Fair point, I see now what you mean, thanks!

Tl;Dr this feels like sensationalism and they probably had a way to spin the answers yes and no to the survey on any note they wanted. Not to say the thought isn't important, but I think this slice of insight is fairly inadmissible due to potential bias

Frankly, after giving the group Civic Science a cursory look, they're self described as "consumer analytics platform that provides brands with real-time consumer insight"
Which doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence that they're taking the interest of the respondents into consideration.

A brief look into civic science is that they're a brand oriented survey group. Part of me questions if they had a way to sensationalize both respondents who said yes and no, to both sides of an argument that some respondents maybe had no idea they were contributing to

Sure, but was "I don't know what that is" an option or was it a yes or no?
Did they say why they chose no?
Frankly I don't even know what civics survey this refers to, the setting or context of it. That's the problem with quantifying peoples opinions with simple numbers and simple questions.

Agreed, though I don't think a single survey accurately conveys sentiment.
Ignorance sure, but I think assuming it's resentment for the concept rather, maybe, ignorance and positive intent
"I don't see the relevance in teaching this in schools" vs "I don't want no Arab numbers in my kids school"

I'd actually take it a step further and saying that setting the bar of functional literacy with things like etymology risks creating inaccurate metrics and stigmatizes legitimately functionally literate people as "stupid"

But then again, most people won't admit to not knowing either.
And as our world becomes more advanced and we're abstracted from foundational concepts, you're going to lose things like etymology
I don't think knowing what arabic numerals are is a marker for literacy

I don't think not knowing the etymology of numbers is based in functional literacy. Not everyone who drives a car is a mechanic and not every person who uses a computer is an IT specialist. This is a pretty poor marker, many literate individuals don't know this term. I didn't.

Arise chicken arise

Oh me hold stick upside down

It always feels like nothing until you get half way through lol

Hey at least we know his scandal already I guess
www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...

I think it's strange they focus so much on the environment angle. Even with how inefficient they are, I think 2 strokes account for like 5-10% of pollution in the US. Not to say it should be ignored, but sounds like more industrial misdirection "oh no it's consumers polluting the world not us" talk.

Weird acquisition but also questionable lol at least it's not spotify

Apple music: surprisingly good across platforms not just Apple. Really good recommendations for finding new music (shuffle feature is kinda busted). The Cider client is super cool, and great selection

Lidarr is an option if you plan to sail the high seas :)

There's a service called Tune my Music that will help you migrate your music to other platforms. Some great options:
Deezer: cool features, decent selection, really good algorithm

Tidal: some of the highest quality streaming, run by Jay Z, haven't used it in a long time but perfectly acceptable