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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by skookumchuck on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:35PM (#17964364)
Geez, I learned to drive on a stick, so did a hundred million other people. It's no travesty.
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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by taeric on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:39PM (#17964376)
And I learned a lot of things without modern tools. Doesn't mean I was better for it. Or that I didn't make more mistakes than I might have, had I been given better tools.

Just look up survivor bias sometime. It is a thing. This is an common refrain of it.

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