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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:30 JST myrmepropagandist

   Since young people generally no longer learn cursive... and maybe this is a stupid question but... how do they get a signature?

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     Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:25 JST Luci for Chai Tea

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     • Chris L

     @futurebird @jayalane @EverydayMoggie i have always felt like this is a problem with maths notation’s choices rather than a problem of handwriting.

     systems for helping humans should adapt to human limitations and ergonomics, not the other way around

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:26 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Chris L

     @jayalane @EverydayMoggie

     Few people realize how crazy math is about symbols and hand writing.

     For example if your write your Xs so they look like the cross product symbol. Please do not. 'a' is NOT the same letter as 'A' it's really crazy and often glossed over harming students.

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     Chris L (jayalane@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:27 JST Chris L

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     • moggie

     @futurebird @EverydayMoggie my kids sign like they don't know cursive and while I smile in pleasure to see my kids writing, they are pretty lame signatures. My applied math teacher has a good spiel about making ones handwriting be super consistent and legible as a practice to reduce maths errors. (My own rate of success on a long PDE being less than fifty percent going to the class).

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:28 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @EverydayMoggie

     I suppose it's fine.

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     moggie (everydaymoggie@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 11:20:29 JST moggie

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     Is there any reason a signature can't be printed? That's still individualistic enough to be distinct for each person.

     @futurebird

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     Janne Moren (jannem@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 15:12:49 JST Janne Moren

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     @jrconlin @futurebird
     Meanwhile Japan is trying to move away from stamps because of all the issues it creates.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 15:12:49 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • jr conlin —〰—

     @jannem @jrconlin

     Aw but it's so quaint and pretty. Well I can see that... but, I love the idea of having more fiddly stationary things to do.

     But then I designed myself a wax seal which I'm always looking for excuses to use. They wouldn't let my put it on my marriage certificate. **mocking voice*** "because then we'd need to store it in a booooox" Still mad. (I know I'm being a little unreasonable)

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     jr conlin —〰— (jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 15:12:50 JST jr conlin —〰—

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     @futurebird

     Historically, you just make some symbol that you can later reproduce, like an X.

     A bit like a signature, really.

     I am waiting for folk to adopt something like the Japanese stamp system for making unique marks.