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by kickaha 1074 days ago
I’m old and we were poor: my family got our first microwave oven about the same time as I started to learn calculus in 12th grade.

Both changed everything in an epistemologically qualitative manner. Life before calculus/microwave, and life after calculus/microwave.

How did we warm up leftovers before the microwave?

What did the world look like before I learned calculus?