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What amazes me is that we pretty much are converting, just very slowly, one thing at a time. In school we all learn the metric system, and it’s used all over in industry and government. At the supermarket, everything is labeled in both systems, and some things have started trending towards metric as the default. We are all used to the 2L bottle size. The old fifth of a gallon bottle, though some still call it that, has been replaced by the 750ml bottle. More recently the 20oz bottle has been phased into the .5L, mainly–I’m sure–to shrink the amount while keeping prices the same, but still it’s progress in this regard.

I think the transformation will be effectively complete when highway signs use kilometers. But I don’t see that happening any time soon.

Sure there are edge cases and whatnot, but just go ahead and move the drive over. If it doesn’t work I’ll buy you a beer.

What? Really? But as a cartoon how does that even work if it’s not ironic? … He asked rhetorically, knowing the right wing humor is basically just incoherent hate.

Thank you for this explanation.

It’s not just about treating current employees well. It’s also about offering enough at the hiring stage to attract more good workers. Higher starting pay and a better reputation as a place to work means more people applying, means that Methface Matt can’t compete with TypeA Teresa to get hired in the first place.

Stephen’s dad, is that you?

My MO is much cheaper. I just throw produce waste into a corner of my back yard and see what starts growing. Right now I’ve got about 10 pumpkin plants taking off like crazy. A jalapeño plant too!

More and more I feel it’s best to think of software as existing in a quantum state of all possible feature/bug combinations. Between updates that can occur on any facet of the software’s intricacies, algorithm quirks, human interventions, and clandestine beta testing on unsuspecting groups of users, who the fuck knows.

Hey that’s cool. I’m late to the party but just in time to wish you a happy lunch. What’re you having?

Dammit!

Yeah! ^That’s ^^the ^^^ticket!

Edit: okay so only one level. That’s fine.

Well on Reddit I would have superscripted the text but I can’t or don’t know how to do that here. So I improvised.

Simpossible! … (((I’ll see myself out, sorry)))

A good suggestion. I’m already trying to post less, comment less, and just focus on making better, more frequently positive contributions.

Okay so, it’s common for people to talk about distant stars as appearing one way because the light takes (mi|bi)illions of years to get to us, and that makes perfect sense to me… But when they go on to say that, for instance, Betelgeuse has already gone supernova but we won’t see it until the light gets to us…

According to the principle of the relativity of simultaneity, since the speed of light is the speed of causality, wouldn’t it be a bit more accurate (though definitely more confusing to the public) to say that the stars actually are as we observe them, but that the star is far enough away that traveling to it, even instantly, would basically require significant time travel forward? I guess it would just be a different way to talk about “the present” in relativistic terms, which is only difficult because our languages never evolved to handle the concept.

What you think?

Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren’t Nazis or bots.

Back when I started with Reddit I remember sorting by new and thinking, jeez why would anyone sift through all this crap… Cut to me exclusively sorting by new all the time because I looked at ev.ry.thing. So yeah, this is nice. Though in the future it may be just as full. Cross that bridge when we come to it I guess.

Don’t forget undermining democracy. Nothing like hearing the freshest Russian propaganda from my mother on a crisp Autumn morning.

The “silent majority” is neither.