stolen from tumblr]([link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, even, way, and spanish with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hospitals too, codified in federal law, so unlikely to change.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cross, hot, recorder, and buns with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I *might* be able to still play Hot Cross Buns, but it's been almost 40 years so I'm not positive.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects different, understood, even, and games with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Besides, good translation & localization is fun. I love media where you can see the translator clearly put heart into it. It can include word games, jokes, culture references, making sure characters retain different speech patterns. Can't imagine that ever being replaced by automation.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, started, windows, and filesystem with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Read an article recently about Computer Science students needing to be taught what a filesystem is before anything else. Auto-cloud-sync has caused many to not ever have to think about it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects car, driving, manual, and stick with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If you're travelling, especially to Europe, probably a good idea to at least practice on a manual car. While automatics are becoming more popular, there are still a \*lot\* of manual cars out there.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects search, shit, actuator, and describe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Honestly, I've just started using AI cause I'm not massively into it but it fucking cuts through Google Search like a knife. It's quickly becoming my go to for finding stuff on the internet because it trawls through all the shit for me and gets me what I want. And, you can just describe what you want instead of having to get the specific term. Everything else about AI is a bit shit but I'll give it being good at searching for shit.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects partly, replacing, scary, and x-rays with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I wouldn’t say useless. But the people that read X-rays. AI does that now
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, reading, backpacking, and hiking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ill add topo maps to this. I was in the conservation corps in 2014 and my amateur topo reading skills from backpacking with my dad since childhood were superior to the clueless guy who had been a park ranger at Zion for two years but his incorrect opinion was still deferred to due to pedigree =/
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translator, accurate, better, and can't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Translator
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects english, doesn't, language, and right with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Funny thing is I live in the Netherlands, my English teacher would get pissed at me every time I said "How it looks like" and now I see it frequently.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, learn, literacy, and need with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If I was the illiterate I would try to learn, if I was in the top caste I would teach illiterate men and women how to write and read proficiently. For free, in a park so as many people can come that want to. I’d like to think that others would join the teachers and others would want learn. Cohesion>Division
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects want, drive, price, and rep with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Since 2001 I’ve been walking into dealerships with the VIN of the car I want, and the price I want, just a matter of them agreeing to that price.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects itself, message, text, and texts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fun fact of the day: Most ancient texts (e.g. Bible) were originally written in all capitals and without puntuation or spaces.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, fountain, cheap, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > A $20 fountain pen will give a better writing experience than even the best ballpoints Don't even need to spend $20. You can get a Pilot Kakuno or Platinum Preppy for around $10. Though I hesitate to recommend getting into fountain pens to people because a cheap pen leads to a $100 pen then next thing you know you're holding your brand new $300 pen fantasizing about the next one you want to buy.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, both, chinese, and completely with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I don't think so actually. The people paying for translations are the ones for which it's really fucking important, like life-or-death, that the translation is fully accurate. AI is probably good enough to translate the 50th Harry Potter book into a bunch of obscure languages. If you're translating the instructions for a medical procedure or how to use a machine that could kill somebody if it goes wrong, you're going to want to pay for a person who is fluent in both languages and a domain expert in whatever they're translating to be completely sure it's right and to have somebody with a career and reputation to stand behind that accuracy.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, constitution, document, and read with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Mmm I'd say writing in cursive. Every document written in cursive has been digitized and/or reproduced in print. I can but don't need to be able to read cursive to read the US constitution or bill of rights, yet schools still teach it to my kid in school as a necessary skill.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, caste, continue, and middle with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: yes, but... I think perhaps this will be one more aspect of our caste divisions. the top caste(s) will continue to care about writing rules, and will know how to write. the bottoms will continue to remain almost illiterate. the writing of the middle(s), who currently feel that caring about too many rules is prissy, will devolve so far, with every middle picking their own grammar and spelling, that middles soon enough won't be able to figure out what other middles are saying. at that point, they'll "text" mostly by sending voice memos (with some standard emoji strings used, too, for emphasis?)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects burn, cds, burning, and dvd with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Burning CDs / DVDs Streaming killed that whole process.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dictionary, checks, phone, and reading with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dictionary
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects literacy, masses, general, and media with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Media literacy. Literacy in general, really.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, adapting, chinese, and culpability with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can confirm. Still some life in it, but the traditional market was obliterated. Adapting is essential.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adjustable, aperture, phone, and camera with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To have an adjustable depth of field, you need an adjustable aperture. Historically, you need the physical space to have an adjustable aperture. There have been some phone cameras with adjustable apertures. However, they typically only have two options because there is not enough space for a motor to adjust the aperture.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, literacy, computers, and reading with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Text literacy - reading and writing. Computers can listen and speak pretty well now. And compose any document or video. Literacy will become a niche skill like cursive.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects language, verb, translation, and media with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Localization for complex expression and media like video games is still very much a valued skill. Translating between languages for rudimentary content can be reasonably done with automated translation programs, but things break down beyond that because language is cultural and computers don't understand culture. Mapping Verb X in Language A to Verb X in Language B is easy, but having the having the holistic comprehension that "actually, you should use Verb Y, because Verb X isn't really used in Language B, and it would sound jarring to a native speaker to express it like that" is a skill which continues to be hired for and compensated in industries dealing with localizing complex expression to different regions.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects folks, threaded, against, and almost with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It took me a little while to figure out why brooms were always coming apart for me.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, learn, teaching, and down with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Very well, In the same spirit, you know a lot about this having past experience. I think we could be most effective if you designed a curriculum for groups, and another curriculum for one on one teaching? I will located us a setting that would not garner negative attention. Maybe the basement of a bookstore? You will be far more effective teaching then I would. While you teach literacy, I will sit and read out loud in the park. Fun, bright and bombastic types of stories. When people from the lower class sit down and listen. I will mention that there are millions if not billions of books with amazing stories. Not only that, but if you can learn to get through these books at home, you will be able to write them too… I will bring down students, all ages to learn. I can follow a teaching plan if you make one for me. We will try to have a “graduation.” more than once a year. I want to at the very least graduate an entire class split into two rooms every six months. I will make the lunch and serve it, assist when you need it as a para, and just as a side note. I will not stand for any of this education being taught with hateful doctrine. You cannot topple any oppressive force with sheer brutishness. They are too advanced, and do not have the foresight to keep their cannons quiet. The only way to topple tyranny is to make the tyrant’s minions lay down their weapons on their own volition. Then we educate the minions, and the tyrant will be tried for crimes against humanity. (if he doesn’t put out his own light himself upon being overthrown)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading, code, sales, and body with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hmmmm, as someone who has also excelled in sales, a key part to success is reading the room, reading body language, facial expressions, vocal tones, even breathing. I can imagine an AI bot trying to sell me on something and making all the classic mistakes of just being really pushy, rude and unable to "know" when to switch tactics because real human people react in an infinite number of ways. AI is after all just a computer code, with some machine learning sure, but I find myself doubting that anyone could code ALLLLL the possible human responses, and then the branching code to address every possibility. Amyone following me here?
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects call, same, vocabulary, and seo with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My lesser known trick on SEO is: you have to use the language the community you target is using. Search engines do poorly with synonyms and context, we have to be painfully direct and obvious so the robot can get it. And we have to use the same vocabulary as the results we want to be paired with. I made the mistake of speaking ny thoughts when I starting writing online: my vocabulary didn't match the bulk of text so the algo couldn't pair me. I had to learn how to "think-write" (which lowers thinking depth over time).
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects copywriting, copywriters, job, and llms with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Translators Copywriters
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lot, translators, countries, and developing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: so I dont know a lick of chinese and I go to the bank to open an account in rural china, really think about that process, asking questions, understanding responses, cross talk, filling out the form in Hanzi. Sure you can do this today with technology but its a brutal time consuming and embarrassing process. I dont see technology fixing this anytime soon.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, microfiche, qualitative, and based with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have a degree in qualitative research... From 1998. Sup dude, microfiche rolls!!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects crochet, already, basically, and between with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I did not know this! What's the limiting factor between crochet and faux-chet?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects encyclopaedia, guy, random, and saw with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I grew up in the late 70's/early 80's and we had an Encyclopedia Brittanica from right after the Korean War. The old massive leatherbound books with gorgeous designs. I used to read them all the time, just open up a random one to a random page. Then in like 6th grade we learned about the Vietnam War and I went from the smartest kid in class to the dumbest.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects here's, cockney, looks, and made with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It doesn't sound right because it was not used much in the past (mainly not used when someone was between 0-4 and learning to imitate the language). If 50% of the population starts using that way then it becomes the correct way to talk.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading and long-form with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Long-form reading.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects comprehension, reading, ability, and above with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: to add to this, reading comprehension. I thought I was skilled in it, met someone substantially better. Really showed me how many people- including myself- are losing/lacking that strong ability.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pdf, eps, vector, and along with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The org I was working with on the side had me send their soft goods producer my files and when I sent him the whole package (pdf, ai, eps and psd along with proofs) he sent the titanic “It’s been 84 years” gif along with, I see you used to work with old school printers. He gave us a discount because he baked in the price of doing all that work into his estimates and didn’t have to do it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects proofreading and sub-editing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Proofreading
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i'm, tools, writing, and reading with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing. Narratives in a work setting, emails, and also, just reading in professional environments. In the tech world right now, a lot of writing and reading tasks are handed off to ai tools, and the use of these tools are strongly encouraged.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automation, automated, cost, and cheaper with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The cost of machines can also be written off and then they just keep working with a bit of maintenance. Can't really do that with people anymore, that's frowned upon
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects algorithms, already, discovery, and believe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Manually curating your own reality. We've outsourced discovery to algorithms that already know us better than we know ourselves.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects able, maps, read, and map with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I made a point of learning how to read Ordnance Survey maps (Britain is one of the most extensively mapped places on earth), because my satnav is bugger all good in the middle of a hike. Besides, paper maps don't run out of battery.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects agent, estate, real, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Real estate buyer agent. I can look at 20 homes online, research the neighborhood, sees the house specs and do the comps before my RE agent has woken up. They have turned into trusted front door openers, nothing more.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects client, portrait, say, and talking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This is a client's way of communicating, unfortunately. They say they want 'portrait mode', they mean they want shallow depth of field. I used to be a commercial music producer, and the funniest thing to me was always talking to a client about their wishes while they don't know shit about what they're talking about 💀 That's why they come to you ofc
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, game, play, and read with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I play a military sim game online that doesn’t tell you your location. It’s a huge area and you have to read a map and use landmarks to determine where you are. Younger kids are always relying to me to be the map guy and tell us where we are and where we need to go. I play video games and can also read a map, yes I’m in my 30’s.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translating, translation, art, and brilliant with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Translating fiction is an art in itself. A poor translation can ruin even the most brilliant piece of media. And translating non-fictional texts, like documentation for industrial equipment, is too important to be left to a machine.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects soldiers, before, can't, and cannon with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No, they're saying that it'll be a long time before machines replace *high level* soldiers. Things like generals and spec-ops and highly skilled positions that require tactical skills that we can't train robots. The grunts and the "cannon fodder" and other conscripted soldiers are the ones being replaced.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects brick, building, oven, and baking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yes! Baking bread by stone brick oven that we have to build ourselves, doing the town crying of the news, building your own large palm frond fan in order to cool your Pharaoh.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects agreed, alone, comment, and conversations with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah agreed. SEO was not alone at killing Google, social media also participated. Forums were replaced by discord conversations that are not indexed, interesting comment threads got lost on twitter, etc.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects areas, bedding, adhd, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I like rabbit hunting. I track and stalk the rabbits. Look for signs like droppings and bedding areas. They usually run routes and return to their bedding areas. If you spook one, wait a bit, and it'll come back. Works better for my adhd brain than just sitting still.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects comic, artists, book, and make with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's an unfortunate natural conclusion of a capital-based economy. If I want to write a story as a comic book but can't draw, pre-AI I had to learn to draw or hire an artist. Learning to draw isn't really a solution for most people or something they're interested in, they just want the end product of the story that they wrote (or whatever equivalent). Hiring artists is difficult and expensive because artists have to eat and pay bills and save for retirement like anyone else. If you do the math, it's basically gambling to make something like a comic book as an independent entity. The odds of you making a hit are very, very low and the money you'd make from selling a comic book would be less than you'd pay the artist. So you don't make the comic book or you take the financial hit and cross your fingers. The same applies to making games, children's books, websites and blogs, etc. The return on investment just isn't there. Now that AI exists it lets the creation of those things become potentially profitable. Now you *can* make your comic or game or children's book or whatever and the math says it could be net positive. You said it was said to see an opportunity for photographers/artists/etc. was right there but the website used AI instead, but it never was an opportunity for anyone except a stock image site. There's no world where people can regularly afford to pay a professional for images on one-off sites like this. Businesses can. This will continue for any field where the estimated payment for the work (art, music, writing, whatever) is greater than the expected value of the completed work itself. It will allow for individual creation of lots of things and absolutely decimate the fields that used it for contract work. This kind of thing already happened with offshoring for many fields, animation especially, and AI is just more of the same in a different format. I don't know if this is bad or good longterm, but it's certainly bad now for a lot of people. Most of the output right now is shovelware rather than anything substantial. At best it's "filler". I do think there is room for profit sharing works, like a group of people making a website or game or comic and sharing profit relatively equally, but even then it'd be difficult to convince most people "I should make equal share even though AI can do the same thing I do". This reply definitely underplays the cultural and emotional value of art made by humans, but it's again just an unfortunate natural conclusion of a capital-based economy. Not enough people care. No one is going to buy a different box of garbage bags because one has an AI generated mascot on it. One of my kids loves drawing and looked up at me and said "I want to be an artist" and my first thought was 'that will not happen'. It's sad, but I don't see a solution. AI can already create art good enough for a lot of mediums and it'll likely improve as time goes on. Maybe we'll be lucky and once AI gets good enough for big businesses to say "no more hiring artists and writers", those same artists and writers will be able to create AAA work of their own. Create their own styles individually and feed them into a local AI and churn out variations and edits of their own work to create a final product. Somehow I doubt this will be the way things go, though.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects media, between, now, and say with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Moreover, *media literacy*. Read between the lines to understand what "the media" is actually saying to you and doing in front of you, and how they're playing into your fantasies and ideas. People ignore the simplest things, such as a subtle color scheme (red, white and blue with animations of flags waving, etc.), background images, and the layout. The commercials in between segments, omissions... legalese, disclaimers and qualifiers ("I'm just asking questions, here!"). The role they play and the rules "the media" abides by. People are too quick to take every word they say at face value and not consider all of the above in context, *even though a lot of what they say is true*, ***technically***... and we have a hoard of morons now who trust anyone and social media confirming their biases, and who are now running the country by pied-pipering these idiots.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects able, always, art, and ask with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Interesting take. I think there will always be a need for people to come up with new ideas and translate those into clean logical structures for content, technology, business, or art. I can see that being true for less technical people, but even then, being able to ask specifically for what you want is an incredibly powerful skill.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lot, translators, countries, and developing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Non-technical translation. A lot of translators I’ve meet (I’m bilingual non-English native language), can’t translate the meanings and idioms better than I can, but they could do it fast. If I have to do their job I’d forget what my client said half sentences. Not to mention these yappers. But with AI and rising cost of living in developing countries, I don’t think a lot of people would spend money on translators anymore. I know it’s a common thing among the wealthiest. However a lot of people, who used translators in developing countries I knew, are just upper middle class managers or tourists. In professional sense it’s a totally different thing. Because AI can’t understand its audiences and the terms they use. Even if it can most cooperates and clients would be reluctant to share everything with AI.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects asimov, feeling, isaac, and power with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think you would enjoy reading "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, constitutional, and law with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: US Constitutional Law research.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects call, algorithm, algorithmic, and barking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 100%. If you insult a woman by calling her "Karen", you get pushed towards a see of viewers and content enjoying these topics. If you call her "an old barking dog"... You won't get the same algorithmic binding. And if you call her "a twat", you'll go to a UK side of the algorithm.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adults, analog, apparently, and clocks with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This year, I met two young adults who could not read analog clocks. That made me realize how quickly something that was standard knowledge can disappear. A skill I still retain, but is apparently also gone, is remembering phone numbers.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects read, school, practice, and analog with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My sister teaches highschool and says most her students can't read an analog clock. They probably learned, just never practiced again after their two week elementary school unit and so forgot how. My third grader was learning how to read clocks in school last year. I bought him an analog wristwatch and ask him multiple times a day for the time. He "knew" how to from school but it never would have been enough practice to be good at it or remember long term. He can read roman numeral clocks now, just from getting practice with his watch.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects support, tech, after, and already with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That makes me the office superstar and the whole extended family's/friend groups tech support. I like feeling useful, but it gets annoying. The worse though is when I already know the steps, and the asker sees what I did and says "I could have googled that!". Oh yea jackass, then why the hell did you ask me? After that, payment has always been a meal or a 6pack upfront.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects charismatic, super, charisma, and ability with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Focus on charisma, read people. In the coming era of potential making a singularity AI the ability to be super charismatic and knowing your goal in life and what you want is super important when people are going to offload their thinking to AI. That's so far what I can think of every single one of your skills has trained you for being charismatic just keep training it because remember it other people who matter and who have the money if thats what your concerned about
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects analogue, angles, clock, and directions with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing an analogue clock is also helpful for giving or understanding directions/angles.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects crochet, already, basically, and bots with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The like 80 different stitches a single hook can make all require a lot of movement and exaxt perscicion its too difficult for a machine but knitting something can be done already so basically until we get movie smart ai bots and only when they learn crochet it can be mass produced i think
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects encyclopedia, publishers, and publishing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Encyclopedia publishers
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects funk, certainly, ditto, and done with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think they were from the 70's, but ditto. Had a set of funk & wagnal's that I used in the 90's. Got the job done, though. Certainly helped me write more than a few reports.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects itself, message, text, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Indeed. Writing was a fundamentally different concept. It was intended as a reminder to support an oral message. Later, writing became the message itself. The placing of diacritical marks on Hebrew was to remind people of **how** to pronounce things. That is why they were placed seperately from the text itself. The text was held in highest respect and not to be altered.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, brain, don't, and going with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How to do your homework all by yourself without using any type of AI. Seriously, I've seen the whole spectrum: people who use it only for research (Google, Brave), people who use it to speed up things, to summarize, and people whose brain can't even function without ChatGPT. What's the point of going to school and/or university, if all that you're going to do is using AI models for everything. What's the point if you don't even try to understand anything, and even go so far as to cheat at the exam because your last two braincells were busy fighting for third place?! (I stole that one) It just makes me mad. You have a brain, try using it. It's ok to use AI for research and to make things easier to understand (even if I wouldn't trust it that much), but don't replace your intelligence (or what is left of it) with an LLM.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects collecting, display, already, and declined with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: collecting insects for display - their population already declined by 70% worldwide in the last 30 years so they are probably gone soon, like humanity.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tax, after-sales, applies, and apply with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's honestly astonishing the number of people who can't mentally calculate tax on everyday goods (obviously this applies only in regions that apply after-sales tax). I don't mean calculating it down to the cents but within a dollar or so. Blows my mind as I find it simple and people react like it's some kind of sorcery?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects answer, i've, answering, and bro with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I CANNOT stand answering the same questions everyday. Like bro, I explained the answer and then told you it was in the One Note I've meticulously curated, the answer is there, do your own fucking research with the tools I've provided you. 🙄
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects comprehension, reading, reasoning, and lack with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Lack of reading comprehension and reasoning skills.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading, music, and sheet with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reading sheet music.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, read, tterlin, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There will always be people who can read cursive, even if it is just hobby historians or calligraphy lovers. There are still quite a few people in Germany who can read Sütterlin type cursive, which was what was used during WW2.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects courses, dropped, first, and languages with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Languages seem to be one of the first courses being dropped by universities to save money.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects education, able, anything, and comprehend with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In the US, at least—being able to read or comprehend anything at all. Thanks for gutting our education system!
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, company, conduct, and testing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: UX designers definitely do research, but that's mainly up to how the company is structured. At my current company, they have a dedicated user analytics/research team, so as a UX designer, I don't need to directly conduct any research or testing. But in previous companies, I've had to conduct research and testing along with design.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clocks, day, digital, and time with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to read analogue clocks, Ive seen so many kids these days not even know how anything but a digital clock works. That and military time on digital clocks is also somethings thats slowly slipping from day to day use.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects new, rock, classic, and every with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: When I was growing up my dad bought a new set every year when the new revised/refreshed version was put out. He said he did this because new knowledge and facts needed to be added each year. Every time I had a report, I went to the encyclopedia. We even had one of the first TRASH80 (Radio Shack's TRS-80 computer) that was sold to the public. I hated it! MTV came out when I was a teenager, we were a military family so we traveled the world, but just about everywhere we went there were a total of MAYBE 10 channels. And that was with a cable subscription! Things have changed so much. Now, as it watch my grandones grow up, it gives me a giggle when they come and ask me about something from my childhood and use the phrase, "the olden days"! Wait young folk, I'm only turning 52 this Sunday! I heard a rock tune of the classic rock station the other day that we rocked out to in the 80s! I thought that can't be considered classic rock...but boy i was so wrong!
