This will possibly be a contentious thread, so please be extra nice and assume the best of the other person when commenting!
The only real defense of our current system is that in construction, it's easier to divide 12 inches into thirds than metric. Seems like a pretty weak rationale still, and we should also just switch to dozenal anyways
When do you think we'll accomplish it? Certainly not in the next four years, IMO. If we're lucky, we might be able to do it within like 20 years.
Do you think it's related to Boomers at all, and newer generations might be more willing to push it through? Here's a Boomer Death Clock that says about 35% of them have passed away by now.
Is it about time, or is it still useful? If you think its time has passed, what about the nickel/dime/quarter?
I'm going to type faster than ChatGPT generates, and I'll hallucinate more
Yeah it totally isn't easy reading lol. Just compared to The Silmarillion it feels that way.
Found out about this excellent tradition from this post: https://lemmy.world/post/23739600
Transcript:
> this will be the year I finally convince everyone to abandon New Year's resolutions in favour of Yule Boasting, the clearly superior tradition
> allow me to explain. Yule boasting is an old Norse tradition of getting shitfaced at the winter solstice feast and standing up to proclaim all the great, infamous, and wildly improbable deeds you will perform in the coming year. can range from an unlikely but technically possible claim, like "I'm going to rob 300 banks", to something you'd have to bend the laws of the universe to actually accomplish, like "I'm going to punch a god in the dick and steal his horse". these are not plans. they're not even goals. they're the things you'd do in a self-insert superhero fanfic. and honestly all I want this holiday season is for a bunch of friends to go all in on this nonsense with me and hyper ourselves up in ways previously unimaginable
I remember liking it, but I read it long ago so don't remember a ton of it. I might've liked it because it's Literature and you're obligated to like it.
I like the Shrike a lot, does that count as a character? I always imagined it as something cooler than depicted in a lot of art though, like something completely unreal, with angles and points that look like glitches in reality, like your GPU is trying to render something while its melting.
Nah, those are easy reads. The Silmarillion? Now that's daunting 😈
Including the ones by Brian Herbert? I've never heard anyone say a single good thing about those.
The audiobooks for HHGttG are quite good if that's your sort of thing. Stephen Fry does a great job on the first one. I didn't quite like the voices in the other ones, but they were still overall well done.
In the middle of reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson. I haven't read any of his stuff other than his completion of the Wheel of Time series. I saw that Tress is a good standalone book in the series so I figured I'd try that out. It's good so far, but seems rather YA compared to what I assume the rest of the series is like.
You probably won't be the first person responding to issues at work, because the people in Eastern timezone have probably already started to handle it by the time you're up. Likewise, if you have a deadline like "end of day", you have some extra breathing room over the other continental timezones. The downside of that is that if things are still broken by EOD Pacific, you're most likely to have to work late to fix it.
One nice thing about working in earlier timezones is that if a lot of people at your company are Pacific, you'll probably get a few peaceful hours before things really start going.
It's good you clarified the UK. 3h30 on a train in the US gets you to about the next town over 😢
It's not quite that bad, but I've really wanted to take Amtrak cross country, which should in theory be easy to do because of all our open land. And yet, it would take like a week or something ridiculous like that.
The US tends to be a lot more spread out than Europe and the rest of the world. It seems like we're also more likely to move long distances for jobs and the like.
I'm pretty close to most family, 10 to 40 minute drives for everyone that doesn't live out of state
How about we split the difference and compromise on Anglish?
It's about time. They can join us in rejecting metric and driving on the right side of the road. Also what's a catchy term for it? Brenter?
Yeah, it unfortunately sounds like you might be drifting apart. Hard to say for sure just from reading comments, but that's a thing that happens even though it sucks.
You might get somewhere by asking yourself why this boundary is being put up. It's not explicitly said, but it sounds like this is a new boundary in a longer relationship. Did something happen that caused it? If it's a new boundary, it's probably worth asking your therapist if they can help you figure out a why. More for your own benefit, because even if you figure out a "why", it doesn't sound like it would help the relationship improve.
Joking/lighthearted replies are generally OK, but the OP is clearly looking for serious answers, and joking about guns is extra not helpful
This isn't really the sort of comment we're looking for in this community. It might be a joke, but it comes across as rather aggressive.
If you have kids or want to, what is the plan for them?
We've got !AskUSA@discuss.online for casual conversation about the US. You'll likely get more opinions there than straight science, though
Did you get a fancy coffee maker? A few years ago I splurged and got one from Costco that grinds the beans as it makes it, totally worth it.
Hopefully it went well. If not, just tell them the cookies were delicious but they didn't deserve them
Including if you don't celebrate. Just a normal day for you then?
If you do celebrate, was it a good time, or did something ruin it?
It's always nice to have someone coming a bit later that you can call and have pick something up that you forgot about.
I arrive on time, as that's just the polite thing to do and I'm not fashionable enough for fashionably late. I also like hanging out with people before things get crowded and/or loud, though I enjoy that too.