Iron Lynx

This is the kind of parenting that may lead to kids leaving home & disappearing from the parents’ lives the day they turn eighteen.

Really though, the most ardent defence of USC units is fuelled by great amounts of Copium. The US Customary set of measurements is several independent systems of measurements which often radically different origins and sometimes irrational conversions, all stacked upon each other and dressed in a trench coat. For instance, the mile has Roman origins while the inch and foot were defined separately, much later, and with a lot of regional variation. The French foot was longer than the English foot, which is why Napoleon was listed as 5’2" tall while he was actually closer to 5’9", or 1.71 m, which was pretty average for the time.

Which one of these is more straightforward to calculate:

• You are tasked with installing a rail along a 1 mile long bridge. You know you can use two half inch bolts to affix it every three feet. How many bolts do you need?

• You are tasked with installing a rail along a 1,5 km long bridge. You know you can use two M12 bolts to affix it every metre. How many bolts do you need?

Conversions within dimensions in USC require you to memorise arbitrary conversion numbers. Conversions within dimensions in SI require you to move the comma a few spots.

Besides, if the US Customary system of units is so great, why did most of the world voluntarily switch to SI units?

So I was right that it’s a lyric, just not a Sabaton one 😅

Not gonna lie, that title sounds like it could be a Sabaton lyric.

Are the pills binary? Because I wouldn’t want to rewind to far before either shacking up with, or maybe meeting, my girl. And all the fun things I would wish upon every iteration of myself that I’m doing now are things I’d started with in adulthood.
I’d only really be interested in taking about a third of a red pill, since that’d probably take me back to after I started most of these fun things.

If I’d be required to take whole pills, I’d take the blue one.

I heard/read a story somewhere once, where there was a statue somewhere of someone who’s better off not glorified. The statue was defaced regularly, and every time it was defaced, there’d be someone cleaning it up.

Over time the statue went on to look worse for wear until one day, the authorities decided it was better to remove and replace the statue.

It turned out the guy cleaning it up was always the same guy, who hated the subject of the statue with a passion, and alway used salt water to clean it, hoping to corrode & wear down the statue. Some people suspect he and the vandal were the same person.

RON SWANSON: I reject all cookies.

Wait, I don’t think I was clear enough. I didn’t ask to reject a lot of cookies. I reject all cookies.

how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”

Oh no- anyway.

Thanks for reminding me. I’ve just migrated.

Not sure when the next time will be that I can play Minecraft, but I guess it’s nice that I can when I want to at any point into the future.

Something tells me that within my lifetime, Brussels will become the capital of the free world.

Does this apply to European cars as well? Do we need to start filing GDPR complaints against car manufacturers?

The problem with CAFE is that it does not apply to trucks and SUV’s. So bear with me for a moment:

You are a car executive, choosing what car to make. On one hand, say there’s a station wagon. On the other, say there’s an SUV. The bean counters assure you they cost about as much to produce, but the station wagon has to comply to stricter regulations, and the engineers tell you they’ll have to work harder to make the station wagon comply to the law.

Meanwhile, the SUV costs about as much to make, but has way fewer rules it has to comply with. The marketing team tells you they can sell both vehicles just as well, though you may be able to set a higher sticker price for the SUV.

Do you build the more heavily regulated station wagon, knowing your margins are thinner? Or do you take the easier option with bigger margins and build the SUV?

You’ll even see the outcome IRL. In the US, Ford tries to convince you that the car you need for your family is a pick-up truck with a crew cab. Meanwhile, in the European market, where larger cars start costing much more much sooner, the same segment gets offered a seven seater minivan.

Alright, maybe you guys starting a sixth republic is not that bad of an idea.

You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct. And that said, from a daily-use perspective, the 3½" type has a rigid case, i.e. not floppy. So the storage medium is floppy, while the whole object that the user is expected & supposed to interact with is not. That’s why I find “3½ inch floppy disk” to be a bit of a misnomer.

The 8" and 5¼" types have soft carriers, which is why I have no qualms calling those “floppy disks.”

Looks like the physical storage medium of a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Which is usually called a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, except with this one it’s a bit of a misnomer, since this iteration has a rigid case, unlike the older 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch versions. Or should have, it appears to be removed in OP’s case.

In fact, hot take: Why don’t we deploy a solar power belt around the equator… AND nuclear power wherever we can put it? And while at it, let’s make reprocessing of nuclear waste a must-do. It gives you more kWh/kg uranium, and the inevitable waste you do end up having is a cup instead of a cask, and far less dangerous for far shorter.

I remember someone got into such a billboard and replaced the ad with IKEA-style instructions on how to replace the ads in those billboards.