Here is the place to watch them go nuclear, a European physicist telling the truth about our superiors,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

Oh heck - I'm here Q. what is the difference between countries that use Metric and US type measurements? A. One of them landed men on the moon, and returned them. The other never did.

Oh heck - did they know, the Metre, the standard of the universe, is measured by a fraction? Not even an SI unit, but a fraction. I'll be at -1 troll any moment now - the Truth upsets them - after all, Europe is the home of "The Big Lie". The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

When are we going to metric time? I mean, that 24 hours, 60 second minutes, 60 minute hours. Damn, sounds like something a stoopid 'Murrican made up!

And let us not forget the reason NATO exists. Remember Uncle Vlad is still interested in the so called buffer states, which his mentor Joe Stalin tried to do after WW2.

How far will Vlad go to get those buffer states. Europe sometimes seems to hate those who help them. My advice - Learn Cyrillic. If this is how you treat the people who saved you from uncle Adolf, I suggest next time, you get out of your mess all by yourselves. It's what you want.

Had to get clear down here to find an on-topic post, what with the TDS people and even a metric uber alles posting.

The plight of the monarch is very interesting. That we can track individual's movements is even more amazing.

A few years back, there was a large concern about habitat/milkweed loss. One response was people planting milkweed in their back yards.Here in the Pennsylvania mountains, gas lines often run along back roads. Some people have taken to trowing milkweed seeds along the easement, providing a many miles long smorgasbord for the little critters. even heading the right direction (northeast/southwest)

Another strange point. I take the Cape May-Lewes Ferry pretty often, which traverses the Delaware Bay. I've seen Monarch butterflies catching a draft off the back of the ferry to cross the bay. That has to be a great energy saver.

Slashdot being Slashdot, I'll probably be modded offtopic for posting about Monarch Butterflies in a story about Monarch Butterflies

How odd. I haven't had a non-metric car since the late 80's. My whole shop is metric. I work in metric. So many of us here in the USA do.

But I also have the old school tools as well. I make parts on my metric lathe that are measured in inches. I make parts that are metric on one side and standard on the other.

Getting a rageboner about this whole thing is silly, It is just different sizes. But it seems to enrage some eurocentrics.

And acting like Americans are stupid isn't much of a flex when you can only do one measurement system. If you want your parts sized in Barleycorns I can make it for you, and I won't cry about it (hint - 1 barleycorn = 0.846667 centimeters)

Exactly.

Fed by greed and criminal activity, it is the world you dive into with coin.

Add in the ostentatious tools who want to brag about their money or coin, well expecting criminals to not go after you is naive.

It's best for everyone to maintain a low profile in this money grubbing, pop culture world. But what fun would that be for people who grub for money and worship pop culture icons? I use my money to do stuff, they use theirs for some weird clout.

Wait until you find out about American car companies

I do most of my shopping there, at Grocery Outlet, and at Costco. I actually do more shopping at grossout, because they are the closest thing that doesn't suck. We have a local market and mini-market, and I'm not a big fan of either one. (The market is somewhere around "OK", the mini market is disappointing.) I got Costco's card honestly just to get fuel quicker as the card is a membership card, and it's convenient for me to stop in there on my way to work.

Winco is an employee-owned co-op, and their pricing seems to be dynamic in general and the prices actually go back down, so I'm really happy with them. Grocery Outlet has beer I want to drink and high quality local dairy products, and an interesting and ever-changing stock of weird shit, and neither of the local ones are scuzzy. I have a chest freezer...

Of course it does. It doesn't have to do with just one thing. Keeping the machine spinning is the reason why even heartless fucks should be interested in workers' needs being met, if they weren't idiots. But that's the problem with such people, if you're smart then you realize that you don't want to live in a world of shit.

The way to make money on it is to buy stock in those companies. Or stock in their customers, who are selling more stuff.

If you manage to get the timing anywhere close to right you can sell that stock and then buy real estate at foreclosure sales.

If a society can't adapt to post-scarcity then that society should get eliminated. That's just about the dumbest reason for self destruction you can imagine.

The cotton gin. It was all down hill after that.

Just because there are people available to work that doesn't mean they will be hired. And they won't be hired because of AI.

If the GOP continues to run the government the old people won't be a problem either because they will die when they lose health coverage.

Creating icons in the game is part of creating the game. You just said it wasn't used for that and then said it was used for that.

"I'm against AI slop as much as anyone, and in general a fan of regulation, but this really is something that should be solved by the market. If people don't want AI slop, let them not buy it"

This isn't about the slop. If you're a fan of regulation, and saving jobs isn't a good enough reason for you, wait you're not actually a fan.

My local supermarkets, at least the ones where I shop, don't allow purchases with credit. This is irritating AF even though I have the money in the bank because I get a percentage back.