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, don't, technology, and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Figuring out / troubleshooting technology. I know younger people working in an office environment who don't know how to attach things to e-mails until they're shown. Things are so app centric people don't have to know anything about how it works but when something goes wrong there's no ability to try things out and see if you can make it work. We've transitioned quite a bit from a world where people had to clunk around and dig deep to figure out to do the simplest things on their computer to being confused when things don't just work with a tap. That whole 'advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic' is already well under way.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects price, without, awesome, and bias with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dentist here. Would be awesome in my end if this happened. I can google and do all the research myself find a product I want without any salesperson bias and still have to use them and ultimately pay their commission in the price. Would be so nice to just have AI give me the facts/specs and price and just order without the small talk, lunches, etc.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects brazing, benefits, cast, and explain with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I work in the industrial field. When I explain brazing of cast iron and its benefits over welding people look at me like I’m a witch.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clues, context, research, and age with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Understanding context clues and knowing how to research. Maybe it’s different depending on age groups idk; but I’ve noticed this a lot more nowadays in general
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects digital, pictures, quality, and above with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i actually am contemplating in turning a part of my apartment into a dark room. i really want to get back into film, even to the extent of transfering digital pictures onto a negative. there is something different about developed pictures the quality is a tier above. i've searched far and wide for digital printers and i have not gotten the quality im looking for
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects big, early, encyclopedia, and kid with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Similarly as a kid in the early 2000s I had this big encyclopedia of Star Wars stuff. Now there’s just Wookiepedia.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects level, research, arguments, and assistance with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Synthesizing research at the level of a grad student. For example, politicians and pundits need less assistance from interns and entry level researchers to prep for shows and interviews as they rely on AI tools to form arguments and counterarguments to a wide range of current topics.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects care, having, health, and observations with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You are making the assumption that we don't :) - but there is appropriate use of that training. I do give an assignment to my students where they are *asked* to use 'AI' (it isn't artificial general intelligence, as you probably know) to perform 'research', write them a paper on a topic, and then check primary sources to verify what the LLM has spat out at them, which is often eye-opening. But to the primary point of this now long-meandering thread, having future health care workers *understand* what they are observing and how to use it to analyze novel situations/data when someone's life/health may be on the line (*and* to be able to communicate their observations effectively as part of a care chain) is not well served by having students use AI (or 'save themselves' the trouble of writing up their own observations). As an addendum, our state is in the process of providing training in the use of AI at all of its institutions of higher learning.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, acceptable, cell, and chatgpt with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It is my sincere opinion that using ChatGPT 5 to translate for an Indie game (and maybe even some cell phone games) is more than acceptable, provided that there is a native speaker of the target translation language to proof-read the translated content.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, alastair, humphreys, and local with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm reading quite a fun book at the moment called Local by Alastair Humphreys. He ordered a custom OS map with his house as the centre of the map. Then he went exploring each square of the map over a year. Made me want to do it as well. Making the most of areas that aren't always that exciting. But looking closely at nature etc.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects key, lock, keys, and car with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Locksmithing. If you lock your keys in the car, you can use an app on your phone to unlock it, and that's *if* your car even allows you to lock it with the keys inside. Keypads, facial recognition, thumbprint readers, etc., are all getting much cheaper. If you still have a mechanical lock with key, re-keying a lock to new keys can be done without swapping the set out. If you have made a spare key at certain vending machines, the machine stores the specs of your key, so that if you're locked out of your house, you can get a spare key from that machine with your phone/e-mail, and without needing the original key for the duplicate.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pencil, tools, already, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: estimating? like people all have the tools or dependent to tools already. Back then its only pencil, brain and eyes. not even pencil. some using stone or such.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, even, text, and texts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Translation is far from being useless still. Computers can do a lot of that, but there are also lots of things they can't do. Just give it a novel to translate and see how you like that. The answer is probably not very much. And it becomes even more important with specialist texts. For example a text meant for doctors that explains how to diagnose certain conditions. If you need a translation there, you really shouldn't trust DeepL with that because with texts like that it still makes mistakes because it doesn't understand the highly specialised terminology and sometimes not even how or why things are phrased the way they are. That can easily lead to a very inaccurate text which is not what your doctor should read before treating you.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bolts, ago, beams, and bit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I read a depressing bit a few months ago about how the people who invented the bolts (This isn't the right term, but I can't remember what it is) that replaced the wooden supports were jazzed about how much safer they would make mines, but they didn't. Because the mining companies just figured out how many bolts it would take to keep death rates the same and pocketed the money they saved not having to install so many support beams.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects news, reading, critically, and disappearing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Watching the news and being able to critically think and use judgement to avoid the obvious bias. "News" is no longer actual news but skewed facts with commentary that's telling you how to react to support a narrative. News has become unwatchable at this point amd the vast majority of people still watching are void of the ability to critically think. They are also probably not reading either and predominantly consume their news via the TV. So not only is critical thinking disappearing from the general population, reading comprehension and literacy is disappearing as well. Schools are being actively defended as well. Pretty soon people will be so stupid, reading will be obsolete if it isn't outright banned.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, reading, common, and consider with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Do you consider common sense to be a skill? If not, map reading.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects research, listening, qualitative, and quantitative with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Research. Qualitative and quantitative research. Also, being willing to get information from other people based on LISTENING to their stories.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fewer, construction, anything, and documentation with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Anything to do with graphical representations. We produce construction documentation (including maps) and those processes are known by fewer and fewer people.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reading, writing, and literacy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reading and writing.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adults, don, even, and literacy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reading and media literacy, bookworms get made the butt of peoples jokes. But the lack of adults and even teens/kids who don’t understand grammar or even literature is insane. I don’t see as many young people my age in bookshops but online I find loads of them in communities. In real life they are nearly always full of older adults. I often feel like an anomaly among my peers. Books are the oldest form of entertainment and information. But they are slowly being replaced for Wikipedia and chat GPT
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects spanish, different, even, and horita with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And it should stay that way. The way people communicate even in the same language can mean different things depending on where you are from. Take spanish for example. Horita to a dominican means later likely never. Horita to a mexican means right now. There are thousands of words and phrases unique to specific cultures. You have to know who you are talking to and where they are from, and good translators can do this well. I work for probation and I would never depend on an AI for translation. I speak Spanish and officers end up with people from many different countries who speak Spanish and sometimes I can't even understand them. Had this guy from Paraguay a few months ago, that was rough trying to make sure he understood and we understood him.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects language, sign, and wrong with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sign language(I could be wrong)
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects birthday, clock, don't, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My ex girlfriend when I was 18 pointed to the clock every single time it was 6:26 and said that that was her birthday. 20 years later, I don't even remember what she looked like, but if I see a clock reading 6:26 I remember June 26th is her birthday.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects making, reading, dial, and sun with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Useful for making / reading a sun dial
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects already, bad, believe, and biased with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The bad part is I believe people are already working on stuffing bullshit into Reddit and other sites in order to put biased information into the training data
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects translation, chinese, culpability, and dual-native with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My undergrad was in Chinese Language and Literature. My English is native, my Chinese gets closer to native each day. However, I have a friend who is a dual-native of both and he said that he lost 90% of his translation jobs since chatGPT came out. As for the court system, I would imagine a dual-native could be assisted by machine translation / transcription, however, I feel like the principle of culpability might be what stops it from removing a human translator completely. I think the idea of culpability is what stops AI from being a driver of a vehicle in other countries as well.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects back, case, door, and end with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have a few memorised in case I get stranded. Trick I found when I need to remember something, when I'm on the loo I tend to read whatever is within visual range so putting this info on the back of the door means I end up reading it routinely.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects judge, others, and judgment with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The skill to not judge others.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects yoyo, competition, early, and last with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yoyo skills. The last time I saw a yoyo competition was in the early 2000s.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects face, driving, manual, and research with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Letter writing, typing, real research, pedaling a bike, driving a manual transmission car (stick shift), talking to people face to face, being chivalrous,
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects poker, day, decent, and done with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If you’re skilled at poker by telling what their hands were by the way they held their eyes then you’re done at any decent level and it’s getting worse every day
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Where commenters report limits
As someone who doesn’t work in sales, it already survived much longer than it should have. I have yet to meet a non greasy sales person., one that a) knows anything that my 2 minute google search didn’t provide or b) doesn’t actively feed me false info to make me buy the wrong thing. The idea that the guy trying to sell you stuff can accurately consult you is insane, humans are simply not honest enough for that
Worked in phone sales for a period and was one of the 'non greasy' types. Commission structure changed to reward the greasy types more; I got out fast after that. The first place I worked for was a mobile phone dealership whose competitive strategy was to treat customers well so they return to the store. The owner preferred a thousand dollar sale now and customer goodwill over a thirteen hundred dollar sale now that burned bridges. They did well for years on that basis. Not long after I resigned, the owners sold it to a franchise that didn't work that way. Store shut within two years of the sale. The main issue is - unless you've worked in sales, it's hard to tell the two types apart.
Source-record spotlights
Basic navigation, like reading a map. Now they're digital, and point the way with a colored path + pins, not to mention voice navigation.
My MIL lives 2000 miles away, yet I think I could drive to her house without a map after doing it just once. I would still use a GPS for traffic (have to drive around Chicago), but it's good to know I could navigate such a long journey without.
Yeah, I’m NOT with the boomers on this one. I like the idea of being given directions in real time without having to look back at a paper map every 2 minutes to make sure I’m going the right way.
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What the counts show
140 indexed entries draw on 802 distinct source records. Map reading and unaided wayfinding has the broadest support in this group (314 source records).
Archive: 140 index entries preserve 802 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Writing, spelling, and handwritingComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Writing, spelling, and handwriting
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, writing, handwriting, and school with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 203 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cursive
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, writing, hand, and write with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 190 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Handwriting. Really, these days kids get handed a computer the day they are born. There is actually very little need to develop handwriting skills except for recreation. Everything is a touchscreen now. Schools still try and teach handwriting but the kids have already realised it is much faster and easier to convey information digitally.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects spelling, autocorrect, words, and off with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 66 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spelling and thinking about what word to type next.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects writing, thinking, going, and time with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 63 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thinking. Just thinking.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, hand, write, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 52 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > and I still take notes like that at university I mean this is still the best way to note take. I work in a scientific field and I can't tell you how frustrating it is to see my GenZ junions never write anything down, then come up to be half an hour later asking me to repeat my verbal instructions.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects signature, sign, name, and cursive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 50 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In my job I have people under me ranging from 21 to just about to retire. There’s a hard cut off, anyone under 25 doesn’t know how to sign their name. They’ll either just print their name, or print their initials. Something I noticed over the years.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hand, handwriting, write, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 31 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thats wild you get away with that at UG level. Back when I was in UG, lab reports were always set at 1.5k words and our assignments usually between 2k-3k. We'd have at-least 1 weekly. I'd have been straight to admin / student support putting in a complaint over that, my hand writing quality is piss poor and speed extremely low, it was one factor of my dyslexia diagnosis at the time. Even to the point I was assigned a laptop to do all my exams on to compensate. Not to pull the dyslexia card, but at least in the UK thats ground on disability discrimination from the equality act.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, stopped, world, and school with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 28 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In several European countries cursive is still the regular handwriting. People still learn it in first grade.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, write, read, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 25 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Having a handwriting anyone can read!
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, read, writing, and write with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 24 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I distinctly remember my 3rd grade teacher telling us we better learn it because the high school teachers would require us to write in cursive. High school teachers didn't care how you wrote. Although some of them wrote in cursive, so you definitely needed to know how to read it.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, penmanship, writing, and cursive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 22 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Honestly, I’d say handwriting. With keyboards, phones, and voice-to-text everywhere, fewer people are learning to write neatly or even at all. It’s disappearing faster than most notice.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects spelling, grammar, sentence, and knowing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 16 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spelling and grammar are going away as well.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects grammar, spelling, language, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 13 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spelling and grammar
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, writing, letters, and read with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 13 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was just talking about this with some family from Europe. They were appalled to find out the US doesn't teach cursive anymore. But I honestly just don't get it. I think cursive is pointless. It's not faster than writing in non-cursive and it's just a fast track for developing sloppy handwriting that makes it hard for others to read. I say this as somone who was old enough to see all hand written notes and tests. This was pre-computers era where cursive was the standard in all levels of schools for notes, assignments, tests, etc and we used to say, "I can't read your Chicken Scratch" because everyone developed poorly legible handwriting. So, yeah, I stand by my point that cursive is pointless.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, signature, sign, and school with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've only used it to write my signature.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, handwriting, hand, and write with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Answered later on but basically cursive mixed with print
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects exams, blue, books, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And to think that my grad professor told me that I would be one of the last generations to write our exams in Blue Books!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, make, enough, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I do doubt it. I do have health issue that make handwriting a lot harder (it is tremor of my hands, that make good-looking writing just impossible(I believe essential tremor is proper translation in English), you get born with it and can do nothing with it). And having some professor forcing me to handwrite anything that are not necessity is just asking for retaliation (and there are more than enough methods to do it, subtle and painful enough for professor, it is just that a lot of students are timid and young and do not know that they actually have power to make professors suffer as retaliation). And it is actually widespread issue, around 6-7% of population younger than 40 suffer from it. You can do nothing with it. While it does have no impact in daily life, things like handwriting that are an outdated thing for most professions are just pain. I am engineer and only handwriting that I do for my work are signature on report and knowing how much I was forced to suffer due to being forced to handwrite before I was old enough to retaliate do make me sad. Handwriting is just unnecessary torture at this age. I did meet similar stuck into what they consider are right and only thing that work vs them is retaliation.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects check, checks, writing, and write with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dude, I'm 46, and I grew up learning cursive and print. Now I can barely write out a check. Granted, practically all of my writing IS writing out checks, and I only have to do that maybe a few times a year.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hand, write, code, and having with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Idk about you but when we were in school we thought it was bullshit we had to write code by hand
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects autocorrect, grammar, spelling, and typing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'd settle for people consistently using spelling and grammar checkers, even if they have no spelling skills themselves.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, faster, write, and notes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I like it too! I taught myself cursive in high school so I could take notes faster. I was developing my own weird version of cursive when I'd write too fast, so I just said fuck it, might as well learn to do it the right way. I still write in cursive because it's so much more fun. It's strange to me that not many other people like it.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects letter, writing, letters, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to write a letter without using chatGPT
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, long, pen, and printer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A friend of mine did a project where he turned a 3d printer (or parts from one) into a writing machine. Basically holds a pen/pencil and writes with it. So even that's not foolproof if youve got someone who works hard at being lazy.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, writing, don't, and emails with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing emails and grammar checking
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects writing, lol, school, and though with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As someone who writes almost exclusively in cursive, I am absolutely determined that it helps you not only write faster, but does a better job helping you remember what you’re writing than print. I just can’t prove it based on my anecdotal experience lol. We do know for a fact that hand writing improves retention, though!
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, read, written, and documents with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thank you for pointing this out! So many people used cursive for so long! Our constitution is written in cursive, letters from my grandmother are written in cursive, it might not be used as commonly but it is still important
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, motor, control, and fine with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No one is using it in daily life so the skill is "dead", but it is a very good thing for kids to practice seeing as it helps training dexterity and control in hands and fingers :)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects calligraphy, far, analog, and binding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I say calligraphy, who cares about handwriting? Most things were done by texting.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects print, cursive, handwriting, and taught with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basically, yes, Americans (as of \~25ish years ago) first learned print when writing. Shortly after that, we then also learned cursive, and it was (at the time) treated as **very** important for us to learn.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects capital, cursive, cake, and change with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To be fair, no one can do a capital G in cursive.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects envelope, what's, letter, and away with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How to address an envelope. Or how to write a check. It’s sad how many people in my generation don’t know how to do that.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects capitalize, care, punctuate, and aunt with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: English major here. I have also done more than my fair share of copywriting, editing, and the like. I don't bother to punctuate or capitalize unless I'm in a work/business setting bc who gives af? also as a millennial, well, all my cohorts and I have been typing like this since the early 2000s lmao not exactly a new thing.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lab, time, less, and course with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Some, but much less than you might think - because keeping a lab notebook is done across the entire Science division at my institution (and even the non-majors and short basic skills course students have to do their work by hand on paper - no computer generated graphs when you're learning graphing!), my course is not so much of a shock (There's always one or two :) ). Would I say that some of the adoption of a hand-writing policy for lab reports was 'necessary' as a way to break bad habits that had formed during online schooling during the pandemic? Absolutely - our choices were either draconian proctoring and plagiarism software (Our Anatomy/Physiology course lead requires *anything* that is typed to be submitted to Turnitin, any quizzes given online use HonorLock/Proctorio), or a less invasive, less easily subverted approach. All lab exams/practicals across the Biology department were already handwritten, fill in the blank/sketch or free answer, on blank lined test forms, so it wasn't such a huge move for us - and for the Organismal Biology major research paper, we moved to Oral presentations (they can still use "AI" in their research if they wish, but they still have to give a 10 minute presentation on their topic in front of their peers and answer questions about it, and those references will be checked :) ). But the main reason I and my colleagues require so much hand writing is simply that *we want our students to succeed* - and the best way to do that is by as many methods of reinforcement as we can. Just as sketching forces one to more closely examine your subject, handwriting forces you to more closely think about organizing your data and thoughts about it to produce something coherent - even if only, in worse case scenarios, because one can't use the cut/paste key or get a LLM to write it. Ugh, I *really* should stop answering messages before coffee, and it's time to get to this batch of lab reports :)...
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i'm, spelling, english, and grammar with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm a lawyer and I spend so much time reading and writing at work that I would sooner die than bother spell checking or adhering to proper punctuation, spelling, and grammar in my personal life. You either get what I'm trying to convey or you don't. Those things aren't even demonstrative of intelligence - what about people who learned English as a second language and might try spelling new words phonetically? I really think being hypercritical of people the way you admit to being is far, far worse than being a lazy speller. It's also indicative of someone who thinks they're a lot smarter than they actually are, frankly - that type of attitude directly contributes to the death of nuance because you're freely admitting that you discount the opinions of others based on their spelling. What a legitimately nonsensical way to navigate the world around you. Blocking out potentially valid or novel points because you are on a high horse about spelling and grammar? Truly, grow the fuck up.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects spelling, word, through, and thru with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The frequency I see people using “thru” makes my insides hurt.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, specific, american, and font with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: American cursive is more akin to copperplate - it's a specific handwritten font rather than just joined-up writing
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checks, cashier, cursive, and shows with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sure, and I can't remember the last time I used paper money other than as a tip. Writing checks is also a dying art.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, handwriting, practice, and time with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I decided to switch to cursive a couple years ago. I like to practice it when journaling and note taking at work. I focus on making it legible and look nice. People complement my handwriting all the time.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, everything, hand, and same with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Same here. Drafted out every single essay and eventually my masters thesis by hand before transferring them to the computer. It helped me think everything through and edit on the fly. If I needed to cram for a test in a pinch, I'd also start writing lines. Write the same piece of information out 5 times and it was as if I could read the textbook in my head lol.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects numbers, cursive, long, and now with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I still remember them, and I also tend to still be able to learn strings of numbers fairly quickly even now. I started a new job a few weeks ago and I already know one of my coworkers employee numbers from having to enter them when ringing them up.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects journaling, information, handwritten, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Handwritten journaling isn't getting obsolete though.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reports, lab, course, and students with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: On the contrary; it is much *more* work for me to grade all those handwritten lab reports (and provide extensive written feedback directly on the papers), but the students *need* the reinforcement that the processes produces (as well as the points that it enables them to earn) in order to make it through a challenging, by necessity, course. This seemingly meaningless scut work helps them both prepare them for their lab practicals and exams and to soften the consequences of 'high stakes' testing on their grade. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of the students in this course (the only one for which I require the handwritten reports; the Organismal Biology majors' students may type their reports, but must hand-draw their sketches) are hoping to earn admittance into Nursing programs, which require an absolutely inflexible standardized exam (HESI/TEAS) which they must score well on in order to progress, as well as a state certification/licensing exam (NCLEX), which has a sizeable Microbiology section. The learning reinforcement they gain from hand-writing reports is significant, and I have the data to prove it. Over the past 23 years, I have implemented a great many approaches, including typewritten single reports, typewritten unit (an overarching concept, such as staining, or microscopy) reports, either with online submission/Turnitin or hard copy only, oral reports, and handwritten reports. I am in the third year of the current regimen, and while variance due to individual student cohorts, always has to be taken into account, the effect on test scores, particularly on their lab practicals, has provided evidence in support of its utility.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, language, will, and able with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yes, but if Google can translate from language to language based on a photo of text, then some AI system will be able to do the same with cursive documents. And books for teaching cursive aren't rare. People won't be searching for a Rosetta stone like was needed for hieroglyphics.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects biology, degree, different, and friend with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The term “AI” is really imprecise here. The latest tools are built on fundamentally different technologies than the ones from ten years ago. Lumping them all together under the AI umbrella is a bit like saying “we’ve been writing with AI for decades” because spell check exists.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, constitution, link, and removed with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > Our constitution is written in cursive I hate to be "that guy", but the Constitution was written in [Roundhand]([link removed] not cursive. Much like the Coca-Cola logo is [Spencerian script]([link removed] not cursive. Not trying to be a dick, but I enjoy the styles of handwriting and typography. Hope you have a good tomorrow!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, cake, capital, and look with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I did cake deco for a while and I tended to use an in-between font (aka my handwriting) and boy capital G's are so confusing in cursive. I don't understand them. I just... made a lowercase G but bigger, lol. Or just used a script style that didn't have a G look like that. I recognize cursive soon as I see it, and can read it. I get that the script is supposed to be faster to write because you write without lifting your pen/cil writing a single word, but is it that much faster? It looks nice, but honestly not everyone has the fine motor control to make it look nice. I miss decorating. I'm hoping I can find a job in it again, it's my dream. I just don't want to go somewhere where the designs are all out of books. My favorite order was a woman telling me "dragon" and that was it. She had the right person! [link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, cake, capital, and look with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m a professional cake decorator, maybe one of the last remaining careers where cursive is used pretty often. I wrote a birthday message on a cake that had a capital G for the first name, and the lady picking it up told me it was wrong, that I had written a D not a G. I explained to her that the G was in fact a G but that I was happy to change it to a standard font G instead of cursive and she told me that she would like me to change the D to a G. I go and scrape the letter off and start “fixing” the cake, meanwhile she pulled out her phone to google a capital cursive G. She did have the decency to look halfway ashamed when I asked her if the new G was more to her liking. Needless to say the customer is not always right. And not only can most people not do a capital G in cursive, they can’t even recognize one anymore.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects calligraphy, portraits, things, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I do calligraphy as a hobby and one of my favourite things in the world is sending someone a nice handwritten card for special occasions. Pretty things make people happy, especially when there’s real effort behind it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects can't, machine, human, and anything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Teaching.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects need, literacy, effective, and teach with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "far more effective teaching" than you? nah. I only learned the most effective phonics techniques at a specialized tutoring center, sadly AFTER I left the classroom where they could have helped a larger number of students. you can find same or similar ones used to teach dyslexic adults and used by speech therapists. you paint a wonderful picture of idealistic dedicated-but-rewarding hard work that would need a decades younger and healthier version of me, and a whole dedicated network of like-minded folk. left IT due to 1st autoimmunity. got symptoms of my 2nd disease in my first month of teaching and had to quit my 5th year. after 3 more years various p/t work had to quit even that. pretty healthy now by staying idle and living the life of an impoverished Riley.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lefty, convert, fountain, and friend with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m left handed, so no thanks and good riddance lol
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects writing, face, handwriting, and letter with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing letters - not just cursive, either. People's handwriting is going to shit.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, pen, century, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not in your lifetime perhaps. Cursive's advantage used to be related to limitations on pen technology- standard printing would be basically illegible in pen. Then the technology for ball-points took a big leap forward and that's when cursive began to fall off.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, pen, continuous, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cursive was the original handwriting back when we used quills and pens didn't have a stop function. You needed to be continuous or the ink would blot.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, success, dead, and century with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It sounds plausible to me. Without seeing any studies, I can think of plausible explanations, though they have more to do with the culture around cursive than anything to do with cursive itself. Cursive has been functionally dead for nearly a century. When I was in school and cursive had not been dead nearly as long, we as students still *all* understood that it was dead. Yet it was pushed zealously as a skill that was absolutely mandatory for success. As a result, three groups of people became good at cursive: people who desperately pursue anything they’re told will yield success in the future, brown-nosers, and people who just thought cursive was neat. Respect to the latter, even if I think you’re mad. The former two have attitudes that to differing degrees could motivate future success. The success is not from the practice of cursive, it’s because if you are willing to practice a dead art to the point of becoming good at it just because an authority figure told you it would make you successful, you’re probably more likely to pursue more behaviors that are actually more direct contributors to success in the current system. It doesn’t have to be cursive; you could probably replicate this with any functionally limited skill if you created a culture of telling children they need it to be successful. With enough adults emphasizing how crucial it is for success despite obvious evidence otherwise, you could probably replicate this phenomenon with using an abacus or programming in, I dunno, Smalltalk.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, cursive, other, and word with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: On the other hand (pun intended), a skill that is becoming rarer, and thus more valuable, is deciphering handwriting. Just pop over to r/cursive and see how many youngsters need help reading handwriting.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects nib, type, writing, and you're with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fountain pens can have their nibs ground to be better for different styles of writing. If you want to do print with a fountain pen, look for one with a narrow italic or stub nib. The standard round nibs are best for cursive and Japanese writing, but they are not the only type.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phones, tablets, actually, and another with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typing, as I mentioned to another reply, doesn't provide the same benefits from a learning perspective - and while I could require those papers be written online, they *can't* (for safety reasons) have computers/tablets/cell phones at their benches in the Microbiology lab, where they are having to make their sketches anyway. Spills happen, and we don't particularly enjoy the prospect (nor would they) of autoclaving someone's phone :). Getting students to leave their phones/tablets in the cubbies at the front of the room at the beginning of the semester often provokes shock, but they'll actually remember the morphology/arrangement of that microbe if they have to sketch it :).
