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Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid (lemmy.ml)

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13 Completely Useless Things We Were Taught in School

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[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Good thing they didn't teach me how to think in school, who needs that with AIs anyway? /s

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly, i've had the need to use half of these things in my work. Of course, if you have a bs job, you dont require to know anything.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

When I was an intern, I had a boss that made me calculate the volume of a large, round, but oddly shaped tank with calculus. Insisted I used calculus for some reason.

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