Global_Liberty @ Global_Liberty @lemmy.ml

An unrepentant globalist who supports universal human rights and multilater

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I grew up with metric and moved to an imperial country as an adult. I now have a different view of the systems and honestly prefer imperial. Hear me out.

Imperial organically evolved over centuries to better match the lived human experience. The major units used now are more useful to the average person. The fact they are not base 10 is due to the fact that the main uses for each aren't related in that way.

For temperature, 1 degree Fahrenheit is the minimum I can feel. 50 F is a middle temperature outdoors for many temperate climates: 0 F is very cold and 100 F is very hot. The temperature at which water boils or freezes at sea level is not as useful to my daily experience and the difference in a degree Celsius is too large.

I like inches, yards, and miles. I prefer ounces and pounds. Pints, quarts, and gallons now make more sense to me. I am not a scientist or engineer (who absolitely should use metric), but a guy trying to deal with weather, get places, and buy things to eat/drink.

Of course, if I learned an aircraft type was designed in imperial only, I wouldn't get on it. Metric has its purpose. It's just not as good for daily life.

Here are the steps in our journey over the past five years:

• Subscribed to solar power for 100% of my electricity
• Drive an electric car when I have to, but bike exclusively within a two mile radius
• Bought a laundry line and line dry clothes
• Eat a mostly whole food, plant-based diet with lots of legumes to maximize my health and wealth while cutting my climate impact
• Slashed my single use plastics consumption as well as durable to reduce microplastics breathed and consumed
• Visit a library once a week
• Grow simple plants (green onions, basil)
• Keep air conditioning to a minimum (live in Florida)
• Buy used/refurbished preferentially
• Pesticide-free outdoors to encourage native insect predators and now my backyard is filled with butterflies
• Recycle maximally following all guidelines and produce less than 1/10th the waste stream of my neighbors for a family of four with two pets
• Replaced older, less efficient air conditioning with newer, high efficiency

I'm proud of what we've achieved, but there's still more to do. In the next five years we will:

• Replace our other, less driven ICE vehicle with an electric
• Transition to full pesca-vegetarianism
• Install balcony solar as hopefully it will become legal (or I will smuggle a system in from Utah or Vermont)
• Plant fruit/shade trees
• Paint our home a lighter, high albedo color
• Blow in additional insulation in the attic
• Install a home car charger
• Replace the last of our plastic clothing with natural fibers

2 tonnes CO2eq/person without carbon offsets for everything but travel is our end goal.

I like Cracker Barrel's four vegetarian sides plate. I can pick reasonably healthy options and the price isn't terrible. They are my preferred interstate-adjacent dining option on roadtrips. I'm even a loyalty member.

Yet I can't imagine spending one microsecond thinking about their logo let alone being stupid enough to be manipulated into having an opinion and then believing it relates to politics. Unless you are the majority shareholder, your view is utterly irrelevant. Shut up and either patronize the place or not.

There are a lot of people today on the right who cosplay as libertarians but somehow care deeply about the logo of a company they don't own.

Excellent because I am tired of receiving rotten produce in my grocery orders and I'm sure your customers are as well.

He mobilized the right more.

He lost because of Nader and a confusing ballot in PBC.

You write like you're 14 and reason like you're 12. I hope you're a kid.

Its not a country. It's extraterritorial.

A well thought out rebuttal that no doubt stretched your intellectual gifts.

It isn't. Someone stated something completely false, and you are behaving like a Reddit brigade to censor truth.

Well, if you read the Headquarters of the United Nations Agreement (1947), you will find that the United States can deny visas for non-member states which includes the Palestinian Authority.

That doesn't mean the UN isn't extraterritorial.

Don't acuse others of being pedantic when you're just wrong. If you don't understand the concepts, then don't comment until you educate yourself.

The US signed a treaty granting the extraterritorial status. It's not US territory unless the UN abandons it.

Completely incorrect.

It's distasteful how people who are incorrect can bully and convince others to the contrary to bury truth.

The United Nations Plaza is firmly extraterritorial as stated in Article III, Section 7(a) of the Headquarters of the United Nations Agreement (1947). US law applies in this territory only to the extent it does not interfere with regulations of the UN which take precedent as defined in Article III, Section 8. So if the United States of America says the land is not American, why are you stating otherwise? Did you bother to look it up before mocking someone else?

As for your ignorant "but it's within the borders of..." argument, Vatican City is located within contiguous Italy and even within its most populous city, yet it's not just extraterritorial but a sovereign country. Did you forget the Holy See existed or do you just deny the validity of the Lateran Treaty because it is surrounded by Rome?

Finally, if all that weren't true, the US has bombed its own territory and citizens before: Jayayu in 1950. Of course, if you are ignorant of the Holy See, why would you know that.

I thought the same, then I read about his confidentiality agreements to control narratives.

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I had plans to go this year to visit friends, but they moved to San Francisco before harvest season. Very inconsiderate of them.

Gore lost the legal cases. A few more votes in Florida from Democrats who didn't apply purity tests and voted Green instead and the world would be a much better place.

My friend was committed, but it helped that it was not uncommon for larger endowed teens where I grew up. Doctors openly discussed the option and it was covered by government health insurance.

I can sympathize with the difficulty of finding the right size. It wasn't until my wife traveled to her country of ancestry and measured at a department store in her 20s that she finally obtained her first bras that truly fit. They still weren't cheap. I think that is when I learned the burden of what is, for most, a medical support garment.

And that is what I find so frustrating. Bras should be treated like a medical device: basic models that fit well should be covered by government health care. The 200-400% markup in most prices is outrageous, and there would be a positive return for society with women more confident in more activities.

Of course, I live in the United States, so we've regressed to the point of figuring out whether dying of communicable diseases is bad.

Nope. I'd rather have any Democrat in office than more Republicans. Your logic is how Gore lost the 2000 election. The Green votes for Nader were the decider. Gore wanted to address climate change 25 years ago.