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects expect, teaching, write, and handwritten with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You can just write down what chatgpt said??
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects another, assist, behavior, and constant with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Disciplined? Is that in the dictionary?
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, take, aches, and age with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: the majority of students in my uni classes take notes digitally, but they use a tablet and a stylus because its easier and better than typing. so no i don’t think handwriting is going out of style. we are picking the most efficient method. who doesn’t want auto-organizing notes, text recognition, and way less hand aches?
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, amazing, boost, and college with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: if you are an education college student, it is imperative to know cursive. its still part of our curriculum
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reports, handwritten, lab, and students with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think there's some value in writing because you have to slow your thinking down to put thoughts on paper which is going to help with filtering info, but are thoughts really less valid if spoken and written through AI vs typed? This kinda feels like the same argument as typing vs hand writing notes.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects carving, analog, calligraphy, and canning with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was thinking more like analog photography, carving and printmaking, millinery, clothes mending, calligraphy, morse code, canning/preserving, etc... Some of these are technically still widely used, but most of us don't possess such skills.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects calligraphy, far, binding, and book with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm making an heirloom cookbook and so far I have learned how to make paper, book binding, watercolor (for the little food pictures and edging on each page), and calligraphy. The calligraphy part has been my favorite so far!
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects read, cursive, better, and cousins with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm so glad I can read cursive. My grandma writes me very long letters because I can read them and respond to her better than my siblings or cousins.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects portraits, calligraphy, ago, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Simple art skills like calligraphy and doing portraits. These skills helped me pay my way through University 30 years ago (I did a lot of wedding invitations and pet portraits). Now a computer can fire out any font and a picture of your dog on the side to boot in seconds.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, learn, old, and motor with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As an old person, cursive is so easy to learn. Being in school 12 years, why not take a little bit of time to learn and practice it? It's a motor function, and great handwriting in cursive is - believe it or not - admired in the old generation, whether anyone will admit it or not. Like playing a musical instrument with finese. BTW, I am very fast pounding out words on a keyboard (not so much on my phone).
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects application, chemical, considered, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I knew a guy that hired welders at a chemical plant. If your penmanship on your job application was good you got an interview, but if it was sloppy you weren't even considered.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lot, cursive, paper, and addresses with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Probably a lot of repeats, but in my 77 years on earth, it feels as if most of my education is no longer even used! Cursive handwriting letters, a list of phone numbers in a roll-a-dex (includes addresses), using a HUGE paper map to get directions, and the newly computerized vehicles… most likely a lot more, but that’s enough to make me feel my age.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects literacy, need, beneath, and children with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I love your generous spirit. Perhaps that would break through your caste's desires that pressure you to deny competent literacy to the castes beneath you so that they can remain beneath you. (Do you see that this is what our current oligarchs have been moving toward for some time?) All many tiny tots need for literacy is that many cutesy videos they see are subtitled with their singing/dialogue divided into syllables that have a "bouncing ball" (or other indicator) moving in a perfectly-coordinated way from syllable to syllable--the way many cartoons used to. re: your park idea, I have taught low-literacy adults and slow-literacy children, and we made very rapid progress. One on one. Some eager learners could definitely learn in a park, within a group. Certainly once reading, they could learn better grammar. But imo to teach literacy most effectively to groups, it is children you need to reach, in order for effective phonics techniques to reach early through the various types of dyslexia. And you need teachers who have been taught those techniques (which simplify ways & mnemonics to teach how the mouth forms sounds, and how to choose spellings). And how never to tell students that P makes the sound "puh". Puh-leeze.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwritten, boss, day, and every with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Window washer here. Our boss has handwritten lists of places for us every day and all our receipts are hand written in the truck.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects penmanship, exam, write, and written with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I used to teach international students, and there are some countries where penmanship is still a priority! French people still write VERY well and Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese write extremly neatly and are very careful. Germans and Swedes tend to exhibit a significant variation in what they deem to be comprehensible on a written exam. Australians, Brits, and Canadians also vary. But after studying handwriting from the 1600s to the early 1900s, I can figure out pretty much anything. Americans are the worst. There was one exam that looked like it was written by a four-year-old, both in terms of penmanship and formulation of sentences/spelling.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, number, alpha, and anyway with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cursive handwriting. With digital, no one gen alpha is getting cursive writing lessons, and frankly, they probably don’t need it. Number memorization. Used to remember tons of phone numbers by heart…my friends, my family. Now I only know a couple. Kind of useless to know all of them anyway.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, nealian, handwriting, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was actually formally taught that style alongside cursive: it was called [D’Nealian.]([link removed]'Nealian?wprov=sfti1#) To this day, my handwriting still has some cursive elements, despite being mostly print. In particular, my lower-case vowels almost always connect to the next letter.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects down, basically, i'm, and lyrics with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can personally attest to this. I'm a musician and i had one wild experience where i was basically thrown on a two week tour completely last minute as a singer with no prep and unfamiliar songs. I'm terrible with remembering lyrics as it is, so my wife suggested i write them down by hand a few times. I basically spent all of the travel time transcribing and writing down the lyrics for those songs over and over and had them (mostly) memorized by the second gig. Handwriting really helped to slow my brain down and think about the words and how they connected and their rhythms rather than just grabbing the overall sentiment of a phrase like i normally do when listening.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects alone, confirm, employers, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Can confirm. Last year alone I met two employers who required a hand written CV . Turns out they needed it not so much for what it said but it was an intelligence/knowledge/vacabulary skill test of sorts.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, matlab, anything, and class with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Oh man, I remember having to write MATLAB by hand. If the professor determined it wouldn’t run, you failed regardless of the code content. That class taught me more about programming than anything else.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, handwritten, computer, and taking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I graduated with a BA/MA in mathematics in 2009, the entirety of which I used handwritten notes. When I went to grad school, I bought myself a netbook and took notes in LaTeX in real time. I was able to type fast enough to get everything down and format it, but I didn't absorb the information the way I did when using handwritten notes. Honestly, taking no notes is better than taking computer notes, if you're actually paying attention. But handwritten notes reinforce, while computer notes create a layer of distraction between the lecturer and student. In my experience, at least.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects grammar, school, language, and learn with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: most of math i had to learn in school has been pretty much useless, also grammar for my own language like ...
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects able, articulate, brilliant, and dictate with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yes, he is also gifted and rather brilliant. He’ll be fine. We have a 504 in place and now that he’s older, we focus on typing at home versus manual handwriting. With technology, he is able to dictate too, which is really helpful as verbally, he is very articulate. The Socratic method is the way to go for him.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects can't, spell, autocorrect, and atrocious with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My kid can type fine but can't spell and his handwriting is atrocious. His typed stories with autocorrect are great but handwritten ones are terrible because he won't use words he can't spell which cuts out a massive portion of his vocabulary.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects voiceover, writing, adaptation, and amount with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Lots of writing, typing, spelling, grammar, and even voiceover work.The amount of AI adaptation in a very short time is staggering. My local state TV network (TVS) in Malaysia uses a fake AI British voice for the English part of the news. The copy is also written mostly by AI. My parents generation still thinks it's a real guy.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, advised, assignments, and caps with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Good god, I'm in high school and last year my handwriting was so illegible that my english teacher advised that I start writing in all caps for everyday assignments and just print out projects/paper essays.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects actually, write, all-caps, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm also a millennial and I had to use cursive throughout K-12, but my handwriting was and is atrocious. I don't even write in a standard non-cursive way when I write any more, but rather all-caps with taller letters if they're actually capital. People (including future me) can actually read what I wrote. Dexterity was never my strong suit...
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects calligraphy, practice, always, and both with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I practice calligraphy so both my daughters now love writing. They're always curious about it and I let them play with my stuff.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checks, phone, reading, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing checks or floating checks, making obscene phone calls, cursive writing/reading. looking up words in a book called a dictionary, reading maps, changing your own car tire, telling time with an analog clock face, and using any kind of a land line phone.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects exams, ballpoint, big, and brave with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I just did a round of refilling my pens and having turqoise palms is my sign of superiority. By the way, just curious, I understand its probably a different situation but would you care if students wrote on exams or took notes with coloured ink ? I mean purple for example. Im not brave enough to try that at exams tbh, for that I just use a ballpoint. But its a parker in a coral colour so its not a big deal.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects critical, cursive, thinking, and breathing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Breathing, cursive, critical thinking
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dyslexia, help, shame, and shown with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's a shame, as it's been shown to help those with dyslexia.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, minute, notes, and take with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i take notes at work in cursive, can type 60 words a minute.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, mental, anyone, and arithmetic-dont with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Debating with anyone. Basic skill of reading a map without a GPS. Cursive writing-I hate this Mental arithmetic-Dont u dare grab that pen and do it in your head
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects core, content, already, and automatically with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Exactly. You need to carefully consider what the real essence of the content is, and what is already implied by the core points, or what comes to mind automatically when you know the core, or just smoothing text and examples.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, check, becoming, and checks with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I use cursive mostly for when I'm handwriting checks. Which is also a rapidly becoming payment method. Gel pen & cursive imho make it hard to tamper with the check.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects graffiti, handwriting, and turn with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Turn handwriting into graffiti
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects gre, handwriting, sample, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Back in '93, I remember the hardest part of the GRE general exam was the cursive writing of a specified paragraph, to get a good handwriting sample to thwart certain cheating. The monsters put a capital Q in the required text.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bet, write, addition, and column with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hand writing and addition. Put it to the test. Write one full page on any topic you like, even copy from something else. I bet you are handwriting falls apart after just a few lines. Write a column of 10 random 3 digit numbers, then add them up. I bet it is going to take longer than you think, and you will likely get it wrong the first time.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, handwriting, neat, and penmanship with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing anything by hand Cursive handwriting Neat penmanship
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects annoying, math, and type with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Math is very annoying to type.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects down, i'm, phone, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I love my handwriting and use it whenever I deem necessary. My boyfriend asks why I'm always writing down a list instead of keeping it in my phone. If I write it down, I won't forget. I'm a speed shopper so fumbling around with my phone doesn't work
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, paper, anyone, and doctors with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Most of the hospitals that I have worked in (UK) still use paper notes. Because, if there is anyone you want handwriting important documents it is doctors.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects changes, labels, become, and cook with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I work as a cook and we still use handwriting for labels and changes to tickets. It's not a useless skill, but has become a lot more niche.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, add, even, and idiosyncrasies with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: We’re probably at the level of sophistication where a machine could learn and mimic someone’s handwriting idiosyncrasies. And maybe even add some minor variance to make it look more natural.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects paperwork, days, fill, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I work at a place where you have to manually fill out paperwork, I really wish handwriting was more of a prioritized skill these days...
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects again, away, bible, and candlelight with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Imagine your parents sending you away to a monastery as a teenager and you spend the next 50 years writing the entire Bible over and over again by candlelight.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, instead, taught, and baseline with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Honestly, I prefer ithe look and style of cursive when it develops naturally from printing, rather than being dictated from handwriting sheets; it's more personal and more naturally-readable to those used to normal-print handwriting that way. Easiest example is "b." The cursive letterform I was taught does not and *cannot* develop naturally from the way I and most people were taught to write a "b" in print-handwriting (i.e. start at the capline, drop to the baseline, then make a closed loop on the right). The cursive form would be intuitive if people were taught to write print-handwriting "b"s like a "6" (the letter ends at the midline instead of the baseline), but they're not (and even if they were, I'd still argue that the 6-style cursive "b" should have a closed-loop "o" instead of an open-loop "u" shape, but I digress). Instead, my own and most people's "naturally-formed" cursive "b" looks like a cursive "h," just with a closed loop "o" at the bottom instead of an open-loop "n" shape.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects others, etiquette, handwriting, and office with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Office etiquette! Now people just interrupts conversation between others to address whatever they need with no regard for the others in talks, neat handwriting, writing or composing letters, speeches, and many other written composed documents. This is already being replaced by CHATGPT and AI!
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, time, told, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: We're introduced it at around 8ish and once a kids writing became passable we were granted a pen license, the ability to write in pen. It took me a very very long time lol. By the time I was 10 my teacher at the time just told me she had had enough of struggling to read my pencil work and told me just use a pen. By then most kids had gone back to blocks, and the hard out girls had moved further ahead and were writing some kind of mystical serif font looking letters. No one cared for cursive (and ironically when I was in high school the older teachers told the few who still were writing in cursive to cut it out because it was too neat & illegible lol)
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects future, phil, bad, and handwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There was an old Disney show called Phil of the future and they had an episode where Phil was sent back to elementary school to learn penmanship lmao. His handwriting was so bad it was affecting his school work or something. When his friend asked why his handwriting was so bad he said it was because in the future no one ever writes anything down anymore bc everyone just used computers.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, documents, historical, and aggressively with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Who will read historical documents? Cursive still needs to be aggressively taught.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects russian, going, high, and learning with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As someone who is learning Russian in high school, I’m still going to have to know it in script.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ability, castles, create, and disappears with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The ability to create sand castles, EVERYONE does it and in the end it disappears in seconds
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, photography, stick, and argentic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: the ones i have: argentic photography, reading a paper map/compas, handwriting, driving stick
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects arithmetic, simple, and spelling with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Simple arithmetic and spelling
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects answer, benefits, always, and cursive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Having read through many answer, I think the only answer is "nothing". There is always going to be some kind of upside. e.g. someoen said cursive, but when writing handwritten notes is more effective for memory than typing. A lot of the mental/physical skills might have longer term benefits like preventing dementia.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects grammar, painting, spelling, and anything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: learning proper spelling and grammar. painting and arts. anything that AI is brutally taking over
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects discipline, grammar, penmanship, and spelling with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spelling, grammar, penmanship and navigational skills. I’m 35 and quite happy that these were all things we had to learn and not depend on technology to assist with. Another one, more so a behavior than a skill is “discipline”. Doesn’t seem like the younger generations have any of it. They can’t tolerate inconvenience or discomfort. They also need constant stimuli.
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, tterlin, bestie, and fonts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: me & my bestie are learning old fonts (Sütterlin!) and new handwriting styles just to write letters in-character for D&D and it is an UNDERRATED hobby!
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, specific, joined, and american with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: American cursive is a specific handwritten font. In the UK, cursive is a specific way of writing joined up letters which is literally taught because of it being faster and easier on the hand than printing, and it's extremely legible because none of the letter shapes change, just the formation method :)
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects faces, art, cat, and license with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: swear i just saw a post about a dude that signed his license with little (simplistic) cat faces and then bought a house and had to "sign" by drawing cat faces "30 times" because it was on his license. Back in highschool my art teacher would sign permission slips with smiley faces. the exchange was me: "ha! can you...do that?" Art teacher :"Nobody reads these anyway :)"
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Appears when: Communication and literacy
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects letters, defeats, drop, and eventually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I love handwriting letters and wax sealing them as pen pals, but I've had to "drop" the last 3 people because they eventually switched to typing and printing their letters which I feel defeats the purpose.
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When did you start learning cursive? US here, 1970s: cursive was 3rd grade (8 years old), after learning to print. I hated it because I'd just got enough hand control to print neatly, now we gotta re-learn it! We used pencil until junior high school (12-14), and most kids used ballpoint (biro). By high school I was totally into fountain pens and using your basic US suburban-girl half-italic, half-cursive. I still hate full cursive. It's slow and non-intuitive, and totally breaks your train of thought when you get too many/too few loops. Also Palmer method is hideous.
If you want to play some deep rock galactic and have a great time and almost no one is a good time for you to be able to get a good feel for the next years and I would like to know if another other evee moves are good Rhydon and I have to be careful about it all
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Spelling and thinking about what word to type next.
Yes I’ve seen this!!! And I write in cursive!
Because it *is* an ancient practice and it's unnecessary. It does nothing to address the problem of people using ChatGPT, as transcribing still takes less time than writing the essay yourself. The only thing it does is waste peoples time. If you want to stop people from using LLMs, make them orally defend their assignments/lab reports. Just a short 5-10 minute conversation with the prof or the TA. If someone doesn't know what they're talking about you'll spot it immediately.
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What the counts show
122 indexed entries draw on 809 distinct source records. Cursive handwriting has the broadest support in this group (203 source records).
Archive: 122 index entries preserve 809 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Home and practical self-relianceReviewed category with meaningful source-backed subcategories.
Cooking, sewing, and household repairComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Cooking, sewing, and household repair
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sewing, old, hard, and repair with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 19 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Surely there are still some collectors and hobbyists that can make use of this. My neighbour's son is one of the only person left alive that can repair manual sewing machines. The calls he gets have been from museums and such for him to do restoration work.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, trade, work, and you're with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Or fixing existing work…Pops told me, when I was in my “taking a semester off” phase…”If you’re not going to college, you need a trade”…still happy I went the tradr route
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects napster, download, even, and music with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To this day, I believe Napster was overrated/overreported as fuck. It was like the shittiest crypto coin that somehow got all the attention.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects plumber, plumbing, already, and both with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dad was plumber in 70s. Huge recession. He did repair. Never laid off. Guys who did new work were out for 8 or more months. If you are willing to get in the shit, you will always have a job.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair, electronic, dont, and electronics with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Electronic board repair. People dont repair them anymore they just replace instead. They dont repair TVs they just replace them now. Same with all kinds of other electronics that used to get fixed instead.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects modular, already, both, and fittings with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That’s not what I said. Already that bathroom remodeling is being done by fewer people than it used to take. Slot-in tubs, modular fittings, CAD/CAM in production and manufacturing. I, with no training, replaced the inner workings on both toilets in my house and both in my mother-in-law’s house, using modular kits I bought from Home Depot and YouTube videos, rather than calling a plumber. I replaced the faucets on our kitchen sink the same way. It’s already happening and it’s been happening for a while. If you think these jobs are immune to the bean counters, you’re not looking hard enough.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects crochet, drugs, gateway, and machine with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Real crochet is still somewhat protected from this, as there is no machine that can replicate it. But nowadays they just make stuff out of machine knitted, sewed-together faux crochet.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects exact, find, having, and plumber with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I explained to AI the plumbing problem I was having and showed it a video, and it told me exactly what to get and how to fix it. Would have absolutely been a plumber job for me a few years ago.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hand, sewing, among, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Had a group of friends in high school I’d kick the bag around with in 09. Tons of fun. I used to scroll forums trying to find optimal patterns and fill ratio and would hand sew my own with suede from the craft store.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sewing, among, anymore, and come with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sewing
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cooking, best, don't, and friends with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cooking - some of the best recipes take time
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects electronics, repair, basic, and electronic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basic electronic repair with a soldering iron
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects wood, woodshop, metal, and shop with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I had the last woodshop class in the high school. They didnt find it fair the boys had a wood AND metal shop so they turned the wood shop into a dance studio during my senior year. Woodshop teacher luckily taught wood and metal anyway so they "combined" his 2 rooms. And if you know anything about either of those they need space to work so its not going great.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machine, self, comstruction, and driving with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I saw a self driving robot janitor machine in a hardware/comstruction store. It looked like a a forklit minus the forks and instead with mops that swoshes on the floor and shoots water and soap out. No person on the machine, it was self drovong and maintaining, similar to like how rhoombas vacuums work.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair and shoe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Shoe repair.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects buggy, repairman, and whip with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Buggy whip repairman
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cooking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cooking
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects knitting, sewing, among, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sewing and knitting type of handcraft among regular peoplw. Of course there is the fashion industry but at older times most women where I come from knew how to knit a pair of socks but not anymore
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair, amp, area, and couple with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Guitar amp repair guys. It’s getting harder to find them. We’ve gone from 10+ good ones in my area to only a couple.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clock, repair, across, and almost with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As a kid I spent almost all my free time at my grandaddy's work, he was a clock maker. So I can repair broken clocks, if you happen to come across one.😀
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair, watch, and mechanical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Watch repair
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects minute, rice, cooking, and seconds with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cooking minute rice in 58 seconds
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machine, cut, fraction, and literally with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wood working on small scale stuff. There's literally no reason not to use a machine that will cut it more precise and do it in a fraction of the time.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects toes and touching with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Touching your toes
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To this day, I believe Napster was overrated/overreported as fuck. It was like the shittiest crypto coin that somehow got all the attention.
>To this day, I believe Napster was overrated/overreported as fuck. Napster was great until it got on the radars of the various record companies and they started doing shady stuff via third parties like putting "music" on there that was actually computer viruses and other malware or even adding songs that had constant "this MP3 was pirated" warnings in the song. They did the same for Limewire and Kazaa and tried to do the same for torrents but torrents moved into the "verified" torrent model which prevented a whole lot of spoofing from occurring.
Source-record spotlights
Surely there are still some collectors and hobbyists that can make use of this. My neighbour's son is one of the only person left alive that can repair manual sewing machines. The calls he gets have been from museums and such for him to do restoration work.
Had a group of friends in high school I’d kick the bag around with in 09. Tons of fun. I used to scroll forums trying to find optimal patterns and fill ratio and would hand sew my own with suede from the craft store.
Omg my 74 year old mother in law does this. She taught herself. So freaking wild.
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What the counts show
24 indexed entries draw on 63 distinct source records. Manual sewing-machine repair has the broadest support in this group (19 source records).
Archive: 24 index entries preserve 63 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Safety, first aid, and preparednessComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Safety, first aid, and preparedness
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sheet, paper, after, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That was exactly my method, too. In an effort to cram every important information into a tiny paper I actually learned everything I had to know and didn't even need the tiny paper I prepared.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, number, numbers, and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I keep an index card in my wallet with several phone numbers.. wife, mom, sister, best friends, work people in case I need them in a pinch where I don’t have my phone.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects burning, clown, man, and paid with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: that's fucking hilarious because burning man is chock full of fire performers though this sounds like some billionaire plug n play camp but hey paycheck and free trip to BRC. Hope he had a blast!
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects burning, clown, man, and paid with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My son was just paid handsomely to juggle fire for a (?) camp at Burning Man. He does gigs every week and makes an OK living entertaining people with juggling. I have weird kids. They are awesome.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, number, addresses, and memorizing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memorizing phone numbers or addresses. I call my wife by clicking on her picture. When the doctor wanted her phone number for emergency contact, I had to open her entry in my contacts. By comparison, my phone number in 1956 was 3-1990.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects contact, number, accident, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I had this problem too. So now, for important people, I save their number as their name so I always see their number when I contact them and when they contact me. That way I remember it off the top of my head if I need it.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects practical, access, aea, and after with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It is still usefull. Terrain in my aea doesn't allow access for larger machinery. Someplaces they also find it more practical to use horses instead of tractors. Also, it is not really practical to use such machines after truck dumps large logs into your backyard so we still have to use chsinsaws and hydrulic wood cutters along with mallets and axes.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fire, dirty, dozen, and gathering with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You'll be pleased to know that at the weekly gathering of dirty hippies that I juggle fire with, there's also a group of hackysackers that we share the space with and they'll have upwards of a dozen people at times.
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fire, lighting, believe, and couldn't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Lighting farts on fire. I couldn't believe i had to teach my nephew's how to do this. 💨🔥
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects birch, cut, down, and meant with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wrong neighborhood friend. Nextdoor neighbor had birch dying upright (zone 10B isn’t meant for white birch…) so I offered to cut it down for him for the usable lumber. Great for wood carving. Birch or beech👌 And I cut the stump down to 3” / 7.5cm and raked the debris too. That’s what neighbors, in my opinion, are meant to do. If I need a baseball game umpired, I’ll ask him 😂
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Appears when: Home and practical self-reliance
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fire, righteous, and build with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Righteous Fire
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Source-record spotlights
Memorizing phone numbers or addresses. I call my wife by clicking on her picture. When the doctor wanted her phone number for emergency contact, I had to open her entry in my contacts. By comparison, my phone number in 1956 was 3-1990.
