• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      Bro, smartphones haven’t even existed for 20 years

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

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        1 year ago

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

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

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          1 year ago

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