What you've got to rememeber is that the Imperial system was first codified in 1824 in the Weights and Measures Act of 1824. This is some 50 years after their little rebellion. So it's accurate to say that the Americans are not even as advanced as the Imperial system.

The US uses US Customary Units and most of them are completely arbitrary.

The Imperial system was not just an attempt to standardise units for trade (I.E. someone couldn't shaft you by deciding to use a different gallon) it was also an effort to make measurements scientifically accurate and interchangeable, I.E. a gallon was defined as 10 pounds of water at room temperature (17C). It was an effort to move away from the kind of "this is a gallon, copy this" kind of arbitrary measurements.

No, you misunderstand, those signs are for serious shit like when someone had a pronoun or there are minorities somewhere in the tri-county area. This government overreach is simply not important enough to warrant their attention.

No, you misunderstand, those signs are for serious shit like when someone had a pronoun or there are minorities somewhere in the tri-county area. This government overreach is simply not important enough to warrant their attention.

Here's a little more detail.

Researchers a few years back ran tests. ADHDers and neurotypicals were asked to harvest berries and edible plants.

Neurotypicals tended to over-harvest and damage bushes to the point where recovery would be slow if possible at all, and tended to pick areas clean, wiping out local populations of edible plants.

ADHDers tended to move relatively quickly from area to area, harvesting a decent amount from each area but not excessively. The quantities tended to be at the sort of level that have long been established as a good balance, such that plants and populations would tend to actually do better the following year. Not only that, but they tended to gather more.

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Crofts and small farms rapidly went to three-stage and four-stage crop rotation, but different fields would be with different crops. This meant that the failure of a single crop would be much less of a survival thing.

You'd see fields with a mutitude of diverse crops, because diversity was critical. Failure was highly likely, so you localised it. Failure in one area had no meaningful impact overall. Things like the Irish potato famine and the parsnip failures across France in the 1700s were relatively rare in history. Likewise, when industrialisation wiped out cottage industries, farms that had been very successful suddenly went bankrupt and mass starvation was common. The ability to task-switch and have a large number of small projects going was essential to life at the edges.

You're absolutely right, more ADHD would have indeed curbed the excesses. The industrial revolution caused huge problems by trying to do too much with too little diversity. Which eventually destroyed the economies built around the early mills, because the markets were too easy to undermine. There was no capacity to switch. But during the IR, the obsession with coal meant nobody really looked at alternative fuels or alternative activities. Economies became tightly constricted, which was devastating when it came to global warming, but equally devastating when it came to distributing metal-devouring bacteria (which did enormous damage to infrastructure) and radioactive particles (old mill areas are still unusually radioactive).

More ADHD wouldn't have eliminated the problem, but it would have diversified the solutions and would have diversified the markets, resulting in a much more robust, much healthier marketplace and a much more robust, much healthier population.

Uh, no. As in, 100% of gatherers would be ADHD. IF they weren't, you'd be extinct within the year. 20% of the hunters would also be ADHD, because over-harvesting was also going to wipe out your food source. 100% of your explorers would be ADHD, 100% of your experimenters would be AuDHD.

ADHD was essential to survival. If you didn't want to die out, you stuck the neurotypical outside so that the wolves and other nasties actually hunting (tigers wouldn't be present) would get them. Neurotypicals were the main threat to survival.

This... I AM the migrant who came over here to take your jobs (Australian, senior IT jobs not Deliveroo).

You've got half a dozen ways to prove your rights to live and work in the UK from e-visas (formerly the BRP) and to the aforementioned share codes to a simple driving license (which you have to swap your foreign license for after 1 year of residency or you're driving unlicensed).

I'm now a dual national so the passport does most of the heavy lifting these days.

I'm not one of those anti-ID-"they're coming for you"-nutters, but it really is a solution desperately seeking a problem. Sadly it was sold to the hard of thinking under the bogeyman that is migrants (BOO!!!! but in foreign) and the hard of thinking lapped it up. The scaremongering around migrants is another huge problem that gets blown out of proportion by certain politicians because it means the hard of thinking will be too scared to notice the damage they've done to the economy or the £5 million bribes they're openly taken.