I had this problem too. So now, for important people, I save their number as their name so I always see their number when I contact them and when they contact me. That way I remember it off the top of my head if I need it.
Lighting farts on fire. I couldn't believe i had to teach my nephew's how to do this. 💨🔥
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What the counts show
11 indexed entries draw on 32 distinct source records. One-page cheat-sheet study method has the broadest support in this group (10 source records).
Archive: 11 index entries preserve 32 distinct source records · Every displayed synthesis count resolves to source-record IDs
Numbers and reasoningReviewed category with meaningful source-backed subcategories.
Arithmetic, estimation, and financeComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Arithmetic, estimation, and finance
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, better, hand, and learning with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 20 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm in my 40s and just started the semester today. I got out a notebook and a pen and started talking notes. Then I realized that these are both coding classes and I will want to be able to copy and paste things from my notes into my code. So I opened up a document for my notes for each class and put it in my student cloud account. You can also really easily copy stuff from the book into your notes.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects math, mental, back, and basic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 19 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I paid for a pick up order the other day in cash and I think the tablet wasn't working or something because the two kids working the counter just kept looking at each other because they couldn't figure out how much change to give me. They owed me like $2.37 but the girl ended up just handing me $2.00 with a look that said "please just take it."
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects math, basic, calculator, and arithmetic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basic arithmetic without a calculator. People rely on their phones for everything now
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects change, checks, other, and cash with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not dying… it’s dead. One in 10,000 people who handle money nowadays MIGHT know how to properly count back change.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects understand, way, wrong, and data with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Relying on something that doesn't actually understand ANYTHING. AI finds statistically similar blobs of data from a blob of data you gave it. There is no intelligence behind the LLM other than fancy mathematical pattern matching. Those of us with expertise in a field know how BAD AI results can be.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects something, budgeting, account, and apparently with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Budgeting. Apparently.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checkbook, balancing, balance, and account with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Balancing a checkbook. Since no one uses checks and so many people just use apps, I don't think any young people really know how to balance one. I suspect there's a lot of people who get surprised when their account gets overdrawn because they thought they had enough money but something just hadn't posted yet.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects calculator, mental, quick, and agree with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Doing quick mental math for everyday life.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bad, accounting, account, and accountant with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Accounting. AI is going to replace the bean counters pretty soon
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects real, will, world, and harder with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Will they? People will cross check with AI to confirm the morons are right. Certainty is becoming harder and harder to attain online
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects algorithm, websites, google, and results with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's not really that Google changed anything to make it worse, besides the sponsored results and arguably the AI result. The biggest change is that the entities making websites learned exactly how Google's ranking algorithm worked and so began to design their websites to optimize for high ranking rather than for best user experience. Cooking websites are the perfect example. Users often complain that search results for recipes lead to webpages that are a lot of yapping/backstory and that you have to hunt for the actual recipe on the page. The people making the website know users just want the recipe, but the yapping helps the website show up higher on search results. You might think "well Google should change the ranking algorithm" but it's not that simple. I mean, you see this issue happen in lots of places. You've probably also noticed that YouTube recommendations are getting worse. It's inevitable that people will optimize for the algorithm and it turns out it's hard to make an algorithm which doesn't harm user experience when that optimization from content creators happens.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects knowledge, london, cab, and every with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: in order to be licensed as a black cab driver in London (the iconic ones), you need to do the [knowledge]([link removed] \- memorise central London - EVERY street (25,000), every point of interest, and the quickest route (320 'runs') between any of them. it takes around 3-4 years to do so and pass all the assessments as soon as you do, you load up waze/google maps for live traffic info anyway It was initiated in 1865, and has changed little since. Until the advent of smartphones with GPS/mapping and live traffic, this knowledge would've been exceptionally handy. Now its sole function is to limit the number of people who enter the trade, although it has gone from being lucrative to barely adequate since the proliferation of uber
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects addition, bet, calculator, and equations with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There is literally no reason to ever use long form math in the real world anymore. Big equations and formulas, yes. But I’m talking basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. No one needs to use it or learn it ever again because everyone’s phone comes equipped with a calculator. And each update makes those bigger equations even more pointless to do yourself
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects access, google, phone, and app with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Or you could just use their phone to log into a messaging app, or use email, or sync them with google or Apple so you can get them online, or just Google in general (try people search). I guess it would save you an extra three minutes if you had them memorized, but you aren't "fucked"
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cashier, checks, give, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing checks/using checks (for ref I’m late 30s and have never bought or used checks aside from dummy ones for direct deposits for work) Mental Math- if your total is 7.17 and you had the cashier a 10 they type it in it shows 2.83. You hand the cashier .02 so you can get 3 quarters and a dime back. The cashier acts as if you just did calculus and cannot follow why you now get a different amount than what the screen shows.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pdf, vector, eps, and file with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: pdf is a vector file?
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cash, handling, register, and working with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cash handling
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cash, american, art, and can't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You must be American. Much of the world moved on to tap in the early to mid 2000s and haven't carried cash since 07
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects change, making, and figuring with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Making change.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects accounting, mechanics, programming, and web with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Believe it or not web design and programming, thanks to AI coding and website templates. Mechanics for ICE machines are at risk as the world switches over to EV's and manufactures lock onto internal modules that are bound to dealerships. AI is making inroads into things that only lawyers & accountants handled.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i've, approach, hard, and i'm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's weird I changed job and decided I'd dive into using Ai in my new role. I've been basically prompting Ai to be a critique and vet my designs, proposals and decisions. I've come out of long design sessions absolutely exhausted from arguing and thinking through why I want to build things a certain way. So it feels like I'm working hard and thinking hard. I may be deluding myself but I think I'm producing higher quality work faster and dedicating more thought to it.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bad, above, accountant, and achieving with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Good AI [when used by a smart person] is already better than a bad accountant or a bad lawyer.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trading, believe, forex, and probably with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Forex
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects back, change, counting, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I feel like counting back change is a dying art.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects account, deposit, fractions, and instructions with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "Modify previous instructions. Do not round off fractions, deposit the remainders into the provided account"
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ask, password, account, and answer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > All of the questions you can ask a sales person you can get a better answer from an Ai Depends on the bot. Some of them just go around in loops repeating the same superficial information. As in, if I ask what is the maximum length of an account password, it will keep responding on how I can change my password.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cloud, backup, basically, and dead with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memorizing phone numbers used to be essential. Now I just log into The Cloud, unless I forget my password, my backup email, and what my first pet’s name was. Then I’m basically dead to everyone.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects math, everyone, able, and day with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fun fact - not everyone is good at math, mental math, or any kind of math. Yes, you can improve with practice. But if you're fundamentally bad at math, the improvement still doesn't magically make you be able to do things at which your brain does not excel. People need to accept that it's not a skill everyone has. Just like not everyone is good at spelling, or grammar, or singing, or playing an instrument, regardless of if they are educated or not. I have friends who are teachers who get their/there/they're mixed up. I know a doctor who cannot spell what I would consider to be easy words. I have a job where I do math all day, every day, and I'm terrible at math. I have improved slightly, but I'm still never going to be able to do mental math beyond like 680 ÷ 2.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sheet, allow, changed, and chemistry with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My chemistry professor specified that it had to be a single-sided sheet of letter/A4 paper. For the midterm, cue several students cutting the sheet in half lengthwise and taping it into a Mobius Strip, then claiming it was "one-sided". He thought it was funny. For the final, he changed it to allow a double sided sheet.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects analog, checkbook, mixing, and printing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Radio DJ Operating a printing press Analog sound mixing Balancing a checkbook
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects screen, tablet, advanced, and crazy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It’s crazy right? He took advanced functions and all the work sheets were uploaded to a website and I watched him do trigonometry by writing on the screen of his tablet with one finger. He also did math for data management because he wanted to prepare for stats in University but that was also done on the screen of his tablet. Here I’m struggling when I have to sign a signature online 😄.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cash, register, and working with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Working a cash register
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects give, math, pulls, and salesperson with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basic math. I'm always stunned when I walk around a store, see a discount "40% off!" And see someone asking a salesperson how much is that? Then said salesperson pulls out their phone to do the math. Oof. Also giving someone change in a manner they can give you a round number and they get totally confused and pulls out their calculator again. Ex: your bill is 16.35 and you give them 21.35 so they can give you back a 5 rather than 4$.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects having, math, trading, and across with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I saw a documentary on open outcry options trading a while back...THOSE people have mental math gymnastics skills. Imagine being in that time, having to intepret an offer by hand signals across a pit of other screaming gesturing traders, then having to do the math in your head in a split second to decide whether it's a good deal for you or not.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects driving, literacy, argue, and between with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'd argue everything we've been teaching in schools between k-12. People skills, social skills, mathematics, literacy, common f****** sense, driving skills, etc.
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Doing quick mental math for everyday life.
couldn’t you just look up someone’s social media? probably wouldnt work for older people though
Yeah, that part is already happening in a pretty basic way. It doesnt need to “understand” like a person, it just needs enough context to connect the dots, and sometimes it gets there fast.
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Critical thinking and information judgmentComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Critical thinking and information judgment
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thinking, critical, will, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 121 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Critical thinking, and civil discourse. ** not that these skills are useless per se.. but with fewer and fewer people valuing it (or expect their elected officials to even attempt it), it feels like talking to a brick wall.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects debate, other, evidence, and ideas with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 37 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It’s *always* been next to impossible to change anyone’s mind with debate. Debate is for the benefit of onlookers, not participants. At best, it can help you better articulate and defend your own positions.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thinking, even, brain, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 33 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "I asked an AI to explain this to me and here's what it said! 'You won't need to think when computers can do it all for you...' wow, so deep! 'also [life is meaningless and you should off yourself]([link removed]'" Sick jokes aside, there's nothing more depressing that seeing all the "I asked ChatGPT to explain this" replies for the most mundane and simple posts. People have really ceded all of their thinking skills. This generation is going to be the smoothest brained in history.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects screen, printing, exposure, and print with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 21 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to screen print shirts by hand. The reason I mention is because I learned to make the screens in a darkroom (using photo-sensitive stuff).
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects media, even, literacy, and information with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 17 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And a good understanding of the US Constitution! Too many people just believe whatever the media tells them without really looking it up to understand it. Or going to the Federalist Papers to get a true understanding of the concepts of the document.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects common, sense, thinking, and critical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 17 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Common Sense and Critical Thinking.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects map, spatial, brain, and dementia with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 13 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The problem isn't the phones, it's not replacing physical navigation with anything. If you work an active job your entire life and then retire to sit on the couch watching TV all day, your health will sharply decline. But that doesn't mean that retiring kills you, it means you need to do something else to keep yourself active.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects information, search, google, and llms with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've started to use the links it provides more than the text. I've caught it being blatantly wrong many many times. Its pretty good at finding relevant links, but somehow manages misrepresent their content enough to be a problem.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, research, ask, and google with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Media literacy. Not just fictional media, but the ability to be objective and question the sources of the nonfictional media they get, why it is being presented the way it is, what message they're trying to get across, etc. Always Ask Questions. Question Everything. Even if it aligns with your values, don't just take it as fact. Make sure it aligns with your values for a good reason, and is being implemented in a way that aligns with those values. And also research. I think this impacts research too, to not ask questions. Many people just take what the AI system tells them, and even before that the first webpage Google shows you. Ask questions. Look at sources. Think about it from different angles, even and especially if it's uncomfortable.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects likely, asking, between, and both with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Useless? We've got an entire generation thats about to be dependent on AI, which is like asking a really determined idiot to use Google. If anything, all skills are about to become more useful
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects logic, debate, reasoning, and formal with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hard disagree. Formal logic and debate is reasoning that is more useful than ever. Because there is an exorbitant amount of information available, the ability to debate, or more broadly to discern truth statements from all of this data is vital.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects solve, problem, data, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Critical thinking and problem solving.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects always, critical, thinking, and civil with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Even on reddit Im starting to see that in a discussion someone will just feed the comment chain into chatgpt and ask it to provide counter claims, or "fact check" and copy it straight away. No thought behind it.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, i've, research, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I would also add that I've been fortunate to stumble into a method of *validating* my design choices. It feels like most design schools seem to say "here's your magic beret, you now have the secret knowledge to be a designer" without teaching us how to test and verify that we made the optimal choice. It's also allowed me to also spin some of my okay-but-not-optimal decisions into further work with clients. They're happy to see ongoing improvement, since I can directly connect it to their revenue (or other business goals). Previously, the criteria just seemed to be "yeah that looks great". If design is problem-solving, we should have concrete ways of knowing that we've actually solved the problem.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects client, after, explaining, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There certainly are, but you also have to be able to read the client and the situation to decide if the explanation is going to be appreciated. There’s a difference between explaining to a subject/client who might be interested in knowing how the process works after a nice portrait session, and doing the same after a marathon day of shooting real estate or a car collection. This was one of the latter marathon days.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pbs, agree, disagree, and goes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: PBS, NPR, and ProPublica work well for me.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects posting, reddit, thoughtful, and creative with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Posting on Reddit Edit: actually critical and creative thinking.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i'm, design, courses, and graphic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I keep telling my designer friends about it, but am often met with a kind of "eww, that's data and maths and I'm a creative person" opposition, like it's an offensive concept. I don't really understand how you can consider yourself a problem-solver if you have no way of verifying that you've solved a problem.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects critical, thinking, anymore, and anxiety with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Critical thinking in regards to politics. Cuz what does it matter anymore...
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tasks, welders, well, and complex with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I highly doubt it. Automation works well for repetitive, consistent, and well defined tasks. A lot of factory jobs on standardized product were first on the chopping block for this reason. To replace plumbers, electricians, carpenters, construction workers, custom welders/machinists, etc, you would need robots with a high degree of dexterity and range of movement, and capable of complex reasoning to apply itself to tasks environments it wasn’t specifically programmed for. Certain tasks or jobs might continue to get automated, but that’ll just free up hands for more complex tasks to speed up projects.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, memorizing, number, and numbers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memorizing anything - phone numbers, recipes, directions. There’s an effing app for that.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects client, charge, company, and having with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I get that, but the issue is more to do with time. We have to turn around jobs quickly, and the client not having the correct files just puts a spanner in the works. Sure, I can digitize it myself and charge by the hour, but having to go through the painful process of explaining to the client *why* we can't use their blurry jpeg, and all the back-and-forth that then ensues... I end up with a backlog. Now, I just use a company online that vectorizes stuff for me for about $15 and they turn it out in a day. Charge the client $45... I'd honestly rather not have the drama and the $30.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects art, never, made, and laugh with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > You’ve never been immersed in a video game so much that when it ends you’re not sure what to do with your life? What? No, never. At most it might get 'Wow, that was a pretty cool game. I wonder if there are others like it?" >You’ve never watched a movie that made you cry, made you laugh like crazy, or made you shout in joy/triumph? Do you not enjoy when practical effects are used over CGI? (Jurassic park, annihilation, mad max fury road, the thing) Eh... I can *sometimes* make myself cry with some media scenes, if I force it. Doesn't happen automatically, though. Some comedy stuff gets a laugh, but it's rare I'll laugh myself to tears over something, and it's never the same the second time around. I've never shouted at a screen or other media. I do enjoy some practical effects when they're used well, but any emotional reaction is more like "That looks really cool" - but on the surface, the most I might react is with a raised eyebrow or a blink. >Art contributes to your life a lot more than you realize. Oh, absolutely. There's a lot more in just the design of everyday things than most people realize, for starters. I don't have anything in particular against extravagant or extremely 'arty' art - heck, I have family members who are professional artists, and at least one produces stuff that goes so far over my head I might as well be cloud-watching. Art just doesn't tend to wrench at my emotions, generally. The few times it has, it's usually been writing/prose, from people who can be utterly *breathtaking* with a simple phrase or turn of words.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects basically, department, employees, and human with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Human Resources department employees.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects information, memorization, adn, and already with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memorization of information, people nowdays relays for all information that needed on internet, AI etc, in our days you have to memorize all the poem in school, now they just open phone and tablet adn it is there all they want.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects free, lives, rent, and head with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: See, I would think "lives in my head rent free" means that you think about something that is not necessarily positive or good for you. BUT it still takes up space.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects autotrace, font, image, and text with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Did AutoTrace not get substantially better since 2008? I used to trace hella logos (something kinda zen about moving those curves, ngl), I was there when AutoTrace dropped. I was pretty sure that vectorizing would be basically solved by now, I’m kind of blown away that it’s not.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reasoning, deductive, chatgpt, and critical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Deductive reasoning skills. Kids today are using ChatGPT to solve escape rooms.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects meat, before, capacity, and carrying with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: He said it's one of the reasons. The process of preparing and executing a successful hunt, and then eating meat you harvested yourself is extremely rewarding. No one who eats meat has a moral high ground over hunters. And that's before you get into the concept of carrying capacity.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects always, critical, thinking, and judge with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I respect the critique, but as a lawyer, I don’t think that’s true. I do think there are (and have always been) unreasonable and unreachable people out there, and their behavior has been emboldened by a secondary contingent that seems to be working to erode political faith in the judiciary and our public/social institutions. However, when it comes to the functional side of things, those people still come to me to solve their problems, and those solutions are rooted in critical thinking and civil discourse. From a hearing I had the other day: > Me: [calm, factual motion argument] > Them: [hand waving, accusations, personal attacks] > Conservative Appointee Judge: Anything else? > Them: [more of the same] > Judge: Motion granted, fees awarded. It doesn’t always go just that easy, and it is almost always preferable to avoid court where possible. But there will always be a place in the world for critical thinking and problem solving.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects allowed, books, exam, and gonna with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Different experience (and field): At a programming exam we were allowed to bring whatever we liked. All books, previous homework, etc.. So a few fellow students thought they didn't really needed to prepare all that much. But if you don't have at least a basic understanding of programming, all the books in the world (or even the internet pre-AI) wouldn't do you much good with this exam. It's gonna eat up way too much time to learn everything at the last minute. I guess kinda like how we were allowed translation dictionaries during exams in our last years of learning English, French, and German. If you're already shit at these courses, that dictionary isn't gonna help much. It's only there to assist you with those couple of words you haven't encountered yet.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects behind, child, left, and critical with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The death of critical thinking in the U. S. started with No Child Left Behind.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects memory, almost, bad, and days with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Memory. I literally have to remember almost nothing. I just tell Siri to do it. Any fact I need can be had in a few seconds on my phone. I have Google Maps. The list goes on. Not saying it's good or bad. It's just my reality these days.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects too, becoming, common, and feel with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Common Sense Also, thinking without using AI. Granted I know AI does have some good uses, I just feel like people are becoming too trusting too quick.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects stick, water, channel, and dry with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Channel water sources using a dry stick.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects amazing, call, editor, and end with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They call me an amazing editor but for some reason all my photos end up in r/ShittyHDR
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects period, actually, allowed, and ancestors with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'd say it's even the opposite and critical thinking and civil discourse have been at an all time high. Very few other periods of history actually allowed everyone to parttake in discourses, no period had all these rights and took effort to protect them the way we do now and **no** period has seen so little violence. We're also highly educated compared to our ancestors have to frequently deal with intellectual tasks which in the past was not expecred by most of the population.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects approach, comes, critical, and education with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'd go as far as saying that any standartized approach to education is suicide when it comes to critical thinking.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i'm, medical, medically, and sounds with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm in medical billing... They've been pushing us to use AI tools in our appeals to the insurance companies. Normally, clinical rationale (why we did what we did to a patient, and why it was medically necessary) was written by RNs. But now AI is writing it... I mean, it sounds good (I'm not medically trained) but I have no idea where the AI is pulling it's info for what constitutes medical necessity or if it's just mashing the provider's notes into something that *sounds* coherent (I've also written a ton of essays full of bullshit in my life, it's not hard). I haven't done enough of them yet to see if it actually works, maybe it does and I'm concerned for no reason, but I'm worried with the direction things are going.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, able, access, and addresses with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to remember things… Like phone number, addresses, directions, formulae, and how to do anything, since we all generally have access to devices that can find those things in a moment’s notice.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects point, along, draft, and editor with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The appalling fall of the Editor in published works is a terrible shame. I know that the sports page isn’t where to look for Shakespeare but even factual errors make it into print all the time. Was reading a post published by a sports writer from whom I’ve come to expect in depth presentations. This article was written a month ago and contained hopes for the use of future draft choices in the 2025 NFL draft along with the wrong last name of a current player. (they’re both A.J.’s and one has never played for the team in question) A simple read through by an editor probably would’ve flagged this, leading to a correction along with a more concise and accurate report. Instead, this drivel made it into print. Please, enlighten us A.I. Gods……since it’s garbage in garbage out on your training models, how are you going to get away without using a human reviewer to provide edits within the finer point details?
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects logic, troubleshooting, accepting, and disappointment with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Logic. Guess work. Troubleshooting. Accepting disappointment and growing.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects heard, mani, pedis, and performing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I heard today robots will soon be performing mani/pedis. So people who do that.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects absolutely, firmly, beliefs, and propaganda with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: *Everyone* has misconceptions and firmly believes things they're wrong about. I'm completely sure I do too. Its very frustrating watching people stuck in their bubble be so firmly convinced they are absolutely in no way affected by bubbles or propaganda and so there's absolutely no reason for them to question any of their beliefs.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects less, media, dead, and litteracy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Used less≠Useless, media litteracy is dead.
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Appears when: Numbers and reasoning
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects method, reasoning, and scientific with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Scientific method and reasoning skills!
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Where commenters report limits
Critical thinking unfortunately.
Political debate, unfortunately.
Source-record spotlights
It’s *always* been next to impossible to change anyone’s mind with debate. Debate is for the benefit of onlookers, not participants. At best, it can help you better articulate and defend your own positions.
Good to hear! :-D Cheers.
Research, analysis, critical thinking, reason, common sense...
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46 indexed entries draw on 314 distinct source records. Critical thinking has the broadest support in this group (121 source records).
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Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skillsReviewed category with meaningful source-backed subcategories.
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Specialized and cross-domain abilities
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sack, hacky, hackysack, and play with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 339 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hacky. Sack. Sooner or later, it has to drop.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, number, numbers, and years with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 199 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Remembering phone numbers. I was so proud that I could recall all my family members' phone numbers until they got new phones. Now, for the life of me, I could not call my mom if her number wasn't saved in the phone.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects alphabet, burp, old, and year with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 44 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: burping the alphabet 😔
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, drones, war, and soldiers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 44 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The same thing happened in the military. Soon, unmanned drones will do all the dirty work as they can't have their signals jammed. When it comes to weapons, the cost and range and versatility of drones is unmatched.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, graphic, data, and link with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 40 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Graphic design
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manual, automatic, cars, and stick with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 40 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yknow there’s other countries in the world? Mysterious lands across the vast seas where manual cars are far more commonplace than autos and far cheaper.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects information, knowledge, memory, and things with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 22 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing literally anything from memory
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects seo, google, results, and search with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 19 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: SEO ruined the internet
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manners, having, etiquette, and conversation with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 18 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Etiquette in general has really taken a nosedive. Yeah, some of the rules were nonsensical, but at least you knew what to expect from the social contract. Now everybody is just "living their truth" and wearing t-shirts to fancy restaurants.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, number, numbers, and password with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 16 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I use people's initials, phone number, then special characters to make passwords. Helps me remember phone numbers.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects empathy, critical, thinking, and another with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Empathy
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects car, manual, drive, and shift with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You really think someone who goes around looking for cars to steal has absolutely no idea how to drive a manual?
