• Optional@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Yeah, get in what you want because in twenty years the greatest thing your brain will enjoy is not processing anything of consequence.

    Could you learn cuneiform and gain a rich understanding of 18th Century Viennese intellectual culture, if you didn’t know anything about that before? Sure.

    *burp* But then you’ll be like “ah, gotta bring in the trash cans and then I can sit.”

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      4 hours ago

      People who have tried to gain literacy later in life have had a lot more trouble learning to write than read. It seems that the fine motor skills to drive a pen are best learnt early