For the record, I think the UK is still a great place to live, nice people, decent weather (not right now, but usually) loads of things to do and see... and I'm fortunate enough to be able to choose between two of the worlds best places to live. However there seems to be some people dedicated to ruining it and they usually vote Conservative or Reform and are scared of... well... little ol' me (actually because I'm white and don't have a strong accent I get a free pass).

This is largely an American issue. Most other countries don't have the same level of puritanism. We usually have seen boobs, watched horror movies and tasted alcohol by the age of 14, good parents will teach kids how to handle these things long before they're a legal adult (starting at 16 and you're a full legal adult at 18, drinking, joining the army, everything). American also has the problem of glorifying violence and demonising sex. Sex is one of the most wholesome and natural things money can buy... Jokes aside it's something that is natural and instinctual... and the US has sought to replace it with ultraviolence.

However that's really besides the point... do our silicone servants really have natural human rights? At what point does it end, is my neighbours cat entitled to freedom of expression as it's smarter than some AIs (simply because it's been taught to shit in a box and not on the carpet)? What about a toaster? AI's are simply doing what they've been programmed to.

No, it's more likely that girls and women learned to mask symptoms early for survival reasons.

If you look at hunter-gatherer societies, ADHD is paramount to survival because it avoids over-harvesting. Too little ADHD produces cultures prone to driving plants and/or animals extinct. ADHD is a critical stop-gap that prevents this. Studies show ADHD gatherers will not only collect more, they will do so in ways that cause far less damage, resulting in a far better second harvest and far better sustainability.

Into more modern times, ADHD was a valuable survival trait. Too little and you became vulnerable to diseases, pests, crop blight, etc. If you wanted a stable population, right the way through to the industrial era, you needed a high level of ADHD in the population.

It is only when neurotypical bosses decided that they had to micromanage everything and decided who lived and who died on the streets that you see ADHD symptoms suddenly and massively suppressed. But masking changes nothing. The levels will still be the same, they're just hidden.

It isn't. The under-diagnosis of girls is astronomical.

You are assuming ADHD is a new thing. No, it isn't. It is a survival thing. ADHD was critical in a very large percentage of the population for the bulk of the last 350,000 years. Without it, humanity would have gone extinct. It's merely not appropriate in a world in which neurotypicals make neurodiverse solutions a "bad thing".

They might drop by a little, but honestly not by much. Boys are mildly overdiagnosed for the reasons you give (but few places still medicate), girls are however massively underdiagnosed.

I never got myself into the whole "masculinity" obsession, even back in the 70s and 80s. The result of this was a discovery that computers launched me head-first through far fewer windows and pelted me with far fewer rocks. So, yeah, I was definitely seen as disposable though my childhood and teen years by pretty much everyone. (It's one reason anyone looking back at those as "golden years" is unlikely to win me over.)

Escapism is pretty much all I had at the time, and these days remains pretty much all I have - reality has grown far worse over the years and knowledge by the neurotypicals has not come with empathy but ammunition. There is guilt and shame in playing with creative writing or inventing, and the demons have got really bad on occasion, but you're right, it's not doing anyone any harm.

Both. It's best thought of as a positive feedback loop.

I'm not sure why lane keeping requires and automatic, it seems to me turning the wheel would be fine.

My manual does fine for emergency braking (though it's a little touchy when someone in front of me is turning or if I'm accelerating to speeding under 20mph). I feel like if the emergency brake slows me down so much I need to shift the problem is me, not the manual (it hasn't over the last 10k miles I've had the car).

It'll certainly never self drive, and is useless for stop and go traffic cruise control (20-60mph heavy traffic is fine).

The higher end performance is shifting towards dual clutch since it's objectively better for performance.

The economy cars are getting automatics to simplify production lines now that automatics are basically the same cost to make and essentially as efficient as manuals.

So the only manuals getting made are in the budget low tech sportscar market where people aren't going for performance, but fun on a budget.