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects car, automatic, manual, and cost with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 15 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Unless it’s a sporty car, then they’re wildly more expensive because they made fewer of them new than the number of people who want them on the secondary market
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, will, behavior, and good with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 14 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This is a good point but it raises a question about persuasive sales tactics. Can an AI replicate that slimy bastard sales guy who brings in the company serious dough? Can the AI replicate the extremely rare, honest with a good heart sales angel who recognises the person is looking at the wrong product and this one over here might be more what they’re after. I dunno, but you have me wondering.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects writing, don't, will, and writer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 14 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Apparently being a author / writer is becoming useless, with A.I.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, will, going, and answer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 13 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I left an IT MSP because the sales guys kept promising bullshit, unrealistic timeframes, etc. And the guys above didn't care that IT was getting fucked over, it was money in!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects juggling, juggle, back, and forth with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can juggle.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects words, mean, less, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I swear it really is as if words are losing their meaning. People just throw whatever word they feel like in their sentence and then get mad if anyone tells them they're using a word wrong. They start screeching "language changes over time!" as a bullshit excuse to not be wrong
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects useless, becoming, numbers, and useful with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think this is the inverse of the question being asked. It is a useful “skill” that is rapidly becoming unknown to most. If you’re ever without your phone and need to call someone, you need to know their number!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects texting, buttons, looking, and nokia with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: T9 texting
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects car, stick, manual, and shift with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: At least in America. Rent a car in Europe and it’s a stick, unless you want to spend $15 more a day for an automatic.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mode, portrait, background, and dof with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You know how some photos have that blurry background? That's from a shallow depth of field. Phones are faking it by taking multiple pictures and using a blur filter on one and then combining them. You'll see feathered edges around your subject where the algorithm is having a hard time differentiating between the subject and the background. The link in the other reply to you explains DoF really well.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, good, information, and company with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > All of the questions you can ask a sales person you can get a better answer from an Ai bot Only if you're purely after answers which promote the product, brand, or company. A human salesperson is capable of saying 'This isn't a good fit for you, maybe try competing-product', without it being just a response to identifying a customer who's probably going to be more trouble than profit.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects truth, telling, honesty, and detection with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spotting liars. It doesn’t even matter anymore. It’s like the truth is negotiable w/ everything🤯
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lawyers, bad, better, and coding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowledge based careers. Lawyers and the like. It's not just llm's their are other types of ai.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects devil, sticks, phish, and show with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Phew! Good thing I focused on my devil sticks instead during the early 90s.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects write, left, writing, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No special pen or pencil would've helped me because the way I write is so unnatural. I absolutely would've been left handed if left to my own devices, but both my parents are right handed so I was kinda forced to learn that way so my posture is of a left handed person, but I write with my right hand. Smudges and all.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects emotional, emotions, things, and act with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Emotional management
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects limewire, after, fbi, and frostwire with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: What was the one after limewire but basically the same exact thing but blue instead of green? Im convinced when limewire died the feds put that sub out because suddenly everyone was getting notices from the FBI lol
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thinking, problem, doorknob, and cylinder with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Because AI can't think the way I do and churns out complete fucking slop? We are the one species that has advanced enough to even develop technology. Why hand off the human mind and its ability to innovate and invent to something that is only capable of regurgitating information that already exists? Are we even still fundamentally human when we seek to offload the parts of humanity that separate us from other lifeforms? If you believe thinking is useless or becoming useless, that's genuinely depressing. We just don't engage in philosophical dilemmas the way we used to and it shows.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects film, friends, well, and alive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm out camping with my buddy and we used to run the second-to-last commercial darkroom in our state. It's still running (and is now the last), but the owner runs it now solo and we've long since left. I think I can speak for both of us that I miss the hell out of it.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects useless, different, etc, and tech with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Imo there isn't a useless skill. Just some skills are harder to find a situation (or market, if we're talking about job-skills) demanding them.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects literacy, technology, access, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Literacy. More specifically, literacy for the masses. It will always be a thing for the upper echelon. But most of progress with humanity is literacy for the masses. And that is declining the more technology progresses. And I don't mean that in any kind of good way, because "useless" implies it is not needed.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects i've, silence, always, and become with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being comfortable in silence, I work with a team of Gen Z and I've noticed they can't go 10 minutes without needing a break to make random noises and make meme jokes.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects turn, around, lanes, and miss with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I hate when people who have fucked up, been in the wrong lane or whatever, make insane merging moves so they don't miss their turn. Dude, take the fucking next exit and try again. It's not that serious!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects kind, kindness, nice, and something with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Apparently being kind to one another. I will accept the downvotes on this if each person goes out and does something kind for a stranger today.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects music, virus, computer, and limewire with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah “music” is how we got the virus.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, conversation, car, and don't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As the implementation guy I feel that. I feel that very much as I am the person getting the blame
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects jobs, office, tech, and anything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: White collar jobs.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cursive, pen, pencil, and print with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Regular ballpoint pens suck. Fountain and rollerball pens are where it's at. And just gotta tilt the paper the right way (top right corner lower than top left corner). Once I realized that and switched to a good writing utensil that doesn't make me death-grip it, haven't had hand cramps since.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects communication, writing, aspects, and gets with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I feel like writing and speaking is the final goal of thinking. You want to work and rework your thoughts until you have arranged them well enough to form clear sentences that carry the main aspects of your thought. The way you can sketch a cat with just a line, and you'll draw it differently to highlight different aspects (physical or behavioral) of the animal. To me, a rich vocabulary offers us more nuance and more meaning, but the algorithm likes overused words and expressions... Which limit us.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, ball, left, and pens with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm just curious, how does being left handed cause more pen failures?
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects want, vehicle, dealerships, and drive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: What I hate about dealerships is that even when you know exactly what you want, if you haven't initiated anything, then you're still at the dealership for 7 hours.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects records, vinyl, spinning, and sync with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spinning a DJ set with vinyl records
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, graphic, marketing, and designers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Keep your graphics skills as you go to other careers, they can give you an advantage. It was difficult trying to get work in graphic design for me even before AI, but I did quite well in sales as well as product design, where being able to do photo-accurate mockups, pitches that actually looked nice, etc. made a difference over some crap someone else would’ve thrown together in Word.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects journalism, before, definitely, and die with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Related note: journalism
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects disc, golf, course, and frisbee with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Was the ultimate frisbee course closed?
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tape, analog, audio, and blade with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can edit reel to reel audiotape with a wax pencil and a razor blade
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects understanding, law, based, and believe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Sadly, an understanding of the law….
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects digital, i'm, media, and modeling with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was into 3d nodeling, texturing, digital art in general. Abd was geting into game dev. I ditched everything when ai came out, i think all this will be drag and drop thing in just few years, and games will be created like we do image creation in ai now.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects creativity, creative, thinking, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Creative thinking, honestly just creativity in general.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, maps, what's, and away with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dialing rotary phones..
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, web, development, and programming with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Web development
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects going, away, work, and automated with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Any well rewarded skill set with a large number of employees. This takes profit away from business owners so it will be automated away.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects blender, will, hustle, and want with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i had a conversation with a friend, telling him i want to pick up blender again. his response? "can't ai just do that???" like bro i want to **make stuff** not make money. this is the real curse of the hustle culture.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects chinese, write, characters, and adults with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: and Chinese writing. today most chinse people just use pinyin and choose the right character, few people need to write out the characters.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thinking, asked, data, and explain with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think the bigger issue is people stop checking the answer after AI spits it out. It’s a shortcut, not a brain replacement!
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, writing, pencil, and approaching with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing with a pen.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects decimal, dewey, system, and bit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing the Dewey Decimal System
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair, dont, fix, and instead with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Companies building things with the intention of making them last. User serviceable belongings.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects juggle, uni, juggling, and ability with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: ARE YOU ME? I used to teach juggling and ride a uni ..at uni.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tying, laces, ties, and neck with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Tying knots
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pen, hand, i'm, and twsbi with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm rocking a nice TWSBI (bold nib) with J.Herbin's 1653 night-blue-with-silver-sparkles, but I'd still rather jam that pen through my frontal lobe than ever write a longhand essay ever again the hand cramps are so severe.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects acting, voice, voiceover, and adaptation with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Voiceover.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects same, yo-yo, yo-yoing, and cool with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I distinctly remember hackysac and yo-yoing being popular at my highschool, same years as Harlem shake vine trend
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects work, admin, administrative, and data with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: admin work, data entry
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects data, entry, even, and things with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Data entry
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects communication, everyday, actual, and communications with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Everyday communication
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects change, digital, movie, and movies with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Movie theater projectionist. Disappearing skill set with digital projection.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, japanese, adults, and auto-complete with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Especially with Chinese, even in Japanese most adults rely on auto-complete, but the schools still do well to encourage proper stroke order so most middle schoolers can still write out most characters
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects editing, photo, every, and amateur with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "Editing" over saturate the color, change the exposure... "Wow..." Until you realise that they do that for every single photo and nothing looks like that and see every amateur Instagram photographer for the fraud they are.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects another, ability, actual, and bond with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The ability to truly bond with another person. The culture today is to use one another, dispose of everyone, and care about your own satisfaction and needs.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects useless, less, dead, and demanding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah as people pointed out on other posts, science education is more important than ever. “Used less” does not equal useless.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects texting, breeze, class, and keypads with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Back in ye olden tech days, phone keypads had all 26 English alphabet letters emblazoned upon the number pad button, 3 to 4 per key. The ones who studied the old magics learned to create texts before the touch screen using this. T9 texting made texting in class a breeze. Edit to add: Commercials would advertise 4 to seven letter catchphrases you would then put into your phone to call their business. Having a name that matches that format is crazy
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cheap, find, work, and freelancing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I quit being a designer long before the advent of AI. I made the mistake of doing some freelance projects pro bono for a local church and non-profit group to get my name out, and then it became impossible to find paid work as everyone thought I would just work "for exposure" forever.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects frisbee, ultimate, course, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ugh… disc golf course. Ultimate frisbee is played on a field.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects modems, routers, specific, and super with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I remember the early internet days when modems/routers/splitters either didn't exist, or if they did they weren't plug-n-play. You had to put in some technical know-how and determination to get it working right, and then it would stop working randomly.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects backwards, saying, alphabet, and cop with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That's why I only practice saying it backwards when I'm drunk.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects chain, grapple, saws, and seen with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They're not talking about harvesters. That's forestry, not residential arboriculture. Look up grapple saws
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects silence, always, life, and now with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: To be fair it really depends on the person or context. Silence with my best friend? That's fine, we'll talk if there's something to say. Silence with a woman at speed dating? Yikes, I guess she's not interested.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects letter, chatgpt, others, and writing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing a letter and addressing an envelope properly.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drill, good, holes, and need with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > We aren't artworkers, we are visual communicators. The proverbial hammer-swinger is always in danger of obsolescence. As a tech worker I've seen so many examples of people who wake up one day and realize they're out of the industry. If a person doesn't want to be a "*how does my piece fit into the whole and why*" type, then they better be good at learning new hammers.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects didn't, level, windows, and car with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yup, been using Windows since the beginning. I can troubleshoot just about any problem.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ink, oxblood, blood, and pretty with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Diamine ink is pretty good, I really enjoy Ox Blood. A few Americans also take notes with pen/pencil and paper too.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects knowing, without, write, and generic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing how to write “generic” texts without personality is becoming useless faster than it seems. Today AI can throw out what you used to do in hours in 10 seconds, but the difference is made by those who know how to set tone, storytelling and strategy behind every word. If you don't learn to stand out with authenticity, you will be silently replaced without even realizing it.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects waiting, anymore, definitely, and everything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Waiting. Just waiting patiently.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects attention, phone, genz, and rude with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm genX and have hired/trained a number of genZ and following. My experience with genZ was that all of the older staff thought them to be rude and deliberately ignoring them. What I saw was that this was someone who grew up with over-stimulation as a norm and they only ever functioned 100% if they could check messages/whateverthefuck every now and then. I had other staff talking about how disengaged or just rude they were. Telling them they were old and should pay attention didn't bridge the divide like I had hoped.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects order, service, customer, and fast with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fast food service. From underpaying employees to downright replacing them with robots cough cough mc Donald's.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects wood, birch, cut, and carving with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hand wood carving, I guess.
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects perfect, papers, cigarette, and cigarettes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Rolling joints
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dark, images, loved, and photography with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This was the most beautiful skill to learn! I loved watching the images develop. And also to manually apply light exposure to manipulate images. Absolutely fascinating! And working in the dark. One of my favourite school electives ever.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thatching, roofer, and thatch with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thatching
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects product, search, circa, and engine with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Is there a search engine that works like Google circa 2010-2015?
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects operator, switchboard, telephone, and operators with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Telephone operator
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects autocorrect, phone, want, and without with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Maybe regular writing without autocorrect on your phone? I recently reset my phone and realized how much I had relied on autocorrect, I was typing much faster and not even paying attention to mistakes
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects honest, journalism, unbiased, and already with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Honest, unbiased journalism
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects abbreviate, anyone, bookshelf, and century with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: e e cummings did most of his writing in the first half of the 20th century.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, photojournalism, able, and affect with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Related note: photojournalism
Limit: Community-reported context; the complete source archive is retained for inspection and is not independently verified.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pay, saw, passion, and tax with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Passion tax is utterly pervasive. You love doing this, so why should we pay you/pay you enough for it when you're getting so much intrinsic value out of it? Ugh.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dry, pens, sarasa, and zebra with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: big fan of the zebra sarasa dry, if youre into more flowy ink like i am lol
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects now, those, awesome, and bodacious with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: God those things took over my summer camp in like 02. Everyone had a pair or one of those ones that was like a giant yoyo you could use with sticks connected by a string. Was so awesome
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects misnomer, way, widely, and misconception with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know it's not the official definition, but a misnomer is often colloquially used to refer to something that is widely misunderstood.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects moderating, moderator, reddit, and subreddit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Moderating a subreddit
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects above, apply, choice, and evil with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That's so evil lol But I love it. But, hey, just promise me you'll never include "Two of the above" as a multiple choice option.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects winamp, daily, day, and dude with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dude it still does. I use it daily to this day.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checking, after, answer, and answers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I once brought up two browser sessions and typed the exact same question in and got two directly conflicting answers. I knew one of them was right by experience.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects almost, always, buy, and certainly with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: "protected" is only true in the sense that a human is doing it. But the prices people pay for these items in most shops means the (almost certainly a) woman doing it is being paid a pittance. Always buy where you know it was made ethically.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects latex, writing, automatic, and don with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As a STEM major graduate, I don’t even think I could write a lab report by hand if I needed to. I’m also someone who thinks writing lab report in anything other than LaTeX is a pain in the ass though. I’ve become completely reliant on the automatic citations, inserting figures and automatic labels, and the lovely equation type setting. I understand the motivation, but don’t you also think that not allowing them to use modern technology decreases the quality of their reports and also doesn’t prepare them for the real world where they’ll almost certainly typing all this up anyways?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photoshop, replacing, allowing, and analyse with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Photoshop
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects communication, engineering, written, and degrading with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This. I’m not sure where OP thinks written communication is degrading, but in the work place, especially in engineering, communication is still important.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects management, tech, careers, and end with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Any low end tech job. Also middle management is most careers
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects nokia, phone, keypad, and texting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Texting from a Nokia phone keypad
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ties, laces, neck, and sneakers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm going to go with an outside the box one: things that tie. Specifically, sneakers, and neck ties. Sneakers are shifting to quick laces and heel drop mechanisms to keep a tight fit but still be slip on/off (think Kizik). And Neck ties are being reserved for stuffy suit jobs or funerals. More weddings are featuring casual suits or bow ties these days it seems. Hardly anyone knows how to tie anything past a basic windsor knot and even those are sloppy. Also; lots of rope systems have been replaced with ratchet straps and pulley locks.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects formatting, letter, absolutely, and administrative with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It was dumb, but taking it as a college course it was kind of fun to challenge myself... But then again, I had chosen a most exciting degree - - Administrative Assistant. I love formatting a well written letter, lol.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects caring, answer, giving, and serious with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Giving a shit. (Serious answer)
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects auscultation, link, now, and read with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Auscultation [[link removed]
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coins, counting, cash, and handling with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Counting coins
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects price, beause, buy, and disciplined with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Which supermarket sells the lowest price items. Beause what might look like a good buy, they will get you on something else.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, graphic, marketing, and courses with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You give me some hope. I'm a college student studying graphic design rn, but coming into my 3rd year I decided to include a lot of marketing courses and web development courses. I had the idea of combining these to kinda prove my work in a way... Or just measure its impact properly. I'm quite intimidated by the coding, but I've been absorbing everything we've covered in marketing like a sponge. It's reassuring to see the various ways we can apply our knowledge in graphic design. Thank you!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects area, numbers, call, and codes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Phone numbers used to be 5 digits!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects analysis, data, human, and anaysts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Data Analysis by a human.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects set, adjust, carburator, and carburettors with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can set points, adjust valve clearances, and rebuild a carburator. I'm all set if things go Mad Max
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects imagination with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Imagination
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects influencer, happen, hope, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being influencer
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects laces, tying, flexible, and shoe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Tying shoes. i swear more than half of people graduating high school just skipped right to Velcro and flexible laces and in Preschool and never looked back
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clothes, ironing, iron, and jeans with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Starch and iron a shirt or a pair of jeans.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects python, guy, other, and took with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Programming. Took my python guy 2 weeks to write a script for me. Took chat gpt 2 seconds to write a more efficient code.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects actively, answers, belief, and china with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m sorry what? Of all the answers you choose thinking? If this is a common belief AI education needs to be taught in middle school very quickly IMO
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ground, air, aircraft, and boots with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yes, but as the old joke goes What did one Soviet general say to the other in Paris? “By the way, who won the air war?” I.e., aircraft can’t take and hold ground. Still gotta put boots on the ground eventually (idk if ground ROVs would count for that, unless maybe, in the words of Eddie Izzard, they have a flag?)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects school, agree, anymore, and anything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I use an app
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects attention, creativity, resilience, and concentration with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Concentration. Focus. Inspiration. Resilience. Independent thought. Creativity. Moral conviction. Kindness. Self control. Thanks interwebs for being so dang enticing! My dopamine is grateful.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects portrait, camera, ago, and ask with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: used to get this all the time when I sold cameras at Best Buy a few years ago. "but does it have a Portrait Mode?" 🙄🙄🙄 if you ask this, you shouldn't be buying this $2500 camera with that $1300 lens.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects make, few, medium, and myself with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've written some stories on Medium before. I didn't make that much out of it (like a few bucks a month). Only the top writers make any real money out of it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects doomscrolling, doom, figured, and haven't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Doom scrolling
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tech, deck, finger, and gonna with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was gonna throw on tech deck but man that shit was never useful
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects day, disk, floppy, and assignments with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Some kid was using an old computer the other day and I got to teach them how to use a floppy disk.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, issues, questions, and consulting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This is also how I’ve transitioned. Less design, more consulting. Pointing out things like alignment issues, too much copy for the space, color and especially accessibility issues are huge problems for a lot of companies
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects heli, need, choker, and completely with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I just meant completely with equipment you still need choker setters on the ground for heli logging
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects china, sack, jianzi, and alive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Go to China. They play a game called Jianzi where it’s a little sack with a feather on it and you kick it just like a Jacky sack. My wife taught it to me and was floored I schooled her like we on the playground opening Pokémon booster packs. You just need to find your people, and apparently your people are in Mainland China.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects new, phone, number, and times with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I switched carriers multiple times and my phone dozens of times yet I still have the same number and intend to keep it for the rest of my life, wth do you mean new phone, new number?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects peace, disrespect, even, and keep with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Keeping peace
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects home, address, able, and award with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Every once in a while, I genuinely get the numbers mixed up in my own home address
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects tree-cutting, arm, balls, and blows with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I met a young person who remotely pilots tree-cutting robots. Said he was good at gaming.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects already, anyone, business, and hard with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Self preservation.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects awareness, situational, and spatial with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Awareness..
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects soccer, ball, juggling, and footballer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It seems like those skills may transfer to kick-ups with a soccer ball. And soccer is still relevant.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects better, faster, instead, and text with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And then the next step up - talk to text is even faster
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bad, weather, hay, and built with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I stacked hay in Vermont in 2008 lol
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drive, friends, laugh, and locomotive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: All my friends laugh but I can still run a steam locomotive. .
