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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Eventually you realize you forget almost as much as you learn, it's like a bilge pump in a sinking boat. Then you focus on what you want to remember and come to acceptance with that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have to keep going through rehearsal of that old information to keep it from fading. The hard part is stacking new layers on the old layers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I know way too much about the bronze age and not in a haha Ea-Nasir way but in a I have the major trade routes of the era memorized sort of way. The only official education I have is a high school diploma that even then I probably shouldn't have gotten since I failed math outright.

[–] theangryseal 1 points 2 days ago

This right here. Being content with ignorance s fine with me at the end of the day.