Recycling of plastics, well at least the viability of recycling most plastics back into useful stuff, is the biggest lie of the century.

Not entirely.

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At the moment, sorted natural HDPE fetches something like £550 per tonne, whereas the harder to recycle ones (PTT), you have to pay to dispose of. The prices do reflect how recyclable and how value the recycled product is, because the default is incineration at -£110 per tonne.

Under the WHO, Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered obese while he was in his prime.

Yeah every internet basement nerd is one of the 5% for whom BMI doesn't work, not the 95% it does. Mysteriously you have the body of a roided out genetic freak who spends 8 hours a day in the gym.

And there's a reason you guys don't change it

Mostly we have. The weights and measures act came in in my lifetime. I've seen stuff go from mostly imperial to mostly metric.

However, unlike Europe, it has no authority at all to ban its use.

Good grief, it's not banned here. You're allowed to use it, but you cannot use it exclusively for trade units. You can even use it in business. Machinemart still stubbornly insists on selling compressors using HP for the motor and CFMs for the airflow exclusively. Not illegal, just annoying because literally the only thing useful you can do with HP is convert to Watts, and almost none of my vendors of air parts bother quoting CFM because it's so rarely used.

But it's not banned.

Given this was the case when we were in the common market and customs union, I know it's not banned in the EU either. i.e. don't just make shit up because you feel like it.

If you want to go this route:

Nice deflection. More advanced tech exists than Apollo, some of it is outside America and beyond what America can do and is made with metric units. IOW, your "Apollo therefore imperial fuck yeah" argument is invalid.

Airliners aren't really advanced in anything.

You don't understand the difference between avionics and aeronautics, huh. Also, hell yes they are.

Unless you just happen to know what size of AC you need for any given size of home, the unit conversions don't really mean anything.

The entire context was conversions though: charging power in MW, vs home air conditioning. I'm assuming the imperial units for power for charging wouldn't be thermal like BTU, so Imperial is really awkward here.

which that alone is, medically speaking, total nonsense

If your BMI comes out as obese, statistically you have a 95% chance of being obese if you're a man, and 99% if you're a woman. And it does it using two very easy to acquire and hard to game measurements. That's many things, but "total nonsense" isn't one of them. Could it predict slightly better with different thresholds? Yeah probably, but that doesn't make it nonsense.

Besides, in your country, weights are usually measured in stones

I mean if you're going to use stupid units, lean in and do it properly. I'm not really sure why you think this is an argument in favour. I've never heard anyone use stone for anything other than people and large dogs.

I've never seen anybody do a moon landing in metric.

I've never seen anyone making a 2nm chip in imperial.

To this day, aeronautical engineering is still done using imperial units

No, aviation has something even better: an unholy mix of metric and imperial.

and the United States has the most advanced avionics in the world

That's why Boeing is doing so well right now!

If you assumed the typical home was 2,000 sqft with a 35,000 BTU central AC

This is why imperial is wretched as a measurement system. Sure, feet are not inherently better or worse than meters, but why have weird units of power? Imperial makes anything that isn't the simplest of linear measurements a pain in the arse.

Shouldn't isn't the same as can't. Demonstrably, he can because he can order it and Congress won't stop him. Remember backing a corrupt wannabe king is preferable to aligning with a democrat, apparently.

I occasionally play on an old W510 laptop, Also Intel, the OG Core i7 laptop CPU.

Well also they got to use the Kennedy centre completely for free to have the prize award ceremony.

By astonishing coincidence their world cup draw ceremony was there the very next day while they stillhad it.

Yeah but what ARE electrolytes?

Liberals are the specific group of individuals who refuse to actually have valid discourse.

The main tenet of the right wing is to point and yell about how others are doing something they are doing. It's basically universal. So when a right winger points angrily at the other side you know for sure they are talking about themselves.

The end result is 40% of abortions come from repeat customers.

Right, so after refusing to teach basic sex ed, and making contraception harder to find because apparently Jeebus doesn't like it, you're somehow surprised that people don't have a basic grasp of the basics?

Liberals refuse to debate any sane middle ground with gender dysmorphia.

Crikey that's some strong whiplash there! It's also not true. Liberals on the whole refuse to have a "debate" with someone spewing thought-free right wing talking points and who is impervious to logic, and reason. So yeah liberals mostly won't debate with you because there's no debate to be had by you.

Liberals, ultimately put a man suffering from dementia,

Oh hey you found common ground with liberals!

and a wholly unqualified minority woman who acted as an Open Border Czar in the White House.

This is just right wing bullshit so you can claim you can rationalize a decision you know was astonishingly bad.

The Christian conservative who still believes in the value of Father figures, intact families, morals and ethics

I can't even with the sheer level of delusion here.

defending a 304

literally no one outside your loony bubble has any idea what your slang means.

How is it weird?

As someone else pointed out they can't start a fire work a flint, saddle a horse or use a side rule either.

Analogue clocks, and in fact analogue dials in general are somewhat niche items these days, and I could easily see how kids could go quite a long time without seeing one. For better or worse they just aren't a big part of modern life so unless it's really explicitly taught, then we would they know?

Maybe a bit, but analogue clocks aren't very common anymore.

Either way, the motivation of knowing how long it is until the end of the lesson will ensure they figure it out quickly enough. And/or the trolling will get old and boring soon enough.

I learned how to use a sewing machine in Home Economics back in 1994 or so. Damned if I could get one started today.

Isn't that hard, not for a basic model at any rate! I had cause to buy one a few years ago, and it was just a case of following the instructions on how to pass the thread through the tensioner, and what order it goes through the guide holes. Somehow the needles and holes have got a lot fuzzier than they used to be. Don't make 'em like they used to.

Yeah that's because millions of liberals aren't stupid people who can only think in terms of black and white. Good and bad. With nothing in between. The department of education might not be great, but scrapping it completely is almost certainly worse. Especially for red states where it'll be all Jesus and creationism. Liberals it seems still persistently don't want red state citizens to get completely fucked over.

People seem to like them.

Behold he power of marketing.

The problem of visibility, and danger to other road users is objectively true. You can allude towards denying it if you like on the grounds of even handedness but, well, reality wins. This is why America has somehow seen a quite drastic increase in pedestrian deaths, despite all efforts to get rid of pedestrians.

As for the bed, this is objectively true. Vans are available in a very wide variety of configurations, like drop side, low bed, caged side, box van, Luton (both of which has a lot more volume than truck bed covers), removable covers, and so on and so forth.

Well indeed the only two possible choices are a micro compact and a lifted F350. Nothing in between exists.