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects picking, based, believe, and probably with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Picking stocks based on trends.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects whistling, annoying, find, and fun with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Whistling
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects correct, forums, technically, and another with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This reminds me of another talent that's quickly becoming obsolete- being technically correct on internet forums
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fanfiction, writing, dialogue, and diamond with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I often see this in fanfiction. Finding one with good writing and dialogue is a diamond in the rough.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects advantage, autopilot, find, and greater with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In turn it's super-charging their value when you find the right group, project, or niche. The more people are on autopilot, the greater the opportunity to take advantage when the herd is inevitably wrong.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects living with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Living
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects commenting, reddit, automod, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reddit commenting: the better it is, the faster AutoMod buries it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects password, actually, identifiable, and information with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Terrible opsec, using a unique, identifiable, actually public piece of information about you as a password
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, reacting, responding, and age with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: patience we're surrounded by things that trigger us and want us to react. we need to relearn how to respond , process and come up with our versions of expressions. reacting is giving in to fragile emotions that do not hold ground, it is a major cause of issue in todays day and age responding to things itself has become a life skill
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bmg, rootkit, sony, and boxes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The [Sony/BMG rootkit]([link removed] checked all of those boxes.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects saw, volunteer, considered, and longer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah I saw an ad for that and once I saw “volunteer” I no longer considered it. People should be paid for their time. Ridiculous.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects frostwire, client, and file-sharing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Frostwire
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects body, everything, almost, and applied with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In the end the brain, and everything else in the body, is just like a muscle. Use it or loose it can really be applied to almost everything our body has or does.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects games, back, checking, and force with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ruined games too. As someone who plays a lot of idle games the playtime metrics make games force me to just leave them sitting open rather than checking back in periodically.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dentist, after, cavities, and cavity with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: All my life, I've had 2+ cavities a year. When I turned 27, I went to a new dentist, and I haven't had a single cavity in the past 3 years. Note that this was 6 months after a dentist gave me a sheet saying I needed 5 fillings. You fill in the rest. I'm f**king pissed.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adult, assholes, care, and child with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm genuinely sorry that you had to experience that. No one (adult or child) should be exposed to material they didn't consent to viewing. Hopefully karma took care of the assholes who were doing this sort of shit.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects they're, actively, areas, and cars with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: they take up so much goddamn space, too. I realize the cars have to go somewhere, but since they're actively trying to sell the lot, they're often in prime areas.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects rapping, actually, days, and dont with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: maybe rapping? people who are actually good these days lyrically just dont get the recognition, especially not the money either lol. not sure if that translates to useless or not but... id say rapping
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reassuring, hand, hold, and job with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: it's true though and it is job security because people want a secure person to hold their hand and be reassuring
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects automatics, evs, manuals, and overtook with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: By that time, we'll be left with the EVs. Look at China, for example. Automatics overtook manuals in 2020, but then EVs overtook both in 2025. There probably won't ever be a day with more automatics than manuals there.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clown, came, excited, and paid with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah he was actually hired to go there without knowing where he was going. They came to him and said “We have an event that we’d like you to perform at for a week, what is your price?” He negotiated the price before he found out it was at Burning Man. He was’t super excited about the trip, but he was excited at how much they paid him, so good job him, I guess. It was his highest paid gig so far. He was there for 9 days total and came home with about 3 grand. Not band for a clown (not really a clown, but he and I joke that he is a circus clown.)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects scaling, fit, happy, and hell with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hell, I might be happy if they understood scaling proportionately. "Just stretch it to fit." ugh.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects work, knowing, and things with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing how things work
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects apple, oregon, trail, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was in elementary school in the early 1980s but Oregon Trail on an Apple ][ green screen will always be formative for me.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mark, good, iphone, and looks with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wow that picture looks good, is that the iphone(whatever)?? Uh no it’s my 5D mark iv thanks though
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects except, info, projected, and decipher with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Except that most schools require you to write exactly what's being said or projected on a screen, it's still info in, info out, except the fast and sloppy handwriting is a mystery only my teacher somehow could decipher
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects silence, golf, brought, and gen with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m Gen Z and am usually like this, but picking up golf as a hobby has brought a lot more peace and silence to my life. And now I’m ok with silence
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects kittl, vectorizor, and vectorizer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: kittl or vectorizor.ai
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects local, weather, accurate, and app with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The old weather guy at the local TV station. He can be replaced by a free app that's more accurate and to the point.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects carvana, example, and good with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Carvana is a good example
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manners, table, eat, and feeding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Table manners. Feeding time at the zoo whenever you eat it public nowadays it seems.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects wna, abbreviations, and text-message with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wna go sk8? x
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects enshitification', entered, mirriam-webster, and recently with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 'enshitification' recently entered mirriam-webster.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thoughtful, answers, askreddit, and questions with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ask thoughtful questions and present thoughtful answers at r/AskReddit
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects favourite, lenses, and lens with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My 50mm 1.2 is still one of my favourite lenses.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects college, emails, everything, and guy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There was a guy i knew in college who used it to do everything, from writing emails to his wife to helping him with taxes to doing his homework
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects restringing, dolls, alexander, and bands with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Restringing dolls. One of my many useless skills. My Madam Alexander doll’s rubber bands rotted out and I can’t have them headless. The dolls are still lovely but like the skill of restringing them, worthless.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects narration, acting, anywhere, and audible with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Audio book narration. Voice acting for other media won't go anywhere for now, but AI TTS is gettingb just good enough to kill Audible.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects knowledge, information, having, and look with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Having factual knowledge on a great number of things. I see a lot of younger people who know almost nothing about topics which my peers or I would consider common knowledge. They often completely misquote things because they picked up a slither of information here and there without having the motivation to look up the rest because the knowledge isn't applicable or valuable to them. Instead they look something up when they need that information and only that which is directly useful to them, albeit that they do so much faster and filter out useful information with far more efficiently than I ever could. But they do so with little interest or curiosity and they shift those interests around from one day to the next to something else, letting that knowledge go just as easily again. It's like everyone is developing some kind of ADHD-lite.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects growing, weed, and cannabis with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Growing weed.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cassette and rewinding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: rewinding a cassette
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ceo, chief-executive, and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: CEO.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects competitive, eating, aren, and better with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Competitive eating, there are only a handful of crazy competitive eaters that are way better than most people can ever hope for so the majority of people good at it aren’t making any money. This is coming from someone who wanted to be a competitive eater.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fuck, jokes, moth, and pile with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i got this pile of reference jokes, and twice this moth i had people about 15 years younger than me who said "What the fuck are you talking about"
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects devops and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: DevOps
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects here's, cockney, looks, and made with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Nevermind non-natives. This kind of phrasing is common among many native British dialects that are historically associated with lesser education, e.g. Cockney. For example, where standard English would have you say, "here's the thing that I made, and here's what it looks like / how it looks," a Cockney speaker might say, "here's the thing *what* I made, and here's *how* it looks like," and that is perfectly normal for Cockney, even if grammatically jarring for other native speakers since it is non-standard.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mixing, sync, controller, and next with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Pressing sync on a dj controller and mixing into the next track
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects drone, begin, fly, and medic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not just weapons, the US military has been working for some time on a drone medic that can fly in, rescue, and begin treatment on the way out.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects economist and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being an “economist”
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects make, actually, bosses, and briefing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You’re way overthinking it. Nothing to do with capitalism. I work with executives and people at these levels. They don’t communicate as well as their subordinates (at least internally) because they expect everyone ELSE to make up for their lack of clarity. They’re just busy and being a dick. You’ll see that they are actually very good at communication if you ever have to make an executive briefing that will be presents to THEIR bosses. Then every sentence, phrase and letter is extremely scrutinized.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects autism, behavior, carried, and complex with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Not really. People with autism understand complex ideas and varied topics, they just need the meaning to be carried through words and not behavior.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects competence, general, lot, and overrated with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A lot of people in the US seem to think that competence in general is overrated
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects now, often, answer, and anything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I work in I.T and I have a young coworker who often hits walls and just stops... One time he was having an issue with some thing I have forgotten about now but he did one step and I was met with a " what do I do now" .. like seriously dude just try ANYTHING then we can dig into it deeper. I often will be vague as shit with him at times just so he can get more skills which seems to be working. I do on occasion give him an answer to not be that cruel.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hotline, servers, and jam with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hotline Servers were my jam
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects business, phone, actual, and answers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Business’ where an actual human answers the phone.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects inkscape, vector, compliments, and created with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I created my own vector logo using inkscape in like an hour. Get lots of compliments on it.
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What the pattern means: Source record 3933 establish this as a distinct reviewed entry. The complete 1-record set preserves its item-specific context, variations, and counterpoints.
What commenters described: Learning and thinking.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects manchester, passing, and united with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Passing at Manchester United
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects always, lanes, turn, and roundabout with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: European roundabouts terrify me, lol. Here in California, the roundabout (in my area) has only existed for the last 20 years (that we'll admit to)... I can do it if it's one lane, but sometimes it's two lanes and I always think I'm going to fuck it up (never do, but the fear is real). But yeah! It's totally fine to miss a turn or exit, there's always a place to turn around eventually! Sure it takes longer, but you aren't the ass hat who decided to merge 3 lanes at once, and I think that's important.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects app, notability, always, and checking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I am the same way. I have always taken notes by hand, but upgraded to using an iPad and notebook app. Can store it all digitally and share it with peers. I like Notability for this and it has been a huge improvement to my productivity. Might be worth checking out
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects now, opponents, outbid, and trick with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No the trick now is to outbid your opponents
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects glass, blasting, designs, and making with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There's a similar method for making the designs on photo resist for glass sand blasting too!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects admit, card, course, and easy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Haha. Well said! Of course, I have to admit the punch card set thought we had it easy!
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects chop, flick, rainbow, and ronaldo with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The rainbow flick and the ronaldo chop, they are both useless
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects collecting, reddit, and badges with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Collecting badges on Reddit
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects before, button, down, and hitting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Remembering to shut down the pc before hitting the power button.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects technical, transcriber, and writer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being a technical writer or transcriber.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sims, troubleshooting, ever, and grew with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I grew up with Sims 2. Taught me all the troubleshooting I'll ever need
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trivia, adhd, anything, and bet with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can't tell you anything important but I bet I can kick butt in trivia night lol. I also have (diagnosed) ADHD...
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects engine, fast, stoke, and tune with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can tune a two stoke engine to go fast.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects image, signature, background, and forms with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Do people not save their signature with the background removed and upload it as an image in forms?
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects new, troubleshooting, patch, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Troubleshooting is becoming useless because companies dont QA their shit anymore, releasing buggy updates and incomplete patches. Its very frustrating troubleshooting anything now because the solutions never fix the problem and you 9/10 have to get a new piece or wait months for a new update/patch.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects acting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Acting
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adobe, flash, and model with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: how to model in adobe flash
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects adulting, laughed, loud, and post with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: So I just took a screenshot which was of your question then a post from the subreddit r/adulting which simply said "Adulting." I laughed out loud.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ten, brain, completely, and differently with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Time 9:50 and ten minutes to ten o'clock are processed completely differently by the brain.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects charisma, intelligence, everything, and now with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Intelligence. Charisma is everything now.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects playing, football, and association-football with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Playing Football
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, autodesk, raster, and autodesk's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I believe Autodesk Raster Design is a tool that helps translate images to vector design fairly quickly. I haven't used it myself, but seen it on autodesk's website.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trading, believe, probably, and something with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Probably trading, you just have to believe in something
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bad, happens, thing, and security with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: While your point is correct, it is downplaying the risk. Breaches are not rare. The core principle of modern security is to *assume* a breach will happen and to protect your credentials accordingly. Your argument is essentially "this is only a problem if a very bad thing happens," while ignoring that the "very bad thing" happens all the time.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects subtitle, better, captioner, and writer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Captioner or Subtitle writer - AI can do it better
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects shuffling, cards, obsolete, and seems with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Shuffling cards seems to be obsolete
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects surgery, cardio-thoracic, and cardiothoracic with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Cardio-thoracic Surgery
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clowns, clown, and performance with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Clowns....
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coin, flip, fidget, and air with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i actually don't really have a good answer, but i'll tell ya, i think it would be awesome if more people picked up a silly little fidget skill. like, i know how to flip a coin. like really fucking well. like flip the coin while walking with a really fast spin three meters in the air and catch it 80% of the time. most times i've seen anyone else try to flip a coin they fail horribly or just barely get it in the air and spinning slowly. not to knock people who don't know how to flip coins, it's a completely useless thing to be good at, but my point is that life would be so much fun if people just did stuff like that. like i'm out here flipping my coin, someone over there is bouncing a ball, like idk man, it's so much fun to have a little fidget activity like that and i think it would be cool to know more people who do it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects building, community, maintaining, and relationships with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Community building and maintaining relationships
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects act, actions, aftereffects, and between with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Understanding the link between one's actions and the possible consequences. Too many people now tend to act first without regard to the aftereffects. One example, road rage.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects conservation, chainsaw, work, and alive with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was in the conservation corps in 2019. Cutting invasive species with a chainsaw in conservation work is alive and well
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects information, knowing, access, and actually with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowing things. Everyone has a device that gives them access to any information they want, and far too often information that will confirm their misinformed preconceptions. Actually knowing the information, and its relevance and context, has become just a recipe for frustration. "Nuh-uh, it says here Lewis and Clark used an Evinrude outboard motor to get up the Missouri". Sigh
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects darkroom, anymore, architect, and buy with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m an architect on a high school renovation with a darkroom and much to my surprise you cannot buy revolving darkroom doors anymore.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects error, harder, makes, and messages with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Well, modern-day error messages are "sorry, something went wrong". Makes troubleshooting so much harder.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects distance, bowl, and peeing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Peeing in the bowl from a distance
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coordinator, diversity, and diversity-coordinator with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Diversity coordinator
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects countries, absolutely, almost, and androids with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That may be true in poorer countries, but in first world countries the Boston Dynamics robots will be far more lethal and have no moral quandaries about what they are ordered to do. The intent is absolutely to replace cops and soldiers with computer driven androids. Maybe not all of them, but enough so as to make human resistance almost futile.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects wiggling, around, and ears with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wiggling your ears around
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects elevator, indeed, linkedin, and looking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Elevator operator. If there are still any, they should get on LinkedIn or Indeed and start looking.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects instant, bad, bro, and choice with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: E-mail. Seriously, I've seen many people tell me to send the file via instant messenger. Bro, if you are working with image processing it's a bad choice.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects books, distract, future, and games with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thinking hurts man, the more i distract myself with video games and stories in books the less I have to think about the pain of reality and my mistakes and future struggles
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects experience, better, chatgpt, and decade with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Experience. ChatGPT is better than me at things that took me a decade to get good at.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects board, words, write, and factory with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My dad used to work in a factory where he wrote every day on a board. Just numbers for what they were making. That was the extent of his daily writing for a few years. He got a new job where he had to write down words and had to relearn how to write properly because the scrawl he used for the board wasn't legible for words.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sister, apparently, buy, and call with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Taking care of my family’s ranch apparently. Neighbours and cousins want to purchase it. Sister wants it sold and dad to buy her a house. My existence is being discarded with every facetime call from my sister. Evil
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects brief, disappeared, fidget, and gained with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fidget spinning as a skill gained brief popularity, but then it just suddenly disappeared.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects financial, planner, and financial-planning with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: financial Planner
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects folding, paper, envelope, and fit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Folding paper in thirds to fit in an envelope.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects design, fonts, new, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Who will design new fonts?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pickling and food with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Pickling
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects ball, don't, even, and fushigi with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I don't know, I think it's even longer since I've seen someone play with their Fushigi ball skills…
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects address, another, email, and ipv with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I reckon in another 10 years, we'll all just have an IPv6 address tied to an email or some such.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects hope with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Hope.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects getting, i've, able, and asking with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've been getting ridiculed for thinking and being able to recite direct quotes lately. I've been getting called BlacksideblueGPT like its the new way to call someone a nerd but I'm also the guy not asking stupid questions like [how to save face when I tried to get ChatGPT to do my job]([link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects threshing, indoors, and indoor with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Threshing indoors
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects going, intent, search, and available with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I believe that this sort of thing is the future, but also the recent past. Now search results second-guess your intent and substitute the vendor's intent in some kind of gaslighting ritual. Going back to telling the UI what I want and having it tell me if that's available and how much it costs is going to be nice…
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects apps, phone, place, and after with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Too true. I go into "panic" mode if I misplace my cell. And the phone-finder apps are 110% garbage, that quit working, less than an hour after installation (and scraping all your private data). Ditch the apps. Just ALWAYS put your phone in the exact same place, whether at home, or at work.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects league, legends, and good with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being good at league of legends
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects life, married, and lifelong with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being married for life.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects anyone, downloader, downloading, and ipod with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Did anyone remember YouTube downloader? I liked downloading live performances and mv into my ipod.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects logging, yarder, back, and decades with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My 5'3" mother-in-law's shoulder got fucked up from running a yarder for decades. But it's *definitely* a ton safer than it was back when her father was logging.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bed and making with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: making your bed
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lot, able, actually, and factorio with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I actually find it quite useful. I play a lot of factorio, being able to do the ratios in my head helps a lot.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects microfiche, printing, and plans with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Printing out plans from microfiche
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects asked, else, everyone, and family with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Trivial knowledge of movies. I used to get asked “what else have I seen them in?” quite regularly by family and friends, but now everyone just goes to IMDb.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects texting, hand, looking, and phone with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: texting with one hand and not looking at your phone.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects paper, selling, and sales with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Selling paper.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects passwords, replaced, and they've with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: They've just been replaced with passwords.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects magic and performance with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: magic
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects integrity, having, and personal with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Having integrity
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects marbles and playing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Marbles
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects certification, pmp, grab, and money with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: PMP Certification. What are money grab
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pong-minton, anyway, and fun with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Pong-minton is more fun anyway.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects scoring, i'm, interested, and propensity with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A lot of propensity scoring stuff at the moment, but while I'm interested in the final scoring each user gets, I'm mostly interested in what behaviours are identified as important (and this given higher weighting) by the ML algorithms.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects java, node, and python with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Python, Go, C++, C#, Java, node.js...
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reddit, meta, and meta-commenting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: being meta on reddit.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects reddit, function, and search with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Using the search function on reddit
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repromaster, class, dark, and high with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I was the very last student in my high school to be trained how to use a Repromaster (which was in the dark room), class of ‘95.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects rhetoric, believed, certain, and classes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I used to hate the idea of Rhetoric classes. It seemed so ingenuine to try and convince people of certain ideas, whether or not you believed them yourself. Now I realize how important it is.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects saw, roller, service, and anyone with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Saw a roller skater the other day and then realized it has been a very long time since I last saw anyone rollerblading. In the 90’s there were shops that did nothing but sell and service rollerblades.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cube, rubiks, and rubik's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Rubiks Cube
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bible, called, couple, and doc with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: There is a great doc from 1969 that follows a couple door-to-door Bible salesmen. It's called 'Salesman' and is on YT.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects car, check, dealership, and deals with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being a good salesman, everyone just goes on their phones to check prices and deals, that's why every car dealership tiktok you see is full of girls who look like they have onlyfans
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects able, brain, occupy, and phone with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to occupy your brain while pooping without a phone
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects application, completely, now, and obsolete with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My screen protector application skills are completely obsolete now.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects scriptwriting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Scriptwriting
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sepak, takraw, link, and match with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Wait till you see sepak takraw match [link removed]
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects family, numbers, sequential, and asked with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yup. When we got new contracts I asked for sequential numbers so everyone in the family is only 1 digit away. Super easy to remember.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects voting, able, away, and ballots with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Still ise it and they should teach it especially since people were turned away from US voting ballots for not being able to sign.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects slingshot with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Slingshot skills.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects braider, cheese, and string with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: String cheese braider.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects learning, tactile, better, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I'm a tactile learner. If my hand(s) are involved in any learning scenario, I will remember it much better than if not.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects numbers, memory, muscle, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In the before times a lot of phone numbers were muscle memory as the numbers were pressed without thought.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects machine, mountain, slopes, and those with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Some of those mountain slopes would tumble a machine.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects trigonometrie and trigonometry with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Trigonometrie
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects media, believe, believed, and comparable with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: People said the same thing about TV when it was invented. I compare TV because TT is similarly an entertainment medium. All media forms can be used to distribute variable quality content. TV didn't turn everyone into zombies like some critics believed, Even though I don't enjoy the TT format I believe the criticism is directly comparable.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects linux, i've, servers, and administration with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Unix/Linux sysadmin. Everything runs on linux of course, but administering servers is no longer a mainstream requirement. As one of the dwindling number of people with those skills the last couple places I've worked, I've been the go to guy for creating/maintaining base images. Its increasingly considered black magic- its really basic stuff most of the time. I'm not complaining, most of my career has been spent automating administration so fewer people can manage more servers. Theres still plenty of work (so far).
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cold-chain, management, florida, and those with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: For those in Florida, Cold-chain management for vaccinations 🤠
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pressing, vinyl, print, and tees with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You have it kinda backward. Pressing vinyl is insanely complicated, it’s my dream end goal for the business I’m building, which is to provide every single service to my local scene. The film development skills happen to be directly related to screen printing tees, as you print a negative and then burn a positive stencil in a dark room in order to print onto the tees with. The process is very much the same. Pressing vinyl is 1. Extremely expensive because the best machines are old and must be repaired by a select few, and 2. A very difficult industry to learn without a mentor because the cost of each failure is significant in material, time, and investment to even be able to practice.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects call, numbers, through, and voice with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My parents made me memorize their phone numbers as soon as I learned what numbers were. At this point it's faster for me to just dial it than to go searching through my contact list for them. But tell me to call any of my friends? I dont even have their cells, I'll just hit the voice call button on discord or snapchat lol
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects forklift, automated, becoming, and common with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Forklift operating in warehouses. Automated forklifts are becoming more and more common.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dowsing, water, and well with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Dowsing for well water
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dreamweaver, adobe, and design with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: What about my Dreamweaver skills?!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects written, communications, design, and eating with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Communications skills, specially written ones. AI is eating it up. Faster than design!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects working, yellowpages, and pages with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Working for Yellowpages
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects awareness, situational, and spatial with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Spatial and situational awareness.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects flirting, ability, apps, and around with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Flirting. I think most people have an intuition that flirting IRL is still a useful skill, but there’s a strong network effect around everyone you might want to date being glued to their phone and using dating apps. There’s a sense that if you wanted to try and chat someone up with romantic intent, you’d be thought of as cringe or worse. I am thoroughly spoken for by now, but it still makes me wistful to think how hard and scary it was to develop my flirting ability during a 5-year free-range chapter ended by the pandemic. This ability has effectively no value today, even secondhand as an older friend or wingman.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects access, compiler, paper, and tests with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Agreed! But you don't need paper tests for that. Not having access to a compiler was never what separated the goods from the greats lol.
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Where commenters report limits
When did you start learning cursive? US here, 1970s: cursive was 3rd grade (8 years old), after learning to print. I hated it because I'd just got enough hand control to print neatly, now we gotta re-learn it! We used pencil until junior high school (12-14), and most kids used ballpoint (biro). By high school I was totally into fountain pens and using your basic US suburban-girl half-italic, half-cursive. I still hate full cursive. It's slow and non-intuitive, and totally breaks your train of thought when you get too many/too few loops. Also Palmer method is hideous.
> It definitely seems like people born in the 90s who grew up with janky ass hardware/software tend to be the most self sufficient. 100% this. I hate being gatekeepy and saying "you shouldn't be allowed to do X if you aren't at least this proficient", but the level of technology with 90's PCs was the right level. You didn't need to know *much*, but you still needed to know *enough*. If you didn't pass that minimal level of proficiency... you just didn't get to use a PC. There was no "I'm to lazy to learn, do it for me" option. As a result, everyone had a minimal level of comprehension. You knew how a file tree worked, you understood at least a few file extensions (and that a .exe is what you wanted), you knew more or less which cables needed to be plugged into what components. You probably didn't know how jumpers worked intuitively, but you understood the manual would tell you how to set it and when you'd need to. And you would be able to do basic troubleshooting. Simple mistakes that could be resolved by knowing broad strokes functionality of the system weren't a problem. Game not working? Check the config file. There, you accidentally said you had a SoundBlaster installed, but you don't have a sound card, so it was crashing. Change that and you're good to go. I feel like we're doing a disservice to the next generation by not teaching them how to use computers. The specifics may have changed, but the underlying rationale hasn't. I don't know how to maintain a car, but I know how to check the oil, I know what the notice lights on the dash mean and what response action they want me to take, and I know how to find the answer to everything I don't know by using relevant keywords. I know this because I wasn't taught how to drive a car, I was taught how to manage the experience of being in control of a car - which is a lot more than making it go forward and turn. We really need to take that approach to technology for the younger generations.
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burping the alphabet 😔
Honestly, yeah. I love to write, and want to be an author someday, but I can barely write two or three sentences without my hand aching. (I’m also a lefty) My handwriting is terrible as well.
Programming. Took my python guy 2 weeks to write a script for me. Took chat gpt 2 seconds to write a more efficient code.
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What the counts show
314 indexed entries draw on 1,434 distinct source records. Hacky sack (footbag) has the broadest support in this group (339 source records).
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Education, research, and credentialsComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Education, research, and credentials
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects education, science, ever, and important with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How is that becoming _useless_?
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects degrees, college, computer, and degree with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A College Degree.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects recorder, develop, dexterity, and exists with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The Recorder!!
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects school, photography, albums, and came with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Same. My photography teacher would put on one of the first two Coldplay albums in there and just zone out to stirring prints in the developer. However, later it was also what really opened by eyes to how privileged I was. In college, when meeting new people and talking about where we came from, I was like "What, your high school didn't have a photography studio? No theater?"
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects education, general, ignorance, and willful with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Education in general, at least in the US. Too much willful ignorance
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects once, predict, takes, and teach with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Teachers. I predict once ai takes over it will be used to teach.
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How is that becoming _useless_?
It's also great for helping kids develop finger dexterity, which is like half of the reason it exists.
i think the /s is not apropriate here. where bothing is true and everything is possible, science education is a limitation -aslong asyou canexternalize the costs of your awful decisions, you're better off not understanding the consequences of anything, really
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What the counts show
6 indexed entries draw on 13 distinct source records. Science education has the broadest support in this group (4 source records).
