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No one in the US knows WTF a long and short ton are. A ton is 2k lbs. And most Americans probably don't even know the exact weight of a ton outside of "a shit load."

For the most part, we generally only use pounds, feet, miles. Everything else is a mystery. Even ounces, cups and gallons are some fucking magical mystery. Just follow the recipe.

I switched everything to metric years ago, and have never been happier. It made a huge difference in most of the things I do, having a system that makes internal sense. The only thing I still routinely use standard for is sewing, because it's damn near impossible to find any patterns or things like cutting mats in metric in the right sizes for quilting.

I think it's that it's a job entirely unsuited to homework based super heroes. As in, they meant to call for like, superman, batman, captain planet, power rangers or something, but accidently for the PBS homework helped crew, and now we all fucked.

Only the purest bloodlines. Bloodlines so pure that they couldn't find a spec of unpure blood in Uncle Daddy during his last battery of genetic testing to determine why we all have blue skin and an allergy to calcium.

Hatchet

I never got to finish the series during it's original run. Got super busy in the second to last season. I finally researched and fi finished it last year. Dammit I enjoyed that show. It was weird seeing both a Mikail Bakunin and a reference to Dharma in a show, as a Dharmic anarchist. Haha.

I still actively use infinity for my alt account. Once it's gone, I guess that's it for me for reddit. :/

Yes, but the other gets a seat protector. It's a trade off.

Legit guffawed at "brodozered"

And it really does. It's damn near impossible to afford an actual wheelchair van, and the only options outside of that are SUVs and pickups. And if you want anything newer than 25 years, it's gonna be absolutely enormous. We got lucky when a friend had a decent running 2002 CRV. It's "small," at least when compared to most SUVs, but capable of pulling a trailer.

They are functionally owned by the same people, support the same macroeconomic policies. They work together to ensure a continuation of the same system. They are two arms of the same organization. The republican party moves policies to the right, the Democrats come in and move them marginally left, but less so then they were before the Republicans, and the republicans move them righter still. They work together to ratchet economic and social policies further and further rightward. This allows the parties to claim two positions, ensuring a maximum number of devotees, while functionally working towards the same goal. Differences between the parties are largely superficial. There is no real change within the democratic party apparatus. There is some attempts to move the party leftward, but as we saw in 2016, 2020, and just about every day in the house with The Squad, any attempt at moving things to the left of Center Right is treated as some evil that must be stamped out.

Oh damn, is iron druid finished? I've read a bunch of them, but I haven't kept up with the series. It's good.

Rivers of London is one of my top favorite series. So freaking good.

Which other series? I can still remember when I was a kid and the last Harry Potter book came out. OMG, I felt so lost.

I tend to take Noam Chomsky's stand on it. They're is functionally very little difference between the two parties, but because of the republican party's refusal to accept climate change, it makes them the single most dangerous organization in the history of human life on this planet. Couple that with their absolutely shit social policies, their inept economic policies and... Yeah. There's little difference, but it's enough of a difference to keep us slaves to this system.

I'm unfortunate enough to live in a deep red state, so my vote doesn't count in a general election. I voted for Stein, because why not? I hoped she'd get the 5 percent and the green party could get federal funding. If I lived in a state where my vote actually counted in a general, I would have voted for Hillary, because the Republican party is the single most dangerous organization in history.

God this system sucks.

In my early 30s now, and I haven't loved America for several years. 2016 was genuinely eye opening for this former Democrat. Watching the party I had supported since childhood, that I knew as the left most thing going, eat one of its own, absolutely tear itself to pieces to prevent even a semblance of a decent healthcare system... It broke the blinders, y'know? Once that happened it got me looking at things with a more critical eye, and when you do that, when you look at just about any aspect of this country with anything other than Rose white and blue tinted glasses, holy shit. It becomes real hard to love real fast.

Honestly, I love it. I'm really embracing this whole "the jank is a feature" thing. It feels more... Real.

Thank you!

Just curious, why did you number from 10 to 19? Lol

While I agree generally, just check for a handicap license plate first, please.

My mom is disabled, and we have to use a pick up truck for hauling her power chair (too heavy for a lift gate). They don't make small trucks anymore. We drive a Nissan frontier, so not as ridiculous as this, but still a large truck. She has to use a step to get into it. Our other car is a small SUV, and we pull a trailer when we need to take her wheelchair. I'm all for shaming people for driving gas guzzling monstrosities, but it's really important to check the tag first. When we first moved to our current location, the nearby city had a group that would slash tires on oversized cars. We got signs printed explaining, because honestly, if it weren't for the whole wheelchair situation, I'd be down for that. Lol. I wish they made an electric vehicle capable of hauling her chair that we could afford. Shit sucks. :(

Honestly, I'll be devastated when the series is concluded. The idea of no more dresden, ever. Ah. Breaks my heart. But I hate endings. I'm the type that wants things to go on for as long as possible.

They're not really similar, but Dresden is so good. Definitely check it out!

Alas, no, Dharma as in the philosophical concept. Though now I really wish I'd intended the double meaning. I loved Lost. Lol.

The Dresden Files is tied with The Dark Tower series as my favorite series. It gets progressively better as it goes along. I hope you'll love it. It's amazing.

Sadly I'm only reading a textbook for class right now. But I'm about to start A Stitch In Time, the Garak/star trek novel.

You need to also actively harm society and be a blight on the human race.