Me. It needs more.

Paul Rudd approves.

Yeah. The older machines needed you to manually convert before using that code, but it is a non-issue now as far as making things with cnc. Measuring, though? People get weird.

The yard is something born of convenience. It isn’t really used seriously outside of American football and spirit levels for some reason. And, you are right - there is no real significance to it. The vast majority of Americans ignore the yard outsideof very fast estimates for good reason, it needs 4 to fit the concept of 12.

I count in dozens. Three knuckles per finger, then one knuckle on the thumb per round. I count to 96 on my hands

The speech was honestly one of the most relatable things I’ve heard in a long time.

I use RiseUp VPN. It works for everything, but please don’t use it to sail. Journalists rely on it and their hardware has been seized previously.

Pencils are fully automatic in the sense that once they are applied to paper, it will not stop until you lift.

Actually, I’m in the mood to go on a rant here. You’re using the metric system incorrectly. The odds are that you will list something as ~900 mm. Be mad, whatever, but I’ve seen this kind of thing on literally thousands of prints. Sure, for formal precision reasons you’d list it that way. However, in my long career not a single person has used the feature of metric that should make it easy. Not a single person has ever mentioned deca/deci/hexa etc. meters. Ever. Metric is far and away objectively not simpler; most people just refuse to use it to its full potential to make it even easier by only thinking in 4 units (those being mm, cm, m, and 1km). Actually, metric technically has infinite units.

I’ve had a long professional career of measuring physical things. They’re both bad. Dozenal and fractional systems are objectively faster for building/making things. Decimal is better if you want to measure small things/amounts.

Then there’s the fact that ISO 9001 tolerances are much higher for metric listings. Yeah, it’s incredibly stupid that prints that are transferred from most places to the US and vice versa get converted twice from both systems. However, the 9001 standard for metric tolerances is usually +/- 0.05mm, which is 0.002". In my line of work that is a huge tolerance. Siemens Medical is the worst about this. They allow 0.381mm everywhere, which is 0.015". I’m not trying to say that US manufacturing is better, or vice versa. It’s just that both systems have ways of being awful.

It’s truly fucked up that we can measure things in wars. That applies to the entire world.

There’s a genuine chance, seeing as Trump said he’d recognize the elections “if they’re fair.” However; there are more points to be made here I think. They want to stay in power and attempting to deny such a massive result may (in my opinion) trigger at least a small revolt. They’re objectively evil, and we like to paint them as having a horribly low IQ but the people actually pulling strings aren’t that way - they’re just evil. Inciting a revolt tips the odds of them being in power again to be much smaller. Remember - they’re patient and many and may simply wait another decade with a revised plan instead of diminishing the odds of them being in power again. This is all my half-drunk ramblings though, so I could be wrong on more than one account.

Bigots more often than not have less than half a brain, but one thing you can count on is them being angry.

No, I’m incredibly used to both, and that’s my point.

He is incredibly articulate in exactly the correct ways when called for. Yeah, his tone is close to Obama here for sure, but he actually is speaking in just plain vernacular. It’s incredibly relatable.

Edited to fix a typo in the title.

Sigh, I’m going to get downvoted to hell for this, I’m sure. After a 16 year career as a machinist in the US and having to easily change between both systems daily, one system is dozenal and fractional and one is decimal based. Dozenal and fractional are both easier and faster when you start thinking that way. A mile isn’t 1760 yards precisely, it’s 5,280 feet. 5,280 / 12 = 440. It’s dozenal. All units, and I mean all units are arbitrary. Someone just decided x means y. Whether it’s “this amount of silicon atoms is 1kg” or “this specific length of barley corn is 1 inch” - they’re both defined by a decision that someone (or a group) just kinda made.

It was more like a red undertow. The bullshit finally truly got to people.

The qualifying words were “if they’re fair, yeah” - so, umm. Likely not.

I didn’t have a lot of hope. I live in Cherokee County, and the MAGAts are incredibly loud here. I have more hope right now than I have in about 10 years.

I voted for her. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m pleasantly surprised. She was honestly a weak candidate because of how so many view the way she ran Atlanta. I’m ecstatic that she won, and it is a huge statement; not because of her identity but because of the fact that I drive by multiple permanent Trump signs every single day. Outside of the cities here, the MAGA runs deep.