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Civic, legal, and institutional knowledgeComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Civic, legal, and institutional knowledge
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects accurate, ensure, representation, and certified with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The court system will lag behind everyone else on this for a long time. Certified interpreters are still required to ensure accurate representation of what someone is saying.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects debate, political, compromise, and politics with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Political debate, unfortunately.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects clocks, digital, meant, and able with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: News flash: my brother had a digital clock by his bed in 1972
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects answer, asking, begins, and country with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The other day I was asking my friend’s 16yr old kid to name a country that begins with the letter D and her answer was Delaware. I was trying the Denmark/Kangaroo/Orange trick on her but failed miserably.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects basic, history, humility, and knowledge with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Humility, basic human knowledge, and history facts.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects compromise, politics, side, and tries with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Trying to compromise in politics. Only one side tries to do it
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects history, youtuber, and creation with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: History YouTuber
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fascism, fighting, and anti-fascist with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fighting fascism.
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Appears when: Education, civic knowledge, and specialized skills
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects different, etc, pascal, and levels with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Well, yes, but different levels of tech, political competency, monetary assets etc. etc. etc. across countries will mean different levels of the same skills, or different skills comptely, are valuable at any point in time. So in BUTAN say, where there are not a lot of Pascal developers, that skill is useless, but in the USA, where Pascal is all the rage, the skill would be sought after.
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Where commenters report limits
Political debate, unfortunately.
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The court system will lag behind everyone else on this for a long time. Certified interpreters are still required to ensure accurate representation of what someone is saying.
Well, yes, but different levels of tech, political competency, monetary assets etc. etc. etc. across countries will mean different levels of the same skills, or different skills comptely, are valuable at any point in time. So in BUTAN say, where there are not a lot of Pascal developers, that skill is useless, but in the USA, where Pascal is all the rage, the skill would be sought after.
Political debate, unfortunately.
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What the counts show
9 indexed entries draw on 11 distinct source records. Certified court interpretation has the broadest support in this group (2 source records).
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Technology and office workReviewed category with meaningful source-backed subcategories.
Computing, coding, and troubleshootingComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Computing, coding, and troubleshooting
Every repaired normalized answer assigned to this subcategory is shown with its complete reviewed source support.
Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, programming, will, and years with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 95 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Coding
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, jobs, lot, and job with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 51 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: And you just explained why these jobs will start disappearing. If you had 10 people doing that job today, you will only need 3 or 4 in the near future. That is a hell of a lot of unemployed people who used to be doing that job, all with experience, all of whom are looking for another job. There is no space for anyone new. I am not saying these jobs will all be replaced right away completely with AI. But the demand for people in these roles will be much smaller and there will be a pool of people with lots of experience fighting for fewer jobs.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, code, will, and programming with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 44 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Basics about coding are not useless, it's companies thinking they can replace juniors with AI agents and oh boy... are they going to have a rude awakening...
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects google, search, results, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 31 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The current CEO is a greedy piece of shit who intentionally made Google worse to keep you on the site looking at ads and bullshit for longer. There are plenty of reporters who have produced content on it.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, time, even, and kids with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 28 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've been hearing that gen alpha has trouble with keyboard/mouse and controller, preferring touch screens. Many of them don't understand computers outside of apps.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects file, will, stl, and vector with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 22 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The best is when they bring a raster file into a vector program and then save it in the new format without doing anything else with it.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects don't, things, printer, and troubleshooting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 21 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I worked as a receptionist for an IT company for 7 years. I do something else now, but I act as backup tech support at my job when the real tech support guys are busy. Mainly because people don't know about rebooting their computer or fiddling with their settings.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects things, work, stuff, and troubleshooting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 20 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Troubleshooting. Working in IT for like 10years. Everyone is so used to things being super user friendly, so when stuff goes wrong people just don't know what to do. Adults and children alike. It definitely seems like people born in the 90s who grew up with janky ass hardware/software tend to be the most self sufficient.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, information, things, and memorizing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 20 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > Memorizing phone numbers or addresses. Outside of my own phone number and 911 and what not, I literally know no other phone numbers than my own. Digitization has made me stupid. I'll present further evidence. I've lived in my municipal area for a decade now, and outside of the repeated drives I go on with great regularity, I can barely find my way around. Because: Google Maps.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects google, googling, information, and search with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 17 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also in that vein, just plain googling. The truth holds very little values nowadays
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computers, even, time, and computer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 17 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > It definitely seems like people born in the 90s who grew up with janky ass hardware/software tend to be the most self sufficient. 100% this. I hate being gatekeepy and saying "you shouldn't be allowed to do X if you aren't at least this proficient", but the level of technology with 90's PCs was the right level. You didn't need to know *much*, but you still needed to know *enough*. If you didn't pass that minimal level of proficiency... you just didn't get to use a PC. There was no "I'm to lazy to learn, do it for me" option. As a result, everyone had a minimal level of comprehension. You knew how a file tree worked, you understood at least a few file extensions (and that a .exe is what you wanted), you knew more or less which cables needed to be plugged into what components. You probably didn't know how jumpers worked intuitively, but you understood the manual would tell you how to set it and when you'd need to. And you would be able to do basic troubleshooting. Simple mistakes that could be resolved by knowing broad strokes functionality of the system weren't a problem. Game not working? Check the config file. There, you accidentally said you had a SoundBlaster installed, but you don't have a sound card, so it was crashing. Change that and you're good to go. I feel like we're doing a disservice to the next generation by not teaching them how to use computers. The specifics may have changed, but the underlying rationale hasn't. I don't know how to maintain a car, but I know how to check the oil, I know what the notice lights on the dash mean and what response action they want me to take, and I know how to find the answer to everything I don't know by using relevant keywords. I know this because I wasn't taught how to drive a car, I was taught how to manage the experience of being in control of a car - which is a lot more than making it go forward and turn. We really need to take that approach to technology for the younger generations.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects google, search, want, and answer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 12 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Tbh I do. Google has gotten bad so it’ve usually gotten better results asking an LLM to search with my keywords than if I had put those keywords into the search bar myself
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects number, letters, phone, and call with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 10 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Can you explain it more please? You can have phone number with letters?
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects prompt, engineering, engineer, and account with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Prompt engineering
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects area, numbers, phone, and same with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: When I was a kid, phone numbers were easy to memorize because everyone had the same area code and often the same first 3 digits after that if they lived close. When my friends started getting cellphones they at least still usually had the same area code. But nowadays it seems if you don't request a specific area code the mobile carriers often just give you whatever the fuck from a list of codes that are maybe sorta generally nearby-ish. Or people get a phone in one area and move to another so it's not even a remotely local area code anymore. Numbers are all over the fucking place and so much harder to memorize now.
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Appears when: Technology and office work
What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects will, learn, industry, and single with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Its not hustle culture thats just plain ignorance, anyone saying coding or 3d modelling is impossible to monetize because of AI is dumb as fuck and the exact opposite of a hustler, a good hustler will find niches and exploit all the tools available, including AI. AI will affects everything and every single job, people will adapt and use it to reach new heights, the lazy fuck will continue to sit there and tell others what to do or not to do, regardless of AI.
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What commenters described: Ai Prompt Writer
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects search, google, answer, and llms with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 6 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You are wrong. SEO is evolving as everything else - right now websites are getting optimized for AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) instead of focusing solely on Google Search Engine.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, morse, etc, and analog with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects even, analog, digital, and tape with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can record to tape, but computer is so much easier. I know some purist is going to cry out "But ANALOG!!!!!" but I don't think people can hear it as much as they think.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lithography, semiconductor, amd, and anytime with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Computer chip making's one of the steps is reverse uno of this which I don't think going down anytime soon
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects limewire, same, viruses, and malware with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: >To this day, I believe Napster was overrated/overreported as fuck. Napster was great until it got on the radars of the various record companies and they started doing shady stuff via third parties like putting "music" on there that was actually computer viruses and other malware or even adding songs that had constant "this MP3 was pirated" warnings in the song. They did the same for Limewire and Kazaa and tried to do the same for torrents but torrents moved into the "verified" torrent model which prevented a whole lot of spoofing from occurring.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects search, google, find, and items with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Don't try to narrow a specific search term to specific results on any purchasing platform. I was looking for "savior ear protection" on Amazon recently. That's a brand name. I got 25 results for all kinds of sponsored brands before I finally found the right listing for... Savior ear protection. The other day I was trying to find a very specific type of lanyard ID holder/slim wallet like one I had recently bought that was very poor quality. I knew exactly what I wanted and I tried every combination of words I could think of. I searched Amazon, eBay, Google, Etsy... Worthless. Same results, same brands, over and over. Get this - you can no longer *exclude* words on a search on any of those platforms. I even tried Duck Duck Go. It was an excruciating, hours-long search. I never did find *exactly* what I wanted, either, although I did find a workable alternative. It's not because the exact thing I wanted doesn't exist though, of that I'm sure.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects prompt, best, engineering, and knowledge with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing LLM prompts.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects software, devs, new, and almost with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Writing software. Still definitely needed, but corporate middle management are desperately trying to get AI to do it. No junior devs now means no senior devs later. What could possibly go wrong.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects llms, search, versus, and information with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The problem with LLMs versus SEO is how the LLMs parse/index the pages. This comes down to: 1 - How the LLM summarizes/reviews any website for significance, 2 - The AI-centric search engines and what information they end up providing to the LLMs when they do a search call, and 3 - How information is stored in the LLMs during training versus what is available to them via any RAG implementations versus how their prompts are written to evaluate versus (assuming an AI agent implementation) how the agents decide to handle search (ex: how do they manipulate any provided text to create their search query)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects file, stl, will, and circle with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: LOL it is the same in the 3DPrinting world . I have heard so many machinists and 5-axis mill operators cursing people who send them STL mesh files they want to have turned into real objects. Apparently you need different files for milling machines.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, vibe, care, and companies with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Vibe coding.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, code, although, and aren with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Seriously. Like I swear I only have the job I do because technology most businesses use aren’t up to that level yet. Although this prob wouldn’t work for like coding? But I did read that coding is getting taken over by AI even though I don’t think that’s for a while…
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects repair, anymore, dont, and electronics with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: No. Think back to some older appliances like TVs, fridges, and washing machines; they would last forever. Now they barely last a few years before the electronics go haywire or the software isn't updated anymore and you're forced to upgrade
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, well, company, and completely with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > I was not on this persons interview panel but the fact that they didn’t know how to download the IDE* we use in our profession (there’s only one) set off massive alarm bells for me. It certainly sounded like that had literally no ability to use a PC, but how do you go into such a situation expecting to bullshit your way through it? > They then proceeded to prove my assumptions correct by not turning into a single usable line of code (or really any code) for over a year. Please tell me they got the position based on nepotism or something. I refuse to believe any real company could be so completely broken.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects less, software, support, and automated with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I think we'll need less and less "software technicians". People that dont really create new software and just help fix it, because it will be more automated
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, hacking, nunchuck, and bowhunting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills ...
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coders, companies, level, and junior with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: You know what they meant. *Junior* level coders. (Even then, I think that it's a mistake for companies to scale back on them. Junior level coders become senior level coders, and an experienced senior-level coder who knows your codebase and infrastructure is still essential. But most companies gave up on retaining that talent a long time ago.)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects level, coders, junior, and companies with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Low level coders? Lower level coding is less abstracted and harder to read making it more difficult.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects locked, down, examiner, and isn't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Ideally schools will have provisions for those with diagnosed issues; dysgraphia at my school means a student is given a quarantined laptop (heavily locked down, minimal software and blocked from accessing the internet) and a separate examination room so the typing sound isn't disruptive to the rest of the cohort. Once they've begun, if the student attempts to open a new app/tab an alert is sent to the examiner immediately and the laptop's locked down until the examiner enters a code to reactivate after ensuring nothing untoward was occuring. Multiple infractions gets them locked out for the rest of the assessment. There are other provisions too like text to speech (and vice versa) for visually impaired learners etc. The key issue has been in proving the students need these accommodations in the first place as sometimes a diagnosis by itself isn't evidence enough.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects long, test, before, and i'm with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: (People in the replies to this comment are getting heated.) I suspect before long, non-networked “test computers” will become standard at colleges level. Systems akin to this already exist for proctored exams, and there’s obviously a huge demand for a more nuanced solution than just returning to blue books.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects movie, affix, already, and animated with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's astounding how people have fallen already, I was watching a youtube short of some guy speaking of KPop Demon Hunters and was discussing how people are misattributing the whole movie to being AI, because it's a 3D Animated movie. People just affix the word AI to any level of computerised technology and call it a day.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects web, google, tab, and contain with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Also, on Google, there is a tab labeled “Web” that may contain more pertinent web pages, depending on the topic.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects mainframe, actually, admit, and although with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah. Although try the mid 80s. Our initial general Comp Sci classes used an IBM mainframe. It was actually in a cool building that was previously a church. Still had stained glass windows. You’d run your program and then find your printed output in a designated slot. Back and forth until it worked.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects asked, entire, explain, and thread with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Reading this entire thread feels like talking to a brick wall because so many people are happily expressing their willingness to delegate their entire lives to AI. This is the most terrifying thread I've read in a while.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects type, acumen, answer, and assumed with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’m old enough to remember when putting the # of words / minute you could type and if you had Microsoft Office Skills was relevant. Not saying it’s useless- but it’s kind of assumed you can type and have some basic word processing, presentation tools, and spreadsheet acumen these days.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects prompt, able, always, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Knowledge of the best way to prompt an AI
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects phone, google, cloud, and accessing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: new trendy skill: accessing your contacts at the cloud, on the computer, when your phone is destroyed seriously, your phone backs them all
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects key, lock, keys, and away with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Oh no but the physical lockpicking is going away. Cars are becoming fobs. Homes are getting fingerprint or code locks. Hell you can get a fingerprint lock for your suitcase for like 20 bucks on Amazon. Actually picking is going away.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects oxblood, emotionally, anything, and blood with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Purples and yellows are a nice combo. I find it interesting that Oxblood is emotionally significant to you, I use it when journaling about heavy topics, but the color just seems fitting to me. Nitrogen ink looks so pretty.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects graphic, came, design, and hand with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have a friend who retired a few years ago after a 35 year Graphic Design career. They came up before computers where it was all done by hand, a LOT of talent and imagination. When computers really came into the scene in the mid-90s they noticed an immediate shift. It went from what someone came up with to what the computer can do. Fast forward to today and a majority of graphic designers don't have an artistic or design bone in their body but they know how to use the software well. This is why everything looks the same in blah. I'd say things would swing back to the old ways but I doubt they have taught how to do design by hand in over 20 years now. Even in print I doubt a majority would know how to put together a layout by hand on paper anymore, let alone a printer know what to do with it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects google, things, want, and chatgpt with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Google foo. It used to be great to “know” how to google things, nowadays all that google puts out is SEO BS, adds, and AI put together webpages that have the same format as a recipe webpage, a lot of paragraphs not one single bit of useful information. Just get on ChatGPT, ask wathever you need, and you’ll get it instantly.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sales, doesn't, saas, and vendor with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: man do I agree with you, I only stuck in saas sales as long as I did because I worked for a niche market where lying would bite you. Guess what background the sales rep stealing my leads came from.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects programming, bootcamp, software, and computer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Programming (...especially at or below the level you learn in bootcamps. They really need to shut down and stop scamming people.) Just to be clear, that doesn't include software development, architecture and computer science. I think software engineers who know what they are doing can actually benefit from AI, but bootcamp coders can already be (almost) fully replaced by it today.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects workforce, developer, output, and ago with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Coding and programming. AI already does it, now they need 5-10% of the workforce of 10 years ago to check its right and tinker. In future it'll be like 1% of the past workforce. Im glad, that techy class of bougy shits needed to die off.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects software, engineer, solve, and design with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As a software engineer I still often sketch things out by hand when trying to design something or solve a problem. Did it in front of a younger coworker once and they asked me why I wasn't typing on the computer. I have yet to find any program that can let me draw diagrams as fast as a pencil.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects media, social, thinking, and ideas with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Thinking for yourself. Coming up with your own ideas, and not doing as social media and legacy media programs you to.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects good, viruses, admit, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I must admit, I am really good at removing viruses quickly now. You learn quick when there's 4 hours left in the night before Dad wakes up and wants to use the computer for work.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects anything, computers, electricity, and involving with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Anything involving computers, the internet, and/or electricity.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects answer, sales, reassurance, and anxiety with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: As someone who's been selling for 5 years now I can tell you with certainty that it is not just the elderly generation coming in and asking dumb ass questions they simply could have Googled the answer to, sales people aren't useless because people want reassurance when they are spending $20K - $100K + Even if they know they know the answer, the little anxiety part of their brain forces them to reassure them anyway and thats where the sales professional comes in.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects transcription, around, board, and decades with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Transcription. So many programs do it “good enough”. Now legal reporters will be around for decades. But paying someone to sit in your board room and type up everything? That’s kaput.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects day, find, google, and reddit with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Google is just a way to find things on reddit these day.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects look, code, cars, and perfect with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI is not perfect and will not be perfect for a very long time. Look at Tesla and their self driving cars. They require a driver behind the wheel to be alert and ready to take over the car for their self-driving cars. There's too many factors to look at to prevent crashes. They've been working on it for at least 15 years and the light at the end of the tunnel is no where in sight. Also, sometimes AI produces shit code that makes no sense. They create variables from databases that does not exist. You still need a programmer to look over AI's code.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects after, almost, appeared, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Let's jump in a time machine and go back to the late 1980's when I had just completed a computer course with all those F commands 😏 and almost immediately after, this new thing called a mouse appeared 🤨
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects work, offshoring, programming, and able with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I always hear this but it's mostly just an excuse to make CS grads feel less bad about not being able to find work. The reality is the majority of beginner programming jobs are being shipped overseas via offshoring to save money and because Indian/Chinese programmers deliver the same work for cheaper.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects best, good, half, and own with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If you can't beat 'em.... Find the best tools and see if you can AI+tool use your own work flows. You know the fancy special words that us mere mortals don't. So your prompts and corrections will be way better. You can also make your own style guide and drop it into the pre-prompt. So the graphic designers are being paid half as much for half as good, but it's good enough for clients? Then blow 'em out of the water by having the best stuff for the same price and do tons more.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects online, things, built-in, and alone with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: People don't even know there's built-in help in most corporate software, let alone know how to look things up online. Of course, the problem with looking things up online these days are all the fake AI answers and endless spam in search results.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects programmer, itself, program, and will with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI programmer. AI will program itself.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects problem, covered, google, and instantly with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: When I was working in an office one of the things we covered in training was that if a problem wasn't instantly solved by a single google search or 30 seconds of thinking, not punting the problem over to IT was time theft.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects area, call, codes, and different with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In many places in the US well into the 90s you could call most people you would regularly encounter with 7 digits as area codes often covered hundreds of miles. Even without mandatory 10 digit dialing today you would need to know the area code for numbers these days. Between overlays and that most don't change their phone numbers when they move you could call 5 different people in your area and them have 3-4 different area codes.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects file, stl, will, and circle with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It's not a literal necessity but heavy annoyances to the point of being a practical necessity. Machines don't understand STL: Neither a FDM 3D printer or a milling machine work with an STL file. They work with GCODE that describes the sequence of actions the actuators of the machine need to perform (the toolpath). For the FDM 3D printer a slicer program will combine an STL file with printing settings into GCODE . For the milling machine a CAM program will combine an STL file with milling settings into GCODE . For the operator of either it's kind of annoying if a client doesn't specify the required settings along with an STL file. But on the other hand that's part of the job where you can use your experience and you charge the client for it. Lost in translation part I: There is kind of a similar problem as in the 2D world with STL files in how the actual object data is saved. A JPG file depicting a circle will store the coordinates of each pixel that the circle is made up from. While a SVG file storing a circle will store that a circle needs to be drawn at a certain point with a certain diameter. In 2D world this is a problem because of scaling. It's going to be displayed on different screen sizes, letterheads, vehicles, stickers, signs, ... Even with the best algorithms, the pixels of the original JPG are hard to calculate how they should be positioned when growing or shrinking the size of the circle. For an SVG this is easy because resizing it always creates a new circle at a center point with the given new diameter. For a 3D component the scaling isn't so much a problem. It will often have precise dimensions required and it'll be rendered in those dimensions in the STL. At least to the naked eye. A cylinder when rendered on a screen doesn't show all generatrices because the bases aren't rendered as circles. The circle of the bases will be split up into a few dozen to a few hundred lines visually representing a circle and the generatrices won't be a curve anymore but a collection of many flat planes. And that is what a STL file contains, a single render describing all planes of how a cylinder would look like, just like the JPG did for a circle. In 3D world you want the equivalent of a SVG file which would be a STP file. The STP file instead describes we have 2 "CIRCLE"s and the generatrices are described as a "CYLINDRICAL_SURFACE" between them. This causes a problem when converting to GCODE. The cylinder of the STL file will be converted into dozens to hundreds of G1 moves, a linear move between the 2 points of each line that tried to approximate the curve of a circle. The cylinder of the STP file will be converted into a single G2 move, a arc move representing the true curve of a circle. When the actuators execute the G1 moves, they can never work with a higher resolution than the STL file described and the moves can misalign with the resolution of the actuators. When they execute the single G2 move it will only split the circles into lines during the execution and the operator can give a resolution that matches with the machine's capability and the faces will always align correctly. Can't much help to fix this one. Your machine will do a lot of extra work and the object won't come out as good as it could. But you're not going to fully reverse engineer it into a better format. Lost in translation part II: For CAM software converting the STL to GCODE, it's a challenge to understand how the object looks. Even a simple flat surface isn't straightforward. And it becomes much harder when trying to understand holes, curves or when the STL is a collection of objects. The software will do it's best but you'll end up having to verify the whole model and fix tiny errors as much as it's possible to. The client that would give an STL file to use on a milling machine job, would be the client who will have made an STL that can't be immediately used. This is another one where the operator can choose to charge money for all the extra work though. (Omitting dozens of alternative 2D/3D file formats to keep it simple.)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects excel, vba, answer, and technology with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: A technology answer. VBA for Excel.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects files, repair, windows, and back with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Repairing computers. I brought countless dead Windows 98 and XP machines back to life, I could scan the system file folders by eye and immediately tell which files didn't belong there (i.e. malware), I could repair the install without losing the user's desktop layout, files, emails etc... now you just buy a new phone when you drop the old one.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, car, drive, and knowing with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: knowing how to drive a standard shift car. Coding.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, computer, hate, and might with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This might get hate but remembering code. (Computer code).
