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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

    I guess part of the reason I find the can opener story so egregious is that I myself, despite my total lack of handiness and aversion to the manly practical arts, am old enough that I just always remember knowing how a can opener works and can't imagine having to learn it

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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

        Which, to me, indicates this is a skill with no special virtue attached to it It's just cultural knowledge like any other kind of cultural knowledge My parents never showed me what a can opener is, I knew the idea of how they work from watching TV and shit

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

        It's like if you knew someone who speaks English as a second language and they don't know what some word means so you challenge them to "figure it out from context" rather than just telling them You're just being an asshole

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

        You, yourself, never overcame this challenge at any point You know what the word means simply because you grew up speaking English It's one of those things you're just supposed to know, and not knowing and having it become a challenge is just bad luck

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      2. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite Jan 3
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        I'll give him this: I have had to articulate a LOT of reasons why his thread is so infuriating. Like, human knowledge is cumulative! One person does a bunch of trial and error and then uses communication to enumerate them so the next human doesn't have to waste time redoing it!

        1 reply 4 retweets 87 likes
      3. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite Jan 3
        Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect

        I also just fucking realized that my two main symptoms of hypoglycemia are generalized dysphoria and *~*ATAXIA IN MY HANDS*~* The second one there is also known as LOSS OF FINE MOTOR SKILLS

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      2. inside the event horizon, there is no way out‏ @eigenvectrix Jan 3
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        I'm not sure what the can opener story is but now I would love to know about it

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      3. Oolong‏ @MxOolong Jan 3
        Replying to @eigenvectrix @arthur_affect

        The epic tale of one father's pride in being a dick to his hungry daughter, at excruciating length.

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      1. gawdzie‏ @gawdz0rz Jan 3
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        if he really wanted to *teach* her, he could have actually, you know, taught her. there are numerous ways children learn. but the skills he’s expecting a nine-year-old to have... yeah, she doesn’t have those yet. either help her learn how to open the damn can or do it for her.

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      2. Resting Witch Face‏ @TerraObscura Jan 3
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        The saddest part to me is that I had a pretty similar encounter with my dad when I was 5 or so. But it took 10 minutes because he demonstrated how the latching mechanism worked when I asked, and then gave me a can to try myself. There literally no reason to make this difficult.

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      3. Resting Witch Face‏ @TerraObscura Jan 3
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        My dad was a dirtbag and not an especially good parent, but even he did not torment a small child. Instead we talked about the one thing he really liked: figuring out how a machine works. But not until I had already eaten.

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