Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock isn’t helpful.

Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock isn’t helpful.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It outlived its usefulness ever since kids stopped being taught how to read analog clocks in schools. But in seriousness a nuclear attack could happen at any time and most people are just too burned out to care anymore. One can only live with a constant diet of modern news media for so long until they get desensitized.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      It doesn’t sound like analog clock reading is quite dead, even if it’s in decline.

      https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/52878-younger-americans-hard-time-reading-clocks

      Younger adults are much less likely than older Americans to be able to instantly read an analog clock. 95% of Americans 65 or older say they can instantly tell the time from the hour and minute hands, while only 43% of adults under 30 can. 78% of Americans with college degrees say they can instantly tell the time on an analog clock, compared to 68% of non-college graduates.

      • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Almost three decades ago, my mom told me that her father had despaired of in-his-era kids being unable to read analog clocks.