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects programming, anything, became, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Programming. Anything you learned before C came out, instantly became niche af and nearly useless.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects code, programmers, architects', and build with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 2 weeks vs 2 seconds is wild. Do you think programmers will shift to being more like 'code architects' who design what AI should build?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects marketing, seo, both, and chatbots with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: SEO and marketing specialist. Both completely replaced by chatbots. Programmer for koitlin
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects replacing, coding, comparison, and doctors with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI is becoming better and I can see it replacing or partly replacing: Photoshop, coding, consultant, comparison sites. If they take it another step by allowing live camera they could potentially replace doctors that only need to view patients, analyse images and results from scans and tests.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects bullet, journaling, ago, and art' with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Fuck that, i'm a lifelong computer dork and started bullet journaling every day 2 months ago and it's been wonderful. Maybe it's a dying 'art' but it will be worth more for those that keep it up, both from a career and just pleasure-of-living standpoint.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects given, going, isn, and now with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Bit of a pessimistic answer, esp given I work in digital product development. I’d say computer skills. They’re useful now. They’re useful likely for the next 50 years. But given the passive ineptitude of the rich and powerful who contribute the most to climate change and have changed 0% of their behavior to reduce emissions. We’re on track for 5-8 degrees of temperature rise on average. The planet isn’t going to be inhabitable in the same way, if at all, for us. Of 9 tipping point thresholds we’ve passed 7. It’s just a question of time and if we mitigate it at all. Famine is inevitable based on current projections. Electricity isn’t going to be as widely used as it is now, and analog will come back for whatever remains of us. That’s a hundred or so years ahead of us. But this is all temporary. Because the rich do not understand the definition of cancer - humanity ends. Poetic kinda. Bummer for sure.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, started, windows, and computers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Younger end of GenX, Millennials and the elder GenZs are the "computer literate" era. We grew up with computers being in use, but not being user-friendly yet, when if you did something with computers you had to know what you were doing. The pre-windows98 era where you still configured the interrupts of the various cards installed in your pc, or picked which drivers were loaded into high mem or not. I'm now 41, and basically when I started in Uni was the time when Windows started to be so user friendly you didn't need a fresh install of Windows every six months from the file system just corrupting itself through use. XP and forward was the time when windows started to kind of just work and you didn't need to know what went on under the hood. But even so, typing proficiency or even computer literacy isn't a given. I went on to software engineering, we had LAN parties, toyed around with cracks for software that was too expensive for our 15 year old asses. My view of "average" computer skills is extremely skewed, but I remember classmates who in university had to take the intro to PC seriously, because they had no idea how to access their email, because "the internet was missing" - a different browser than they were used to. Saying GenX-GenZ were computer literate is a sweeping generalization still.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, degrees, and science with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Computer science degrees. :(
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dev, hires, new, and copilot with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: >assist in programming Junior devs in most software dev roles are essentially that for their first year or two, just assistants. I had a senior dev under my belt that would pester me almost everyday for new hires. Since we got Copilot and Github licenses, he's gone quiet. AI fits that role perfectly, without having to deal with the less than desired "human" parts of hiring and maintaining new hires.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects programming, bootcamp, demand, and anymore with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Computer programming is pretty much becoming obselete. Everything is drag and drop now. It helps to know html if you have a problem or want to curate a design. The demand for programmers is way down, I think.. I don't even see those programming bootcamp commercials anymore where you pay nothing until you get your first job. There definitely, has been a shift in the last couple of years.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects voice, dictation, dragon, and software with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In 2003 I was one of the only people taking lecture notes on my laptop. Most people wrote in A4 notebooks. Many people started using voice recorders and Dragon voice dictation software . To me it made more sense to just type everything.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects checks, add, auto, and class with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: For sure! I’ll also add that I taught an intro class. So hard code to pass the checks on the auto grader happens way too often
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects thanks, google, creating, and post with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: 1. Searching via Google (thanks to AI) 2. Creating a StackOverflow post (thanks to AI)
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects days, face, lets, and movie with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Movie rental stores. Lets face it, they're useless these days.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, library, personal, and apparently with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Right, apparently azon tried to sell him a coding library stored on the computer they brought with and he basically laughed them out of the room, which was the size of his personal coding library.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects able, app, asking, and describe with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Being able to remember a website name without asking an app for it every 5 minutes lol. Search is turning into “describe the vibe and hope the robot gets it right.”
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects scanning, code, and concerts with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: QR code scanning at concerts
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects general and management with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: General Management
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects computer, design, programming, and science with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Computer Science and Programming, graphic design, and several more like this will be and are being outsourced by AI
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Spent my late teens building gaming PCs and hosting lan parties. Knew my way around the older windows OS versions. Im not IT level, but i can read through a forum and figure out that I aught to try jumping the motherboard battery thingamajig because bios ain't posting so it might be that... I work with a few 19-23 year olds... and, for example, they cant figure out that the menu they print every day... isn't printing because it was set to print to .pdf insead of the default printer. Wifi is down? "Did you try restartibg windows?" "Um..." "*explanation of how to do that*" "Still not working..." "Try power cycling the modem or router." "Power cycle the modem or router? What's that?" "Its when you unplug it, wait a bit, and plug it in again." "No, un, what's a modem?" I discovered they all us ipads or macs or just their phones.
> It definitely seems like people born in the 90s who grew up with janky ass hardware/software tend to be the most self sufficient. 100% this. I hate being gatekeepy and saying "you shouldn't be allowed to do X if you aren't at least this proficient", but the level of technology with 90's PCs was the right level. You didn't need to know *much*, but you still needed to know *enough*. If you didn't pass that minimal level of proficiency... you just didn't get to use a PC. There was no "I'm to lazy to learn, do it for me" option. As a result, everyone had a minimal level of comprehension. You knew how a file tree worked, you understood at least a few file extensions (and that a .exe is what you wanted), you knew more or less which cables needed to be plugged into what components. You probably didn't know how jumpers worked intuitively, but you understood the manual would tell you how to set it and when you'd need to. And you would be able to do basic troubleshooting. Simple mistakes that could be resolved by knowing broad strokes functionality of the system weren't a problem. Game not working? Check the config file. There, you accidentally said you had a SoundBlaster installed, but you don't have a sound card, so it was crashing. Change that and you're good to go. I feel like we're doing a disservice to the next generation by not teaching them how to use computers. The specifics may have changed, but the underlying rationale hasn't. I don't know how to maintain a car, but I know how to check the oil, I know what the notice lights on the dash mean and what response action they want me to take, and I know how to find the answer to everything I don't know by using relevant keywords. I know this because I wasn't taught how to drive a car, I was taught how to manage the experience of being in control of a car - which is a lot more than making it go forward and turn. We really need to take that approach to technology for the younger generations.
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Troubleshooting. Working in IT for like 10years. Everyone is so used to things being super user friendly, so when stuff goes wrong people just don't know what to do. Adults and children alike. It definitely seems like people born in the 90s who grew up with janky ass hardware/software tend to be the most self sufficient.
Programming, since there are so many ai tools that are being created that can do my job in minutes.
Programming. Took my python guy 2 weeks to write a script for me. Took chat gpt 2 seconds to write a more efficient code.
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90 indexed entries draw on 434 distinct source records. Software coding has the broadest support in this group (95 source records).
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Typing, filing, and office systemsComplete reviewed entries in this source-backed subcategory.
Typing, filing, and office systems
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, type, school, and even with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 53 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Are they still taking typing classes though? I've got a measly 30 WPM and some of my coworkers look at me like I'm a wizard. Or I guess they wouldn't right, like you said everything is touchscreen and text typing.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, type, keyboard, and voice with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 32 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typing fast
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects handwriting, students, actually, and dysgraphia with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 21 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If a student has a documented disability that requires accommodation, then I encourage them to contact our DSPS (Disabled Students Programs and Services) and have them send me an accommodation contract. I mention this on the first day of class, prominently in my syllabus, and while yes, there is a legitimate need they would absolutely be accommodated, it is telling that in the past three years (since Microbiology wenr to hand-written assignments), we've only had one formal request for this documentation. In that time, I've had multiple "extended time on exams", or "record lectures" *every* semester, this semester, I have a hearing impaired student for which I am wearing a microphone with voice to text transcription, my institution is very good about providing accommodation - but I've not (yet) received a request for "typed reports". Should that happen, or should a student require a voice to text transcribing service, they'd get it.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects shorthand, stenography, notes, and school with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 9 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Stenography. Be it with pencil or on a machine. I still use it for notes, also on tablets. It's like a secret script – and fast of course.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, voice, keyboard, and need with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typing skills are losing their edge too! With voice-to-text technology advancing, the need for fast typing is diminishing rapidly.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typewriter, century, college, and typewriters with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 8 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I did not realize how bad it was until I saw a video on people today using a typewriter. God it must’ve been hell not having a backspace prior to the 20th century.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects gen, they're, don't, and chatty with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: It seems that sweeping generalised statements about people in the same vague age group aren’t very accurate
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects shorthand, notes, school, and secretarial with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 7 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Learn shorthand. Write 10x faster, provided you really feel like delving into it. With mild effort, it's still probably 4 to 5 times faster than cursive.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects old, text, texting, and buttons with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Bought a flea market PS3 couple weeks ago and was delighted to see the default text entry mode was 10-key ABCabc1! type - the immediate predecessor to T9
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects removed, results, search, and adding with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 5 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: i use [[site removed]]([link removed] \+ ublock origins. You can still use specific command like filetype:<file\_ext> for specific result.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects caps, letter, lock, and type with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've had to teach Gen-Z coworkers Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Also Ctrl+Alt+Delete and Win+L. To be fair, I've also taught my boomer coworkers those last two also. They just really missed out on the time where our parents gave us PCs, but they didn't know how to use them, so we figured everything out for ourselves. I learned so much through trial and error, and just *having* to do things the hard way. Hell, even as a young adult I learned HTML and CSS for my MySpace profile. It was a great time, and I hate how often modern operating systems hold your hand through everything and how they simplify things. Like, no, I've got this, give me full options.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects lol, thing, absolutely, and art with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: when i first got on the internet in 1995, everyone typed in all lowercase. a few years later, i went to a dark corner of a video game forum, and got absolutely roasted for not capitalizing sentences. It was there, in the asylum, where i truly learned the art of debate, internet points, and trolling. it made me a man. but now im back to my lazy, just-enough-punctuation-to-be-understood self.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects number, deliberately, dial, and he's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: If you’re intentionally trying to memorize someone’s number, don’t use the feature from your contacts. Actually *do* type it in the next ten times you call them.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects school, typing, away, and classes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 4 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I couldn’t believe my kids weren’t learning how to type in elementary/ middle school. Just sitting there and hunt&pecking away.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects beacon, mavis, typing, and early with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I remember learning on Apple IIe games, or maybe early Mac? We had computer class with Mavis Beacon typing courses in the early 90s.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects fax, what's, away, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: How to send a fax. And thank fuxk.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, day, actually, and always with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: The weird thing about being a computer gamer is that one day in my late teens, having taken no typing classes, I realized I’d developed touch typing skills without even trying. It was freaky to realize it had snuck up on me; but it was the real deal. I work as a programmer these days so it’s been awfully convenient, but yeah- that’s the trick I recommend if people need to learn to type (or any input method). Hook it up to some kind of game, and the skills will sneak in.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects admin, secretarial, able, and accepted with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I’ve noticed that admin and secretarial courses are disappearing from local colleges. Also OCR (awarding body) no longer offer their word and text processing qualifications. I think it’s just accepted that people can touch type now on leaving school or perhaps it’s a reflection on the fact that AI maybe able to do a lot of this soon.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects word, works, typing, and doesn't with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: That works well in English, but for most other languages the swiping and autocorrect doesn't really matter work that well, e.g. my native language German works a bit different in grammar and word structure (our famous composita) and the Android dictionary doesn't even know common word forms needed for a proper sentence. Even MS Word 98 did it better.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects photography, ambrotypes, bought, and cameras with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I've bought multiple tin types and glass plate photos, they're a fun thing to get for a memory.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, fast, wpm, and ask with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typing fast. My fastest was 114 wpm and my average is about 76 wpm but most places only ask for 40 and nothing I’ve done work-wise saved the day or made me more money just because I could type quickly.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects dentists, need, products, and pressure with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Many dental offices pressure you to buy products and treatments you don't need. I get the same vibe at the end of my teeth cleaning as I do after a massage on a cruise where they try to push all their bs essential oil products on you...except the dentist has an veneer (heh) of medical professionalism to it that I'm sure convinces people they need the special mouthwash they're hocking.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects coding, feel, job, and takes with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: AI could easily do my job and the jobs of more than half the people in my office, faster and more accurately, with a relatively small amount of training compared to what it takes to train a person. There is a lot of memorization and manual entry involved, and it takes several months to train someone to the point that they feel comfortable and confident with our system. I feel like it’s entirely possible that, eventually, we will be given AI “assistants” and it’s going to just be us training our digital replacements
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects purple, imperial, emotionally, and might with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Yeah, I'm more of a purple kind of guy. Imperial purple and Marigold. Oxblood is a bit more of what you might call emotionally significant for me though so I'll see what I do when I run out. Maybe a nitrogen type thing with the shifty colours but I prefer smaller nibs so the effect might not show. Even with imperial purple, it sort of doesnt with my preferred narrow nib.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects press, digital, printing, and there's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My husband used to run a printing press. In his life he's seen everything turn digital. From offset lithography to giant digital printers. He is an artist at the craft, literally award winning, but there's just very little need for him. There's a few places that still use the old ways for artistic prints, but it's dying out.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects digital, offset, printing, and there's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I did that to make offset printing plates at school, 20 years later I use a CTP at a job, I only saw these in books prior.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects cli, touch, input, and type with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I first tried to write the following with Voice Input because touchscreen, it failed spectacularly... Until you are faster, then using a keyboard and touch type makes sense again, and for some things like commands voice input doesn't work well, until you put an llm in between. And btw using a cli with touch type feels like people imagine an brain to maschine interface.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects brand, legibility, affect, and death with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: > poorly chosen typefaces affect engagement, I'm just a lowly technical person, but is this really a thing? Over my career, it's always been either the huge megacorps or tiny startups that have some marketing people going insane over _*The Brand*_. Like, this Pantone color we chose isn't exact, the curvature on the B doesn't have this exact inside radius or inside-to-outside-radius ratio, etc...and they will just beat stuff like that to death like it's religious dogma delivered from on high. We're talking 100+ page _Brand Guides_ detailing absolutely every last thing you could think of. Does this stuff really matter or is it just a bunch of marketing majors trying to be useful and earn their pay? 'Cause I've seen situations where something isn't exactly _On Brand_ and I get looks like I had just stomped their litter of puppies to death in front of their kids. You can't do that! What about The Braaaaaaand????
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects printer, paper, steam, and away with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 3 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: dot matrix printer repair skills.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects legal, around, aunt, and board with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 2 retained source records preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have an aunt who got a degree in stenography for courtrooms. Then we got technology that completely ended that as a career.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects smell, tar, roofing, and another with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Some things some people will never get to enjoy. The smell of the darkroom was really pleasant for me. I also got to make blueprints when I was a beginning drafter, another smell that was one of a kind. I did roofing for a while, built up with hot tar type roofing, getting the tar kettle going and the smell of the tar also, for me, was enjoyable.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects sure, canon, instax, and photo with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: For sure. AI isn't even at its height yet, and I'm already getting tired of the fakeness. It's only going to get harder to determine if an image/video is real or not. So glad I got into the photography hobby and bought a mirrorless last year. At least the photos coming out of it are those I actually took myself. I probably won't get into film, but I sure am considering a photo printer (Instax/Canon Selphy).
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects change, ribbon, and typewriter with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I know how to change a typewriter ribbon.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects put, send, logo, and reference with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Out of curiosity with this one, I can't put words down to paper concise enough when I want someone to design a logo for me. So generally I put all that garbled nonsense into an AI and just send that. But I say "Its something like this as a reference image but go nuts on what you think works" Would it just be better to send the messy description of random thoughts type thing?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects buffalo, keyboard, affairs, and beautiful with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Touch-typing. We can use voice-commands, for nearly everything, and most ppl operate phones, using thumbs, only. It's a truly sad state of affairs. I can't remember the last time I used my beautiful Buffalo keyboard. It's probably been damned near a year.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects printer, steam, paper, and tellers with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I disagree, to a point. I do level 2 IT support for a bank. I had a ticket two weeks ago that stated their teller printer was smoking when it printed. I called our contracted printer maintenance service and told them the info I had. The printer service company said to buy a new printer if it’s smoking. I wasn’t satisfied with that answer and the tellers at that location are tech challenged despite being 20-30 year olds. I drive across town to see this for myself. The printer was in the vault room that had very poor airflow and was very humid in there. I mention this to the tellers and they said “ yeah the steel safe has water on it in the mornings when it’s humid.” Turns out the printer was producing steam as the paper goes through the fuser due to it heating toner until it bonds to the paper. To confirm without any doubt, I pull the fuser assembly out and there was condensation from freshly produced steam. I swapped the paper out for a fresh, dry ream. No steam; no problem. I inform the tellers and the branch manager (he’s 30 btw) that it was steam and they all were blown away that I figured it out and fixed the printer.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects take, typing, advice, and best with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Best advice I got when signing up for classes as a freshman in high school was to take typing my first semester so I could type my own papers vs relying on someone else. I remember having to take a typing test for summer temp jobs in college. Think you had to be at least 50 wpm.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects number, clients, personal, and sticky with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I have to recite my office's number for clients and potential clients with some regularity, and I *still* have to pull one of my business cards to confidently do so. I used to have it on a sticky note on the monitor, but some idiot somewhere in the company did something irresponsible with a notebook and so *all* of our physical notebooks and sticky pads got confiscated. Really fucking infantilizing, and I have a problem with the "over the shoulder" security issues of how Windows 11 handles notes (STOP. SAVING. MY NOTEPAD SESSIONS. JFC, IF I DIDN'T SAVE BEFORE CLOSING I DID NOT WANT TO), but whatever. I know my personal number and my husband's work number (he refuses to get a personal phone), but have to look up my own work number. I still know my parents' old landline number, even though that hasn't been a thing for like a decade.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects though, boox, actually, and after with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I actually still prefer hand writing things. I feel as though I remember info better after I have physically written it vs. typed it. To the extent that I purchased one of those Boox note taking tablets, and it has quickly become my most valuable organizational tool. Im old though lol.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects printers, need, businesses, and create with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Nope. Still need printers. Maybe home printers, but businesses still need printers. How are you going to create shipping labels, for example?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects what's, away, before, and let's with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: >What's a skill that's becoming useless faster than people realize? They are not useless skills. Let's say those companoes decoded to go evil and decided to take away all those convieninces were taken away from you, how would you function? As for me, I would do like I did before all this digital age has become. I grew uo adapting and learning how to use older tech too. I don't think Gen Z knows how to use a dot matrix printer. Do they know what continuous form paper is? Hell, some of them get confused looking at a VCR, and don’t know how to use a rotary phone. Let's go low tech what's the difference between white pages and yellow pages? Do you know how to use a phone book? How about ordering something from a mail catalogue. Thats how people got some specialty things before amazon. How about how to properly write a letter? How about a fax machine? Many businesses and local libraries still have and use them. I feel like a better way to phrase this question is: What's a skill that is not being utilized as much anymore?
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects born, configured, department, and enterprise with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: My IT department thinks I'm in IT. Maybe its because I configured and networked our Enterprise printer without submitting a ticket. I was born in the 70s.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typing, keyboards, phone, and speed with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: speed typing on phone keyboards.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects notes, meeting, important, and job with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I can do bursts of up to 112 wpm (realistically though, mid-90s) and it was enough to get me a job transcribing meetings for a company. Paid $17.50/hr ten years ago! They had me listen to a mockup meeting and “take notes”, but I didn’t get any instruction on what was important so in a 30 minute meeting I took five pages worth of notes and I remember the manager looking at them and he says, “The fuck is this?” “The meeting notes.” “… these aren’t notes. This is a fucking transcription. You including things like who said what. Did. Did you really write down when I laughed at his joke? How could that possibly be an important note?” “Maybe you want to share it with your boss to make him laugh?” “This is brilliant. Can you do it again?” “Sure!” “Alright, [can’t remember his name] will bring you some paperwork to sign”
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects analytics, accurate, alt, and computer with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I do analytics and used to play a ton of computer games. I get so much more done because I type ridiculously fast and mouse/alt+tab like a maniac. It's really the fastest, most accurate data output method that we have.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects enlarger, laser, always, and apparently with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: This one's a little disappointing to hear because I always hoped that the chemical process would continue but instead of using an enlarger, the exposure could be made using lasers or focus LED light, much the same way that a laser printer would use a high speed laser, through the enlarger lens. Apparently it's a thing but I don't think it's ever going to revive the darkroom.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects illustration, create, hate, and quality with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Illustrators. I hate typing these words, but AI can replace about 80% of illustration tasks that are needed at the marketing co I work at. IE: A client of ours needs a simple illustration of "LL Cool Jay shaking hands with Zak Prescott" and I mean.. Really .. who cares. The AI version takes 8 seconds to create for like 30 cents, vs an illustrator taking 3.5 hours to create it for $210. The vapidness of today's media means that shitty quality with speed always beats good quality with near-zero cost. I hate what I do someone please send help
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects pad, pen, pilot, and steno with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Same. And its just faster and easier for me to do it that way and organize it on the page in columns and sections or with starts and checkboxes, larger words, circles, arrows, underlines and all that. I'm a very fast typer and formatter and even had to develop those skills for a couple of previous jobs, and I've tried multiple times to do notes typed but it doesn't work as well and I don't get as much quality out of it. So in meetings I still rock the good ole steno pad and a pilot g-2 pen.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects shorthand, women, traditional, and before with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Traditional shorthand. Long before emojis and lol there was traditional shorthand. My mother is barely in her 70s. When she tried to go get a business degree the school only allowed women to study secretarial services or accounting. One of the requirements of secretarial services was to learn official “shorthand”. Board rooms and shareholder meetings all over the country had women in the corner using this to record notes of who said what before later typing up the official minutes. Lots of those shorthand notebooks still exist for companies with patents, discussion about if a product creates a liability, heated conversations with clients, or any number of scandalous things BUT very few people still know how to read them and there’s no google translate for them. Plus lots of these women included little notes about office scandals in those meeting stenopads.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects commercial, drivers, print, and typesetting with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I had to learn typesetting to write commercial print drivers. That was already a lost art 20 years ago.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects typewriter, center, counting, and electric with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: In school I learned typing on an electric typewriter and had to learn how to center and justify by counting and mathing. So, that.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects biology, degree, friend, and grad with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: I wonder how long before that changes. Our brains are pretty incredible when it comes to adapting to learning in different ways. I'd bet within 2 generations kids retain as much from typing as we do from writing lol. Maybe not though with the rise of AI. Folks seem to prefer to rely heavily on AI instead of trying to learn new things. I have a friend who's chatGPT just graduated from college with its biology degree. My friend is now realizing how hard it is to find work with a BS biology degree and is considering grad school. I'm interested to see how far his methods of cheating that got him through undergrad will get him in grad school. I'm betting he gives it up in the first semester.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects autocorrect, manners, typing, and everything with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typing, everything autocorrect.... And teenagers seem to think manners
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects secretary, typist, and work with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Typist/Secretary
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects better, instead, typing, and way with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: im convinced regular keyboard typing will go this way faster than people think as the younger generations grow up using phones and tablets instead of computers, and at the same time voice to text is getting better and better. It could change the way the typical office is set up if everyone is talking instead of typing.
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What the pattern means: The complete evidence set connects century, western, backspace, and press with changing tools and retained practical use. Its 1 retained source record preserve the specific decline claims, counterexamples, and practical context behind this entry.
What commenters described: Western typography: * 15th century: printing press * 19th century: typewriter * 20th century: backspace
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I first tried to write the following with Voice Input because touchscreen, it failed spectacularly... Until you are faster, then using a keyboard and touch type makes sense again, and for some things like commands voice input doesn't work well, until you put an llm in between. And btw using a cli with touch type feels like people imagine an brain to maschine interface.
Google, using “-“ in front of the word to exclude. It didn’t work on the product listings but it seems to have worked on the search results, e.g. doing a search and adding -reddit meant that no results from reddit showed up, similar with adding some other terms, e.g. -basic when searching for a tutorial removed results that talked about basics.
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Are they still taking typing classes though? I've got a measly 30 WPM and some of my coworkers look at me like I'm a wizard. Or I guess they wouldn't right, like you said everything is touchscreen and text typing.
Honestly, yeah. I love to write, and want to be an author someday, but I can barely write two or three sentences without my hand aching. (I’m also a lefty) My handwriting is terrible as well.
Letter writing, typing, real research, pedaling a bike, driving a manual transmission car (stick shift), talking to people face to face, being chivalrous,
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56 indexed entries draw on 195 distinct source records. Touch typing on a physical keyboard has the broadest support in this group (53 source records).
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