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Anti-group think. Anti-thought police. Anti-censorship. Anti-manipulative media. Pro-bill of rights.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain the Imperial system, the metric system, and why attempts to replace either with the other are all retarded.

They have two different purposes.

The metric system is designed around precise measurement of objects. Its goal is to make engineering and scientific calculations simple.

The Imperial system is designed around humans. Its goal is to make calculation unnecessary.

100 degrees is really hot. 0 degrees is really cold. Anything that starts with a 5 is cool, anything that starts with an 8 is warm. No computation.

6 feet is tall, 5 feet is short.

100 pounds is light, 200 pounds is substantial, 300 pounds is heavy.

A 1000 square foot house is small, a 2000 square foot house is medium, a 3000 square foot house is large.

1 mile is a short walk, 2 miles is a medium walk, after that it takes a while.

1 acre of land is a homestead, 10 acres is an estate, 100 acres and up is a ranch or a farm.

Do you see now why it is so strange and awkward to convert from miles to feet?

It's because converting from miles to feet is not something you're supposed to do in the first place. Yes, they are both measures of length, so they are technically convertible, and yes, on rare occasions, you might need to do that.

But feet are for measuring humans, and things built around humans, like doorways, and mattresses. Miles are for measuring travel distance.

You wouldn't measure the distance between Seattle and Portland in feet for the same reason you wouldn't measure the distance between Tokyo and Osaka in mattress-lengths.

It would be silly.

This is why Americans so fiercely resistant to any notion of "conversion" to the metric system. Because it makes no sense. We already use the metric system for what it's good for, which is doing physics and chemistry and whatnot.

But converting everyday measurements to the metric system would be less useful, generally inconvenient, and serve no purpose other than to make petty government bureaucrats happy that everything is now tidy, orderly, and worse, three qualities that bureaucrats love.

I thought about this carefully when I wrote my first science fiction novel. In the world of the 22nd century, extraterrestrial settlers ("Orbitals") use three systems of measurement.

They measure themselves in feet, inches, and pounds.

They measure the spacecraft and habitats they build in meters and centimeters, grams and kilograms.

And they measure space travel distances in light-seconds and light-minutes.

Each system has its own natural scale.

The sole exception to this is when Marcus doses himself with drugs for high-g resistance, Miranda objects that he has taken too much, and Marcus responds by stating his mass... in kilograms.

Why?

Because they're talking about drug doses, a engineering measurement. Drugs are dosed in milligrams per kilogram.

So, yes, the Imperial system makes perfect sense when you understand what it's for, and no, we ain't changing.

And, as a general rule, when an entire civilization of smart people does something for centuries, and it makes no sense to you, they're probably not being silly.

It's more likely there's something you don't know.

[B.S. Everywhere @BullhonkeyBS]

@NortonMpls It's ugly. And it smells in there. It should be torn down and rebuilt, for sure. As far as Brutalist, sounds like a dumb style for architecture. Go ahead and call my taste "poor."

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@sarahhepola If I had a spare I can fix it easy. But I also have AAA. As far as actually putting a new tire on a rim, you need an expensive tool (or serious persistence, which I don't have). Then, you need a balancer.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Jeff Bezos said buying the Post was his single worst investment and that the paper is filled with "terrible" people. https://t.co/JApaOas1HX Musk succeeded at X after first jettisoning most of the Twitter crew. It is hard to change a culture without removing the cultural warriors

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@MrAndyNgo Love watching idiots get pepper sprayed for unacceptable behavior.

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@wil_da_beast630 Yeah, I think so, too. But that Macron, not so sure.

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@LibyaLiberty Wait... non-governmental fascism?
Do you know what fascism means?

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@HebrewWifey @pearlythingz "Belief alone saves" is literally the main point of the New Testament.

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@redheadranting @KirkMMaxey We bought a place in the woods in WI and are going to be snowbirds in FL.

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@Mericamemed Tldr

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From the "you can't make it up department"

[FOX 9 @FOX9]

Democratic lawmakers said forcing workers to choose between pay and painful periods is "economic violence," backing a new paid menstrual leave bill. https://t.co/WOn2yN9oIR

[B.S. Everywhere @BullhonkeyBS]

@Charliemagne @MartiniShark This is the most childish and petulant drama. Pelley needs to grow a pair of balls and move on with his life.

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@golgfrombism @TomBevanRCP Leverage?

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@donwinslow @ScottPelley Nobody knows who Scott Pelley is. Nobody cares except partisan propagandists on X.

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@chasejohn @bariweiss 60 Minutes was just bad tv. It was no gold standard. Not for 40 years has it been.

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@swd2 Plus, he no longer has to hide that he is just a partisan hack with TDS.

[Bill Gensler @billgensler]

@HowardKurtz In any other corporation, if someone speaks publicly about leadership like Pelley did, they’d be bounced out immediately. I hope Bari fires them all. 60 Minutes has shown extreme liberal bias for years. Maybe decades. The show is unwatchable for half the country.

[B.S. Everywhere @BullhonkeyBS]

@hwinkler4real There was NOTHING extraordinary about Scott Pelley. No one will miss him. But, yes, you will see him surface soon on some TDS podcast.

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@LizzyStarrrdust Think about it.
She IS allowing it.
It's supposed to remain unspoken.
He didn't just give up sex. He's moved on and getting it elsewhere. She knows it.

[B.S. Everywhere @BullhonkeyBS]

@weareyourfek Whoa. You are completely disconnected from reality.
Pelley is the egotistical, and a partisan hack as well. Now he won't have to hide it anymore.